Translations for „arriviste“ in the English » Slovenian Dictionary

ar·ri·viste [ˌæri:ˈvi:st] N

arriviste

povzpetnik(povzpetnica) m (f)

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English

The best way to describe this emergent city is as an arriviste city.

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He was described by his contemporaries as a very fat, extremely boring, overwhelmingly ambitious arriviste.

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Mushrooms' habit of appearing overnight made them a common metaphor for anything unpleasant that appeared suddenly, from arriviste courtiers to religious heresies.

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An arriviste city is a city that has broken out of its old mold and is becoming something new.

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She is, after all, only a superficial, self-deluded arriviste.

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Allow their genuine brewing abilities and brewing history to be mocked by latter-day arrivistes often with no real authenticity but with a sharp eye to the main chance?

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Most buildings' basements were flooded, and the arriviste businesses and longtime residents found one another at a kind of block-party-meets-wake cleanup.

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It is not a peerage and, among real aristocrats, such titles are the objects of derision, obtained as they so often are by arrivistes of the worst possible kind.

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We see yesterday's arrivistes who are now the vanguard and others who are already all too acquainted with the cruel diminishing returns of fame.

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She was having none of it, determined as she was to squash my arriviste pretensions.

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