Sentence examples for obsession with status from inspiring English sources

Philosophy-based courses would help executives overcome their obsession with status symbols.

Mr. Frayling outlines Leone's own obsession with status and propriety, which seems to be largely invested in Tuco.

Fashion's renewed interest in the driving glove is simply an extension of its obsession with status symbols.

Folks who view cooking for others as a way of expressing their own obsession with status don't cook often enough and may need different friends.

Spending all your money on housing encourages social isolation and an obsession with status, like who has the best kitchen – while some people can't feed their children.

And given America now, with its profusion of racial, ethnic and religious mixes and its perpetual obsession with status and reinventing oneself, her writing is anything but retrograde.

Instead, she turned the character into a ripe, tragicomic example of this country's obsessions with status and breeding.

LITTLE ME The annual Encores! series of too-short runs of seldom-performed musicals will start with Neil Simon's first musical, about obsession with celebrity status, that might feel just as timely today as it did in 1962.

Gilbert and Sullivan scored their first international hit with H.M.S. Pinafore (1878), satirising the rise of unqualified people to positions of authority and poking good-natured fun at the Royal Navy and the English obsession with social status (building on a theme introduced in The Sorcerer, love between members of different social classes).

Eade plunges into correspondence and unpublished family papers to explore the writer's obsessions with social status and Catholicism, his jackknife turns from affection to contempt, and his torturous ambition.

Everyone, of course, meant the wealthy and famous, since Beaton, as Albrecht says, had "a snobbish obsession with class and status".