Sentence examples for resisting consumerism from inspiring English sources
At first, the group was resisting "consumerism in the broadest sense", says Talen.
The festival was devoted to the causes of resisting consumerism, battling the encroachment of corporate monoculture in New York and (in Mr. Talen's words) reclaiming "contested and surveilled public spaces" -- the Disney Store and Washington Square Park, among them.
Mike Bloomberg's persona is so comically a demonstration of Consumerism, that his illegal grab for another term and his spending $100 million on it -- making the mayoralty one big product that he is buying -- gives us the chance to demonstrate in unforgettable fashion how our Democracy needs to resist Consumerism.
"By knitting, you are resisting capitalism and consumerism," one of the artists on display, Shane Waltener, was quoted as saying.
Sitting in the museum's outdoor cafe, he spoke about how Mr. Yang's films resist the overwhelming consumerism of his country — maybe using the old tale of the Seven Sages to stand for a withdrawal from consumer culture as well as for the "radical disenchantment with the real" of his generation, as one scholar has put it.
This looks like it will be the norm from now on (to the consternation of those who want to resist the pull of consumerism).
