Sentence examples for for commercialism from inspiring English sources

The A.A.U., a nonprofit organization, has come under attack for commercialism regarding its basketball programs.

His cool eye for urbanism and design blends a love of kitsch with a hatred for commercialism, historicism with a fear of history's ghosts.

But his self-destructive lifestyle, irrepressible weirdness and disdain for commercialism meant he was increasingly treated as a character rather than a force.

Formally, Downtown literature was characterized by a do-it-yourself ethos; thematically, by a distaste for commercialism ("terror is released in Lower Manhattan / and the terrorists neither carry guns / nor subvert the state / but simply buy it off with... their mastercards").

The way I saw it, you had these smaller labels that would prepare artists they signed for the bigger labels; a kind of prep school for commercialism.

A likable but fiercely principled, combative character whose penetrating gaze can burn through the unwary like a laser beam, he is now a highly visible spokesman for the British music establishment and more: a national scourge of mediocrity and compromise, firing broadsides at the art world for its commercialism and at the government for everything from cultural vacuity to the war in Iraq.

Although nonsponsor companies are visible here, Sydney has little of the flea-market ambience that made the Atlanta Games a byword for crass commercialism.

But for those not in relationships, the feast of the patron saint of love is just an excuse for rampant commercialism; a tedious annual ordeal of punctured expectation; compounded loneliness and battered self-worth.

And although they were chided for rampant commercialism, the only other privately financed Olympics, the $1.7 billion 1996 Atlanta Games, are being trumpeted as a model for New York's 2012 dreams.

After an Olympic Games which has drawn criticism for excessive commercialism and the inclusion of professional sports like tennis and football, the makeup of the GB women's sitting volleyball team seems refreshing.

However clichéd or unfounded it was to degrade a man with Stern's excellent credentials on many social causes of inclusiveness, no one should minimize the opinions of those who believe that Christmas is not a day for unencumbered commercialism, even if every day leading to it is.