Sentences with phrase «driven 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.

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The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.

For the foreseeable future, however, consumerism - understood as inordinate concern for things material - will be driven by extreme deprivation.

In a Hollywood practically driven by crass consumerism and gimmicks, The Muppets never feels like such for an instant.

However, post-war Belgian culture differed significantly from the market - driven consumerism of «60s America and De Keyser's application of these styles within his own practice was distinctively down to earth by comparison; his canvases firmly rooted within a more intimate, introspective and domestic reality.

Arditti's life has been shaped by a migration that was politically driven, as well as a serious illness, her rejection of consumerism, the perception of women and faith in solidarity.

Consumerism was quickly defining the decade, and the modern brand was driving social culture, led by major multinational companies like Pepsi, Nike, and CNN.