How to use "bourgeois" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "bourgeois" in popular movie and book plots

  • He chooses a more conventional course, opting for the security of a middle-class life and a bourgeois marriage.  - L'Œuvre
  • As a child, he experiences conflicting feelings for the bourgeois people around him.  - Tonio Kröger
  • When Kjell is told about the abortion by Anna's father, he interprets it as if he isn't accepted within the bourgeois idyll.  - Ådalen 31
  • Roland (Jean Yanne) and Corinne (Mireille Darc) are a bourgeois couple, although each has a secret lover and conspires to murder the other.  - Weekend (1967 film)
  • Anton quickly succeeds through honest and diligent work, achieving a proper bourgeois existence.  - Debit and Credit
  • A mysterious figure known only as "The Visitor" appears in the lives of a typical bourgeois Italian family.  - Teorema (film)
  • Falk criticises bourgeois society in his verse and insists that we live in the passionate moment.  - Love's Comedy
  • In their discussions they declare the need for the renunciation of bourgeois softness and a preparation for an age of pre-medieval harshness.  - Doctor Faustus (novel)
  • The bourgeois director of the hospital, Coulmier, supervises the performance, accompanied by his wife and daughter.  - Marat/Sade
  • Janosch (Sascha Backhaus) has problems at school and despises the lifestyle of his bourgeois mother.  - Oi! Warning
  • The story centers upon Wilhelm's attempt to escape what he views as the empty life of a bourgeois businessman.  - Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
  • Janine leaves her proletarian family behind to become an actress who becomes involved with Jean, a well-educated bourgeois writer/politician.  - My American Uncle
  • Leading Protestant bourgeois of Orléans, Tours and Lyon were apprised of developments.  - Amboise conspiracy
  • The wild, eccentric Rimbaud displays no sense of manners or decency whatsoever, scandalising Verlaine's pretentious, bourgeois in-laws.  - Total Eclipse (film)
  • Kira Argounova, the protagonist of the story, is the younger daughter of a bourgeois family.  - We the Living
  • The young and bourgeois Cornelius van Baerle has almost succeeded but is suddenly thrown into the Loevestein prison.  - The Black Tulip

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