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  • The same dogs who weren't fit to lick my shoes before the Shorawi came were now ordering me at gunpoint, Parchami flag on their lapels, making their little point about the fall of the bourgeoisie and acting like they were the ones with class.†   (source)
  • On the face of it, Bullhead City doesn't seem like the kind of place that would appeal to an adherent of Thoreau and Tolstoy, an ideologue who expressed nothing but contempt for the bourgeois trappings of mainstream America.†   (source)
  • Of armchair bourgeois pietism.†   (source)
  • But for this mass struggle session, the victims were the reactionary bourgeois academic authorities.†   (source)
  • For while these tools had been developed by the Bourgeoisie to further their own interests, it was through the engine, the press, and the pistol that the Proletariat began to free itself from labor, ignorance, and tyranny.†   (source)
  • I sat in the shadow of the dark-green café awning, staring down the length of the Rue des Francs Bourgeois, the tepid sun of a Parisian autumn warming the side of my face.†   (source)
  • I find a third word: bourgeoisie, spelled bowrgeoisie.†   (source)
  • I went on to my room and read the assigned pages of Le bourgeois gentilhomme.†   (source)
  • …. tight pants and pointed shoes are what the Western bourgeoisie admire.†   (source)
  • My mom says that's because at the time she rejected the bourgeois mores of a society that didn't even accept women as equals to men and refused to recognize her rights as an individual.†   (source)
  • His efforts do lead him to meet people of the higher classes, the bourgeois Schlegel sisters and, through them, the aristocratic Wilcox family.†   (source)
  • The Naxalite movement spread across the country and struck terror in every bourgeois heart.†   (source)
  • It was because of this melancholia that he felt obliged to break off his engagement, something the Copenhagen bourgeoisie did not look kindly on.†   (source)
  • Minerva calls me her little petit bourgeois.†   (source)
  • When I met Dolores she had all the poses of the Black bourgeoisie without the material basis to support the postures.†   (source)
  • Look at you bourgeois people watching tv!†   (source)
  • Millennium is generally viewed as critical of society, but I'm guessing the anarchists think it's a wimpy bourgeois crap magazine along the lines of Arena or Ordfront, while the Moderate Students Association probably thinks that the editors are all Bolsheviks.†   (source)
  • My argument was that it was as undemocratic to specify that the leaders had to be from the working class as to declare that they should be bourgeois intellectuals.†   (source)
  • The frame tottered and then fell over, spraying glass, spraying little china figurines of cats and shepherds and all that happy bourgeois horseshit.†   (source)
  • Bourgeois.†   (source)
  • Monsieur le petit bourgeois noir—himself!†   (source)
  • They tell us that your officers are chosen from the bourgeois classes to control ordinary sailors from the working class.†   (source)
  • You try to imagine Eisenstein in the underground of bisexual Berlin, forty-five years ago, with his domed head and somewhat stunted limbs, hair springing from his scalp in clownish tufts, a man with bourgeois scruples and a gift for sublimation, and here he is in the Kit Kat or the Bow Wow, seamy heated cellars unthinkable in Moscow, and he's dishing Hollywood gossip with men in drag.†   (source)
  • You're the worst bourgeois I know!†   (source)
  • She was a plump, pink, sluggish girl who read good books and kept urging Yossarian not to be so bourgeois without the r. She was never without a good book close by, not even when she was lying in bed with nothing on her but Yossarian and Dori Duz's dog tags.†   (source)
  • Most of the sweating parents never graduated from high school, much less attended college, and are certainly not going to be reined in at the only graduation many will ever attend by some distant, bourgeois blacks.†   (source)
  • Apparently I have disappointed her beyond belief by turning my back on my independent spirit and joining the bourgeoisie.†   (source)
  • If he slowly began to work, and gradually took up the life of a bourgeois, teaching and writing until the money came through, time might make of him a different man.†   (source)
