Sentence examples for conspicuous prosperity from inspiring English sources
But in this era of otherwise conspicuous prosperity, this is a tale of a lesser-known impulse -- not on your front lawn.
At least 67 people were killed in a made-for-television siege in Nairobi that lasted four days and served as a reminder that conspicuous prosperity comes with its own perils.
"It surely cannot be correct that mining communities such as those of Marikana and other mining areas should see prosperity and conspicuous consumption by companies and mine bosses whilst they continue to experience poverty," she said, AFP news agency reports.
Their two-story assumptions of endless prosperity are particularly conspicuous in the Highland Park of today, a city so economically distressed that it recently removed most of its streetlights.
It is the US's unofficial vehicle of capitalistic prosperity, the carryall of conspicuous consumption.
Dating from 1948 to 1963, the cars represented the rise and fall of the great American tail fin, regarded by some as an emblem of national optimism and prosperity and by others as a symbol of conspicuous consumption.
Conspicuous consumption is out.
A conspicuous disparity persists.
