How To Use Bourgeois In A Sentence

  • At lunch, Monsieur Caïn and his wife, who epitomize the nouveau bourgeoisie, continue to berate their daughter for what they see as appalling manners and lack of respect.
  • The main axis of stratification in capitalist societies is the struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies
  • But the bourgeois and the coalitionist press represented this movement as a pogromist, counter-revolutionary affair, and, at the same time, as a Bolshevist crusade, the immediate object of which was to seize the reins of Government by the use of armed force against the Central Executive Committee. From October to Brest-Litovsk
  • Roy Bourgeois made the front page of this past Saturday's New York Times, and I was glad for the good news at hand: 157 priests signed a statement in support of Father Roy Bourgeois, whom the Vatican has begun to defrock. Michele Somerville: A Frock Does Not A Priest Make
  • Imaginez au contraire que, dans chaque commune, il y ait un bourgeois, un seul, ayant lu Bastiat, et que ce bourgeois-là soit respecté, les choses changeraient! Bush Slanders Freedom « Antiwar.com Blog
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  • Bourgeois believes the war on terrorism has taken a toll on King's nonviolent vision.
  • But "Le corbeau" still was a touchstone for the young François Truffaut, and Claude Chabrol has drawn on Clouzot's mordant critiques of bourgeois society. A French Director Ripe for Rediscovery
  • It thus promises to take us beyond the Nature-Society dualism organising both previous Marxian work on nature and versions of bourgeois technocentrism and radical ecocentrism.
  • But it is not so clear that this weakening of states increases the possibility of the political independence or autonomy of oppressed nations within them, because the bourgeoisies of the weakened nation-states in question fight back.
  • The bourgeois family model with its breadwinning husband and dependent wife and children was thus believed to secure male work incentives.
  • Both François Massialot, in Le Cuisinier roïal et bourgeois, and Menon, in Le Cuisinière bourgeoise, speak of the bourgeois kitchen as simple in style and limited in possibilities, but where special occasions required special efforts, indicating that for them the term designated a style of life and social position beneath that of the nobility. Savoring The Past
  • The smallest combat engineer in the security platoon, Bourgeois, 19, was constantly ribbed about being tiny.
  • The social democrats gambled on bourgeois democracy and the stability of capitalism.
  • This made it an object of desire in the homes of the fast-growing bourgeoisie, creating a market greedy for the sheet music of Chopin's compositions that poured into the shops.
  • There is no youthful revolution against bourgeois values. Times, Sunday Times
  • Deeply antagonistic to reformist compromises with bourgeois democracy, syndicalists also disputed the Leninist strategy of organizing revolution via a vanguard party.
  • In another woman, one whose life journey began elsewhere, this might be described as a hard-won, anti-bourgeois earthiness, but Brown never was bourgeois. Sex and the Married Man
  • Bourgeois believes the war on terrorism has taken a toll on King's nonviolent vision.
  • The upwardly moral children of the bourgeoisie are obsequiously, uncompromisingly virtuous. Enough About Me. Now, About My Kids...
  • Without an exception these hangers-on are a shallow, mean-spirited bunch of bourgeoise no-counts, who mistake philosophical declamation for conversation and obsequiousness for love.
  • When a bourgeois of Boulogne takes the air, he goes in a one-horse chaise, which is here called cabriolet, and hires it for half-a-crown a day. Travels through France and Italy
  • The stunt, aimed tweaking bourgeois consciences, ended when the city offered the men lodging in an army barracks. Times, Sunday Times
  • From 1927 onwards, the objective was no longer solely not to be a loser by achieving bourgeois academic success.
  • It was a solidly bourgeois family, and proud of it. Times, Sunday Times
  • The bourgeois or patrician oligarchies found it easier to defend their privileges.
  • At first, so great was his disgust with the magazines and all bourgeois society, Martin fought against publicity; but in the end, because it was easier than not to, he surrendered. Chapter 43
  • Whatever their secret longings, the family organized relentlessly around bourgeois correctness.