  • But he went too far when he attacked Paris fashion as a decadent bourgeois industry!†   (source)
  • They were constitutionally different, it was obvious now, Kit having more of Alan's stolidity — Ruby would call it bourgeois — but in any case Kit was tired of the spirals, was exhausted by the deep cleaning Ruby tried to do every time they talked.†   (source)
  • You're as bourgeois as they come."†   (source)
  • Within the outer layers of civil life in that busy Southern town Jews were warmly, thoroughly assimilated and became unexceptional participants: merchants, doctors, lawyers, a spectrum of bourgeois achievement.†   (source)
  • And long-toothed beatniks in their cups hone for the rituals of right and wrong their bourgeois fathers taught.†   (source)
  • He was the archetypal petit-bourgeois, cautious, complacent, mean.†   (source)
  • In fighting the officer and Cossack hirelings of the bourgeoisie, who are armed to the teeth, the insurgents will have to wage a full-fledged war.†   (source)
  • the house, which is simple and thoroughly bourgeois   (source)
    bourgeois = typical of the middle class
  • You and your grandmother often take a pedicab, which reveals your extravagant bourgeois lifestyle.†   (source)
  • If we were bourgeois, we would have an antenna.†   (source)
  • When it comes to Jesus, Mommy, who scorns the black bourgeoisie, has friends in high places.†   (source)
  • A pawn in the monstrous bourgeois plot to subvert the revolution.†   (source)
  • Thus the worker transfers his own labor—and with it, the whole of his life—to the bourgeoisie.†   (source)
  • The Christian bourgeoisie had begun to self-destruct.†   (source)
  • It was also a good chance to get rid of my remaining bourgeois habits.†   (source)
  • "It's a translation that propagates the bourgeois theory of humanitarism."†   (source)
  • Your black bourgeois bones are clearly visible to our proletarian eyes….†   (source)
  • I was clearly not one of the pampered bourgeoisie.†   (source)
  • Today, we proletarian revolutionary young guards have come to revolt against you bourgeoisie.†   (source)
  • To do so would be to overstep the bounds, and to display a bourgeois lack of cool.†   (source)
  • He borrowed it off me all the time, but it was bourgeois anyway.†   (source)
  • Alba would repeat Miguel's words: that only through armed struggle could the bourgeoisie be toppled.†   (source)
  • You have an atrophied social sense, just like an illiterate peasant woman or a bourgeois diehard.†   (source)
  • He was laughing, you see, at the bourgeois sensitivities of the mass.†   (source)
  • On the front of the envelope, in typed capitals, it said, under my name: ONLY TO BE READ IN THE CAFE MARQUIS, RUE DES FRANCS BOURGEOIS, ACCOMPANIED BY CROISSANTS AND A LARGE CAFE CRÈME.†   (source)
  • You with your bourgeois conventions would never grasp this, but the excitement comes from planning a kidnapping.†   (source)
  • You've sneered at that notion often enough — not realistic, bourgeois superstition, rotten at the core.†   (source)
  • Then I took a shower, dressed, and went back to the dormitory, reread part of Le bourgeois gentilhomme, and at 4:45, instead of going to a scheduled meeting of the Commencement Arrangements Committee, on which I had been persuaded to take Brinker's place, I went to the Infirmary.†   (source)
  • She called him a bourgeois reactionary.†   (source)
  • No, Doktè Paul, not bourgeois.†   (source)
  • But in Marx's own time, in what he called a bourgeois or capitalist society, the conflict was first and foremost between the capitalists and the workers, or the proletariat.†   (source)
  • He has told me that if he were a philosophe—if, that is, his family had owned enough pigs to send him to high school—he would write a book about the Haitian bourgeoisie.†   (source)
  • And while it was happening, the children of the bourgeoisie played the violin in warm, spacious living rooms after a refreshing bath.†   (source)
  • It occurred to Comrade Pillai that this generation was perhaps paying for its forefathers' bourgeois decadence.†   (source)
  • For a period, we get a new 'class society' in which the proletarians suppress the bourgeoisie by force.†   (source)
  • Ammu smiled and they shook hands, as though she really was being awarded a Certificate of Merit for being an honest-to-goodness Genuine Bourgeoise.†   (source)
