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Examples
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It's a sweaty fray that would have horrified the game's original leisure-class following.
Classic Tennis, Anyone? Darrell Hartman 2011
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She was inspired by the leisure-class portraiture of the British photographer Cecil Beaton, according to a two-page spread in Elle magazine three years ago, which also mentioned her penchant for Christian Louboutin shoes, her admiration of Austrian artists Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, and her ideal customer type: "a glamorous woman on holiday."
Va.-born designer dies in N.Y. Annie Gowen 2010
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In 1966, they succeeded in taking Reagan out of his leisure-class Southern California entertainment industry social circles and catapulting him to becoming the governor of the nation's most populated state.
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For Adorno, the point is not simply that we are all in a rush to prove our leisure-class status but that capitalist society surreptitiously transforms all forms of leisure into labor.
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Now, proudly independent non-studio filmmakers are discovering the advantages of leisure-class characters, especially for comedies of the heart and skin.
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Now, proudly independent non-studio filmmakers are discovering the advantages of leisure-class characters, especially for comedies of the heart and skin.
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He r-- rejected leisure-class society, even the philanthropic work that his father did.
The Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America 2001
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They revolted against their own class and especially leisure-class society, but also in another stratum that was entering the picture, and that is of the wealthy industrialists, the people whom they called the plutocrats.
The Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America 2001
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This was leisure-class society a-- after the Civil War, and in -- in -- throughout the 19th century, these were wealthy people who didn't have to work.
The Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America 2001
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And she captures the leisure-class society, the insularity of these people's lives, how they were vir -- virtually a cast wanting to be untouched by the rest of America, especially poorer
The Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America 2001
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