  • Officers in gay uniforms were scattered among the dark anchorites, who occupied one end of the table, while the _bourgeoisie_, with here and there a blue-caftaned peasant wedged among them, filled the other end. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864
  • Many true libertarians (most of whom have nothing to do with politics) still believe in bourgeois values as a guidline for thier lives. Libertarians and the Old Right « Antiwar.com Blog
  • Sovereignty, if it is not to be confiscated by factions of the bourgeoisie or technocrats in their service, has to be popular sovereignty.
  • There is no indication that this starchy, snobby suburban bourgeoise knew anything about cooking. Times, Sunday Times
  • There was no striking surge of bourgeois capital into land, no great expropriation of the landed aristocracy or gentry.
  • The Zionists tried to de-bourgeoisify Jews by creating a national economy in which Jews would hold all the jobs, including farmer and soldier, rather than just the bourgeois middle-man-minority jobs at which they made much money, but also elicited dangerous resentment from other peoples. VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » David Brooks: The Tel Aviv Cluster
  • The new bourgeoisie, which was created by the Industrial Revolution, had money to spend and wanted to travel.
  • He occasionally invents grotesquely exaggerated success stories in a self-mocking parody of his frustrated bourgeois ambitions.
  • All culture is inevitably affiliated to one of two fundamental classes: bourgeoisie or proletariat.
  • Without doubt, the national bourgeoisie tends to vacillate, but we should, nevertheless, make use of its positive side, uniting with it as well as struggling against it.
  • This was a prosperous time for Bavaria and there developed a flourishing art market, concentrating on conventional, unchallenging bourgeois genre pieces.
  • It gets all the time the assail of bourgeois scholar.
  • Without doubt, the national bourgeoisie tends to vacillate, but we should, nevertheless, make use of its positive side, uniting with it as well as struggling against it.
  • Who made up this new elite, this agrarian bourgeoisie? A Social History of Modern Spain
  • As it turns out, uneducated village communists are no match for wily bourgeois sneakiness.
  • If we're all cashing in our hipster cred for bourgeois trappings, then at least we're doing it together.
  • Bourgeois monetary relations were breaking down the old feudal ties that had existed in England and which had been grounded in a largely subsistence agricultural economy.
  • The urban petty bourgeoisie is a reliable ally.
  • But this has been carried out exclusively in the interests of the bourgeoisie and at the expense of the working class.
  • Classes are obvious - there were the aristocracy, the middle class or bourgeois, and of course the peasantry or rustic class.
  • To get an idea of the Dutch achievement in domesticity, I cite Rybczynski on the urban medieval home: "The typical bourgeois townhouse of the 14th century combined living and work. Before the Dutch: The Medieval Home
  • Perhaps the idea of a self is a modern, bourgeois contrivance. Times, Sunday Times
  • Given the Marxian reduction of everything to class interests, it is obvious that a petit bourgeois arriviste such as Ms. Rodham-Clinton can neither command the allegiance of the proletariat nor enjoy the trust of the capitalists.
  • Most of the others had bourgeois backgrounds, their families frequently positioned among the upper professional echelons.
  • The monarchy was now dominant, the nobles largely feudalized, the clergy (with royal grants) powerful, the bourgeoisie vigorous (fisheries and cattle raising), the yeoman class strong and independent. E. Scandinavia
  • The British bourgeoisie always pursued its interests in a transnational context (cf. Global Capitalism and National Decline
  • Still, as a connoisseur, I think irritating an entire nation's Buddhist monks has to be the kickflip McTwist of shocking the bourgeoisie. Archive 2009-01-01
  • These are the people who make up the country, in his eyes, not the scheming gentry and generals who composed bourgeois nationalist parties.
  • He's accusing them of having a bourgeois and limited vision.
  • It is a savage attack on the archetypical French liberal bourgeois.
  • The Yugoslavs sought a close, opportunistic alliance with the national bourgeoisie of the colonial and semicolonial countries.
  • And after having in this way, quietly and by subreption, introduced this its definition of the term "_bourgeoisie_," the indictment goes on to formulate its final charge as follows: The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle
  • His stress on the importance of China in the world situation was ‘petty bourgeois chauvinism’.
  • It becomes not just a play about male insecurity but about the fragility of the bourgeois concept of ownership.
  • It failed to foster an independent, bourgeois culture.
  • You have failed in your attempt to convince me of the coincidence between the bourgeois and the human.
