Sentence examples for avoid consumerism from inspiring English sources
You can't avoid consumerism and consumption.
A consciously quirky teenager who sews her own clothes (to avoid crass consumerism, she says) and who prefers bus trips to flying (to avoid contributing to the pollution caused by air travel), Jean is disarmingly straightforward and self-aware.
That said, I don't think there is a place on this planet where one could avoid the pervasive and corrosive consumerism and materialism that has spread like kudzu, fostering greedy corporate giants and a thirst that cannot be slaked.
The typical response to consumerism is either to accept it or to attempt to avoid it.
It's that awkward time of year again--Valentine's Day--when the forces of consumerism conspire to propel men into mate-retention mode: to avoid being dumped, you must proffer your mate a material token of the value you place on your relationship.
Cusk also provides an indictment of suburban consumerism that successfully avoids self-righteousness.
Populated only by bewildered tourists and demoralised visitors from out of town, this squalid channel of deranged consumerism is fastidiously avoided by native Londoners.
After living off the land for years, the concept could be interpreted as an Alex Supertramp-type philosophy where they live off the grid, enhancing their minds by avoiding the daily drone of pandemic consumerism and rat race brainwashing.
After living off the land for years, the concept could be interpreted as an Alex Supertramp-type philosophy where they live off the grid, enhancing their minds by avoiding the daily drone of pandemic consumerism and rat race brain washing.
So it was striking that Karzai spoke quietly, and eloquently, on the need for development in Afghanistan that avoids the Western pattern of over-reliance on consumerism -- which he also conceded was gaining what he felt as a dangerous foothold on his people.
