You're so bourgeois.

His folks were bourgeois.

Spoken like a petit bourgeois.

You're being petit bourgeois again.

You're a real bourgeois, Sandra

Brignon was a bourgeois, very shy.

Castin don't care about bourgeois prejudice

After all, I'm just a poor bourgeois.

It's a symbol of bourgeois decadence and insecurity.

hiding behind a smoke screen of bourgeois clichés.

What impudence! The bourgeois have been done with!

Petit bourgeois, but that was yesterday. I know better now.

How sad having to play the bourgeois wife who doesn't understand.

In bourgeois terms, it was a war between the Allies and Germany.

Wherever there's one resentful bourgeois, one unreliable schoolmaster... one dubious poet hugging his private life.

I should be pitied because I was a typical bourgeois parasite... and the rotten fruit of a corrupt civilization.

And then I pasted huge posters everywhere in the bourgeois area of Paris with the name, age, even building number of these guys.

And then I pasted huge posters everywhere in the bourgeois area of Paris with the name, age, even building number of these guys.

Barnett Newman had a famous quote that the impulse of modern art is the desire to destroy beauty which was considered bourgeois or tacky.

But Parisians reject Hollywood s banal concept of love as a story that ends happily ever after. Their idea of romance centers on its opposition to staid values and predictability of bourgeois life.

In seventeenth and eighteenth century Europe, the exoticism of the Ottoman Empire was used as a mirror to project Europeans own shortcomings and insecurities. In France, one spoke of Turqueries, such as in Moliere s play The Bourgeois Gentilhomme.

Gone would be the family farms, artisan yards, and the nation of shopkeepers, as Napoleon is alleged to have scornfully referred to Britain. All these petty bourgeois activities would be plowed over by the equivalent of today s Zara, Toyota, Airbus, or Walmart.

The encounter between the images of today s Middle East and the discontent of Muslim minorities (sometimes influenced by radical fundamentalist ideologies) should not be allowed to obscure traditional French anti Semitism, white and bourgeois, which still lingers and is never far beneath the surface. Thanks to the Internet, it, too, has begun to emerge more often.

At the same time, with Monti s coalition failing to gain traction, reflecting the historically limited appeal of classic bourgeois parties in Italy, many observers are wondering what his role in the next government will be. For Bersani, creating a coalition with Monti may well be the key to gaining control of the upper house and, in turn, of the government.

We now know that as the ink was drying on the Communist Manifesto, wages in Europe and the United States were beginning a 160 year long rise, making workers part of the middle class, with cars, mortgages, pensions, and petty bourgeois concerns. Politicians today promise to create jobs or more opportunities to be exploited by capital not to take over the means of production.

Zhao was not killed, but allowed to live in an old Beijing courtyard house with his family. He was let out from time to time, but under guard like a zoo animal, to go to some spa or to play solitary holes of golf, one of the many manifestations of bourgeois liberalization that his reform efforts allowed to leak through China s once hermetic seal.