How To Use Petit bourgeois In A Sentence
-
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.
-
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
-
Within the Alliance interests of local petit bourgeoisie and industrial bourgeoisie converged.
-
And what a piece of petit bourgeois mediocrity it is.
Times, Sunday Times
-
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…
-
Playing Lucy Collins, the troubled daughter of the neighbourhood's petit bourgeois family, she constantly bristled with an insolent ennui and a mild subversiveness.
-
Centered around city of Shanghai, the exhibition meanders through a series of experiences: from Nongtang culture, Shanghai style, materialism and petit bourgeois sentiment.
-
It was often believed in those days that absorption into the historic movement of the working class was the cure for the angst of the petit bourgeois and the deracinated intellectual.
The Zealot
-
Amiri Baraka is only exaggerating a bit when he calls Lee ‘the quintessential buppie, almost the spirit of the young, upwardly mobile, Black, petit bourgeois professional’.
-
At school, when her hair-bow was called "petit bourgeois" by a teacher, she wore a bigger one.
The Economist: Daily news and views
-
And having a proletarian spirit means to struggle without rest against what we could call petit bourgeois weaknesses [applause], petit bourgeois defects
CASTRO DISCUSSES EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT, PROBLEMS
-
Many years after critics scoffed at the 1945 movie as a silly weepy, Marxists led the fight to restyle "Mildred Piece," most notably as a brilliant, ironic parody of the striving and delusional petit bourgeoisie.
Mommie Mildred Dearest