Sentence examples for display of status from inspiring English sources
It's a display of status".
Mr. Azrouël had a run of queasy P.R. moments a few years ago, when he was linked to the breakup of Billy and Katie Lee Joel; designed a roundly mocked turban worn by André Leon Talley to the CFDA awards; and (in an unbecoming display of status anxiety) fired the high-profile publicist Kelly Cutrone after she seated Eliot Spitzer's former escort, Ashley Dupré, in the front row of his show.
However, they account for only a small portion of the sample (three people) and are mainly people who take display of status or social identity as their main motive for consumption.
Long time Apple watcher Gruber thinks the Apple Watch is very much a watch — if by a watch you mean "a wrist worn glance-able display of status information", plus to a lesser degree a "signifier" of personal taste and style.
Las Vegas is an empty, impotent display of status in a barren, uncaring desert God abandoned eons ago.
The social context of meals which includes family meals, hospitality and display of status in a community influences the consumption of food.
Mr. Guagnini contributes his own "Power Structure," a display of status-affirming papers from his files.
And as descendants of the liveried porters and doormen of grand private houses, hotels and clubs of the 19th century, they are also displays of status.
Her critics charge that she is cut-throat and corrupt in the pursuit of power, and that she lavishes more money on ostentatious displays of status than on serving the poor she claims to represent.
The interviewees are generally keen on family commitments toward their children and parents, which can generate instrumental and social gratification; moreover, the purchase and use of material goods and services for family members aim mainly at fulfilling family commitments rather than the display of social status.
Yet in precisely those social classes where production of offspring to continue family lines was regarded as hugely important, that aim could potentially be compromised by the rich living brought by wealth and the display of social status.
