Example sentences for: plutocrats

How can you use “plutocrats” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Beatty's hemming-and-hawing style of delivery gets tiresome pretty quickly ("I want to thank the Americans for Democratic, uh, Action"), as do his repetitive screeds about the special interests, the corporations, and the plutocrats.

  • The popular portrayal of bloated plutocrats has changed enormously in the last 150 years, devolving from the 19 th century's ferocious robber barons, to that guy on the Monopoly box who was always chasing his secretary around his desk in New Yorker cartoons, to the addled and ineffectual potbellies of Depression-era screwball comedy.

  • Lukas' book runs afoul of this conventional wisdom in two ways: first, by describing a world (as Woody West complains in a dismissive review of Big Trouble for the Weekly Standard ) in which there was "no middle term" between plutocrats and wage slaves; and second, by appearing to ignore what West contends is "the most remarkable fact of the capital consolidation of those years, especially in the West: the permeable nature of 'class' in America."

  • Since California voters use ballot initiatives for serious policy changes, they don't mind electing do-nothing plutocrats.

  • Nonprofits are courting the new plutocrats in hopes of scoring philanthropic millions.


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