Since then, college has become a lot less upper-crust.    From Wordnik.com.  [Merchants Of Mediocrity] Reference

Hofzinser performed for the upper-crust of society in Vienna.    From Wordnik.com.  [Culture: Culture and Celebrity] Reference

As if the upper-crust New York City private school landscape wasn.    From Wordnik.com.  [ARTINFO: Twombly for Toddlers? A Contemporary Art Pre-School Opens on the Upper West Side] Reference

Welcome to the world of the upper-crust Puerto Vallarta American ex-pat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Survivor Puerto Vallarta, Episode 1: Flying down to the Vallarta Wal-Mart] Reference

And they're happily paying upper-crust, 21st-century prices for the privilege.    From Wordnik.com.  [Authentic Americana] Reference

This was her weak point, and the weakness indeed of the old-money upper-crust.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aristocracy and Its Discontents] Reference

But he was also very comfortable at Sidley & Austin, in a very upper-crust firm.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 1, 2009] Reference

Sandton, an upper-crust neighbourhood which will serve as the heart of the summit.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

April 12, 2007 - 4: 35 p.m. "upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography".    From Wordnik.com.  [kemo666 Diary Entry] Reference

As Mrs. Simon T. Dawes, Serena became an icon of upper-crust glamour in the 1930s and 1940s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil]

My mother, coming as she did from an upper-crust shogun family, would never have spoken to one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Margaret Dilloway: The Japanese Untouchables in How To Be An American Housewife] Reference

            "I've talked to my lawyer," she said, in her best icy upper-crust manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Dreams of Reality, 12] Reference

There are her Great Lady affectations, that pissy upper-crust speech reeking of noblesse oblige.    From Wordnik.com.  [Put Away the Wire Hangers: Joan Crawford���s Hungry Heart Exposed] Reference

He does a terrific job subtly morphing Danny's East-End accent into an upper-crust West-End one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Alderman: Audio Book Review: Prisoner of Birth] Reference

But it's also, confusingly, used by upper-crust WASPs as a way to exude a certain effortless cool.    From Wordnik.com.  [Political Ties] Reference

Once the French and British declared themselves devotees, upper-crust Argentines made it their own.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Next to Normal, Vieux Carre] Reference

Comedies such as these, which carry a light, upper-crust tone, are exceedingly difficult to pull off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Blithe Spirit, Cirque's Kooza, Mary Stuart] Reference

The newspaper that we worked for (and I still work for) had a reputation for being the stuffy upper-crust newspaper.    From Wordnik.com.  [unclebob Diary Entry] Reference

While their service and decor aren't upper-crust, these pizza joints are sublime when it comes to their perfect pies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meal Ticket: Best Pizza] Reference

Conservatives of the 1930s, led by an upper-crust outfit called the American Liberty League, certainly felt that way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Frank: The Left Should Reclaim 'Freedom'] Reference

Here, he's everyone, exercising a range of timbres and accents from his own faint burr to cockneyand upper-crust clips.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Oral Tradition] Reference

Maybe the fact that I grew up in a very upper-crust, conservative town (Glen Ellyn, IL in DuPage County) that affected me.    From Wordnik.com.  [island of la grande jatte] Reference

This satirical half-hour sitcom about the upper-crust Tates and the blue-collar Campbells drew pickets and protest letters.    From Wordnik.com.  [TELEVISION] Reference

Voters can only wonder: what makes Dean -- an upper-crust kid who, win or lose, has emerged as a great liberal icon -- Dean?.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE WASP'S NEST] Reference

Right now, some streets in Manhattan's upper-crust East Side are closed as officials try to figure out exactly what happened.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 10, 2006] Reference

In his upper-crust accent, the 43-year-old Oxford man vowed to slash welfare rolls, cap immigration and shrink big government.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Cameron tries to loosen up the Conservative Party in Britain] Reference

In the US the connections are usually relatives of friends as they want the money to stay within their small upper-crust group.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bush nightmare land-the US!] Reference

Kate can come off as arch, mannish and impossibly upper-crust in her films, and she was also notoriously demanding to work with.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Farr: Best Movies By Farr: A Tale Of Two Hepburns] Reference

There is a long American tradition of upper-crust reformers, including both presidents Roosevelt and many of the Founding Fathers.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Argue or Not to Argue] Reference

When multimillionaire Bill Koch took on the America's Cup challenge in 1992, he took the upper-crust boating event to a whole new level.    From Wordnik.com.  [NFL Spy Games] Reference

I was actually shopping for a divorce attorney two weeks after the wedding Anna said, her upper-crust English accent, rung impenetrable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cherchez l'homme (Look for the Man)(Revision)] Reference

He's the upper-crust Brit, the international head of Formula One racing, who was photographed last year at what the News of the Worl.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Collins: None Dare Call Him Poor] Reference

 Some upper-crust Catholic schools that have managed to morph into full-fledged prep schools like Chaminade high school here on Muttontown, N.Y., will survive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joe the Congregant] Reference

And European Jews are wary as well of upper-crust condescension that walks a thin line between disapproval of Israeli policy and an uglier disdain for Israelis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fears In The 'Un-America'] Reference