Sentence examples for conspicuous status from inspiring English sources

The traditional explanation for an object like the Hummer — big, flashy, expensive to acquire and maintain — is that it's a conspicuous status symbol.

In emerging markets, luxury "newbies" are drawn to goods as conspicuous status badges.

This interpretation makes it harder, however, for the actor to convey the inexplicable, terrifying nihilism of Iago's destructive drive, just as a sense of the insecurity that stems from the hero's conspicuous outsider-status in the play as written is somewhat diffused here by the multi-cultural circumstances.

And few would dispute that it has all brought with it something that is considered to be even dirtier by the old standards of the hamlet: status, conspicuous displays of it.

Chronic fatigue syndrome provides a status defense (conspicuous excess capacity) for workers denied promotion.

Thorstein Veblen stressed the symbolic social meanings of leisure related to status and "conspicuous consumption".

Just as the armed forces ration medals, firms ration the distribution of conspicuous symbols of corporate status.Second, perks are a cheap way to boost executive productivity.

"Ben Ali's wife, Leila Ben Ali, and her extended family — the Trabelsis — provoke the greatest ire from Tunisians," he added, noting that he heard frequent "barbs about their lack of education, low social status and conspicuous consumption".

"The whole idea of status and conspicuous consumption is old luxury," Danziger explains.

Management strategies are enabled to be planned by Biological and ecological knowledge about natural resources, particularly in species with conspicuous conservation or commercial status.

But the pessimist in me can envision the narcotic effect of repetitive games built around the human drive for status and conspicuous consumption slowly taking over our lives.