class-conscious
adjective
class-con·scious
ˈklas-ˈkän(t)-shəs 
1
: actively aware of one's common status with others in a particular economic or social level of society
2
: believing in class struggle
class consciousness
noun
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In its first 45-minute installment, Disclaimer feels reminiscent of Big Little Lies and Expats and any number of class-conscious series that tend to star Nicole Kidman.
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Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024
As the rules of White’s class-conscious universe dictate, the partnership is doomed.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 10 Sep. 2024
Unlike future versions that would run the gamut from boyish and conflicted (The Talented Mr. Ripley) to chessmaster-level calculating (Netflix’s Ripley), Delon’s class-conscious con man is more of a cypher.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2024
Sandra points out that chambermaids and barmaids are often powerless to resist their employers’ advances and that the Americans’ less class-conscious but more consensual approach to coupling is more equitable.
—Chris Klimek, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2024
Fresh starts and reinvention have been a lure since the first gold seekers — the ones digging actual nuggets — flocked here from the more straitened and class-conscious East Coast.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2024
On Victory Day the boy Raban, not yet three years old, is standing in pajamas at his bedroom window, looking down at the celebrations and longing to join the village lads scampering below (his class-conscious mother has long ago warned him against playing with them).
—Colin Thubron, The New York Review of Books, 19 Jan. 2023
This paradigm imagines the class-conscious Evangelical clamoring for elite access and finally getting it.
—Andrew T. Walker, National Review, 31 Dec. 2023
If that makes the Troisgros family seem an incongruous choice of subject for this most class-conscious of American filmmakers, Wiseman has never been one to shy away from contradictions.
—Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2023
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Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024
As the rules of White’s class-conscious universe dictate, the partnership is doomed.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 10 Sep. 2024
Unlike future versions that would run the gamut from boyish and conflicted (The Talented Mr. Ripley) to chessmaster-level calculating (Netflix’s Ripley), Delon’s class-conscious con man is more of a cypher.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2024
Sandra points out that chambermaids and barmaids are often powerless to resist their employers’ advances and that the Americans’ less class-conscious but more consensual approach to coupling is more equitable.
—Chris Klimek, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2024
Fresh starts and reinvention have been a lure since the first gold seekers — the ones digging actual nuggets — flocked here from the more straitened and class-conscious East Coast.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2024
On Victory Day the boy Raban, not yet three years old, is standing in pajamas at his bedroom window, looking down at the celebrations and longing to join the village lads scampering below (his class-conscious mother has long ago warned him against playing with them).
—Colin Thubron, The New York Review of Books, 19 Jan. 2023
This paradigm imagines the class-conscious Evangelical clamoring for elite access and finally getting it.
—Andrew T. Walker, National Review, 31 Dec. 2023
If that makes the Troisgros family seem an incongruous choice of subject for this most class-conscious of American filmmakers, Wiseman has never been one to shy away from contradictions.
—Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2023
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