Sentence examples for partake instead from inspiring English sources

Nearly twenty years ago, in her groundbreaking book "No Logo," Naomi Klein referred to a type of engagement with popular culture that she called "ironic consumption," wherein people, realizing their inability to detach from the often idiotic, occasionally poisonous products of capitalism, partake instead of these products' pleasures while keeping a sense of agency and humor about it.

It seemed that, for many participants, evaluation of their health status was the main reason for partaking, instead of actively making changes themselves.

Sometimes an adaptation is transparently meretricious: the 2012 movie "The Lorax" had none of the delightfulness of the 1971 book, and instead partook of the thoughtless consumption and commercialism that Dr. Seuss sought to critique.

This conception is not based on the "shifting gene frequencies" paradigm of the MS, but instead partakes of the mutationist view of evolution as a 2-step proposal-and-acceptance process whose kinetics depend directly on the introduction of novelty by mutation-and-altered-development.

Instead, they partake of the unchurched freedom of Whitman and the expansive openness of Roethke's late meditations.

It was typical of the classy Mr. Finckel not to make any fuss over his departure and instead just partake of Ms. Fleming's musical visit to Vienna.

Suddenly, government officials were partaking in the theft instead of trying to stop it.

Instead, he partakes of the string-bikini-clad spoils of fame with a casual levity; even his one brief explosion of expletives and anger doesn't feel motivated by anything as heavy as existential dread or a wounded ego.

Instead of partaking in the indefinitely open work of the specialized sciences philosophy attempts to survey the totality of cultural life and to systematically determine its underlying value-related structure.

So, instead of partaking himself, Shepard encourages Bell and their friends to safely experiment, believing that people "shouldn't leave this earth without having tried mushrooms or ecstasy".

The Green League also hosted members from the German Green Party; however, they did not partake in campaign events but instead were only present to learn about Finland's style of street campaigning.