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My first weekend off in a month, and I'm with Eton and the English bourgeois.
The Middle East became the lover she could not have and a refuge from the bourgeois England of her family.
The bourgeois order had been based on a clear distinction of male and female roles and identities, which were now thrown into confusion.
The refusal of bourgeois conceptions of creativity constitutes a potential difficulty for any humanities subject.
My excuse is that I'm exactly the sort of bourgeois, entrepreneurial Middle Englander that New Labour aims to please.
This almost minimalist design is simple, in contrast with the bourgeois interiors of Prague's past.
Native fruitwoods and birch were more likely to be found in bourgeois houses.
The remains of the Tupamaro guerrilla movement in Uruguay have joined a bourgeois electoral front, the Frente Amplio.
There's a famous letter he wrote to his brother, denouncing him for not accepting the bourgeois values.
His work is critical of bourgeois values, particularly sexual repression, and exposes hypocrisy.
The slate had to be cleaned of all bourgeois conventions, traditions and expectations.
If the beginnings of sport on skis are to be found among the upper crust, skiing is today largely a bourgeois sport.
In their puritanical disdain for cigarettes, drunkenness, and rich food, the Bobos show themselves to be far more bourgeois than bohemian.
It's as if all theory has to be judged by the standards of bourgeois etiquette.
Food is a fixation here, as it is in bourgeois culture in general, because it is an easily manipulated projection of narcissistic ego.
Is Roland Barthes correct that naturalization is the great, unspoken secret of bourgeois aesthetics?
People in the privileged classes can sniff at bourgeois values and still turn out O.K. because they eventually grow up.
Could it be that in just two years the scourge of bourgeois values is now entering the American mainstream?
Divorces were concentrated among middle-class and bourgeois women living in the towns of northern France.
Illegitimacy, welfare dependency, and criminality were more prevalent than in the South, with its much stronger bourgeois values.
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Examples from Classical Literature
With natural French acuteness he showed the bourgeois character of the revolution in the Church, republicanised and democratised.
The views of Aristoteles are more in keeping with the bourgeois conceptions.
My godfather made a great fuss of her, for success was everything to this bourgeois.
Hence the expurgation of masterpieces that an artist might appear as commonplace a bourgeois as his commentator.
The cabanon is really the maison de campagne of the petit bourgeois of the cities and towns.
It is their nave and faithful representation of the life of the Parisian petit bourgeois that seems to Brne so admirable.
The nobility had no longer the monopoly of landownership, and many bourgeois enriched by trade bought large estates.
The part of husband and father struck them as unpleasant and too petit bourgeois.
Kitsch-like images are used as ironic devices in artworks critical of the bourgeois taste.
We also enclose samples of long primer, bourgeois and brevier sizes of type.
But somewhere in its mysterious and odorous depths that little bourgeois cafe harbored an honest-to-goodness cook.
He is the petit bourgeois, the picier, the class which the world ridicules.
It will not be devoid of interest to contrast the prejudgment of the French bourgeois with the judgment of the English bourgeois.
I have corn and olive trees, I have almond trees and vines and land, like any bourgeois.
To think that you, a watchmaker and a petit bourgeois, should experience what many a saint has died without realizing!
In this way, not democracy, but bonapartism, appears in Marx's eyes as the final form of bourgeois power.
All such things, as part and parcel of the bourgeois system, were anathematised.
I always held you as a wishy-washy bourgeois and now you go and pull this thing off.
There were no jarring notes or lavish, tawdry display, the pitfalls into which the parvenue and petit bourgeois invariably fall.
By freedom is meant, under the present bourgeois conditions of production, free trade, free selling and buying.
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