bourgeoisie
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This uncomfortably hilarious and cutting dramedy from Simón Mesa Soto addresses both artistic failure and how often creative fields expect voices from disadvantaged backgrounds to exploit their trauma for the edification of the bourgeoisie.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2025
Part hobo, part insult comic, part performance artist, Diogenes flaunted his disregard for convention in ways that scandalized the bourgeoisie of Athens and, later, Corinth, after his banishment from Sinope became permanent.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025
"The Viennese bourgeoisie took them to cafes and shopping, and showed them the local monuments," he added.
From Barron's • Nov. 13, 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
However, if they wish to join the bourgeoisie, it is really none of my business.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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