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Burgerlijke bekrompenheid

English translation: narrow-minded bourgeois attitude


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Dutch term or phrase:Burgerlijke bekrompenheid
English translation:narrow-minded bourgeois attitude
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Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting
Dutch term or phrase: Burgerlijke bekrompenheid
En hoewel de figuren die Elias weergeeft niet zelden van een burgerlijke bekrompenheid lijken te zijn, leidt dat niet tot het sarcasme en het perverse maatschappijbeeld dat we enkele jaren later in de kunst van Pjeroo Roobjee zullen aantreffen
balohan
Belgium
Local time: 07:12
narrow-minded bourgeois attitude
Explanation:
That would be one way to say it.

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Note added at 25 mins (2005-03-11 15:35:36 GMT)
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\"suburban conventionality\" is another option
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Maria Danielson
United States
Local time: 01:12
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Summary of answers provided
4 +4narrow-minded bourgeois attitude
Maria Danielson
3shortsighted citizens
Francina
3narrow-minded peopletrautlady
3middle-class prejudice
Lawyer-Linguist


  

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23 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
narrow-minded bourgeois attitude


Explanation:
That would be one way to say it.

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Note added at 25 mins (2005-03-11 15:35:36 GMT)
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\"suburban conventionality\" is another option

Maria Danielson
United States
Local time: 01:12
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4

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agree  Tina Vonhof: with your first option; the second option may be too 'modern'.
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agree  Mirjam Bonne-Nollen
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agree  Siobhan Schoonhoff-Reilly
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agree  Hilde Hoven
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57 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
narrow-minded people


Explanation:
would that fit?

trautlady
United States
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
middle-class prejudice


Explanation:
Another option

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Note added at 1 hr 36 mins (2005-03-11 16:46:18 GMT)
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or insularity perhaps

Lawyer-Linguist
Portugal
Local time: 06:12
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shortsighted citizens


Explanation:
might work

Francina
United States
Local time: 01:12
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in DutchDutch
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