Example sentences for: bohemia

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  • By map inspection (refer to Figure 15) these areas of strong boundary overlap include the vicinities of Locust Valley (11560) and Mill Neck (11765); Bohemia (11716) and Islip Terrace (11752); and Mastic Beach (11951) and Shirley (11967).

  • Now, people have been proclaiming the death of bohemia ever since a 19 th -century Parisian, Henri Murger, wrote a book that would become an opera that would become synonymous with the artistic life right up to the moment when the whole concoction was boiled down to corn syrup in the Broadway musical Rent . Jerrold Seigel, the author of an excellent history of bohemianism, Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics, and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life 1830-1930 (1986), says that when people go around saying bohemia is dead, what they usually mean is that they can't see how to wiggle free of commercialism and convention: "People experience bohemia as a form of authentic existence."

  • If there is a bohemia today, it seems to be neither hated nor celebrated.

  • The lazy, vegetating existence in the depths of a moral and mental bohemia; the fundamental arrogance which thinks itself too good for any sensible and honorable activity, on the ground of its vague intuition that it is reserved for something else--as yet quite indefinite, but something which, if it could be named, would be greeted with roars of laughter.

  • But does the aggregate of people who happen to be living the bohemian lifestyle right now add up to an actual bohemia?


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