She thought of herself as a bourgeois. From LearnThat.org.
A bourgeois mentality. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
He, for example, coined the term bourgeois, as we understand it. From Wordnik.com. [Making Patriots] Reference
She laughed heartily, teased Paul about his accent and what she called his bourgeois ideas. From Wordnik.com. [The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2)] Reference
I suppose, my young friend, the bourgeois is very much in love with you?. From Wordnik.com. [John Halifax, Gentleman] Reference
It was on a par with all the rest that Brissenden had condemned in bourgeois society. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 40] Reference
Most Americans are loyal to what many intellectuals contemptuously label bourgeois society. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
The liberal bourgeois is genuinely liberal up to the point where his own interests stop. From Wordnik.com. [Spilling the Spanish Beans] Reference
But I include in the word bourgeois, the bourgeois in blouses as well the bourgeois in coats. From Wordnik.com. [The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters] Reference
To identify a given ideology and theoretical position as bourgeois, or petty bourgeois, is often valid; but it is never sufficient. From Wordnik.com. [A Bland and Deadly Courtesy] Reference
Many true libertarians (most of whom have nothing to do with politics) still believe in bourgeois values as a guidline for thier lives. From Wordnik.com. [Libertarians and the Old Right « Antiwar.com Blog] Reference
In this intense situation, the PRD -- one of the main bourgeois opposition parties in Mexico -- is trying to claim the mantle of the 1968 student movement. From Wordnik.com. [Upsurge and massacre in Mexico, 1968 part 3: echoes in the 90s] Reference
‘is just a superlative hatred of the thing they call the bourgeois; and what the bourgeois is, isn’t quite defined. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Chatterley's Lover] Reference
"That is what is called bourgeois courage, I believe.". From Wordnik.com. [The Precipice] Reference
The bourgeois is the man who now has time to sit down. From Wordnik.com. [Les Misérables] Reference
Axiom: Hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of virtue. From Wordnik.com. [The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters] Reference
American culture was built on the notion of bourgeois dignity. From Wordnik.com. [The Seattle Times] Reference
They're the bohemian bourgeois, which is essentially a paradox. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Gellman: Jammin' on the One] Reference
I do not know if you recall the bourgeois constitution which Cuba used to have. From Wordnik.com. [FIFTH FMC NATIONAL PLENUM] Reference
The book is a good example of what Everhard would have called bourgeois thinking. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Heel] Reference
But those who possessed property were referred to as the bourgeois, or the bourgeoisie. From Wordnik.com. [inJesus :: Online Community :: Last posted message] Reference
The so-called bourgeois liberal philosophies have resolved absolutely nothing in this hemisphere. From Wordnik.com. [Castro Interview With Brazilian TV During Visit] Reference
It is summed up in the phrase: the bourgeois is a bourgeois-for the benefit of the working class. From Wordnik.com. [Manifesto of the Communist Party] Reference
He might call her bourgeois, a common ordinary soul, but that was what she wanted to be, just as she always had been. From Wordnik.com. [Woman Triumphant (La Maja Desnuda)] Reference
Rand wanted the benefits of bourgeois society while also wanting to dispense with what were once called the bourgeois virtues. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Is Ayn Rand Bad for Libertarianism?] Reference
This inspired Girard to abandon what he then called bourgeois theatre, I wanted to bring theatre to the streets, to the people. From Wordnik.com. [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference
But, sir (for I see you are what the fur-traders call a bourgeois), how comes it that such a band as this rides i 'the mountains!. From Wordnik.com. [The Dog Crusoe and his Master] Reference
Potent verses -- what kind of bourgeois concept indeed!. From Wordnik.com. [Toy] Reference
This was only partly because of their 'bourgeois' content. From Wordnik.com. [WILD SWANS THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA]
In common parlance, 'bourgeois' is synonymous with 'humdrum' and 'conventional.'. From Wordnik.com. [Is Capitalism Good for You?] Reference
Writer Amiri Baraka charged that Lee was too "bourgeois" to do justice to Malcolm's story. From Wordnik.com. [Malcolm X] Reference
Che ridiculed and pilloried her as "bourgeois", before abandoning both her and their child. From Wordnik.com. [Johann Hari: This Endless Myth-Making About the Blood-Soaked Che Guevara Must Stop] Reference
He could make people laugh by calling his rifle 'bourgeois' when it wasn't working properly. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]
She is willing to risk the label 'bourgeois' in her quest for understanding of how each day can be borne. From Wordnik.com. [Laura Baudo Sillerman: Reading The New Yorker , Thinking About Daphne Merkin] Reference
"Golf is a bourgeois sport," he said, repeating the word "bourgeois" as if he were swallowing castor oil. From Wordnik.com. [Merrill Markoe: Hugo Chavez's Righteous Attack on Golf] Reference
Poetry as a sort of 24-hour epiphany channel or worse, experimental poetry as a kind of bourgeois pastime. From Wordnik.com. [Breakthroughs : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
I think, though, David is just using the word "bourgeois" here to mean "good," rather than what it actually means. From Wordnik.com. [David Brooks, Israel, and "bourgeoisophobia"] Reference
"For them, staying at the Four Seasons seems kind of bourgeois, since any doctor from the Midwest will know about it.". From Wordnik.com. [RUSTIC LUXURY] Reference
Other genre plots are almost always similarly artificial, or at least similarly distant from our 'bourgeois' experiences. From Wordnik.com. [What is Literary Fiction?] Reference
During the ultra-radical 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution, keeping pets was considered "bourgeois" and politically incorrect. From Wordnik.com. [Pet Peeves in China] Reference
The Soviet ideological system had its convenient designations of 'bourgeois' or 'capitalist' or 'reactionary,' which were quite enough. From Wordnik.com. [Victims of Soviet Psychiatry: A Report from Honolulu] Reference
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