How To Use Boulevardier In A Sentence
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He is described as a boulevardier, and a ‘grossly over-promoted lightweight’.
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That focus led one critic to sneer that the dramatist "followed mid-century middle-class man into middle age using the middle-class conventions of the boulevardier to do it".
In praise of... Simon Gray
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Comprising five regions - Poitou-Charentes, Western Loire, the Loire Valley, Brittany and Normandy - Western France seduces and delights with the ease of a seasoned boulevardier.
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Reading "Gossip" is like watching Norman Mailer begin one of those sentences whose ending is not yet known to the author, the difference being that Mailer liked to pose as a Nietzschean Ubermensch taking leaps into existential voids while Mr. Epstein is a rambling boulevardier who just isn't sure yet where he'll eat lunch.
Boulevardier's Delight
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Gone were the dandies and boulevardiers of the 1970s and 1980s.
Times, Sunday Times
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Several minutes later, the last two men exit the sauna within seconds of each other, walking so casually that they might be a pair of boulevardiers going for a stroll.
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He took up drinking in earnest as a young artillery officer on his way to World War I when he discovered that alcohol miraculously transformed him from an awkward quarryman's son to a sophisticated boulevardier.
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But he's not just the witty boulevardier whose model looks have made him the thinking female student's crumpet for years.
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After ‘hanging out ‘together most of the day at my favorite Hollywood eateries and shopping centers, Scott and I headed for ‘Comic Relief ‘together, strutting like a couple of boulevardiers just off the boat from Stockholm.’
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Much-too-tall Roddy Martine, the boulevardier of Leith Walk, lost an expensive new coat he'd bought while in New York for Tartan Day.
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Manet shows Proust as a dandy, boulevardier and man of the world.
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Now she is toast, and affable Iain Martin - a boulevardier in his master's mould - has been appointed editor at the tender age of 30.
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It would be good for your studies if you advised the boulevardier that you are attending college, not bartending school, and he should no longer count on you to be his minder.
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Manet shows Proust as a dandy, boulevardier and man of the world.
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‘I am being trained for the life of a boulevardier,’ says Temple.
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Gorodetsky is cast as a boulevardier, sitting at a little table having a coffee.
Festooned With Fantasy
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Who is to say that, merely because a tourist is visiting Las Vegas, he or she does not also vacation in the Lake District, or live the life of a Parisian boulevardier?
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He charmed the judges the way a boulevardier charms wealthy tourists.
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It was six months before mine caught up with me and when I was too busy being a boulevardier I have to admit I was homesick.
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It was a spectacular day for an idle boulevardier with time to kill in America's premier walking city.
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It's a wonder that the authors didn't frame the story as a biography of Casper Holstein innovator, racketeer, proud black man, stylish boulevardier and even philanthropist.
Gambling Days In Harlem
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My Merriam-Webster 11th Edition, the standard medium-size 'Merkin dictionary, has "boulevardier" as showing up in 1871 as "a frequenter of the Parisian boulevards, broadly: MAN-ABOUT-TOWN".
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
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It turns the boulevardier into a sequestered individual, the flaneur into a figure of privacy.
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But we are rapidly becoming a society of religious boulevardiers, always on the move, not as itinerant monks who bring our faith with us, but as God-shoppers on the lookout for the best deal.
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He took up drinking in earnest as a young artillery officer on his way to World War I when he discovered that alcohol miraculously transformed him from an awkward quarryman's son to a sophisticated boulevardier.
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If Menotti looks like the sort of care-worn, silk-shirted boulevardier you might stumble across singing a mournful version of For the Good Times in a Stockholm cabaret, Bilardo is the psychotic sea captain who'd jump on stage, slit his throat and fashion a necklace out of his vertebrae.
Dressingroomistas v Structuralists: football's perennial problem
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Christine, the boulevardier, made it a point to do it up big at Ascot one year in London.
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I shall take my time returning home, and will do my utmost to play the part of the idle downtown boulevardier today.
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But he's not just the witty boulevardier whose model looks have made him the thinking female student's crumpet for years.
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Van Gogh hoped that together they could start a school of artists in the south, in contrast to ‘those decadent and rotten Parisian boulevardiers.’
