arriviste

None of us knew anything about him: he was an arriviste.

I saw he was an arriviste, with a special gift for language.

No one was ever less of an arriviste than Kelly.

Boasting about size may be poor form and the sign of an arriviste.

This prompted him to grow up as a champion arriviste.

I believe there is a word for them: arriviste.

They have evaluated each step with the fresh, appraising eyes of the arriviste.

But with this arriviste out of the way, the week became one for emerging maestros.

He seems to have amused himself playing to the 19th-century stereotype of the rich, arriviste Jew.

Latin is, if anything, the arriviste on the grand language front, the poor and younger relation to Greek.

Whether that arriviste likes me or not isn't something I'll lose any sleep Over.

Shaky-kneed arriviste by way of the public school system.

Or so the arriviste chickophobes of the media are clucking.

The prize's arriviste status has probably influenced the timing and choice of recipients.

In that, though, lies a tale of arriviste anxiety.

Fire was here long before arriviste plants like grasses; it pre-dated the first flowers.

Yet one thing seems clear: only an arriviste would hope to walk off with a rare asset such as Arriva at that level.

They have expanded their fortunes as arriviste competitors have come and gone.

And he'd lived in New Orleans only 20 years, so by local standards he was an arriviste, an outsider.

Had he laid claim to the arriviste Nets, it would have been pathetic but acceptable.

Almost arriviste, in a defiant sort of way.

"We thought about including Donald Trump, but decided he's too much of an arriviste," he added.

She's a populist with a sweet tooth for the perquisites of arriviste life.

Joan West had been modern about twenty years ago, but was now regarded by the young arriviste artists as completely old-fashioned.

It's good to see John Sessions back on stage, too, as a rather oily arriviste.