Sentences with phrase «consumed by consumerism»

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.

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That is the danger of consumerism: the measure of life, indeed the consuming of life, by consumption, the discontent bred by the feeling that yesterday's anticipated enough is never enough.
Here Elshtain joins in John Paul II's critique of «consumerism,» in which lives are consumed by consuming.
'» There is much and legitimate criticism of consumerism, and there are few consumerisms more spiritually and intellectually debilitating than to be consumed by politics — as in «The personal is the political.»
Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire by William T. Cavanaugh Eerdmans, 103 pages, $ 12 Our globalized world of free - market consumerism teases the eye with a «surface appearance of diversity,» masking «a stifling homogeneity» that bears resemblance to Andy Warhol's «Orange Disaster # 5,» a painting whose serial imaging of the electric chair removes the sting of death.
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