Sentence examples for a consumerism from inspiring English sources

It does not escape Mr. Ferguson's notice that a consumerism that has everyone wearing the same pants seems more conformist than liberating.

They are drawing the politics of modern slavery in terms of consumerism – and a consumerism that is, moreover, seen as largely personal.

This is the 1990s, a time, Franzen seemed to suggest, of a consumerism so brazen that it was advantageous, brand-wise, for high-end grocers to appropriate ironically the rhetoric of capitalist critique for their stores' names [see footnote].

Prosperity waits to be salvaged from a wasteful consumerism, a sense of belonging from a degraded individualism, and disciplined restraint from self-indulgence.

The running metaphor is one of a culture succumbing to a materialist consumerism that destroys society by eradicating its human values in favour of an obsession with image.

Ensuring an educated workforce provides a stable consumerism that grounds the larger economy in prosperity.

But, he said in an interview, "an invasion of U.S. consumerism, a U.S.-dominated future, could roll over it like a bulldozer" when the embargo ends.

But maybe a shared consumerism is making people think about class less in terms of power than of lifestyle.

It is a comic screed against consumerism, a compassionate view of people's quest for meaning, an optimistic guide to decoding the mysteries of the universe.

The photograph, called The Rape of Africa, is a critique of consumerism, of a global society fuelled by greed and power.

Whatever the rhetoric surrounding independent learning, universities are currently pushing students into dependency through a focus on consumerism and a transmission and testing regime.