proletarian

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Glenn Fitzgerald, as the Brusteins’ upstairs neighbor, a gay playwright; Julian De Niro, as a Black proletarian who asks Gloria to marry him; and Grotelueschen are all blessed with meaty, well-handled supporting roles.

From Washington Post • Feb. 27, 2023

The experience, and her later workshop jobs, instilled in her a proletarian ethos very different from the aesthetic high-mindedness taught in England’s art schools.

From New York Times • Sep. 25, 2022

They identified with the agrarian and proletarian revolutions and mingled with European artists who fled to Mexico from both world wars.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 10, 2022

The social critic Mike Davis once called these “stealth houses” that hide their “luxurious qualities with proletarian or gangster facades.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2022

The subsidiary reason is that the Party member, like the proletarian, tolerates present-day conditions partly because he has no standards of comparison.

From "1984" by George Orwell