Sentence examples for compulsive consumption from inspiring English sources

And by packaging our economic model of compulsive consumption, re-branding it as "free" enterprise (no compulsion is "free"), and exporting it, we contribute to the destruction of the planet.

He lampooned the city's mania for decaf, diets and nose jobs, its compulsive consumption and its linguistic primitivism.

The culture of sexual entitlement and compulsive consumption encourages men to remain boys, for whom women serve as bedmates and babysitters.

Scientists don't fully understand the link, but some suspect that compulsive consumption of ice -- called pagophagia -- relieves inflammation in the mouth brought on by iron deficiencies.

Monika's sensuality and openness, once so liberating, becomes a kind of compulsive consumption: from this point forward, she always seems to be ingesting something: food, beer, cigarettes, American movies (which Bergman parodies none too subtly) and eventually, men.

There must be a covenant with the land that decries compulsive consumption, waste, and needless destruction.

We find that users' experiences and descriptions do not correspond to official dependence criteria and that some use practices, such as smoking blunts in groups, promote moderate consumption rather than compulsive use.

The behavioral fate of repetitive actions, such as compulsive alcohol consumption, seem to be instantiated in mesostriatocortical networks (Graybiel 1998; Volkow et al. 2013).

Physiological tolerance and dependence make up the first stage and the second stage encompasses an unknown number of psychological events that promote the transition to uncontrolled and compulsive alcohol consumption.

A recently developed ethanol self-administration assay demonstrates that flies prefer to consume ethanol-containing food over regular food and that this preference exhibits several features reminiscent of compulsive alcohol consumption (Ja et al. 2007; Devineni and Heberlein 2009).

Maybe, I thought, if I ordered this wireless Kindle 2 I would be pulled into a world of compulsive, demonic book consumption, like Pippin staring at the stone of Orthanc.