Sentences with phrase «culture over substance»

To those most appalled by the prospect of a President Trump, it's an ugly manifestation of America's bigoted id, or the triumph of celebrity culture over substance, or a product of a broken information ecology in which acceptance of facts is optional.

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Four of the six chapters in Losing Our Virtue constitute the heart of the book and are devoted to themes liberally treated in Wells» first two volumes» materialistic consumption, image and style over substance, the therapeutic culture, the lack of civic virtue, and, not least, society's aversion to truth, truth - telling, guilt, and moral accountability.
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