class identity
Example Sentences
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The bandmates dressed in secondhand suits that made them look posh to some and, perhaps more damningly, refused to flatten their class identity into something easily legible.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2025
She uses her elegant voice and some theater lingo to persuade us to focus on her nuanced ideas about race, class identity and, to some extent, family.
From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2022
Clothing among the bourgeoisie came to resemble a specific “uniform” of respectability in the nineteenth century – the top hat in particular was an iconic mark of class identity by the middle of the century.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020
Shielding her from the consequences of debt was an expression of love, and of their own forward-looking class identity.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 2, 2019
The timing of the show’s debut obscured Walter’s true class identity.
From New York Times • Jul. 24, 2013