  • It frightened the bourgeoisie too.†   (source)
  • Spoken like a true bourgeoise.†   (source)
  • Structurally—this somewhat rudimentary argument went—Marxism was a simple substitute for Christianity, Replace God with Marx, Satan with the bourgeoisie, Heaven with a classless society, the Church with the Party, and the form and purpose of the journey remained similar.†   (source)
  • With the start of the Cultural Revolution all the stamp shops were closed down, because stamp collecting was considered bourgeois.†   (source)
  • Down with the bourgeois Jiang Xi-wen!†   (source)
  • Instead of admitting her crimes and striving to atone for her sins, Old Lady Rong has sent her sons to Hong Kong, where they can continue to exploit the Chinese people, and she herself continues to flaunt her bourgeois life.†   (source)
  • That is bourgeois ideology.†   (source)
  • Bourgeois!†   (source)
  • A few days later, when I got to school, I was told we were going to post da-zi-bao on the houses of some of the bourgeoisie living near the school.†   (source)
  • Some feminists found Johansson's conclusions significant, others criticized her for "spreading bourgeois illusions."†   (source)
  • But he doesn't feel the need to hide anything: sexual possessiveness is bourgeois, and just a hangover from notions about the sanctity of private property.†   (source)
  • Even my fountain pen was bourgeois.†   (source)
  • It's what happens when you let the bourgeoisie into the affairs of the people!" the young woman answered him indignantly.†   (source)
  • The people who had marched in triumph went to watch the bourgeoisie standing in line and fighting to get through the doors of the banks, and roared with laughter.†   (source)
  • At first he only used to be kidding when he called my stuff bourgeois, and I didn't give a damn—it was sort of funny, in fact.†   (source)
  • They lit torches, and the jumble of voices and dancing in the streets became a disciplined, jubilant procession that advanced toward the well-tended avenues of the bourgeoisie, creating the unaccustomed spectacle of ordinary citizens—factory workers in their heavy work shoes, women with babies in their arms, students in shirtsleeves—calmly marching through the private, expensive neighborhood where they had rarely ventured before, and in which they were complete foreigners.†   (source)
  • And I came at last to discern the outlines of that "badness" which had tracked her down remorselessly from Warsaw to Auschwitz and thence to these pleasant bourgeois streets of Brooklyn, pursuing her like a demon.†   (source)
  • I could have made other charges—that he passed information to the British Secret Service, that he turned his Department into the unconscious lackey of a bourgeois state, that he deliberately shielded revanchist anti-Party groups and accepted sums of foreign currency in reward.†   (source)
  • Only I find it hard to reconcile myself to the idea that they are radiant heroes and that I am a petty bourgeois who sides with tyranny and obscurantism.†   (source)
  • There was dwelling somewhere in the inward part of my mind a compulsion to write about slavery, to make slavery give up its most deeply buried and tormented secrets, which was every bit as necessary as the compulsion that drove me to write, as I had been writing today, about the inheritors of that institution who now in the 1940s floundered amid the insane apartheid of Tidewater Virginia—my beloved and bedeviled bourgeois New South family whose every move and gesture, I had begun to realize, were played out in the presence of a vast, brooding company of black witnesses, all sprung from the loins of bondage.†   (source)
  • They knew the slinking bourgeois breed, the ordinary holders of cheap government bonds, and they spoke to them without the slightest pity and with Mephistophelean smiles, as to petty thieves caught in the act.†   (source)
  • Lidochka, the representative of the Central Committee, did not hear the partisan leader asking him to stop and continued his tired patter: "By its policy of looting, requisitioning, violence, shooting, and torture the bourgeois militarist regime in Sibera is bound to open the eyes of the gullible.†   (source)
  • Officers, bourgeois.†   (source)
