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

Clocking in at a brisk 100 minutes, “James Brown Wore Curlers” is less a biting bourgeois farce or comedy of bad manners than Reza’s most celebrated plays: It feels slight and hardly packs a punch.

From New York Times

Her mother, Rose Mary Walls, was a hardy free spirit who hoped to succeed as a painter and abhorred the idea of bourgeois life.

From New York Times

There were harsh limits to his friends’ enthusiasm for people who truly lived unconventional lives; they also longed to shame, gossip and make indignant, bourgeois condemnations.

From Washington Post

Quinn intentionally made it in Irish as a way to reclaim the notion of an untainted, true Irish identity in the Connemara region of the west of Ireland, away from bourgeois life.

From Los Angeles Times