An Oscar-nominated counterculture comedy that celebrates abandoning one's marriage (provided that one has been cheated on first, and that one engages in extramarital sex openly, proudly and without bourgeois guilt), the movie took a decade to remake -- by which time its thrust had been painfully dulled.
If you were willing to do without bourgeois amenities like running water, you could rent extremely cheap studio space there.
He was, as Grass would say, a Spiessbürger, a stuffy petit bourgeois, without any tragic, mythical, or heroic qualities.
History proved that it is a simplistic approach to consider all Western scholars and works as "bourgeois" without academic evidence, and this is harmful to the development of the discipline.
The American painter Alice Neel, near contemporary of Bourgeois, remains without precedent as a portraitist of marvellously awkward insights.
Without wishing to sound bourgeois, I was in Waitrose on Saturday and, past the checkout, I noticed a large cardboard box about a yard high.
Despite the gore that laces the show's plot line, the house itself manages to convey bourgeois respectability without telegraphing what the magazine euphemistically calls Tony Soprano's profession.
That meant, he explained, that it had to speak about suffering and its origins in bourgeois society without lunging into sentimentality or straining at transcendence or seeking distractions.
I suggest that the cowboy, just because he was a myth of an ultra-individualist society, the only society of the bourgeois era without real pre-bourgeois roots, was an unusually effective vehicle for dreaming – which is all that most of us get in the way of unlimited opportunities.
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".
Not for nothing have voices been heard comparing Cameron to Ted Heath: without the Thatcherites' petit bourgeois belligerence, he may yet meet the discord to come with fudge and retreat, and last only one term.
