Peasantry in example sentence

If Jean Renoir's first film "Whirlpool of Fate" first takes us into the world of the countryside, the rivers, the lives of the peasantry that he will continue to explore, it seems only fitting that his second film deals for the most part with the wealthy and the privileged, the upper classes and those who are trying to claw their way upwards.

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And the connotation of peasantry, real people, salt of the Earth, has persisted around Saxon words.

But far from stabilizing the monarchy’s authority, Rasputin’s death enraged the peasantry.

The Prussian peasantry said, "We can't even get the dogs to eat these damn things.

It is regrettable that, instead of rising to the challenge of developing agriculture in a way that is more socially and environmentally sustainable, we act as if accelerating the destruction of the global peasantry could be accomplished responsibly.

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