1. He is a wholly conscious arriviste, half proud and half ashamed of both his middle-class background and his upward mobility.

2. Fire was here long before arriviste plants like grasses; it pre-dated the first flowers.

3. Boasting about size may be poor form and the sign of an arriviste.

4. The present consumption behaviour of female in China is of the following characteristics: arriviste consumption after inhibition, conflicting and symbolizing consumption.

5. She had more respect for Michaelis, on whose name they all poured such withering contempt, as a little mongrel arriviste, and uneducated bounder of the worst sort.