"In the wake of any clear sense of what 'low life' might suggest, intellectuals are becoming '
downwardly mobile' and while losing their grip on an overall concept of virtue, often see such a direction as in itself virtuous and high minded or sentimentally as solidarity with the marginalized or dispossessed."
He's promising to bring the finest players to the finest league and even if it will mean watching all those
downwardly mobile Cockney geezers larging it at the top, think of all the fresh talent on display.
Her sympathetic accounts of forgotten figures like Joseph Pitts, a plebeian Richard Francis Burton who made the hajj to Mecca, or the
downwardly mobile East India woman Sarah Shade, unfailingly illuminate the collaboration and competition between Britons and non-Europeans at the meeting-points of empires.
* A leadership core is provided by the presence of recently fired, now
downwardly mobile, industrial workers with organizational experience and awareness of the advantages of collective, assembly style democracy in carrying out a consequential struggle.
Such
downwardly mobile college graduates generally had lower cognitive skills than those occupying occupations commensurate with their education.
A prequel rather than sequel, the plot for those who can be bothered, recounts how Fred and Barney hooked up with
downwardly mobile rich girl Wilma and burger joint waitress Betty, played out as an excuse for visiting alien The Great Gazooo (Alan Cumming who patently need a spell in artistic rehab) to observe earth's mating rituals.
I still take pride in my
downwardly mobile fashion sense.
So the bus is filled with the definitely
downwardly mobile. Let's hope not, but these folks probably won't have the chance to become interns on Capitol Hill or IBM prospects, let's face it.
Desperate bands of
downwardly mobile white-collar workers - their skills made obsolete by new software programs - will turn to street crime and computer sabotage to vent their rage, the authors claim.
One would have wanted more information about the possibility that the
downwardly mobile working class was reacting to community because of their resentment of the newcomers who were immigrants.
We are what has been recently labeled DOMOs (
downwardly mobile professionals).
122-23) Such boys ended up being
downwardly mobile, with 25 to 28 percent of the sons of educated fathers in Minden moving down to the middle classes; in Duisburg, the comparable figure was at times as high as 50 percent, later settling around 30 percent.