Clearly separated from the tourist costume of T-shirts, baseball caps and running shoes, a local aristocratic lady also dressed in black, with a gold-handled onyx cane, good jewelry and noble upright posture, entered her apartment building.
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His financial stake in the theatre also meant that as well as impressing a fashionable aristocratic audience he also had to make sure that the plays had a popular appeal to keep the crowds coming back.
The ground floor has a hand-painted medieval scene, with an aristocratic woman, or perhaps a bride, being carried by scowling bearers in a covered palanquin.
He had by then acquired an aristocratic German wife, a clutch of small children and aspirations for a comfortable bourgeois lifestyle, but no means of support.
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There may even be some antipathy: with all those convict forebears, an aristocratic Aussie is not a pommy peer but one whose family has a criminal record.
For something slightly less conventional but still very aristocratic, stroll among a Dutch windmill, a Chinese pagoda and a gothic castle -- all of which can be found in Parc Monceau, which was constructed by the eccentric Duc de Chartres as his private garden in the 18th Century.
Last week, they bombed a house in Katmandu belonging to Satchit Shumsher Rana, one of a clutch of aristocratic retired generals who surround Gyanendra.
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The haves appear to live in other cities and they appear to have a kind of aristocratic way of life that transcends into the government.
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While others argued that only those with their own means would be free to serve, thereby instating a form of aristocratic rule, Franklin felt differently.
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The Qin's extremism was also its undoing and it was soon replaced by the more enduring Han dynasty, which sought compromise with aristocratic elites and legitimation through a revived Confucianism.
Mr Thaksin's supporters also credit him with trying to bring democracy to Thailand. (He convincingly won two elections before being forced into exile.) They believe he was usurped by a conservative, aristocratic establishment.
Such elements included a merit-based (non-aristocratic) military leadership combined with mass conscription, sophisticated taxation systems and a bureaucracy recruited from a permanent administrative cadre selected on the basis of ability rather than family connection.
Whether you are drawn to Cristofano dell'Altissimo's exotic "Portrait of Alchitrof, " king of Ethiopia (1580s), a fringe of pearls hanging from his lower lip, to Peter Paul Rubens's magnificently aristocratic "Head of an African Man Wearing a Turban" (c.1609), or to the startlingly lifelike ebonized and giltwood statue of St.
Claus von Stauffenberg, another officer from an aristocratic family, and presented with a plan to kill Hitler.
While their subjects often reflect the sitters' aristocratic status, the paintings as a whole are anything but stiff.
His mother, Lady Julia, is a Pakenham, the aristocratic family whose tentacles extend equally vigorously into the world of the arts.
Then, in the 17th century, when cabinets of curiosity were an aristocratic fashion, they too became a fashionable trompe l'oeil theme.
Every country fought them and was expected to fight them they were a necessary sign of aristocratic virtue among the officers who led them but they were fought largely along established lines, and among soldiers who were, like Renaissance mercenaries, more devoted to the profession than to any cause.
None of us my childhood friend Marko, who lacked a pedigree but whose aristocratic pretensions had been apparent by the age of 6, my magician friend Erik nor myself knew anyone who had been to Moldova, or could pronounce its capital, Chisinau. (KISH-i-nev, kee-SHEE-now or quiche-in-know, depending who you ask.) I couldn't think of a better reason to go.
Few would dispute that markets are fairer than the aristocratic order they replaced where privilege was a birthright, not something to be earned.
The sensation it caused was due largely to the fact that its vampire, a self-involved, aristocratic Lothario, distinctly resembled the author's erstwhile employer.
She took a sip of coffee and started leafing through her book, an old cookbook, with thin yellowed pages and elaborate drawings, a legacy from her allegedly aristocratic grandmother.
Just about any contemporary sport has corollaries in competitions in the ancient world, or a pedigree in folk games or aristocratic recreations.
As early as 1328, Parliament acted to limit armed travel, with the notable exception that members of the nobility were allowed to travel with armed retainers, a legal recognition of the privileges of aristocratic birth.
Karlov and his aristocratic, ex-soldier father are consumed by a double agenda: making a living and taking vengeance on the Bolsheviks, particularly on the commissar who murdered Alexander's mother, abducted his twin sister and smashed Alexander's leg.
Baritone David Pittsinger etched a sympathetic cameo as Blanche's aristocratic father, and as her brother, tenor Paul Appleby sang with honeyed tone in the scene where he bids Blanche farewell the closest thing this opera has to a love duet.
She came from a middle-class family, but had aristocratic yearnings.
The standard of living in North Korea's upper aristocratic nomenclature may not be much better than that of a Seoul taxi driver, but it's state power that counts, not just the supposed access to luxury goods.
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