| Like a determined, sharp-elbowed New Yorker herself, she barrelled towards the city with no heed for conventions. |
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| The personal nature of Biden's criticism offended the pearl clutchers of our nation's capital, who fetishize bipartisanship and cluck at behavior they deem excessively sharp-elbowed. |
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| Mensch may not care for drippy Cinderellas, but how about sharp-elbowed ones? |
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| Fifteen documentaries are in sharp-elbowed competition to be among the five Oscar nominees. |
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| No sooner had President Washington been sworn in, wearing mousy, egalitarian brown broadcloth, than the sharp-elbowed jockeying for social status began. |
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| In a business that was defined by the curious social dynamic of slumming posh boys mingling with sharp-elbowed wideboys, all knee-deep in money, Abbott, who has died aged 75, was an unusually dignified presence. |
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| With his stocky build, spread-collar shirts and locker-room charm, Walter Yetnikoff fit right in among the sharp-elbowed power brokers in the music business. |
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