  • Equally suggestive is her interpretation of Fanon's withering attack upon the postcolonial national bourgeoisie.
  • Rather than taking this directive for granted, Nelson delves into the varieties of cruelty perpetrated on us bourgeois for our supposed betterment, what the art critic Grant Kester has called the "orthopedic aesthetic. NYT > Home Page
  • In fact, the remaking of the bourgeoisie was much more limited than the remaking of bourgeois values.
  • The modern magazine reader is a member of the new bourgeois varletry, the monied class that makes the old nouveau riche look like aristocracy. Chance Abutmenting (a counter-critique of Peter Schjeldahl)
  • One of the clearest indications of the trend of modern capitalism has been the erosion of bourgeois democracy on a world scale.
  • And what a piece of petit bourgeois mediocrity it is. Times, Sunday Times
  • And what a piece of petit bourgeois mediocrity it is. Times, Sunday Times
  • Despite his supposedly anti-bourgeois leftist causes, he's a snappy dresser with a taste for cigars, luxury hotels, women and phallic firearms. Carlos director Olivier Assayas on the terrorist who became a pop culture icon
  • Before he met her, he was more sports fan than politician, born into a bourgeois family with no interest in politics. Times, Sunday Times
  • The reduced-scale copies of statuettes featured in these early photographs reflect a growing bourgeois market for such things, and with it the commercialization of art making itself.
  • The "guests", FBC, DIRTY STRAGGLER and whomsoever is available are doing whatever the late capon bourgeoisie do at a gathering for a holidaymaker mealtime: Greeting those they haversack't met in a few monthlies, looking at or taking photographers and unconsciously "consenting to exist" as a Romanian would say. Life is Life (or Ode to a great big idiot like Zizek)
  • By 1931 the uneasiness had extended to many conservative bourgeois who viewed the radicalism of the new movement with apprehension.
  • There exist ingenuous bourgeois, of whom it might be said, that they have a "stealable" air. Les Miserables, Volume III, Marius
  • The strength of the working class emerges the more it politically differentiates, separates and demarcates itself from the policies and programs of the bourgeoisie.
  • Unity here means the united front with the bourgeoisie.
  • A worthy dish, which can embody the sort of rusticity which the word ‘peasant’ evokes, but can also exhibit the kind of refinement associated with bourgeoise cookery.
  • This is the sort of film critics go for, because they know the bourgeoisie will hate it and they're afraid if they don't ramble on about its brilliance and authenticity, they'll look like philistines to all their peers.
  • By the way, in those times cards were not only a means to beguile the time, but also a symbol of the society structure: hearts embodied the priests, diamonds meant the bourgeoisie, spades represented officers and aristocracy, clubs referred to the peasants.
  • In a phrase, he did not want to be a Communist so much as he wanted not to be a bourgeois.
  • Catholics of this persuasion," Sheed writes, "agonized more over their own bourgeoisification than over any outside danger. Catholics
  • So it went through the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s and 1970s, when female film stars wrapped their chests in sackcloth lest they appear buxom, which was tantamount to being bourgeois.
  • The mother embodies the proper bourgeoise, mortified that she wet her skirt with fear, protective of her family, opposed to entering a stranger's property, but no one listens to her.
  • Benjamin valorizes those art movements - Dada and Surrealism - that consciously attack bourgeois notions of artistic autonomy, while aligning Futurism with the aestheticized discourse of fascism.
  • The Lava revisionist group openly capitulated to the Marcos regime and misrepresented it as representative of the national bourgeoisie, as one interested in “noncapitalist development”and as one trying hard to free itself from a U.S. dictated policy of “neocolonial industrialization.” Introduction to Philippine Economy and Politics - Jose Maria Sison CPP
  • Could it be that in just two years the scourge of bourgeois values is now entering the American mainstream?
  • Their use many centuries later in sentimental comedy or bourgeois tragedy was purely artificial.
  • In their view, Spengler diagnosed the main historical trends of human society and accurately predicted the fate of decaying bourgeois society.
  • A revolution would be a threat to the nation's bourgeoisie.
  • Under the opulent chandelier of the Continental Hotel, well-heeled characters try to simulate bourgeois normality in a world of chaotic street battles and high-level skulduggery.
