What is "aristocratic"

Usage examples of "aristocratic".

The dropping of acquaintanceship with him, after the taste of its privileges, she ascribed, in the void of any better elucidation, to a mania of aristocratic conceit.

A Corporal First might prove to have more combat acumen than a stately aristocrat from one of the old famifies--and such could not be permitted since it undermined the myth of aristocratic invincibility.

One could see, even before he mentioned it, that he had gone to an ivy-clad public school in its anecdotage, with magnificent traditions, aristocratic associations, and no chemical laboratories, and proceeded thence to a venerable college in the very ripest Gothic.

Jerek Blok was forty-seven years old, born into a military and aristocratic German family, and that he was a Nazi party fanatic.

Such a man as I have just portrayed could not make a fortune in Venice, because an aristocratic government can not obtain a state of lasting, steady peace at home unless equality is maintained amongst the nobility, and equality, either moral or physical, cannot be appreciated in any other way than by appearances.

I fancied that I could live free and independent in a country ruled entirely by an aristocratic government, but this was not the case, and would not have been so even if fortune had raised me to a seat in that same government, for the Republic of Venice, considering that its primary duty is to preserve its own integrity, finds itself the slave of its own policy, and is bound to sacrifice everything to self-preservation, before which the laws themselves cease to be inviolable.

He took it for granted that the Jean de Courtois of the marriage certificate was dead, and his heart grieved for the hapless young woman whose aristocratic name was blazoned on that same document.

Bland and powerful, he had received her when she had first arrived in Darre and listened patiently and with aristocratic reserve to her message.

Just as the difference between virile and effeminized, and in conventional terms that between homosexual and heterosexual, becomes more and more confused, so does the difference between simple and refined, aristocratic and barbarian.

From this perspective a classically ordered universe can be reimagined in which the European, the effeminized, the homosexual, the refined, and the aristocratic are systematically opposed to the American, the virile, the simplistic, and the barbarous.

As he reviewed the conversation of the evening, he wondered which were really the more dangerous to the state, Emmet, full of personal grievances and undigested theories, or his opponent, Judge Swigart, the cynical and aristocratic politician.

We can probably set her up in a special Institute for Southern Baptist Hospitality Studies, from whence she can ramificate the engenderments of affections -- the calls, so to speak -- that we, you and I, have used upon occasion for the rearticulation of syntagmatic deciduation, if you take my meaning, make a list of those, and then turn her razor-eyed but very polite Southern aristocratic attention to the pause, a unit of meaning crying out for some attention in my book.

Arvalin city residence was in an aristocratic exurb on the south shore of thirty-mile-long Sapphire Lake.

I just figured it was that authoritarian, aristocratic, feudalistic throwback of a society you grew up in.

Trevor does a very good Aiden Fumet, who has a strange hybrid accent half bored aristocratic rock star and half East End stallholder.