Sentence examples for bourgeois practice from inspiring English sources

Raising goldfish, he wrote, had been criticized as a petit bourgeois practice.

Formerly despised bourgeois economic practices became revolutionary policy.

It displays a bourgeois group practicing a form of self-mutilation, where everything from your severed limb to your family jewels can end up on the end of a fork.

The ritual of drawing too, for Bourgeois, echoed the daily practice of the creature.

Smith gave several examples that showed how the bourgeois strategy is used in practice.

He identifies as a "practicing homosexual"—rejecting the largely "bourgeois and white" aspects of the term gay and is in a happy long-term relationship with a white man.

This may be the last time for big, bourgeois business and families of inherited privileges to practice the Christian virtues and incidentally, save their necks.

That the Soviets allowed any ornamentation was extraordinary, Bartlett notes, because fashion was wholly opposed to Marx's revolutionary practice, which was all about destroying whatever bourgeois trappings divided man from nature, and men from women.

I opened this piece talking about a carousel in Cape Cod, a delightfully bourgeois setting for a piece on poverty wage labor practices.

The son of a lawyer of Chartres, Pétion practiced as an advocate before accepting a seat with the bourgeois Third Estate at the Estates-General of 1789.

Feminist science scholars continue to respond to Hilary Rose's challenge to create a "practice of feeling, thinking and writing that opposes the abstraction of male and bourgeois scientific thought" (Rose 1983, 87).