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

As the love triangle threatens to tear apart their lives, the glamour of bourgeois living proves to be no more than a guise covering their emptiness.

From New York Times

Like the woman next door, in a bourgeois way.

From New York Times

Then comes a more global second half, which skips across chronology, media and tone to highlight the worldwide migration and metabolization of Hokusai’s vivid compositions and bourgeois themes.

From New York Times

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

From New York Times