  • conventional bourgeois lives
  • The rise of the bourgeoisie at the end of the eighteenth century created a demand for more pictures.
  • Le Bourgeois gentilhomme satirizes attempts at social climbing, poking fun both at the vulgar, pretentious middle-class and the vain, snobbish aristocracy. Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World
  • This red banner, by the way, symbolizes the brotherhood of man, and does not symbolize the incendiarism that instantly connects itself with the red banner in the affrighted bourgeois mind. Revolution
  • The Vatican began its crusade to defrock Father Bourgeois in November of 2008 with the threat of excommunication. Michele Somerville: A Frock Does Not A Priest Make
  • He started painting rural idylls featuring churches and meadows which he intended to sell to the urban bourgeoisie.
  • And everyone - aristocrats, bohemians, and philosophers alike - denounced the bourgeoisie as selfish money-grubbers.
  • The Middle East became the lover she could not have and a refuge from the bourgeois England of her family.
  • Lo Lung - chi asked, how could little proletarian intellectuals lead big petty - bourgeois intellectuals?
  • Unlike the petty bourgeoisie, they employ at least one worker, and therefore at least part of their income is derived from the exploitation of labor power. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies
  • Within the Alliance interests of local petit bourgeoisie and industrial bourgeoisie converged.
  • The Communist Manifesto anticipated and predicted the irreconcilable conflict between the bourgeoisie and the working class.
  • Their starting point is bourgeois despotism, which in culture becomes the cultural despotism of the bourgeoisie.
  • This particular 'Fall of the Rate of Profit' is prophetic, as it marks the LAST; it is the launching of years of planning 'THE FINAL SOLUTION' to 'THE HUMAN PROBLEM' by capital and its allied agents from the past: the bourgeoisie AND the role-ified proletarian; the globalist banking elite; the exclusionary cartelist, cabalist, and cultist; the theocrat and tribalist, esp. from the Middle Eastern triad based in desert [ed] visions; the Fabian / Jacobin Latest posts @WeBlog.ro
  • It's in your hands now, you hip intellectual bourgeois!
  • Thus his social psychology assumes the traditional bourgeois family structure as a norm.
  • He creates a character who society considers bourgeois and sexually repressed but who does not conform to such expectations.
  • And the gap which separated them from the bourgeois world was wide - and unbridgeable.
  • The stanchly duckbill ribbonwood been myelinic, but all the surgery of the pharmacologically bourgeoisie place were psychogenic from stogy. POWET.TV
  • But it is unvaryingly supportive of the conservative patronising of the poor as unable to help themselves which characterises the bourgeois Left.
  • And what a piece of petit bourgeois mediocrity it is. Times, Sunday Times
  • A large part of his limited production is a celebration, in her many guises, of the industrious bourgeois mother: as mentor, minister, governess, purveyor, nurse, needlewoman and handmaid to her children.
  • While nobles and bourgeois owned most of the land, peasants were left in control of it.
  • Apart from farmers, even the old petty bourgeoisie have grown or remained stable as a proportion of the labour force.
  • However, he proved to be an unscrupulous defender of bourgeois national interests.
  • This does not mean, however, that the jockeying for advantage between these two bourgeoisies has ended, nor that the threat that their rivalry could spin out of control and into a conflagration has been lifted.
  • The rise of relativism, and its inevitable corollary, nihilism, represents the triumph of the bourgeois.
  • The main axis of stratification in capitalist societies is the struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies
  • I shall not dwell upon the career of Sophia -- who has pursued her life in Paris very wisely, shrewdly, circumspectly, not to say commercially, thus showing how honest bourgeois ancestry can triumph over the flightiest of modern temperaments. Personality in Literature
  • They sat by the ficus tree as the bourgeoisie — haute, middle, and low — of Matar ambulated past in the Muzak hush of the mall. Florence of Arabia (Part II)
  • There was no simple retreat from austere aristocratic classicism to bourgeois romanticism.
  • Marx wrote of the class struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat.
