(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.
Proletariat
Definition:
(n.) The indigent class in the State; the body of proletarians.
Example Sentences:
(1) Then his daughter kept things ticking over by retweeting a comment on his critics: "Hello to the bunch of wankers that come from the proletariat and only criticize those they envy".
(2) Source: Adalah General Moshe Dayan on the Bedouin in 1963: "We should transform the Bedouins into an urban proletariat – in industry, services, construction and agriculture.
(3) Rather than, say, advocating the dictatorship of the proletariat in the transitional period, all it takes is to suggest that forcing people out of their homes because they have a spare room is cruel and unjust.
(4) For four decades, the Farc, the army and paramilitaries – claiming respectively to represent the peasantry and proletariat, the state and the landowning classes – fought for terrain and terrorised and drove out those upon it as they advanced or retreated.
(5) Are we finally gearing up for a violent uprising of the proletariat?
(6) They dreamed of bringing proletariat and intellectuals together into one critical mass which would blow their post-Stalinist regimes apart.
(7) If the future of cities means a proletariat turning back into a peasantry, we ought not to expect them to be happy about it.
(8) 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.
(9) "Execute anybody with the temerity to impose fascist regimes such as websense and firewalls on the World Cup watching, work shy members of the proletariat such as myself.
(10) Despite Gorz's longstanding links with trade unions, he increasingly looked beyond the traditional Marxian proletariat to implement his "radically reformist" programme, which advocated a mass exodus from the employment relationship and from commodity-based social relations.
(11) There is, of course, a long history of public campaigns featuring ludicrous and fictitious characters designed to convey messages to the proletariat.
(12) Proximity to British arguments helped shape Marx ’s vision of a proletariat goaded by the inequities and degradations of industrial capitalism into a revolutionary redemption of human existence.
(13) On the now government owned estates, they have formed a kind of industrial proletariat, living in long estate line housing where each family has one or two rooms.
(14) The considerable influence that physicians retain and their level of skill keep them from fitting a strict Marxist definition of the proletariat.
(15) The only people who truly bought into our fantasies of seizing power in the name of the proletariat, were the various arms of the security state such as MI5 and the Metropolitan Police Special Branch.
(16) Globalisation has been the explicit strategy of multinational corporations seeking new proletariats to land on in other countries.
(17) We celebrate them here … Ministry – With Sympathy (1983) Ministry - (1983) With sympathy Long before they honed their monolithic industrial metal sound, Ministry were just another of the 80s new wave proletariat.
(18) In his account, the early New Labour period saw the final confirmation that as far as what used to be called the proletariat was concerned, "middle-class progressives who had traditionally come out fighting these underdogs' corner, or reporting their condition as missionaries or journalists, were keen to silence them, or bury them without an obituary.
(19) Perhaps it's a pity, therefore, that all that survived of his preface to the novel was a single, dogmatic sentence: "As long as social damnation exists, through laws and customs, artificially creating hell at the heart of civilisation and muddying a destiny that is divine with human calamity; as long as the three problems of the century - man's debasement through the proletariat, woman's demoralisation through hunger, the wasting of the child through darkness - are not resolved; as long as social suffocation is possible in certain areas; in other words, and to take an even broader view, as long as ignorance and misery exist in this world, books like the one you are about to read are, perhaps, not entirely useless."
(20) Just as the established church, rich landowners and Jews were to be swept away by the poor of medieval Europe, so the "world Jewish conspiracy" was to make way for the Third Reich, or the Marxist proletariat succeed the bourgeoisie.