The phrase "age of affluence" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a period characterized by wealth and abundance, often in relation to societal or economic conditions.
Example: "The age of affluence has led to increased consumerism and a focus on luxury goods."
Alternatives: "era of prosperity" or "time of wealth".
A deep need belying an age of affluence?
As the rest of us live through austerity, the City's age of affluence carries on regardless.
In this age of affluence, manufacturers are courting consumers with a promise to pamper.
From London in the age of affluence to Warsaw and LA, its family story sets good times and bad within the frame of drastic change.
Much postwar pessimism had to do with the superficiality of mass culture in an age of affluence, and with the fear that the banality and conformity of consumer society had reduced people to robots.
Reynolds' recall of detail rivals that of Henry Hill in Wiseguy, and his book is eloquent and elegiac about working-class style in the age of affluence and the sheer thrill of the larcenous life.
The timeless curve of the story and the blend of caustic wit and deep feeling make it a perfect model for exploring other ages of affluence and crash.
(The age of interrupted affluence should sharpen our focus on future markets for our sake as well as theirs).
And rising costs are often symptoms of much deeper problems: problems that were irritating during the years of affluence but which are cancerous in an age of austerity.The first problem is the inability to say "no".
Dinesh D'Souza's The Virtue of Prosperity: Finding Values in an Age of Techno-Affluence will be published in November by the Free Press.
A strength of the study is that it used the whole adult female population aged 40 54 years registered with urban and rural group general practices, covering a range of affluence and deprivation.
