Word: aristocratic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hussein had a historic role to play," says MacLeod, "and he played it with courage and honor." Of necessity, though, he had to grow into the role. The young aristocrat with a love of fast cars and beautiful women became the warrior king who took control of his country's army from its British mentors and personally commanded his forces in a bloody battle against Palestinian insurrectionists in the "Black September...
Swann in Love A French aristocrat obsessed with a scandalous, lower-class woman...
Daimler-Benz, on the other hand, is considered conservative even by the Germans--an aristocrat in a double-breasted suit, haughtily dismissive of anyone who suggests cutting corners on quality for anything so ephemeral as profit. Says German car-magazine editor Wolfgang Konig: "Perfectionism is at home at Daimler. I get the feeling sometimes it was invented there...
...style of philosophy. But his reactions seem a bit overawed with the grossness of his situation. Ahanna Kalappa '01, on the other hand, plays an utterly confident Lavinia Chamberlayne with masterful posture. She takes advantage of a relatively late entrance by immediately assuming the dignified air of a whimsical aristocrat who has left her husband and then come back, without regret...
...else was unpleasant, to say the least: it's tacky by any standards to start dating your lover's nurse while she's laid up in the hospital. Hall was also a possessive and controlling lover, a consistently neglectful parent to Una Troubridge's young daughter Andrea, a lifelong aristocrat and elitist, and a political conservative whose early allegiances swayed toward fascism and anti-Semitism--none of them traits are precisely endearing to a modern audience...