  • A proprietor who had capital enough to invest in trading goods and supplies was called a bourgeois. Champlain's Dream
  • Robert Bourgeois, “La théorie de la connaissance intellectuelle chez Henri de Gand,” Revue de philosophie, n.s. De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » Journal of Medieval Military History Style Guide
  • How can a party whose principles rest on an international workers' revolution advance socialist policies in a bourgeois political system?
  • If we do not link education with work in these schools, they would not be communist schools. [applause] It would not be a revolutionary education. [more applause] It would not be a communist education. [more applause] This school which materially excels any of the best schools that the capitalists have, if it was a school similar to those, if it was a school for "dandies" that have to be pampered in every manner, whether it be making their beds, serving them their breakfast, and have an army of servants at their beck and call so that they could waste their time talking, studying a little, having fun, then none of these schools would be any different than those schools attended by the children of capitalists and bourgeois. [applause] INAUGURATION-COMMANDANTE PINARES BASIC SECONDARY
  • Even from the standpoint of elementary bourgeois democratic principles, the constitution is a travesty.
  • FRANK BOURGEOIS -- bro of patrick bourgeois casey fatally hurt caylee …. she called tony … .. tony's friend mike has a friend patrick who has a brother who has a fishing boat and can help get rid of the body … .. so they do that … … … days go by … … … casey gets arrested … .. patrick shows up to see casey in jail, she dosen't know patrick as tony's "aquaintance", she dosen't recognize him, then he mentions MIKE WALKER and knows that this guy was sent by tony to tell her that if she needed anything just ask, this way tony got a message to her w / out anybody knowing about it, that everything will be ok as long as they both keep there mouth shut that's as far as ive got … … … what do u guys think … far-fetched? Blogger News Network
  • Why did a petty-bourgeois nationalist outlook gain ascendancy?
  • There is a touch of Buñuel's The Exterminating Angel here and also Claude Chabrol and his trained ethnographer's beady eye for insect-like behaviour as he surveys various strains of bourgeois depravity. Roman Polanski's Carnage is a joyously unpleasant film
  • The Supreme Court hearing has underscored the far-reaching decay of bourgeois democracy in the US.
  • After the suave political irony of Before the Revolution, Bertolucci's triumphant return to his hometown of Parma brings us subtle and snide satire on human nature and the bourgeois family.
  • At a time when the English stage trafficked in romantic fripperies, he awakened complacent audiences to a host of social ills abetted by conventional morality, bourgeois respectability, and ossified institutions.
  • In the past 18 years he has transformed himself from a spirited iconoclast, fearlessly lampooning the excesses of the rich and famous, into an aspiring member of the haute bourgeoisie.
  • The professional section of the bourgeoisie gradually lost its former autonomy and social distinction.
  • Bad memories resurface as each character's hidden resentment is revealed, from redundancy to marital rejection and disillusionment with bourgeois values.
  • Churches, unions, parties, bourgeois conventions, working-class and peasant cultures no longer furnish models which all are obliged to observe if they do not wish to be ostracized.
  • These findings are stunning because even if the bourgeois media manages to brainwash all of the 22.9% of the people who have the "average to good" label pinned on them, Hugo Chavez still wins by a whopping 18 points. Arthur Shaw: Why is Hugo Chavez so irresistible to the electorate now?
  • Now the average citizen of a bourgeois nation such as France or Japan spends around one hundred dollars a day. Times, Sunday Times
  • Also bought a natty little pasta machine today… hopelessly bourgeois!
  • As flames rage in the night sky, the youngest daughter laughs uncontrollably at the spectacle of her resolutely bourgeois family, sellers of sour pickle and malt coffee, literally going to hell in a handcart. Christa Wolf obituary
  • The existence of a bourgeoisie was marked by recognizable forms of behavior and of ideas.
  • There was no simple retreat from austere aristocratic classicism to bourgeois romanticism.
  • The anti-bourgeois, anti-war and anarchistic Dada movement in the early 1900's is the groundwork to abstract art and sound poetry, a starting point for performance art, a prelude to postmodernism, an influence on pop art, a celebration of antiart to be later embraced for anarcho-political uses in the 1960s and the movement that lay the foundation for Surrealism. Carmen Zella: Soundcrash : The Art Movement of Hip Hop
  • For instance, one of the top wines made in the legendary vintage of 1990 was Sociando-Mallet, a low-ranked château (with an official rating of cru bourgeois) that consistently makes some of the best wines of the region.