  • Today, 'bourgeois' and 'petty bourgeois' have become terms of abuse, but Pushkin forestalled the implied criticism in his 'Family Tree,' where he says proudly that he belongs to the middle class, and in 'Onegin's Travels' we read: 'Now my ideal is the housewife, My greatest wish, a quiet life And a big bowl of cabbage soup.'†   (source)
  • These, it said, were merely being hoarded by the bourgeoisie with the object of disorganizing distribution and creating chaos.†   (source)
  • And that was enough to condemn me forever as bourgeois.†   (source)
  • Now, when he was on fire with his Cause, Arthur's justice seemed bourgeois and obtuse beside him.†   (source)
  • (warming up, changes abruptly to his usual declamatory denunciation) Gottamned stupid bourgeois!†   (source)
  • "You talk like a decadent bourgeois, Ellsworth," said Gus Webb.†   (source)
  • My dear sir, I would not for the world laugh at the bourgeois life.†   (source)
  • He'd come in, see how fixed up she was in her bourgeois parlor, and be satisfied.†   (source)
  • "He says that you are a petty bourgeois degenerate," I was told.†   (source)
  • HUGO—(ignores this—to Larry, in a low tone of hatred) That bourgeois svine, Hickey!†   (source)
  • Though the goal of manhood is better known to him than to the bourgeois, still he shuts his eyes.†   (source)
  • The damn bourgeoisie, he said, should have been leaders and offered practical examples of happiness.†   (source)
  • "Reading bourgeois books can only confuse you, comrade," he said, returning the book.†   (source)
  • Now it is between the two, in the middle of the road, that the bourgeois seeks to walk.†   (source)
  • She brought me up to believe that family-respect stuff is all bourgeois, property-owning crap.†   (source)
  • "Man," whatever people think of him, is never anything more than a temporary bourgeois compromise.†   (source)
  • Now the bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self (rudimentary as his may be).†   (source)
  • The parent constellation of the bourgeoisie binds him with its spell.†   (source)
  • Let us take as a starting point, since it offers itself, his relation to the bourgeoisie.†   (source)
  • He has a bourgeois mind.†   (source)
  • He contended that the family was a bourgeois institution; but he made no issue of it and did not crusade for free love.†   (source)
  • In seeking to go beyond Alexandrianism, a part of Western bourgeois society has produced something unheard of heretofore: -- avant-garde culture.†   (source)
  • In a country where the bourgeoisie overeat so that their stomachs are all ruined and they cannot live without bicarbonate of soda and the poor are hungry from their birth till the day they die, why wouldn't he be tubercular?†   (source)
  • Other words used in variable meanings, in most cases more or less dishonestly, are: CLASS, TOTALITARIAN, SCIENCE, PROGRESSIVE, REACTIONARY BOURGEOIS, EQUALITY.†   (source)
  • But the explanation was the same--because it was a dull time, because he was broke; he soon kept company with bear-eyes Sylvester in his pamphlet-armed war with the bourgeoisie and took lessons in pool from Dingbat.†   (source)
  • [Note 1, below] The jargon peculiar to Marxist writing (HYENA, HANGMAN, CANNIBAL, PETTY BOURGEOIS, THESE GENTRY, LACKEY, FLUNKEY, MAD DOG, WHITE GUARD, etc.) consists largely of words and phrases translated from Russian, German or French; but the normal way of coining a new word is to use a Latin or Greek root with the appropriate affix and, where necessary, the '-ize' formation.†   (source)
  • The subject matter of art was prescribed by those who commissioned works of art, which were not created, as in bourgeois society, on speculation.†   (source)
  • Ostensibly, at least, it meant this -- meant starving in a garret -- although, as we will be shown later, the avant-garde remained attached to bourgeois society precisely because it needed its money.†   (source)
  • …"best people" from the gentlemen's clubs, and all the frantic fascist captains, united in common hatred of Socialism and bestial horror of the rising tide of the mass revolutionary movement, have turned to acts of provocation, to foul incendiarism, to medieval legends of poisoned wells, to legalize their own destruction of proletarian organizations, and rouse the agitated petty-bourgeoisie to chauvinistic fervor on behalf of the fight against the revolutionary way out of the crisis.†   (source)
