bourgeois
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Theater critic Kenneth Tynan argued that the play is “really a satire on bourgeois democracy,” not just greed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Europe’s public considered the artist, a bourgeois son of a Normandy notary, to be the rear guard of the avant-garde.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Germans ignored it out of shame; Jews, living precariously in exile, rejected it as too assimilated and bourgeois.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
“Jesus Christ Superstar” reminds us that Lloyd Webber wasn’t always a symbol of the bourgeois establishment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2025
They liked that I went all the way to the market every day before dawn to get them a taste of the outside country, away from their protected bourgeois life.
From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat
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