Sentence examples for Coveted object from inspiring English sources

Its graphics were outstanding; even its stout paper carrier bag with Fiorucci logo was a coveted object.

The aim of Barthes's own analysis, he said, was "to liberate the coveted object and thereby destroy it" – and in this, of course, he failed.

The big stores have devised a Rube Goldbergian system for keeping a customer from the eventual possession of the coveted object.

What we're really buying when we scoop up that hot toy, trendy shoe or carton of organic milk, both authors seem to suggest, is not the purchase itself, but what that coveted object represents: a sense of identity, a feeling of community, the illusion of safety.

Cheadle revealed that one of the touchstones of the movie was Thomas Berger's tall tale of the Battle of Little Big Horn, Little Big Man, and that he also drew some inspiration from the hard-boiled classic The Maltese Falcon, with Davis's studio sessions, which are fought over by the musician and his record label and his wife Frances Taylor, representing the coveted object.

But as marketing manager Carey Collins Carey Collins pointed out, a Patek Philippe Patek Philippe platinum watch has fewer functions than a plastic one from Casio and more straightforward workings, but the Patek Phillipe is still a coveted object.

Coveting material objects, holding on to old grudges, failing to pause and see the grace in strangers — all equally foolish.

To be valuable to the people who covet them, objects like these require an "accompanying narrative furnished by its possessor in order to fill in that which is missing and to allow the fragment to reflect the event or experience of which it is a part".

But, he added, "people lose sight of the fact that this isn't about the object they covet". Some people are opposed to bargain hunting at charity auctions.

When a consumer is confronted with a new offering, he or she is motivated to figure out just what it is and whether it's an object to covet or avoid.

Hoping that a new generation of design addicts will covet the vintage objects they see in the exhibition, the company is putting back into production a small number of these pieces.