Sentences with phrase «by consumerism»

I deal with clients on a daily basis suffering from teh consequences of an entire society driven by consumerism, commodity, laziness and the bottom line.

From this came the wave of Postmodernism that existed in the realm of consumer realization; the realization that we lived in a world surrounded by consumerism, advertisements, façade, where nothing is real; enter the realm of the hyper - real and beyond.

«With the Canadian economy in recession, it is of no surprise the period characterized by consumerism has ended,» wrote Diana Petramala, an economist at TD Financial Group, in a May 2009 report that conveyed the spirit of the time.

At another level, Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory reflects Balmer's attempts to come to grips with the meaning of his own fundamentalist past and to identify «those kernels of truth and insight into the human condition» that he suspects are embedded within the evangelical message but that have become distorted by consumerism and other corrosive elements of American culture.

Goldhill's imaginative vision, then, is constrained on the one hand by his consumerism — which understands health care as something to be bought and sold — and on the other by his implicit understanding that health care is a right.

On the other hand I see a Church gripped by a consumerism that distracts the saints from the main and the plain of gospel ministry, and which turns divine worship into a circus for the pursuit of ever more eccentric and esoteric experiences.

But it seems like a majority of Boomers never even noticed — bamboozled as they were over the past few decades by consumerism, inflation, a declining savings rate, easy credit, and the widespread acceptance of dual - income households.

Inspired by consumerism and a culture of mass production, the famous Pop Art movement shook the globe and left a deep mark in the 20th - century art.

His photo series «depicts a new form of colonisation by consumerism, where even undeveloped land is not safe from the far - reaching impact of our disposable culture».

In the 1960s, thanks to European collectors and curators, Pop Art assumed the mantle of being the most distinctively American art movement, reinforcing stereotypes of the United States as being consumed by consumerism.

We swim through our lives in a global culture chlorinated by consumerism — the worldview in which everything can be commodified, or assigned a value based upon its usefulness to us.

We are all aware that we live in a society driven by consumerism.

In a culture such as ours that is dominated by consumerism, the shopping temptation stares at us from every corner.

Christians are surrounded by consumerism.

Which got me thinking about how controlled our society is by consumerism.

Online dating has morphed into a game driven by consumerism..

Curated by Tiffany Zabludowicz, STRAY explores how the human body is affected in the digital age and how flesh transitions into something that can be manipulated whether that is by consumerism, observation or self - improvement.

We don't have a Father's Day gift guide this year; Jeff once called it one of those fake, annoying holidays brought to you by consumerism.