parvenu

Chenoweth, who is as gleaming as a holiday ornament on Liberace’s Christmas tree, arrives at a canny balance of quixotic generosity and parvenu carelessness in her portrayal of a woman she refuses to lampoon.

Beagin widens her lens to take in this cast of locals and upstate parvenus even as she stays focused on Greta’s rising fever.

The tendrils of Rangnick’s influence spread far beyond the parvenu clubs — Hoffenheim, Red Bull Salzburg, RB Leipzig — that he has turned into mainstays of either the Bundesliga or the Champions League.

Worse, they had begun to attract the wrong sort of people—parvenus from Boston and New York.

Pianists were the standard accompanists, but Shaw dismissed them as parvenus.