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  • Paradoxically, as the utopian imperative to design methods of mass living was realised, modernism increasingly became the lifestyle choice of the elites, bourgeois existence stripped down to unaristocratic angles and planes, and far from a popular choice for a way of life.

    Design Dialectics at the teapot museum « Squares of Wheat 2006

  • Paradoxically, as the utopian imperative to design methods of mass living was realised, modernism increasingly became the lifestyle choice of the elites, bourgeois existence stripped down to unaristocratic angles and planes, and far from a popular choice for a way of life.

    July « 2006 « Squares of Wheat 2006

  • All that remained of the charm and personality of the Dick Humbird he had known — oh, it was all so horrible and unaristocratic and close to the earth.

    This Side of Paradise 2003

  • In a way this was not entirely mistaken, for despite his bohemian traits and the unaristocratic tone he affected, Miquel was the son of a businessman who had become obscenely rich through the manufacture of arms.

    The Shadow of the Wind Zafon, Carlos Ruiz 2001

  • He continually comes across queer verbal usages, and feels bound to declare that what we call free-thinking is not what we call free; that what we call certainties are also what we call uncertain; that aristocrats are unaristocratic; that doubters are dogmatists; and that tradition is an "extension of the franchise."

    Personality in Literature Rolfe Arnold Scott-James

  • Albany, gold-laced officialdom, and the unaristocratic unofficial ruck, whose mingled tide had beat upon the new governor's threshold in the late hours of the afternoon.

    The Henchman Mark Lee Luther

  • All that remained of the charm and personality of the Dick Humbird he had known—oh, it was all so horrible and unaristocratic and close to the earth.

    Book 1, Chapter 2. Spires and Gargoyles. 1920

  • Humbird he had known -- oh, it was all so horrible and unaristocratic and close to the earth.

    This Side of Paradise 1918

  • She had, also, the strangest, most unaristocratic ideas, by no means fitting in the wife of a high official.

    Forged Coupon And Other Stories 1911

  • Never were any storm-tossed mariners better pleased to reach a haven than were those two wearied and sorely-tried companions to find themselves once more in Miss Alicia's tiny home above the shop, in the unaristocratic neighborhood of Third avenue.

    Arabella 1907

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