Sentence examples for shaping tastes from inspiring English sources

Even without resorting to direct censorship, the state has formidable powers for controlling popular music and shaping tastes.

It's not technology shaping taste, but the human desire to connect, share and evaluate culture.

Do they shape tastes, fashions, habits and preferences in the societies concerned?

The latter's exploding luxury consumption shaped tastes and standards defining the "American dream".

It's a portrait of an enormously successful art dealer who shaped tastes and markets between the wars.

In promoting his own view of contemporary art through the medium of a big, public gallery, he is testing his power to shape tastes and markets, and his ability to exert control.

Blondeau told me that great dealers leave their mark: they shape taste, influence markets, sell to museums.

London's position in this global market depends on three things: a concentration of wealth and of the people who look after it, plenty of artists and galleries to shape taste, and a long and distinguished history as a centre for art exchange.

To the "anthropological monster" that they saw in Homo Economicus, and in Stigler and Becker's injunction that "De Gustibus non est disputandum", they opposed their own sociological theories of action, rooted in a fine-grained understanding of how necessity shapes choice and how relative social position shapes taste (Bourdieu 2000).

This labeling is more clearly seen in Panel H, where the bud is outlined and where the membrane of several characteristic spindle shaped taste bud cells within that outline are labeled.

But that hasn't helped its ratings from Wine Spectator, one of the most powerful voices in shaping consumer tastes.