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bourgeois

adjective as in materialistic, middle class

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“Jesus Christ Superstar” reminds us that Lloyd Webber wasn’t always a symbol of the bourgeois establishment.

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She’s all but doomed to be bourgeois and neurotic, as if a juvenile court has sentenced her to live in a New Yorker cartoon.

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"They let you know if they're getting bored. It's not bourgeois polite and that appeals to me."

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The first sentence of the plot synopsis in the booklet reads: “The more bourgeois, the more unfulfilled.”

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For most of the running time, it keeps politics on the margins, like a phantom presence looming over the members of one bourgeois family’s everyday lives.

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