  • Well, that doesn’t make them immune to the petit bourgeois angst of being seen as the wrong kind of prole wrong kind because, of course, not being of the hoi poloi is so declassé these days. War of All Against All: Realism vs Fabulism? Er, No…
  • Since the 1947 communal partition of the subcontinent, both of these bourgeoisies have made the conflict against the rival state central to their ruling ideologies.
  • It sounded the knell of scientific bourgeois economy. The Making of Neoclassical Economics
  • His agrarian reforms, especially those against large property, made him unpopular among the bourgeoisie.
  • His mother was of Scots extraction and his father was descended from Belgian bourgeoisie.
  • Increasingly, the socialists declared that they saw the republic as a Bourgeois stepping stone in a transition to a socialist regime.
  • Forget about all those starred restaurants serving reductions of reductions to the haute bourgeoisie. Times, Sunday Times
  • The government had to be on the watch for any ideological trend towards bourgeois liberalization.
  • This name being a bit of a tongue twister for the petite bourgeoisie who were immediately attracted to it, the truncated version, hock, became the name for every wine from the Rhine.
  • I believing in appease the Corporate Power and the bourgeoisie. Matthew Yglesias » How Many Divisions Has Jane Hamsher?
  • The demand for intelligence rose when increasing education, hand in hand with the material advance of the bourgeoisie, awoke a desire for political action.
  • It was the European bourgeoisie who embraced romanticism, depoliticised the liberal social order, and transformed political debate into an endless conversation.
  • Despite the rad profile, nest was as knee-deep in bathos and bourgeois denial as any other shelter mag. Home Alone
  • A group of writers, especially of writers who were in revolt against big business and the corruption of the trusts, were about to effect a combination and start what was to be called the _National Magazine_; for it was to be no less than that, a magazine embracing all America, to serve as a re-invigorant and re-corroborant for new national ideals ... really only a tilting against the evils of big combinations, in favour of the earlier and more impossible ideals of small business units -- the ideal of a bourgeois commercial honesty and individual effort that could no more be re-established than could the big shoe factory be broken up and returned to the shanty of the village shoemaker .... Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative
  • Just as Bligh was willing and eager to flog, keelhaul and starve any human being who stood in the way of his career, so our bourgeoisie will flog, keelhaul and starve the national interest "" with every slum-dweller, rickshawpuller and day-labourer as victim "" in the promotion of their own self-interest. Cap'n Blimey
  • The national bourgeoisie is a class which is politically very weak and vacillating.
  • After lunch, a rather mortifying family tradition. They do things differently in bourgeois bohemia.
  • The ANC spokesman was himself a victim of Manamela's wrath, who said "bourgeoisification" of the ANC was increasingly becoming dangerous for the country and the poor. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • _Le bourgeois et sa dame_ would watch them with kindly interest, deeming it a kindness not to tell them that there were no trains after twelve; and when the lovers at last determined that they must depart, _le bourgeois_ and _la bourgeoise_ would tell them that their room was quite ready, that there was no possibility of returning to Paris that night. Memoirs of My Dead Life
  • When he came out of prison, he gave up political activism for the anonymity and stability of a bourgeois French family life. Times, Sunday Times
  • Holidaymakers come back year after year and, amid the splendours of the Alps, they insist on bourgeois comforts and good Bavarian cooking.
  • All were rooted in the nineteenth-century stance of the artist as critical outsider, disdainful of the niceties of the bourgeoisie.
  • Subsequent sections flesh out this theory of prose's stylistic attunement to the 'tonality of bourgeois existence'. The Times Literary Supplement
  • The more subversive, high-functional sufferers of this syndrome can be quite funny, at least in the context of repressed and bowdlerized bourgeois institutions, like junior high.
  • The first was a developed bourgeoisie which needed bureaucracy as a weapon against revolutionary movements.
  • I had very well known French actors playing bourgeoise characters totally over the top.
  • Only revolution could prevent the American bourgeoisie from entering into this war or beginning the third imperialist war.
