Sentence examples for consumer excess from inspiring English sources

The earliest paintings ridicule consumer excess with images of overflowing iceboxes embellished with intimations of sex and violence.

As icons of consumer excess like Starbucks and Neiman Marcus stumble, purveyors of frugality like Burger King and Wal-Mart prosper.

Also implied are consumer excess and a certain obsession with sweets, which in turn conjures up the hollow celebrations of birthdays and holidays that are among our cultural staples.

In THE WINGS OF THE SPHINX (Penguin, paper, $14 ), Andrea Camilleri's splenetic detective shakes his fist at the usual subjects: government waste and corruption; commercial greed and consumer excess; religious hypocrisy and you-name-it.

Over the years, Mr. Brouws has assembled series of photographs of repetitive mundanities that dot the American landscape, like abandoned gas stations, advertising signs, beat-up pickup trucks, surveillance devices, parking lots, barns and strung-out storage facilities for consumer excess.

But at its best, Mr Updike's writing represented the experience of his own generation of silent Americans men, especially, who grew up in the shadow of the second world war and God-fearing austerity, only to find themselves bemused participants in the swinging sixties and the decades of consumer excess.

The warning was one more in an almost daily drumbeat of official worries about consumer excesses, both in spending and in borrowing.

Rather than wear an expensive designer label that might have been seen to embody the consumer excesses against which the protestors were railing, the first lady of fashion had chosen the decidedly non-elitist high street chain J.Crew.

All these consumer excesses went on for over five years and they need time to correct.

Utility companies will buy consumers' excess solar generated during peak hours and recirculate it into the power grid, then sell it back at a cheaper night rate, when solar panels aren't producing energy.

According to Marshall, this excess utility, or consumer surplus, is a measure of the surplus benefits an individual derives from his environment.