bourgeoisie
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Not for him were the depictions of the lives and leisure of the wealthy or the bourgeoisie favored by Renoir, Cassatt and Morisot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025
"The Viennese bourgeoisie took them to cafes and shopping, and showed them the local monuments," he added.
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2025
Jonathan Parks-Ramage knows exactly what he’s doing in evoking bourgeoisie Clarissa Dalloway’s routine in the opening section of his new novel, “It’s Not the End of the World.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2025
"Before the MFM, the struggle on China's cultural front was a struggle between the new culture of the bourgeoisie and the old culture of the feudal class," he wrote.
From Salon ● May 4, 2024
And each day, I learned, in one or another way, of more support from non-Muslim Negroes, including a surprising lot of the “middle” and “upper class” black bourgeoisie, who were sick of the status-symbol charade.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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One might wonder indeed if Anarchism, an essentially bourgeois doctrine, had not found adepts among the French bourgeoisie, the most blasée of all bourgeoisies.
From Anarchism and Socialism by Georgii Valentinovich Plekhanov
The protectionism and the exclusiveness of the bourgeoisies are brought to an end.
From The Stages in the Social History of Capitalism by Henri Pirenne
The city bourgeoisies that had previously resisted the government, now supported it in this one particular, persecution of the Anabaptists.
From The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith
At this hour, you are the only one who can speak to all alike—to the common people and to the bourgeoisies of the nations.
From The Forerunners by Romain Rolland
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