Sentence examples for consumerism class from inspiring English sources

Their selfies are far more revealing than they ever intended: in breaking the previous constraints of the one percent, these rich kids are allowing for a more honest dialogue about consumerism, class divisions and our complicated relationship with material goods.

Stitched Up moves between Karl Lagerfeld and Karl Marx, exploring consumerism, class, and advertising.

His zombie films ("Dawn of the Dead," "Land of the Dead," "Day of the Dead") have been interpreted as critiques of consumerism and class warfare.

Somewhere in "The Worst Intentions," the hilarious send-up of contemporary consumerism and class mania, Alessandro Piperno's protagonist asserts that "today we can say with absolute assurance that Karl Marx with his mania for predicting the future was grossly mistaken".

One begins to wonder where the picture, and its all-too-relevant themes of consumerism and class anxiety run amok, will land.

In the three decades since then, Parr's work has become widely known, particularly after the mid-1980s, when he developed a signature style of highly coloured photographs that concentrated on consumerism, tourism and class.

Indeed, the deeply ingrained cross-party view of progress as middle class consumerism can't carry Brazilians to a sustainable future because the environmental, climate, and resource requirements just don't give a satisfactory answer to a question capitalism seldom allows: what constitutes enough?

It is what has taken over: a rampant middle-class consumerism that feels very American.

The wonders of modern medicine and the comforts of middle-class consumerism provide fuel for the hectic furies of Nicholas Ray's 1956 melodrama "Bigger Than Life" (Criterion).

By Richard Brody The wonders of modern medicine and the comforts of middle-class consumerism provide fuel for the hectic furies of Nicholas Ray's 1956 melodrama "Bigger Than Life" (Criterion).

The spiritual resources of modernism seem meagre compared with the great and irreversible material changes – industrialisation, mechanisation, demographic shifts, middle-class consumerism and rapid communications – introduced by Turkey's Kemalist elite.