Sentence examples for conspicuous spending from inspiring English sources

There are some signs that after years of penny-pinching, conspicuous spending is on the rise again in Japan.

"But this recession has an added element to it in which conspicuous spending — bling — is out of fashion".

Demand in China, a key luxury goods market, has also been hit by a government crackdown on corruption and conspicuous spending.

Any overt display of conspicuous spending, he added, even if not a dime was expensed to a corporate account, would not sit well with his employer.

Tao -- from the creators of Rue 57, Avra and the Harley-Davidson Cafe -- is the megillah of the bunch, a cavernous temple of spiritual enlightenment and conspicuous spending.

The public, denied information about the industry's methods, has focussed instead on the conspicuous spending it has enabled, seeing in the life styles of the funds' managers proof of their ingenuity.

All that conspicuous skill, spent in the service of a sub-Jake and Dinos Chapman gag.

Even some of the very affluent said they were reluctant to be conspicuous in their spending.

Between the ages of twenty and fifty, he worked with conspicuous slowness, often spending years on a fifteen- or twenty-minute piece.

That behavior is of course related to the economy, as consumers change their attitude toward conspicuous displays of spending.

They are learning about conspicuous consumption and about spending money on things with no lasting value.