She gets fired, her husband resigns in solidarity, and the couple moves to the cloudless suburban affluence of Stepford, Connecticut. |
This has confounded the expectation that increased affluence, education, and contact with the outside world would reduce the preference for boys. |
They contribute generously to village and family enterprises and avoid ostentatious displays of affluence. |
In the vehemence of their indignation, the general public somewhat forget that poverty and affluence can be equally conducive to moral depravity. |
Such high-minded scorn for the '90s and the general affluence and calm they represented is an eminently understandable sentiment. |
The affluence of its patrons gave it a de facto respectability that eluded less opulent sly-groggeries. |