Sentence examples for vortex of consumerism from inspiring English sources

But it also scarily suggests how people may be sucked into the swirling vortex of consumerism.

Played by Simon Paisley Day with a leaping enthusiasm and comic verve that inescapably reminds one of John Cleese, he is a naive dreamer sucked into the vortex of rampant consumerism.

And yet, much of the artisanal, ethically sourced food and fashion coming out of this outer-borough vortex of self-conscious consumerism can be pinned on (or attributed to, if you're a Manhattan-centric cynic) him.

"Achebe lampooned, in a prophetic way, the post-independence crop of elites – and the present leadership – who, rather than engineer a revolution in the emergent modern African states we are in, allowed us to be sucked in by the vortex of neo-colonial exploitation and global consumerism with the result that Africa has been subjugated into an web of almost permanent underdevelopment".

Dangerous acts of consumerism.

"I was sick and tired of consumerism".

Was this a critique of consumerism?

"We've seen a world of consumerism.

Much contemporary criticism of consumerism is concerned with social issues and problems seen as inextricably linked to consumerism's growth and expansion.

The minimalist mirrored box meets the excesses of consumerism?

"It's the dark side of consumerism" said Chater.