  • I was too indulgent about them, about the beds that would be first stale and then poisonous because their manageresses' thoughts were on the conquering power of chenille and dimity and the suffocation of light by curtains, and the bourgeois ambering of adventuring man in parlor upholstery.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, without the circulation of revolutionary ideas in the air about them, they would never have been able to isolate their concept of the "bourgeois" in order to define what they were not.†   (source)
  • Didn't Lenin read bourgeois books?†   (source)
  • Laugh, leedle bourgeois monkey-faces!†   (source)
  • "You know," he said, his voice dropping to a low, confidential tone, "many comrades go wrong by reading the books of the bourgeoisie.†   (source)
  • Yet it is true that once the avant-garde had succeeded in "detaching" itself from society, it proceeded to turn around and repudiate revolutionary as well as bourgeois politics.†   (source)
  • Let us join in prayer that Hickey, the Great Salesman, will soon arrive bringing the blessed bourgeois long green!†   (source)
  • Thus our present bourgeois social order was shown to be, not an eternal, "natural" condition of life, but simply the latest term in a succession of social orders.†   (source)
  • The peasants who settled in the cities as proletariat and petty bourgeois learned to read and write for the sake of efficiency, but they did not win the leisure and comfort necessary for the enjoyment of the city's traditional culture.†   (source)
  • Stupid bourgeois monkeys!†   (source)
  • Courage indeed was needed for this, because the avant-garde's emigration from bourgeois society to bohemia meant also an emigration from the markets of capitalism, upon which artists and writers had been thrown by the falling away of aristocratic patronage.†   (source)
  • Bourgeois stool pigeons!†   (source)
  • Humor has always something bourgeois in it, although the true bourgeois is incapable of understanding it.†   (source)
  • For this reason the bourgeois today burns as heretics and hangs as criminals those to whom he erects monuments tomorrow.†   (source)
  • When he worships his favorites among the immortals, Mozart, perchance, he always looks at him in the long run through bourgeois eyes.†   (source)
  • Now what we call "bourgeois," when regarded as an element always to be found in human life, is nothing else than the search for a balance.†   (source)
  • Only the strongest of them force their way through the atmosphere of the bourgeois earth and attain to the cosmic.†   (source)
  • It would, it is true, keep him forever tied to the bourgeois world, but his suffering would be bearable and productive.†   (source)
  • The bourgeois is consequently by nature a creature of weak impulses, anxious, fearful of giving himself away and easy to rule.†   (source)
  • Yet we see that, though in times when commanding natures are uppermost, the bourgeois goes at once to the wall, he never goes under; indeed at times he even appears to rule the world.†   (source)
  • Here it is possible not only to extol the saint and the profligate in one breath and to make the poles meet, but to include the bourgeois, too, in the same affirmation.†   (source)
  • It still remains to elucidate the Steppenwolf as an isolated phenomenon, in his relation, for example, to the bourgeois world, so that his symptoms may be traced to their source.†   (source)
  • His relation to the bourgeois world would lose its sentimentality both in its love and in its hatred, and his bondage to it would cease to cause him the continual torture of shame.†   (source)
  • What, however, he calls the "man" in himself, as opposed to the wolf, is to a great extent nothing else than this very same average man of the bourgeois convention.†   (source)
  • Looked at with the bourgeois eye, my life had been a continuous descent from one shattering to the next that left me more remote at every step from all that was normal, permissible and healthful.†   (source)
  • He himself, the old Harry, had been just such a bourgeois idealization of Goethe, a spiritual champion whose all-too-noble gaze shone with the unction of elevated thought and humanity, until he was almost overcome by his own nobleness of mind!†   (source)
