Sentence examples for consumerism itself from inspiring English sources

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Work and family mean nothing to him, or to them; consumerism itself is, he tells us repeatedly, their religion.

Whether or not it continues to be the adolescent ritual in the 21st century depends on the status of consumerism itself.

Anticonsumerism (and consumerism itself) focuses largely on the reasons goods are acquired that is, on why and how certain commodities are bought and consumed by individuals.

But in the consumer society, beauty can also be a smokescreen -- a tool for distracting our attention from the bad and the false, the less savory side of consumerism itself.

And when one of the conventions thus defied was consumerism itself, reaction was inevitable.

In other words, they're persuading people to buy it (their product) with a message against buying it (the hype, the marketing messages of an industry, consumerism itself).

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WHEN consumerism spends itself to death and the arteries of fashion are clogged with cheap, disposable and boring designs, it's time to rediscover one-of-a-kind relics from bygone fashion eras.

It stands coolly apart from the jangling consumerism that insinuates itself into so much of our existence.

Bohemians, she writes, try to "confront and reinvigorate the premises of society, the definitions of kinship, labor, love, leisure, consumerism and identity itself".

That way I can shop -- in private, at home -- while maintaining my public opposition to consumerism, which is in itself a kind of holiday tradition.

"In her inimitable first-person narrative in diary form," McPhee writes, "Lorelei skewers every possible power structure: politics, religion, class, society, culture, consumerism, psychoanalysis, Hollywood, even language itself".

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