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Hopkins was “a bit of a bad boy” when he was starting out — he recently celebrated his 45th year of sobriety — but despite his own volcanic energy and humor, he has often been cast as the butler or the buttoned-up patrician.
Anthony Hopkins is welcoming old age by embracing his inner child | Tim Greiving | February 25, 2021 | Washington PostYet there was another side to this cool, handsome patrician, and it set him apart from his fellow executives in the Motor City.
The Stacks: Robin Williams, More Than A Shtick Figure | Joe Morgenstern | August 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut the editor appreciated patrician breeding, so the kid came to work.
The Stacks: John Schulian’s Classic Profile of Newspaper Columnist Mike Royko | John Schulian | January 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
One of those votes belonged to Justice Lewis Powell, a well-heeled, patrician justice from Virginia appointed by Richard Nixon.
The Sodomy Case That May Sway Justice Kennedy’s Same-Sex Marriage Vote | Adam Winkler | March 25, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIn one corner: the patrician, privileged, well-mannered 35-year-old Quayle.
He could be unbearably glib, but his patrician persona and acid tongue, his radiating sense of superiority, made for good showbiz.
Becoming Gore Vidal: The Henry Adams of Our Age | Morris Dickstein | August 4, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTAndrea held up her hand to appease the patrician, whose exaggeration annulled his superiority.
Balsamo, The Magician | Alexander Dumas"I want you to whip this malapert with your sword-scabbard," roared the old patrician, pale with anger.
Balsamo, The Magician | Alexander DumasHowever, the six oarsmen of the patrician craft were rapidly diminishing the distance.
The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence | Eugne SueDuring this period there was little to choose between the fare of the proudest patrician and the humblest client.
The Private Life of the Romans | Harold Whetstone JohnstonFor the first eleven years after the passage of the Licinian Laws one consul was a plebeian and one a patrician.
The Two Great Republics: Rome and the United States | James Hamilton Lewis
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