Believe me, the work of a line cook in a restaurant catering to the tastes of arriviste Texans is even more boring than it is cracked up to be. |
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. |
There are indeed many people who regard the foreign minister as a vulgar arriviste. |
Edgar Hoover with his nighttime frolics as an arriviste among Manhattan's haute monde. |
In fact society was more porous and there is evidence of the arriviste presumption of young artists in the period. |
It's made even worse, since my traditional Conservative family in the shires would look down on arriviste Dai Cameron. |