Sentence examples for greater consumerism from inspiring English sources
Middle class incomes will mean greater consumerism, making China a country that imports goods from outside.
Like many other contemporary commentators, he sees a confluence of forces in higher education leading to greater conformity and consumerism at the expense of inquiry, inspiration and challenge.
Greater affluence and consumerism, Kynaston argues, increased the importance of home life and diminished the sense of collective identity: sports and cinema attendance declined, while television thrived, especially with the introduction of a commercial alternative to the BBC.
"Casino Royale," Mr. Winder notes, was "the first great hymn to consumerism".
The ever-greater encroachment of consumerism is a pallid replacement for the real needs of growing children.
It wasn't all jokes; in Greg! we're also treated to one of the all-time great skewerings of consumerism in eight lines so perfect that I expect to see them in Russell Brand's next revolutionary manifesto: Bought a car just the other day Man could that baby run!
All this on the heels of the greatest age of consumerism in U.S. history, and we're talking about tons of stuff weighing folks down.
Not only would reduced consumerism and greater equality make us more ecologically sustainable, it would halve the prevalence of mental illness within a generation.
** A Conditional Odds Ratio of > 1 means that physicians in this category had a greater likelihood of preferring consumerism compared to shared decision-making than the referent group.
One of the great paradoxes of modern consumerism is that these goods are mass-market signifiers of exclusivity, tokens of aristocratic populism.
So what's the designer of the Monkey Island series, whose hobbies include getting embroiled in some of the greatest dramas of modern consumerism doing staring at a bunch of hippie ships in The River Wey? Tim is dumbfounded by my cynicism.
