Sentence examples for is consumerism from inspiring English sources

This is consumerism at its most strident.

It might look like pretty pictures, but Instagram is consumerism on a scale that makes one long for the hallowed sacred space of the Boxing Day sales.

This eloquent, fast-moving documentary is an earnest compendium of every recent film you've seen about the destruction of the environment, the greed and incompetence of bankers, the corruption of democratic government, the origins of terrorism, the terminal nature of unrestrained capitalism and the spiritual death that is consumerism.

During the medieval era, the finest minds and artists were dedicated to what was at the centre of society, namely God; today it is consumerism, the insatiable desire for new and better products, and just as those great medieval places of worship were objects of wonder and awe, so the car now fulfils that function, expressing where we are as a society in terms of design, technology and aspiration.

The second thing the accounting convention has hidden from us is consumerism's contribution to global warming.

How the hell is consumerism involved in this?

It's consumerism gone mad.

The ideology that prevailed, however, was consumerism.

It's consumerism with an ethical edge.

But are consumerism and technology, as he suggests, really progressive?

It was consumerism meets care head on and no one could be in any doubt as to who the victor would be.