| This is where the old money lives, where the nouveau riche covet, and where anyone who's anyone among the upper crust loves to gossip about. |
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| The brothers who own the house became part of the city's nouveau riche when they heisted a bank during the looting. |
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| If there's one thing the old left can't stand it's the nouveau riche and their rejection of Old Labour's cobble-street nostalgia. |
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| The modern magazine reader is a member of the new bourgeois varletry, the monied class that makes the old nouveau riche look like aristocracy. |
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| They're not keen on having the nouveau riche bid up the price of weekends at Nantucket and Palm Beach and Jackson Hole. |
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| True enough, the fairytale ending which would have seen the paupers overcome the might of the nouveau riche was lacking. |
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| But investors seem unperturbed and the nouveau riche are snapping up new apartments in the city centre. |
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| And there are very few of these nouveau riche who came by their money honestly. |
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| So much sybaritic luxury was considered by the neighboring estate owners to be distinctly nouveau riche. |
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| University students go home in their droves over the holidays, pouring scorn on familiar sights with the snobbery of the citified nouveau riche. |
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| While Belgravia is Old Money, the square back in Victorian times was known as a favourite of the nouveau riche. |
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| Yet, the nouveau riche are vastly outnumbered by a huge underclass of desperately poor people. |
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| In Thackeray's next full-length novel, the Newcomes are so called because they are both a nouveau riche and an arriviste family. |
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| All of the garish constructions below him have been built for the nouveau riche with relatives working abroad. |
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| The key to understanding him is that he and his brothers are the only social group who try to be nouveau riche, even when they are not. |
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| Miller commissioned the architect John Kinross to refurbish and extend his home in a manner appropriate to a member of the Edwardian nouveau riche. |
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| The building of new synagogues on the eve of the Revolution is considered in the context of the nouveau riche and the move to suburbia. |
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| I'm outmoded in this city of nouveau riche values and consumer durables. |
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| When oil prices stagnate or drop, the increased appetite of the nouveau riche is still there. |
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| He built sprawling Victorian manses in Louisiana, New Jersey, and Massachusetts, and his final days were spent among the nouveau riche splendors of Palm Beach, Florida. |
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| Then the international monetary boom and its immediate effects on China transformed the middle class into the nouveau riche. |
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| There are bookable floating lunches and candlelit cruises, blissfully free from the deluxe nouveau riche naffness that often dogs this type of enterprise. |
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| She provided a receipt while taking notes on his plans for the Astoria site, realizing that her new client was showing all the impatience of the nouveau riche. |
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| North Tulsa is the most underdeveloped section of the city, with most money funneling into the south side of the city, where the middle class and nouveau riche tend to settle. |
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| It was on account of the chairman's abracadabra that we were all rolling around drunk with wealth, tossing greenbacks in the air in nouveau riche ecstasy. |
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| It is traditionally a winter retreat for royals such as Prince Michael of Kent and King Juan Carlos of Spain, but it is fast becoming a playground for nouveau riche Russians. |
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| These days, it seems the nouveau riche think that because money talks, they have no need to learn simple things like table manners or even common courtesy. |
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| The Mexican aristocracy and the nouveau riche have bought up most of the sites along the waterfront, where they have created palatial architect-designed homes. |
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| Written in 1977, it is not so much a satire at the expense of the nouveau riche as a devastating portrait of marital hatred and middle class joylessness. |
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| It's not quite what you'd expect from such an elegant restaurant, which opened at the height of the city's dot-com boom, catering to those high-end nouveau riche tastes. |
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| This was when the streets were straightened, the lines of the houses were adjusted, the house facades of the nouveau riche were beautified and the urban growth of Vilafranca was planned. |
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| Speaking in raptures, the bored nouveau riche pretend that art is the bread of life, thereby side stepping the question of what life is really worth. |
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| But it appears uinlikely that his stern warning will cut much ice with nouveau riche arrivistes who have more money than sense. |
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| But in the 1990s, this group was squeezed out and forced lower down the social and economic hierarchy by a nouveau riche class of government officials, state-owned enterprise managers, and their relatives and friends. |
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| Through a variety of infrastructure investments and different forms of social spending the state generates channels for distributing wealth which at the same time alleviate poverty and create a new rank of nouveau riche. |
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| Virtuosity was easily carried to nouveau riche excess. |
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| A small elite, consisting of nouveau riche and former Stalinists, expropriated social property and now basks in wealth, while broad layers of the population are condemned to misery. |
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| The excesses of nouveau riche freedmen were satirized in the character of Trimalchio in the Satyricon by Petronius, who wrote in the time of Nero. |
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| This optimism is compounded by the fact that a minute percentage of the population consists of the nouveau riche and 'wannabes' and they are avid consumers of luxury brands. |
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| Rushworth to improve the social prestige of his family, suggesting that the Bertrams are a nouveau riche family whose income depends on the plantation in Antigua. |
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