bourgeois

Example Sentences

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A born entertainer who had no ideology to sell or bourgeois morality to promote, he gravitated to theater as the most exhilarating form of debate.

From Los Angeles Times

“Jesus Christ Superstar” reminds us that Lloyd Webber wasn’t always a symbol of the bourgeois establishment.

From Los Angeles Times

She’s all but doomed to be bourgeois and neurotic, as if a juvenile court has sentenced her to live in a New Yorker cartoon.

From Los Angeles Times

"They let you know if they're getting bored. It's not bourgeois polite and that appeals to me."

From BBC

The first sentence of the plot synopsis in the booklet reads: “The more bourgeois, the more unfulfilled.”

From Los Angeles Times