Sentence examples for societal obsessions from inspiring English sources

CHELSEA ART MUSEUM 556 W. 22nd St. (212-255-0719) — The artints in "Dangerous Beauty" contemplate modern societal obsessions — beauty, youth, thinness, unattainable perfection — through works in a variety of media.

In light of societal obsessions with taking our own pictures, the phenomenon of the celebrity selfie-as-art, as well as recent bans on selfie sticks in museums and public spaces, the Selfie Arm represented more than just a satirical object gone viral.

Sure, most will want to look nice, but our societal obsession with the beauty of the bride, from the toasts to the photographs, makes it easy for a woman's personality and the commitment she is making, to get completely lost in superficial objectification.

"Technology simply mirrors and magnifies all sorts of things we see in everyday life and that's good, bad and ugly," she says, pointing to the societal obsession with cyberbullying.

Our fixation on busy -- the ubiquity of keeping, staying, being, appearing busy -- seems to me a symptom of our societal obsession with productivity.

Selfies have the power to promote narcissism and a renewed societal obsession with appearance and self-presentation, further blurring the line between digital reality and real life.

Both Kate and I are fascinated by the societal obsession with fatness and the way that impacts the movement potential and potency of having an entire cast of undeniably large bodies on stage".

"I'm on the cover of a magazine because an editor has chosen to glorify my bikini body and contribute to an already unhealthy societal obsession with rapid postnatal weight loss!" is what the headline should really say... if there was enough room.

Many girls have eating disorders at all different sizes due to a societal obsession with weight and weight loss.

Barbie and Ruth by Robin Gerber, a new biography of Barbie inventor and Mattel co-founder Ruth Handler, offers some clues to a societal love-hate obsession.

The noir genre of the 40s and 50s conversely found criminality to reside not in dynastic cultures or parodic societal norms but in individual acts of cynicism, obsession and desperation.