(n.) A size of type between long primer and brevier. See Type.
(n.) A man of middle rank in society; one of the shopkeeping class.
(a.) Characteristic of the middle class, as in France.
Example Sentences:
(1) Movies such as Concussion , about the dissatisfactions of a bourgeois lesbian marriage, are already starting to ask these questions.
(2) Even China’s feline population suffered as Red Guards tried to eliminate what they claimed was a symbol of “bourgeois decadence”.
(3) Macron, a former investment banker and senior civil servant who grew up in a bourgeois family in Amiens, served as deputy chief of staff to Hollande but was not part of the Socialist party.
(4) And the marvellously named Victor Gauntlett, vintage-car driver and pilot, looks gloriously suburban haut-bourgeois, with his study full of The Miracle of Speed symbols in pictures and models, while the room's decoration and furnishings are all Home Counties 1919 in sympathies.
(5) Yet the enemy of the bourgeoisie is impeccably bourgeois, and when I arrived for our meeting at a swanky hotel near the Arc de Triomphe, I found Haneke – just off a flight from Vienna, where he lives – tucking into a luxurious lunch in the restaurant.
(6) The opera was "anti-American, anti-semitic and anti-bourgeois".
(7) • theglory.co Chosen by music, satire and cabaret duo Bourgeois and Maurice Soho Theatre Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Richard Davenport Soho has undergone so many facelifts in recent years, it has begun to take on traits of the ageing celebrity: plastic, shiny, hard to find the personality.
(8) The library did not deem it appropriate to pay citizen Burovaya [Skorodumov widow] for the erotic literature, broadsheets and magazines, as this literature presents neither scientific nor historical value to the library’s readers, and is an especially harmful vestige of bourgeois ideology,” he wrote.
(9) There are other qualifications, other than being a citizen of the country, and it has to do with white skin and the habits of what is regarded to be civilised society, and recognisable, bourgeois society."
(10) His group of bourgeois friends, aged over 60, (some of whom are inspired by real writers, intellectuals and artists), resist by attending trashy parties; it's a generation incapable of growing up.
(11) This is set in the comfortable circumstances of Torontonian bourgeois life, about what happens when you discover that your dad isn’t your biological dad.
(12) Add to that the venerated reputation of its wine, and a whiff of bourgeois privilege and conservatism, and you expect a city of well-groomed, self-satisfied people.
(13) Before Dylan and Jagger cut the ribbon to open our bourgeois-friendly field, Mike Heron, Robin Williamson and Clive Palmer of the Incredible String Band had already snuck in and were happily ensconced in a far corner that few have visited since.
(14) There was a horrible psychodrama developing on the left at that time: middle-class Maoists telling you you're impure, bourgeois, because you won't go and kill someone.
(15) The centre of the city may still give the impression that the messy legacy of deindustrialisation has not been escaped, but here all is largely well: the streets vibrate with the low hum of bourgeois comfort and 35% of the locals are graduates.
(16) Maoist bureaucracy was corrupt and self-serving, party activists were bourgeois and anti-socialist, and the communist revolution under threat.
(17) Punk often sneered at "art" as airy-fairy, bourgeois self-indulgence, but its ranks were full of art-school graduates and this artiness blossomed with the sound, design and stage presentation of bands such as Wire and Talking Heads.
(18) This tendency is an expression of a change in family structure, which until recently conformed to the ideal of the nineteenth century bourgeois family.
(19) Berlin: The Land of Cockaigne by Heinrich Mann Mann, brother of Thomas, wrote Berlin in the tradition of the bildungsroman , and the introduction to the 1929 English edition offers fair summary: “Andrew Zumsee rises steadily, jesuitically, through the coarse social strata of bourgeois Berlin, behind the skirts of women, via boudoir wire-pulling, to an hour of vertiginous triumph, or at least an illusion thereof.” Life, as in many of these novels, is speculative: “I don’t know what it is that they call transacting business; but it certainly doesn’t take much time … It’s a lazy man’s Heaven, a perfect land of Cockaigne.” 10.
(20) We talk about Louise Bourgeois , whom Hirst visited before her death last year, and I mention her belief that happy people could not make great art.
Bourgeoisie
Definition:
(n.) The French middle class, particularly such as are concerned in, or dependent on, trade.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yet the enemy of the bourgeoisie is impeccably bourgeois, and when I arrived for our meeting at a swanky hotel near the Arc de Triomphe, I found Haneke – just off a flight from Vienna, where he lives – tucking into a luxurious lunch in the restaurant.
(2) It made possible the birth of local bourgeoisies and states dedicated almost exclusively to the extraction of a surplus value from the peasantry through cash cropping.
(3) Maduro has insisted he will remain in power despite the efforts of a "parasitic bourgeoisie" to bleed the country dry.
(4) The capitalist class does very well out of it, which is why names like McAlpine, Wimpey and Barratt turn up so often among Conservative donors; but more interestingly, it also buys consent from a large proportion of the "petit bourgeoisie" who have an interest in the value of their only asset, their only piece of property – their house – getting higher and higher, however much that might be against their interest in other respects.
(5) Local authorities in Königsberg and Berlin and the bourgeoisie in the merchant city of Danzig, however, stressed the destructive consequences of the cordon system.
(6) In theory, there are initiatives – such as country-twanged theme songs and greater required alcohol consumption – that could incite soccer's urban, wine-sipping bourgeoisie to abandon their pretenses of supposedly Euro-centric civility.
(7) And because the bourgeoisie is the dominant class everywhere in the world, there is a kind of amnesia about what politics means to other people.
(8) I ask myself, how can we write about the dominated without using the language of the bourgeoisie, who have the advantages, or the language of my childhood, the language that called me a poor faggot, the language that was no friend of mine but a language of violence.
(9) There would be no Sistine Chapel without the Holy See; no Dutch old masters without the bourgeoisie and their desire for portraiture.
(10) It's similar to how the bourgeoisie took over from the aristocracy 200 years ago," he said.
(11) The fact that he sided with the workers and peasants, while I side with the bourgeoisie, was no obstacle to friendship.
(12) The middle class, of course: in the feedback loop of the bourgeoisie, their behaviour (breastfeeding, long maternity leave and well-planned paternity leave) begets better bonding, leads them to care more, which leads to even better behaviour.
(13) It warned that the party had been infiltrated by counter-revolutionary “revisionists” who were plotting to create a “dictatorship of the bourgeoisie”.
(14) But I said, ''Bourgeoisie, what sort of polytechnic expression is that?''
(15) Born in Athens in 1945, as Greece was poised to descend into civil war, Pikramenos is part of the country's old bourgeoisie and is described as "decent and well-mannered".
(16) The majority of today's nurses have followed a different course starting from petty bourgeoisie origins in towns and moving laterally through provincial bureaucratic channels.
(17) 3.03pm GMT Labour's John McDonnell points to the Guardian's Michael White, who is sitting at the press bench, and says he wants to drag him off to the Tower for being a running dog of the bourgeoisie – but not for treason.
(18) Marx and Engels’s revolutionary summons to the working classes details the nature of the class struggles between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, and the problems with capitalism.
(19) The prevalence of low birth weight according to social class was seen to be lower in the bourgeoisie classes (ranging from 2.8% to 3.9%) and higher in working classes (from 7% up to 9.5%).
(20) Photograph: Shutterstock The immediate neighbourhood around the canal is now so thoroughly hipsterised that Maigret, finely attuned to the distinctions between petite and haute bourgeoisie, would probably have to quickly down a few strong marcs before he could process the idea of wealthy young Parisians deliberately embracing, en masse, an area that was once so working class.