Word: bourgeoise
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Simone: Monogamous! Get him. Marriage is a bourgeois institution, a way of fixing woman as man's property. Sartre and I have worked out one possible alternative: contingent loves with a certain fidelity. "I have been faithful to thee, Cynara, in my fashion."
6. Constance Worthington, a lady recently admitted to haut bourgeois circles, decided in the interest of cultivated living, to purchase a fine piano. She then asked a knowledgeable friend to recommend a tuner.
A Discontented Estate. In justice, this book must be measured against the life that led up to it. Born to stifling bourgeois respectability, Mile, de Beauvoir fled to the Sorbonne, where only one of her classmates stood higher in the examinations, and she determined to cast her lot with him...
"I am a self-made personality," she says. The product of a straight bourgeois background, she has propelled herself to the point where she is now the wife of a fashionable Roman architect and mother of a three-year-old boy ("An earthquake; he's so handsome"), can afford...
Sir: The reviewer of my film Nine Days of a Year [Jan. 15] says that the characters in Soviet films "are frankly bourgeois." Does he see bourgeois signs in the fact that the characters are well-dressed, go to restaurants, drive cars, freely express their opinions, live in modern apartments...