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And on it goes, a list of nose-wrinkling quibbles you can still hear today: We're mercenary, self-centered, impolite, and worst of all, too bourgeois to understand the geniuses of our age, such as Jerry Lewis and Mickey Rourke.
But Paul and Linda's countercultural roots are an embarrassment to the Right; and their traditional adherence to fidelity and bourgeois bliss embarrasses the Left.
benthos Neither an English social philosopher nor a petit bourgeois weepy feeling, but the bottom of the sea and by extension its flora and fauna.
In her delightful study, Theories of Discourse , Diane Macdonell describes how after the French revolution the bourgeois came to realize that, if the lower orders took seriously the slogan Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité , their wealth might fall into the hands of the wrong people.
But despite the generous spiritedness of News Quiz participants, Trump remains the perfect Molière fool, supremely confident of his splendor, supremely unaware that to everyone else he's a cartoon, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme with a bad haircut.