  • As Horowitz puts it, “In numerous unexamined ways, the budget studies” undertaken by progressives “attacked immigrant and working-class culture, hoping to replace it with the bourgeois emphasis on self-help and personal discipline.” A Renegade History of the United States
  • Even when he was working on a shoestring, he revealed the kind of amiably creative flair that is often overlooked by film snobs in their unending quest for audience-unfriendly breakthroughs to punish the paying customers for their bourgeois tastes. Burns' Comic Realism Remains, His Brothers Are Gone
  • Bourgeois collectors began to play a part, and Mancini's treatise Considerazioni sulla pittura, addressed to the gentleman amateur, advised virtuosi on how to form a collection of paintings.
  • The popularity of the stage ballet intensified a vogue for social dancing and for the staging of private divertissements in the homes of the nobility and the bourgeoisie.
  • But as an adult, I regarded the memory of these trips with a mildly affectionate disdain – ah, such innocent fun, but such bourgeois misunderstanding of what constitutes NATURE and WILDERNESS. In The Outside | Her Bad Mother
  • The new bourgeoisie, which was created by the Industrial Revolution, had money to spend and wanted to travel.
  • Its time has long since passed, on many levels, the least of which is its provincial ideas note the casual bigotry in the ‘toy Negress’ Robert plays with and the anti-Semitic caricatures the bourgeoisie portray in one of their musical numbers. CRITERION: THE RULES OF THE GAME | Obsessed With Film
  • As such, all three exemplify the spirit of romantic rebellion against the modern bourgeois order - a rebellion that is itself fundamentally modern and bourgeois.
  • What Paris is today is one of the most beautiful and civilized cities in the world, a stronghold of Old World haute bourgeois values and yet one of the most modern cities in Europe.
  • ” It was the usual thing among bourgeois intelligentzia to refer to the Soviets of Workers’ Deputies (Rabotchikh Deputatov) as Sabatchikh Deputatov—Dogs’ Deputies. Chapter 1. Background
  • In every important strike the bourgeois press is forced to drop its spurious neutrality.
  • Alas, I cannot find it in my eleemosynary nature to weep a solitary tear for this haut bourgeois pretender and his gewgaw-bearing mate. Archive 2007-07-01
  • Since the nineteenth century many an artist has claimed that he fought the good fight against stuffy conventionalism by baiting the bourgeois.
  • Marx distinguished two classes, bourgeois and proletarian, based on the ownership of the means of production.
  • Indeed, to disguise a subversive anarchist bomb as bourgeois respectability. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the side of civil rights, Tan Shitong' s advocation raised the curtain of a fierce competition between bourgeoisie ideology of democratic rights and the monarchism.
  • In these various ways, a new plutocracy was emerging in western Europe during the late nineteenth century, composed of aristocratic and bourgeois elements, which compromised the original liberal ideal.
  • He analyzed bourgeois culture which conveniently precluded his being absorbed by it.
  • In the 19th century, bourgeois urbanites known as flâneurs strolled the streets, passively observing the urban landscape.
  • A State Council served as the consulting body, comprised mainly of Neapolitan nobles and bourgeois.
  • Our point rather, is the to examine the myth of Industry-as-Progress in these early years of the twenty-first century and to show that those who dream of hypermodernity today (Left wing bourgeoisie, mediots, and other assorted being like scientists of Esplanade) are actually way way behind times. Kafila
  • Here is an interview with Michel Pinçon in LeJournalduNet on the subject of the wealthy class in France and an interview on the "bourgeoisification" of Paris. Sociologie de Paris?
  • With his insistence that Marxism emerged from the Enlightenment by a process of "sublation" or "aufheben," Steiner is suggesting that Marx and Engels rejected the conception of equality that had been developed in the course of the Enlightenment, advanced in the English Revolution and made a principle of the bourgeois revolution in America and France. Undefined
  • Their use many centuries later in sentimental comedy or bourgeois tragedy was purely artificial.
  • The Cuisinier Royale et Bourgeois itself offers a rather appetizing recipe for suckling pig in galantine, but nothing for chicken.
  • Opposition to shopping grew especially severe during World War I, when bourgeois disgust over the new working-class culture took the form of well-organized campaigns against drinking, prostitution, and venereal disease, and in the moral condemnation of working-class spending habits. A Renegade History of the United States

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