(In that same speech, King criticized the status-driven imperatives of car ads).
Both countries nuclear programs aren't threat-driven, they're status-driven; and both countries are willing to risk nuclear war to indulge their ambition.
Also, I was a teenager at the dawn of the millennium when designer labels and status-driven purchasing were at their peak.
Others speculated that Barneys status-driven customers would turn up their noses on seeing Target wares in such a rarefied setting.
A successful New Jersey doctor grows dangerously obsessed with his son's romance in this incisive novel of status-driven suburban culture and crisis.
"An Object of Beauty" either cannot or will not separate the power of art from the fetishistic, status-driven behavior that the big-ticket art market engenders.
Mr. Pedraza's conviction rests on the notion that luxury shoppers fall into one of two broad categories, the status-driven and the pragmatists, and that brick-and-mortar retailers will always appeal to the former.
Moulded leather tunics, neat A-line skirts worn with masculine white shirts peeping from beneath their sharply cut hems, blush-coloured bodies and pale leather clogs – yes, clogs – were like a breath of fresh air so simple, chic and unashamedly functional were they as compared to the frills, furbelows and more obviously status-driven clothing that surrounded them.
The analysis provides insights to the role of technological change, supply demand coevolution, and status-driven consumption in explaining the rebound effect.
In a status-driven world, these are attention-getting acquisitions.
For the pursuit of contemporary highbrow cultural capital however greedy, divisive, and status-driven it may actually be it must be carried out with a degree of nonchalance, a muted kind of respectability.