  • At bottom, however, he was a bourgeois who took exception to a life like Hermine's and was much annoyed over the nights thrown away in a restaurant and the money squandered there, and had them on his conscience.†   (source)
  • If we now pause to test the soul of the Steppenwolf, we find him distinct from the bourgeois in the higher development of his individuality—for all extreme individuation turns against itself, intent upon its own destruction.†   (source)
  • He was capable of loving the political criminal, the revolutionary or intellectual seducer, the outlaw of state and society, as his brother, but as for theft and robbery, murder and rape, be would not have known how to deplore them otherwise than in a thoroughly bourgeois manner.†   (source)
  • Don't you smell it too, a fragrance given off by the odor of floor polish and a faint whiff of turpentine together with the mahogany and the washed leaves of the plants—the very essence of bourgeois cleanliness, of neatness and meticulousness, of duty and devotion shown in little things.†   (source)
  • He who is developed far beyond the level possible to the bourgeois, he who knows the bliss of meditation no less than the gloomy joys of hatred and self-hatred, he who despises law, virtue and common sense, is nevertheless captive to the bourgeoisie and cannot escape it.†   (source)
  • Now it is possible to be possessed by God and to affirm the sinner, and vice versa, but it is not possible for either saint or sinner (or for any other of the unconditioned) to affirm as well that lukewarm mean, the bourgeois.†   (source)
  • I stood outside all social circles, alone, beloved by none, mistrusted by many, in unceasing and bitter conflict with public opinion and morality; and though I lived in a bourgeois setting, I was all the same an utter stranger to this world in all I thought and felt.†   (source)
  • And he cannot see that this whole world, this Eden and its manifestations of beauty and terror, of greatness and meanness, of strength and tenderness is crushed and imprisoned by the wolf legend just as the real man in him is crushed and imprisoned by that sham existence, the bourgeois.†   (source)
  • It is only from cowardice that he lives in it; and when its dimensions are too cramping for him and the bourgeois parlor too confining, he lays it at the wolf's door, and refuses to see that the wolf is as often as not the best part of him.†   (source)
  • All this was bourgeois sentimentality, lightly seasoned with a touch of the old-fashioned romance of inns, a romance coming from my boyhood when inns and wine and cigars were still forbidden things—strange and wonderful.†   (source)
  • But I came to see more and more that from the empty spaces of his lone wolfishness he actually really admired and loved our little bourgeois world as something solid and secure, as the home and peace which must ever remain far and unattainable, with no road leading from him to them.†   (source)
  • So I went down the stairs from my room in the attic, those difficult stairs of this alien world, those thoroughly bourgeois, well-swept and scoured stairs of a very respectable three-family apartment house under whose roof I have my refuge.†   (source)
  • Assiduous and busy, care-ridden and light-hearted, intelligent and yet thoughtless, these butterflies lived a life at once childlike and raffine; independent, not to be bought by every one, finding their account in good luck and fine weather, in love with life and yet clinging to it far less than the bourgeois, always ready to follow a fairy prince to his castle, always certain, though scarcely conscious of it, that a difficult and sad end was in store for them.†   (source)
  • The "man" of this concordat, like every other bourgeois ideal, is a compromise, a timid and artlessly sly experiment, with the aim of cheating both the angry primal mother Nature and the troublesome primal father Spirit of their pressing claims, and of living in a temperate zone between the two of them.†   (source)
  • And yet I clung to him all the same, or to the mask of him that was already falling away, clung to his coquetting with the spiritual, to his bourgeois horror of the disorderly and accidental (to which death, too, belonged) and compared the new Harry—the somewhat timid and ludicrous dilettante of the dance rooms—scornfully and enviously with the old one in whose ideal and lying portrait he had since discovered all those fatal characteristics which had upset him that night so grievously…†   (source)
