Sentence examples for Obsession with wealth from inspiring English sources

No other place quite encapsulates America's obsession with wealth, class and status.

All "cures" for poverty have one thing in common - an obsession with wealth.

Inequality, competition and an obsession with wealth and rank appear to be both self-perpetuating and destined to sow despair.

The frantic obsession with wealth accumulation in India, often euphemised as "development", Modi's selling point, has also widened a dangerous economic gap between the middle and working classes.

And so do the members of his hydra-headed family with its great uncles and second cousins, its Swithins, Eustaces and Winifreds, its loyal retainers, black sheep, obsession with wealth and propriety and, above all, its hypocrisy.

In the context of a phone conversation about modern England with a New York journalist, we both bemoaned the rise of bad reality TV shows and the obsession with wealth and celebrity that has gripped parts of our culture.

He dismissed Christmas as "sour, moth-eaten, bilious, crapulous, worm-eaten and mildewed" and denounced America for its obsessions with wealth and power.

Look no further than the Fed's obsession with the wealth effect for a classic correlation error.

You have only to think of the wall-to-wall auctions on daytime TV, Dragon's Den, the Apprentice and the myriad forms of career-making competition the medium celebrates, the generalised obsession with fame and wealth, the pervasive sense, in watching it, that life is somewhere other than where you are, to see why this might be.

Although we live in a country with an unhealthy obsession with status and wealth, whether you're in a Pinto or a Porsche, wearing a hoodie or Helmut Lang, when the law comes down on you, you're still a nigger.

Not long thereafter, in his 1830s foundational text on the political spirit of early American, Democracy in America, Alexis de Toquiville could not get over the country's obsession with equality, not wealth accumulation.