Sentence examples for emblem of wealth from inspiring English sources
Having been adopted en masse by the nation's footballers, soap actors, and wannabe pop stars, it soon filtered down to the high street as a conspicuous emblem of wealth.
As a narrative device, Gibney focusses on one of the most expensive apartment buildings in Manhattan — 740 Park Avenue — portraying it as an emblem of concentrated wealth and contrasting the lives of its inhabitants with those of poor people living at the other end of Park Avenue, in the Bronx.
Throughout, gold is a self-evident emblem of material wealth, with all the mundane clout and control that implies.
"The Challenge" is stuffed with gilded emblems of that wealth, from golden motorcycles to imperial furnishings, although nothing speaks conspicuous consumption more loudly or appallingly than the image of a man driving a Lamborghini with his pet cheetah riding shotgun.
For centuries in China, brilliant silks were an emblem of imperial majesty, privilege and wealth, and a rarity of enormous commercial value useful in international diplomacy.
Shoes themselves are loaded objects: portraitlike subjects in van Gogh paintings; fetish objects for Freud; emblems of new global wealth in Andreas Gursky's Prada photographs; and evidence of dictatorial excess for Imelda Marcos.
Plutophobia- Fear of wealth.
Yet signs of wealth abound.
Source of wealth: television.
Source of wealth: Google.
