| The decline and fall of a mere meritocrat in a world of privilege is the theme of this novel. |
| While it may have been radical for the Conservatives to choose a woman, from Heath's point of view the irony was that they had chosen another meritocrat. |
| His party had seen the need in the mid-1960s to set Heath, their own meritocrat, to catch Labour's formidable Wilson, and that confrontation dominated a decade of British parliamentary life. |
| Nowhere in recent film, fiction or drama have I seen such a convincing take on the psychology of the old-style lower-middle-class meritocrat. |
| She is a quiet meritocrat, celebrating the pleasure of doing things well and not making a particularly big deal of it. |
