bohemianism

Example Sentences

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Or was the beard an outbreak of summer bohemianism that hits middle-aged men on their holidays?

From BBC • Aug. 12, 2024

Outkast met at Fulton County’s Tri-Cities High in the early ’90s, where André’s Prince-inspired bohemianism complemented Big Boi’s more formalist but ambitious rapping.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2023

Arriving in New York in the late 1960s, she sidestepped bohemianism, instead wearing pearls, sweater sets and poodle skirts in tartan wool, whose plaids would frequently figure in paintings as real-life grids.

From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2022

One couldn’t just drink coffee and talk and still make a living, though—especially after Diderot was disinherited for his bohemianism by his bourgeois dad.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 25, 2019

They are the nightmare curse of the pianist, with their rattle-trap harmonies, their helter-skelter melodies, their vulgarity and cheap bohemianism.

From Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques by Huneker, James