bourgeois

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• This book is nearly encyclopedic in its accounting of the pleasures of modern bourgeois American life.

• Bourgeois said that the actions taken to limit the reach of the term “Stop the Steal” in the election’s immediate aftermath were temporary.

• Renoir, Matisse, Picasso and Cézanne were considered formalistic and bourgeois artists.

• At the same time, he was drawn to the work of future Nobel laureate André Gide, who rebelled against bourgeois conventions and wrote of sensual fulfillment.

• Gurugram, a bustling tech and finance center on the outskirts of New Delhi, encapsulates the fast-paced capitalism and bourgeois aspirations of a new town.

• Part of that bourgeois dream involved white people getting to live out their fantasies of having black servants.

• Many historians have leveled criticism at the Code, arguing that it was too conservative and supportive of the bourgeois.

• Diaspora always meant tragedy; you think you can be a good German bourgeois, but that way lie the death camps.

• I confess to being surprised at the reaction to yesterday's article on the boring, bourgeois future of gay marriage.

• That's right, I said it: this is a landmark victory for the forces of staid, bourgeois sexual morality.

• Despite his own grief, he is sorry for the young man; nor is he convinced in his shrewd mind of the latter's guilt.