Example sentences for: bohemia

How can you use “bohemia” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Bohemia, Powers admits, is geographically dispersed.

  • The complicated label, the fancy bottle, the exotic concept that this beer has traveled from some far-off corner of Bohemia or even the Yakima Valley--all this may be cheap at the $1.

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

  • 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."

  • What Powers describes sounds frankly too subterranean to amount to a bohemia anymore.


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