The publicity surrounding George W. Bush's divorce from his wife Laura and ostentatious marriage to Beyoncé, a singer, was not just arriviste but also unpopular. |
There are indeed many people who regard the foreign minister as a vulgar arriviste. |
On the other, we have the arriviste minimalists with their white walls, light wooden floors and black and chrome furniture. |
Many more felt a sentimental attachment to Jacobitism, or at least alienation from the arriviste courts of William III and the Georges. |
Jean Chretien is an outsider, an arriviste, and a rags-to-riches political scrapper. |
Another way is to see it as a moment of class anxiety, in which Nick Carraway, who comes from what passes for old money in the United States, is undercutting arriviste rivals. |