Donaldson was quick to reassure audiences that Drawing Julia was neither a narcissistic comment, nor a life drawing class, but a chance to chat about how some of her best-known books were brought to life through the efforts of Axel Scheffler, Nick Sharratt and David Roberts.
Too many jobs that provided a steady, stable life, a middle-class life for people, got shipped overseas.
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All the themes of upper-class English life are here: sex and incest, class, inequality and the enduring tussle over whether the best path to success is through hard work or effortless charisma.
Today -- today, living a quality middle class life starts, as it always has, with a good-paying job.
The strongest elements are the descriptions of working-class life and the tender portrayal of maternal and filial love.
Although basic goods in China are still relatively cheap, it is costly to lead a middle-class life in China.
And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.
While it has been applauded for depicting modern middle-class life in China, critics say its humor doesn't appeal outside China.
It's employing an awful lot of people at a living wage, a wage they can live a middle-class life on.
All these things are part of what makes up a middle-class life.
For generations of Americans, it was the ticket to a middle-class life.
As the title indicates, his middle-class life turns from a temporary high into something much worse, the conclusion of which viewers will learn next year.
In the episode we caught on Mar. 5, the emphasis was on a far more familiar theme in middle-class life: getting your daughter into a top college.
Retiring to one of these communities (Sun City alone has bred a dozen places with the same name) has become almost a routine part of middle-class life.
Their kids, my parents, like many immigrant children, were the first in their family to go to college, buy a house and live the good middle class life.
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The most pathetic of these victims are the high-earning slobs who live middle-class life-styles because of the high costs in cities where they must work and the draining expense of things like child care.
So a lot of folks felt like that idea that we not only could live a good middle-class life, but more importantly we could pass it on to our kids, and they could succeed the way we might not have imagined.
"As the daughter of parents who worked in factories, paid their union dues and achieved their goal of a middle class life, and as the first Latina to head a major federal agency, it has been an incredible honor to serve, " she wrote.
All these things -- health care security, American manufacturing, rebuilding America and putting construction workers back to work, making sure our kids are getting a great education and can afford college -- all these things that make up a middle-class life, they all tie together.
Running a well-paid job to sustain a middle-class life incurred pressures that never eased: you needed a bigger house, a better car, private schools for your growing children and shop accounts for your wife so that she looked good when business clients had to be entertained at your home.
The writer, Jeffrey Abrams, combines feeble finger-pointing satire of the success-obsessed upper class with life lessons that are hard to swallow.
As an investment class, life settlement can be legitimate, if somewhat disreputable, but it is not for amateurs (FORBES, Oct. 5, 2009).
And this is more getting to quality of life for middle-class families.
It is economic growth that is the key to prosperity and the good life for the middle class, working people, and the poor.
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Fassbinder films life in the cosseted class as a masque of glass and mirrors, replete with alluring deceptions and suave surfaces that belie volcanic passions.
The Van Dyck Shirleys capture the enchantment with exoticism that seems almost as emblematic of upper-class English life as the portraits of lords and dogs on view.
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