bourgeois

Part of that bourgeois dream involved white people getting to live out their fantasies of having black servants.

Many historians have leveled criticism at the Code, arguing that it was too conservative and supportive of the bourgeois.

Diaspora always meant tragedy; you think you can be a good German bourgeois, but that way lie the death camps.

I confess to being surprised at the reaction to yesterday's article on the boring, bourgeois future of gay marriage.

That's right, I said it: this is a landmark victory for the forces of staid, bourgeois sexual morality.

Despite his own grief, he is sorry for the young man; nor is he convinced in his shrewd bourgeois mind of the latter's guilt.

You will see a family of rich bourgeois enter, just in from the country, for the Montparnasse station is opposite.

To his bourgeois mind, for all his imitation of the Chicago martyr, my words must have sounded knavish.

It outrages me that even a bourgeois should so meanly misjudge the aspirations of an active revolutionist.

He was somewhat inclined to sybaritism; not quite emancipated from the tendencies of his bourgeois youth.