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Thus, their politics were encapsulated by their petit-bourgeois upbringings; indeed, it takes a certain degree of material comfort to be able to drop out and live on a commune for a few years.

From Salon • Aug. 3, 2019

Born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret to a petit-bourgeois Protestant family in Switzerland in 1887, Le Corbusier was highly complex.

From New York Times • Jul. 12, 2015

With its shocking subject-matter and grim petit-bourgeois setting, Thérèse Raquin was both commended and censured in almost equal measure when it was first published.

From The Guardian • Mar. 6, 2013

Haraldsson's text is laden with clichés and mealy-mouthed verbiage as Sjón dutifully keeps him within the linguistic parameters of a petit-bourgeois pillock.

From The Guardian • Jun. 22, 2012

His family was sunk in a kind 'of permanent neurasthenia, the petit-bourgeois provincial twilight known to every reader of Strindberg or Ibsen.

From Time Magazine Archive