Sentence examples for a conspicuous consumer of from inspiring English sources

I get dirty looks when I strap on my Prada sandals, the telltale red stripes on their heels branding me a conspicuous consumer of luxury goods, in a district where the only acceptable labels are Carhartt, New Balance and Manhattan Portage.

The brain is a conspicuous consumer of energy resources.

It's a fair bet, though, that you don't think of yourself as a conspicuous consumer.

But in the 21st century, "being a conspicuous consumer is getting harder and harder", says James Lawson of Ledbury Research, a firm that advises luxury businesses on market trends.

Note, however, that it is also possible for immigration to generate permanent wage gains if ϕ> 1 and the immigrants are "conspicuous consumers" of the domestic product15.

Not really a narrative at all, for starters; a seductive, virtually plot-free examination of American culture, and particularly of a family of conspicuous consumers who are conscious of their sin but unable to stop committing it.

(John Edwards, ever the conspicuous consumer, has one of each).

THE NEW MOUNA AYOUB Kimora Lee Simmons, the wife of the rap mogul Russell Simmons, is enjoying her moment as the culture's preeminent conspicuous consumer with a well-documented closet.

What drew a conspicuous number of consumers to some H & M locations last month was a heavily promoted team-up with Comme des Garçons, a longtime favorite label for a certain segment of stylemongers.

But the book is a good gallop from Churchill to the prime-minister-to-be, Gordon Brown—surely, no conspicuous consumer he?

For the conspicuous consumer, there is the athletic performer: speed, accuracy, volume and all the musical equivalents of tail fins and whitewall tires.