Sentence examples for empty consumption from inspiring English sources

Henry James called him a "novelist's novelist," while Nabokov declared that "without Flaubert there would have been no Marcel Proust, no James Joyce... Madame Bovary demonstrates that Flaubert discovered "the death of love" well before Amis's pyrotechnics; it is also an early critique of society's empty consumption.

Whether they arise from the precincts of advertising, politics, religion or the news media, these voices deal in the same commodity: a fraudulent folklore whose central aim is insulate us from the true nature of our predicament, to manipulate our anxieties, to goad us into empty consumption or snag us in cycles of grievance and panic.

Caught in rounds of empty consumption, they confront the same stores in cookie-cutter malls across the country.

Other works find him playing with a stereotypically West Coast color palette and kitschy imagery that seems to mock the empty consumption that America is known for.

"Ideas are more often than not taken from the 'queer underground,' stripped of their political meaning and purpose, and then re-presented to a mainstream audience for empty consumption," Mendelson laments.

Mindfulness -- the focused awareness on the present moment, which can be cultivated through meditation and contemplative practice -- may be an effective remedy to empty or compulsive consumption.

This increase in tmax likely represents the slower gastric emptying observed following consumption of a high fat, high calorie meal [ 33] and is not clinically relevant as Cmax, AUC and t1/2 remained unchanged and similar to those seen for the same apixaban dose in the single ascending-dose study.

Sugar is sometimes called "empty calories" because its consumption provides energy but no nutritional value.

Lustig's argument, however, is not about the consumption of empty calories — and biochemists have made the same case previously, though not so publicly.

At first glance, the video seems to mock the empty symbols of conspicuous consumption (expensive watches, fine wine) to which we volunteer our everyday sense of joy and self-satisfaction.

Consumption of empty calories, sugar-loaded foods and not enough exercise can increase the risks many-fold, especially after the age of 50.