Word: snobbish
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...Preppie Look, and every upstart from the suburbs was marching around looking as if he were home from Princeton for the weekend. So how were the real aristocrats to proclaim themselves? By going punk? Slam-dancing at the Harvard Club? As soon as one finds something to be snobbish about, everyone else has got hold of it, and so the central charm of snobbery, the feeling of being something special, vanishes...
...commercialization of chanoyu illustrates a wider fact about Japan: namely that it is the best country in the world in which to study the impact of mass audiences on elite cultural forms. When something like tea becomes so popular, is it democratized? Not necessarily. It may become more snobbish, taking on a coercive preciousness to sustain its mystique when the old mechanisms of aristocratic patronage in small groups have corroded. Japanese snobbery, Japanese cultural insecurity, are hog heaven for merchandisers: once they get into a cultural feeding frenzy, the Japanese can make Rodeo Drive look modest...
When he visits Scaduto at home, Savage is fascinated by the revolting behavior of the Scaduto's sons, who attend a "really fine" English prep school and have picked up from their snobbish schoolmates' upper-class English accents, frantic status competition and bigoted attitudes. Savage listens to the conversation of the children...
...Fanny, she seems initially Like a snobbish and slightly silly guardian of the Brahmins' unalterable law of proprieties. But as the play progresses, she begins to reveal a zany comic sense and something more: the courage to carry out the marriage vows in adversity. Frances Conroy's Mags is quite touching as she seeks a parental benison on her vocation. None of the performances could be bettered. Seldes and Moffat may never have given more emotionally charged and exquisitely crafted performances in their long-spanned careers...
Collectively, the wealthy and well dressed fraternity youths were not offensively snobbish. They were, quite simply, unaware of the existence of the lower orders. They didn't scott my sort, they simply felt we had nothing much to offer I must admit, in my case, they were perfectly right...