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

No American director’s more committed to exposing the smugness and self-aggrandizement of bourgeois urbanites.

From New York Times

In “Chile ’76,” a bourgeois grandmother is drawn into the resistance to the Pinochet dictatorship.

From New York Times

She’s a grandmother and a career flight attendant who now lives a comfortably bourgeois lifestyle with her husband in Santiago.

From New York Times

From his earliest childhood in Camberwell, a more exclusive suburb, he felt oppressed by the bourgeois conformism that enveloped his parents and their circle, and depressed by his mother’s cold suburban propriety.

From New York Times