Because it is unfair to think of Haitian art, religion, and life as, in sum, a culture "more oral than written." To many, that means "primitive." The emphasis on myth might seem too similar to the sweeping generalizations of declasse writers like Joseph Campbell or, worse, might recall the strategy of "Papa Doc" Duvalier's Africanizing project, which grew out of the griot movement in the 1930s and exploited the literary aspects of Vodou.

It would have been totally declasse for me to have publicly pointed out how North showed herself up though.

It was bad enough the prime minister talked about toilets in the UN darling, really, so declasse, went the trill of the drawing room daffodils.

Would the highbrow in him deem Facebook and Twitter declasse? Or would this genius of self-promotion see them as necessary tools of the stardom trade?

Readers not taken by hats may be interested in the documentation of a set of cultural values: movie stars, with the exception of a few like Marlene Dietrich, are too declasse to appear here, the skins of rare species are shown off, Simone de Bouvoir is radical because of her turban, Jackie Onassis is noble because of her pillbox, and including images of families in mourning among fashion photos is a sign of discretion and taste, proof Mme Paulette's delicacy could be trusted for what the Queen should wear to Mum's funeral.

It's the context -- the seedy bars where it tends to be exercised and its attendant economy -- that makes pole-dancing declasse, not its athletic sensuality.

Ironically, members of the upper class regard overt display of these social features as signs of striving and therefore declasse. So, as the present volume points out, Harvard and Yale "do not feature pageants for women (but) hold all-male pageants..." that lampoon pageantry but outdraw audiences of all but the most ardent pageant-sponsoring campuses (p.

The "SYSTEM" basically empowers the elite class while the declasse (poor people) are always crushed under the ruthless rollers of the "SYSTEM".

-"Susan Egan, boasting an impeccable, declasse Chelsea accent, is the perfect Sally Bowles."

-Le Maroc declasse par Morgan Stanley: De MSCI Emerging Market, il tronera desormais dans le MSCI Frontier Market.

Always afterward critical of appeasement and acting as a semi-official (although unpaid) British agent, he forged and maintained contacts with conservatives who disliked Hitler's cruel and declasse regime.

I wrote about the faded WASP ruling class from the point of view of the once declasse Italian and Irish Catholics, and I wrote about the latter from the p.o.v.

editors he did not want anything to do with them; he wanted to work for Sports Illustrated, which Time's brass considered "declasse" for its "sweaty content" and its financial difficulties.

Il est passe par les repechages au premier tour du tournoi puis n'a du sa place en finale qu'a la sanction frappant le Francais Francois Pervis, vainqueur de sa serie au deuxieme tour avant d'etre declasse pour s'etre rabattu dans le couloir occupe par Kenny.