Sentences with phrase «consumerist about»

Target's got a lot of bad blood on its hands, a lot of stuff on consumerist about crummy working conditions.I hope JC Penny becomes a better place, Ron Johnson made Apple Retail great, so there's a lot of hope to be had.

Not exact matches

It was, in a way, worst for people in East Germany, who lived tantalizingly close to their wealthy European cousins, where radio and TV signals easily carried information about the latest consumerist luxuries.

In the case of Ronnie Segev, ReputationDefender and a blog called The Consumerist ended up in a spitting match after ReputationDefender requested that an article about Segev be removed.

Coming from an hyper - capitalistic and consumerist society, you wouldn't know anything about that

Indeed, its two key principles — that knowledge should be pursued for its own sake rather than just when it is useful, and that knowledge is incomplete and distor ted if it doesn't include knowledge about God — are more relevant than ever in our consumerist and secularised age.

Characteristic of consumerist post-modernism is a scepticism about the self - interest of what is offered or made available.

The market economy comes with a price, and the Pope is deeply concerned about unemployment, social dislocation, and the «whole ultra-liberal, consumerist system which is devoid of values, and introducing it with the power of propaganda.»

And of course that class has imbibed the values of the capitalist consumerist society too much to bring about a new society embodying values of personal freedom, social justice and ecological wholeness by themselves any more.

As more parents express concerns about the consumerist and hedonistic youth culture that their children are exposed to in mass media, they naturally favor schools that filter out its worst elements and focus young minds on worthier things.

Beautifully done... I wish that they'd featured your voice even more... you temper the host's potentially consumerist - sounding (and I hate that term «mommy blogger») comments about blogging with some important notes about spirit and passion.

Fueling the fury is the fact that the epinephrine itself costs about $ 1, according to Consumerist.

Loznitsa has only just given us his searing documentary Austerlitz, about modern - day consumerist and tourist attitudes to the Nazi concentration camps.

Ultimately, this is about a woman's place at this time; how tolerant they were expected to be and how keeping up appearances was at the forefront of their place within a fractured, consumerist environment.

The end product, though, puts that skepticism to bed for 100 minutes of unbridled imagination, absurdist humor, pointed satire about consumerist culture, technical proficiency, and an attitude of «Anything goes.»

Despite its procedural, hour - by - hour construction, Nocturama is more allegorical: a tragedy about kids vaguely lashing out against cultural values deeply ingrained within them, until being drawn — like the shambling corpses of George Romero's Dawn Of The Dead — to a consumerist temple that may become their tomb.

Certainly Catton's point about a consumerist element has validity.

Rather than just saving money, it's about cutting back, being less consumerist and more environmentally - friendly; making, cooking and growing things rather than buying them.

Google «chase southwest disaster» and read the top article from the consumerist to see about people having points posting quickly.

A reader of The Consumerist sent them a little story about his dealings with Sam's Club.

Weaving together stories about affluence, beauty, body image, competition, corruption, fantasy, and excess, Greenfield's project questions the distance between value and commodity in a globalized consumerist culture.

Weaving together stories about affluence, beauty, body image, competition, corruption, fantasy, and excess, Greenfield's sweeping project questions the distance between value and commodity in a globalized consumerist culture.

Hyperrealistic paintings which result from a disarming pictorial precision and lead to a melancholy reflection about these new modern urban sceneries, the ones that take shape at street corners, in the suburbs, in the waste of this consumerist era.

The Columbus Dispatch reports (via Consumerist) that Brown took a break from her usual job of «evangeliz [ing] to strippers in San Diego» and flew to Ohio late week after reading about «Foxhole strippers camping out in front of the church during worship services in recent weeks, many dancing in bikinis to music from George's bright - orange Dodge Challenger.»

Similarly, in Denver, CBS4 News recently identified (via Consumerist) about a dozen cases where wannabe «adverse possessors» moved into vacant houses under foreclosure.

According to Consumerists» readers, the Applecare warranty says nothing about the warranty becoming void due to second - hand smoke.

(As Consumerist put it, Tobin was correct about the potpourri, «except for the «pourri» part»).

(Consumerist, Utility Offering Oregon Residents $ 5,000 to Not Complain About Wind Turbine Noise)

Via Consumerist I came across an interesting story about the Nordstrom department store.

While I have never had any problems with Skype, a post about Skype on Consumerist this weekend made me sit up and take notice.

Consumerist reports that Mattel's initial response was to attack Greenpeace's actions as «inflammatory,» disable comments on Barbie's Facebook wall, and attempt to shut down on trademark grounds Greenpeace's Facebook ad campaign about the breakup.

There is no point denying the fact that we presently live in a world where the whole globalized and consumerist approach towards life has brought about a number of major shifts in various aspects of lifestyle compared to their more traditional versions.