Sentence examples for Lavish consumerism from inspiring English sources
By the early '80s, whatever was left of the Arab Al-Nahda (renaissance) was replaced by a culture of lavish consumerism fueled by oil wealth.
In the 19th century, transcendentalism inspired wealthy burghers to forsake lavish consumerism and instead to live simply in the woods (or at least adopt the patina of simple, organic living in their country "cottages").
But this story is just another example of how young America has gotten so swept up by lavish consumerism that they've lost their sense of reality.
Music, compulsive consumerism and lavish food, of course, but also sibling rivalry, adultery, repressed family history and something called "hostile depression," which roughly corresponds to what we call seasonal affective disorder.
He donates 90percentt of his income to charity, lives at his small farm rather than the country's lavish presidential palace, drives a Volkswagen Beetle, almost never wears a suit, and rails against the excesses of consumerism and the West's reliance on it as economic ballast.
Consumerism has replaced religion.
Is it consumerism run amok?
