Sentences with phrase «despite affluence»

The authors posit that despite affluence, marked difference in status in economically hierarchical societies «gets under the skin» of its members.

A fluid camera follows Susan (Amy Adams) as she drifts through her LA art gallery or her modern house, melancholy and lonely despite her affluence and friends.

Not exact matches

Despite it's disastrous track - record of macro-economic management, epitomised by the Lawson boom in the late 1980s and George Osbourne's ill - timed retrenchment since 2010, the Conservatives have consistently positioned themselves as the party of fiscal discipline and economic competence, as well as the party of entrepreneurship and material affluence.

And, despite the large gap in affluence, the two groups reported about equal overall satisfaction with their lives.