bourgeois
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He went to secondary school in the wealthy bourgeois 16th arrondissement of Paris, where he said he felt an uncomfortable outsider, and later attended the elite ENA administration school.
From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026
Yurlady comes from a poor family, several generations stuffed into a single small apartment, and the divisions between her and the more bourgeois creative class aren’t melted away by sheer Wordsworthian magic.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026
But in Chew-Bose’s passion to dig deeper into the circumstances underpinning a young girl’s life-altering cruelty, there’s an over-intellectualization of motive, a need to continually crack the sleek surface of Sagan’s bourgeois characters with self-reflection.
From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2025
"They let you know if they're getting bored. It's not bourgeois polite and that appeals to me."
From BBC • Mar. 21, 2025
With the start of the Cultural Revolution all the stamp shops were closed down, because stamp collecting was considered bourgeois.
From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang
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