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Examples
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It may have been just another in a tiresome line of epater le bourgeois art whose creators got their jollies from thinking about decent ladies in petticoats getting the vapors when they saw something Startling! and Real!
The Bleat. 2010
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But you've got to love that book title, if only to epater la bourgeoisie, considering who and what too much of our bourgeoisie obsess about as the rest of the country goes South...
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Avant-garde artistes such as respondents remain entirely free to epater les bourgeois; they are merely deprived of the additional satisfaction of having the bourgeoisie taxed to pay for it.
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You could describe in words a razor blade cutting an eyeball, but when Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali showed it in their 1928 surrealist "Un Chien Andalou," they knew they had found the best medium to epater les bourgeois.
Gross And Grosser 2008
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We are but mere squares, the bourgeiosie that mus be shocked and epater.
"Ms. Fanning’s commitment to this material is unwavering in its creepiness." Ann Althouse 2007
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Avant-garde artistes such as respondents remain entirely free to epater les bourgeois; they are merely deprived of the additional satisfaction of having the bourgeoisie taxed to pay for it.
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Avant-garde artistes such as respondents remain entirely free to epater les bourgeois; they are merely deprived of the additional satisfaction of having the bourgeoisie taxed to pay for it.
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I must say I do like it when nice well meaning liberal types link to me - so much more fun to epater les guardianistas.
Shooting Parrots Laban 2005
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I must say I do like it when nice well meaning liberal types link to me - so much more fun to epater les guardianistas.
Archive 2005-04-10 Laban 2005
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I didn't really like the film either AFAIC, it's the biggest waste of talented actors in a trite and condescending slice of epater le bourgeois American Beauty, but I think the point of that scene was more about everyone else being royally p***ed off at a passive-aggressive bully.
Highly praised movie... Ann Althouse 2006
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