Sentence examples for bourgeois principles from inspiring English sources

The ensuing depression forced the government to abandon some liberal bourgeois principles.

Executed or exiled during the later Revolutionary and Napoleonic years, the Orleanists returned at the restoration of Louis XVIII and were identified with liberal and bourgeois principles.

One of Gabrielle Russier's lawyers remarked dryly, of the Rossis, "One would have expected [from Communists] a more nonchalant attitude toward bourgeois principles, bourgeois morality, and the bourgeois police".

Bassani shows how easily good bourgeois and bureaucratic principles breed moral quietism and a passive acceptance of authority.

The Chinese people have always been negative about bourgeois ethnology in principle and of course, shall not tolerate the poison after the liberation of the country.

(Godwin, more bourgeois than his own principles, was scandalized).

His mere survival calls for the coldness, the basic principle of bourgeois subjectivity, without which there could have been no Auschwitz; this is the drastic guilt of him who was spared".

She and Himmel married, "for practical reasons," in 1935 — "the bourgeois institution was against our principles" — and eventually had two children.

She lives now, with her child, her new husband and her newly planted geraniums, in a place that has raised bourgeois individualism to a universal principle, a utopian ideal more powerful than Communism ever was.

Many attempts have been made to develop a specifically Marxist aesthetics, one that would incorporate the Marxian theory of history and class consciousness and the critique of bourgeois ideology, so as to generate principles of analysis and evaluation and show the place of art in the theory and practice of revolution.

When Pierre at one point says, "I won't wreck my life for the state," it puts two principals, and principles, into stark contrast: the bourgeois Westerner who prefers the status quo, and the disillusioned Communist, prepared to die for his country's future.