  • His tendency is to explain Mozart's perfected being, just as a schoolmaster would, as a supreme and special gift rather than as the outcome of his immense powers of surrender and suffering, of his indifference to the ideals of the bourgeois, and of his patience under that last extremity of loneliness which rarefies the atmosphere of the bourgeois world to an ice-cold ether, around those who suffer to become men, that loneliness of the Garden of Gethsemane.†   (source)
  • For with the bourgeoisie the opposite of the formula for the great is true: He who is not against me is with me.†   (source)
  • His fate brings them on, leaving him no choice; for those outside of the bourgeoisie live in the atmosphere of these magic possibilities.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless the bourgeoisie prospers.†   (source)
  • Despising the bourgeoisie, and yet belonging to it, they add to its strength and glory; for in the last resort they have to share their beliefs in order to live.†   (source)
  • The others, however, who remain in the fold and from whose talents the bourgeoisie reaps much gain, have a third kingdom left open to them, an imaginary and yet a sovereign world, humor.†   (source)
  • It is as much a matter for surprise and sorrow that men of such possibilities should fall back on Steppenwolves and "Two souls, alas!" as that they reveal so often that pitiful love for the bourgeoisie.†   (source)
  • In fact, the vital force of the bourgeoisie resides by no means in the qualities of its normal members, but in those of its extremely numerous "outsiders" who by virtue of the extensiveness and elasticity of its ideals it can embrace.†   (source)
  • He who is developed far beyond the level possible to the bourgeois, he who knows the bliss of meditation no less than the gloomy joys of hatred and self-hatred, he who despises law, virtue and common sense, is nevertheless captive to the bourgeoisie and cannot escape it.†   (source)
  • And so all through the mass of the real bourgeoisie are interposed numerous layers of humanity, many thousands of lives and minds, every one of whom, it is true, would have outgrown it and have obeyed the call to unconditioned life, were they not fastened to it by sentiments of their childhood and infected for the most part with its less intense life; and so they are kept lingering, obedient and bound by obligation and service.†   (source)
  • LE BRET: Montfleury first, the bourgeois, then De Guiche, The Viscount, Baro, the Academy….†   (source)
  • Her wedding would either be ramshackly or bourgeois—she hoped the latter.†   (source)
  • He considered them bourgeois, and found more diversion at the club.†   (source)
  • He went about with the bourgeois of Bestwood.†   (source)
  • There could be no question whatever of any counteracting bourgeois forces.†   (source)
  • Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.†   (source)
  • "But just now, Amory, you're only a sweaty bourgeois."†   (source)
  • He means that he has sold out to the parliamentary humbugs and the bourgeoisie.†   (source)
  • But he is not a bourgeois, he is a military man.†   (source)
  • In a word, it is bourgeois misery organized as a club.†   (source)
  • A bourgeois, a humanist, and a poet—behold, Germany all rolled into one, just as it should be!†   (source)
  • Naphta loathed the bourgeois state and its love of security.†   (source)
  • But it's true, you are all a little bourgeois.†   (source)
  • My handsome bourgeois with the little moist spot.†   (source)
  • "Nonsense, the bourgeoisie doesn't know what it wants.†   (source)
  • Education and property—behold the bourgeoisie!†   (source)
  • Why, is it the bourgeois disgrace you are afraid of?†   (source)
  • On a pris soixante bourgeois, et on commence demain les punitions.†   (source)
  • It was in the Rue des France-Bourgeois, close to La Force.†   (source)
  • Bourgeois, scholars and law clerks all set to work.†   (source)
  • The moral wretchedness of Thenardier, the bourgeois who had missed his vocation, was irremediable.†   (source)
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