How to Use bohemianism in a Sentence
bohemianism
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The city had ceded its bohemianism to its newfound wealth as the toll of the AIDS epidemic climbed higher and higher.
—New York Times, 11 June 2018
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Launched as a ready-to-wear brand at a time when the category was still emerging, Chloé has always been known for its Left Bank bohemianism.
—Vogue, 30 Sep. 2021
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Her glamorous new bestie Minna, the girlfriend of her colleague Nick, seems to know much that Lili doesn’t, and charms Lili with her careless bohemianism.
—Claire Messud, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022
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The artist’s playful blend of old French style and modern bohemianism is distinctly his own.
—Lindsey Tramuta, ELLE Decor, 13 Nov. 2020
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But then, bohemianism is first and foremost a state of mind—that of people who are disinclined to follow rules and formulas, and who value the notion of a life well lived.
—Gregory Cerio, ELLE Decor, 3 Aug. 2016
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Haynes couldn’t tell you exactly when the music of another band came across his radar, the group that would bridge the gap between the Brill building, Baudelaire, and downtown New York bohemianism.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2021
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Vivid and sleek, the lineup perfectly reflected the refined bohemianism that has become the calling card for Chloé.
—Barry Samaha, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Dec. 2020
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Berlin may be known more for its techno clubs and all-round bohemianism, but the once-affordable German capital is now also home to fastest-rising property rates in the world.
—Eli Meixler, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2018
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The same textured elements weave bohemianism throughout the home.
—Kelsey Kloss, ELLE Decor, 5 Jan. 2017
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This kind of hard-living, fast-loving bohemianism might have been acceptable for a Hemingway; not so much for a Puerto Rican woman.
—Danielle Jackson, Longreads, 1 May 2018
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The air of international bohemianism hadn’t yet descended on the pueblo.
—Tyrone Beason, The Seattle Times, 31 Mar. 2018
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Surridge was a surprise hire in 2017, a menswear designer enlisted to revive a brand long identified with a sultry sort of bohemianism.
—Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 25 Mar. 2019
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The city of Berlin is portrayed as a fantasy of secular, multicultural bohemianism, and by the end of the series Esty has assumed the look of a starlet, her pixie cut suddenly chic and paired with red lipstick.
—Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 9 Apr. 2020
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The sophistications of New York — the diversity, the bohemianism, creativity and acceptance which made it unlike anywhere else — have been in the process of a slow, successful export.
—Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2020
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Part mentor and part intellectual pugilist, Gibson imported a kind of alienated bohemianism to the school.
—New York Times, 5 Apr. 2022
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These were clothes that were resourceful, inventive, and emotional, and despite Adrover’s own bohemianism, rather classical.
—Vogue, 4 Sep. 2019
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Brown, about 20 years Millay’s junior but living by a similar code of Greenwich Village bohemianism, illustrated how such a life might look if the pursuit of happiness took precedent over ecstasy.
—Laura Miller, Slate Magazine, 12 Jan. 2017
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Her Gallic bohemianism neither overlaps with nor lines up in opposition to Bill’s blue-collar stolidity.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 30 July 2021
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At first, its Kinfolk-esque aesthetics alarmed me because the web was already awash with that sort of minimalism — often exemplified by Modernist interiors or the sleek bohemianism of luxury Airstreams.
—New York Times, 5 Apr. 2022
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Prueitt and Robertson radiated a particular kind of Gen X bohemianism—dedicated, ambitious, and breezy.
—Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 16 June 2022
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Think of the association of healthy-yet-intoxicating Californian bohemianism with the clothing brand Reformation or of turbocharged techno-masculinity with Tesla cars.
—Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2021
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