(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.
Capitalist
Definition:
(n.) One who has capital; one who has money for investment, or money invested; esp. a person of large property, which is employed in business.
Example Sentences:
(1) The venture capitalist argued in his report, commissioned by the Downing Street policy guru Steve Hilton, in favour of "compensated no fault-dismissal" for small businesses.
(2) The shadow chancellor is an anti-capitalist John McDonnell , the new shadow chancellor , has been branded an anti-capitalist.
(3) Capitalist society disaccumulates as new productive forces emerge within the framework of the capitalist labor market.
(4) Among the horde assembled outside City Hall was teacher Lydia Harris, 27, who urged Boris to start “putting people before profits.” Harris, a member of the anti-capitalist collective Feminist Fightback added: “Boris has got to start helping others but then he’s lied before about rape crisis centres when he promised us money that never came.” Why march for homes?
(5) Many supporters are neither leftist, nor admirers of Syriza’s anti-capitalist rhetoric, but Greeks appalled by the catastrophic effects of policies that have left 1.5 million unemployed, 3 million facing poverty and the vast majority unable to pay their bills.
(6) However, the growing offensive against the left by the pro-capitalist wing of the Labour party inevitably had a damaging impact on the LPYS.
(7) Such a response is not surprising; it is rooted in the old Marxist belief that support for nationalist parties is driven by economic insecurity, and encouraged by capitalists who would prefer ethnic over class conflict.
(8) There is agreement among most left-wing and anti-capitalist campaigners that the demonstration before the funeral will be smaller than Saturday night's party.
(9) The paper explains how the contrasting view of the body and illness provided by the holistic model can help to show how Western medicine reflects the capitalist system in which it is promoted.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ever since Margaret Thatcher’s 1979 election victory, ‘Britain’s elites have relegated concerns about inequality below the existential question of how to restore our capitalist economy to economic health’.
(11) I would hope that a Labour party led by Ralph Miliband's son would recognise that, and be committed to ending the capitalist racket once and for all.
(12) Just before meeting the Observer , he hosted a wealthy venture capitalist seeking guidance on industry trends.
(13) In 1963 he was invited by president John F Kennedy to the White House and effectively recruited to the capitalist side in the cold war’s African battleground.
(14) San Andreas is a state of contrasts and extraordinary detail, there is always some interesting new nook to chance on, some breathtaking previously unexperienced view across the hills toward the capitalist spires of downtown.
(15) He also urged anarchists and radical anti-capitalist groups to stay away from mainstream protests by the trade unions, churches and charities being staged in Belfast on Saturday and Enniskillen on Monday.
(16) Last week, many took to the streets of San Francisco in support of Sanders, highlighting the widening gap between tech workers and their venture capitalist bosses.
(17) Drilling and polluting is what Shell does, and its corporate culture – honed in blackspots such as Nigeria and the Alberta tar sands – is still based on the old 19th-century explore-exploit-risk-reward capitalist business model that owes nothing to anything beyond the company.
(18) The 34-year-old venture capitalist is leading a group of investors in Lagos's first city railway .
(19) In the words of Andrew Shonfield: "It may be said that the intellectual and administrative preconditions for modern capitalist planning had been created, or were in course of being established".
(20) News of the second site emerged shortly after the clergyman at the centre of the dispute about anti-capitalist protesters camped outside St Paul's broke a week's silence to defend the decision to close the cathedral.