Sentences with phrase «for consumerist»

Our senior writer, he used to write for The Consumerist.

He previously wrote for The Consumerist.

Combine trips to your favorite boutiques and department stores with the double - edged - sword - convenience of online shopping and you've got a recipe for consumerist burnout.

Not exact matches

«Listen to Marie Kondo and other evangelists of a clutter - free life, and you'd be forgiven for thinking that the key to serenity in a consumerist world is getting rid of your stuff.

It was, in a way, worst for people in East Germany, who lived tantalizingly close to their wealthy European cousins, where radio and TV signals easily carried information about the latest consumerist luxuries.

For years, the Consumerist website documented instances of corporations reducing package sizes while maintaining prices in its popular «Grocery Shrink Ray» feature.

A person claiming to represent a closing Chinese restaurant in the Los Angeles area blamed the «incompetent» staff for the eatery's failure, according to Consumerist.

Mehmet Oz, the host of the Dr. Oz show, testified in a Senate subcommittee hearing Tuesday and acknowledged that his backing of so - called «miracle» weight loss products have «provided fodder for unscrupulous advertisers,» Consumerist reported.

Paul Alan Levy, an attorney for consumer rights advocacy group Public Citizen, told Consumerist that it doesn't just help the consumer, but it also protects other businesses that operate without non-disparagement agreements.

Consumerist reports that some people have been fined just for threatening to complain.

The Impulsive Buy was the first to see the cheesy item being sold for $ 2.99 at one location, and Consumerist reportedly saw the food at a different location for 50 cents more.

After being seized by Swiss police earlier this year, your favorite consumerist bot is back online for a new exhibition.

For Owen, a liberal democracy needs such figures to avoid the soft tyranny of a consumerist and bureaucratic state inured to higher justice.

In their view, the American political experiment is liberal to its rotten core, and Baxter in particular thinks the very core of the core is the First Amendment that pretends the state is «neutral» to religion when in fact it is an insidious instrument for taking Christianity captive to provide «legitimation» for a capitalist, consumerist, warmongering society.

There is enough here for you to find a career provided our pro tern political leaders will transform themselves into statesmen, encourage indigenous research, inhibit consumerist hi - tech, and put your talent to developmental projects based on appropriate technology, not multinational gluttony.

Nations and territories once famed for their Catholicism became secularist or, more accurately, consumerist in their beliefs and lifestyles.

Indeed, its two key principles — that knowledge should be pursued for its own sake rather than just when it is useful, and that knowledge is incomplete and distor ted if it doesn't include knowledge about God — are more relevant than ever in our consumerist and secularised age.

On the other hand, Cary writes, «The church, when it's not seduced by consumerist spirituality, is in the business of cultivating ordinary Christians...» Try that for a mission statement.

In our jaded, consumerist society we still aspire to family life and desire it for ourselves because somewhere deep down we recognise that family life is good, beautiful and true.

In our corporate consumerist American culture which celebrates hedonistic materialism and where aggression and a lack of ethics often results in short term economic gain [at the expense of long - term sustainability], taking a public stand for universal human values is likely to result in the end of career advancement or even job loss.

Of course she could not have realized at that time fifty years ago that some specialized medical technologies could be so fully integrated with the materialistic - mechanical reductionist view of human being and with the profit - consumerist motives that it would be impossible to convert them to the holistic view of human personhood or to be made an appropriate tool for promoting health of poor communities.

For of course the dominant script of therapeutic technological consumerist militarism is not godless or atheistic.

The dominant script of both selves and communities in our society, for both liberals and conservatives, is the script of therapeutic, technological, consumerist militarism that permeates every dimension of our common life.

Passages that were originally written for groups of people, and intended to be read and applied in a community setting (the nation of Israel, the various early churches, the first followers of Jesus), have been manipulated to communicate a personal, individual message... thus leading the reader away from the original corporate intent of the passage to a reaffirmation of the individualistic, me - centered, and consumerist tendencies of American religious culture.

Why not steer clear of the consumerist bandwagon and opt for gifts that are upcycled, homemade or DIY.

Still, the conferees warned that was no reason for some shrill irredentist baying, in some quarters; adding that with proper restructuring, Nigeria's consumerist pseudo-federal system may well be tweaked into a productive and prosperous one.

We work for our livelihood, and spend a great deal of time in doing so, but love seems to be indispensible even in the midst of our consumerist society.

It is superbly executed and, for all its pitilessness, it's an intelligent dramatization of the impact that consumerist values have had on the psyche of the North American middle class at the end of the 20th century.

Who's to blame for Mary's anxieties and loneliness — her absent husband or the capitalist, consumerist forces that define American society which requires husbands to work long hours and wives to give up their dreams and ambitions to keep house?

There would be nothing wrong with that, of course, but for a good hour or so Payne makes both excellent sight gags and interesting comment on consumerist society.

In «Book Club,» Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Candice Bergen and Mary Steenburgen play four best friends who have not only been in the same reading circle for 40 years, but have also achieved almost identical consumerist heights.

The end product, though, puts that skepticism to bed for 100 minutes of unbridled imagination, absurdist humor, pointed satire about consumerist culture, technical proficiency, and an attitude of «Anything goes.»

Important considerations here are that food security (and sovereignty) requires as much of the provisioning as possible to happen through localized production and consumption networks, that agriculture is based on organic, biologically diverse inputs, that the enormous waste of food characterizing the consumerist class is eliminated, and that for the extreme poor who do not have access to either the means of production or food itself, there needs to be rights - based schemes ensuring such access.

In this consumerist age, it's never been easier for us to pursue our individuality and to sculpt the world to our own preferences.

Local and small business products are appealing to mindful consumerists, and you can put together a grassroots campaign to build buzz for your book by selling it in local establishments like cafes or home décor boutiques.

I am reminded of this by a recent post at The Consumerist that shared the apparently non-obvious tip that Letting Mortgage Go Delinquent To Qualify For Short Sale Damages Credit.

The couple's story is similar to one that Consumerist reported last July, in which parents not only became the caretakers for their three grandchildren after their daughter's death, but also took on more than $ 100,000 in med school student loans.

What Starbucks enables you, is to be a consumerist, without any bad conscience, because the price for the countermeasure, for fighting consumerism, is already included into the price of a commodity.

The video game publisher Electronic Arts was named, for the second year in a row, «the worst company in America» by readers of The Consumerist.

Bargain - hungry gamers everywhere have reacted in delight to the latest Steam sale, excited by the possibility of once again acting as blind consumerist pigs for big publishing houses.

The aforementioned keywords, for many, represent the worst consumerist practices in the video game industry right now, and for good reason.

Nurse of Greenmeadow, combining the harsh gestural surface, the brutal treatment of the paint and the subject, with what was formerly an idealized image designed specifically for its sexiness, here approaches these constructs from a new perspective that again exposes the strange mechanics of image presentation and interpretation in our consumerist, media - drenched society.

His series «Cowboys» (1980 — 1992), for instance, in which he rephotographed images from the famous Marlboro advertising campaign, is indebted to Pop art's critical interest in consumerist culture.

The disenchantment that followed the desire to adapt to a new liberal and consumerist model, has resulted for one part of that generation to find shelter in ultra-nationalism, that now flourishes in the region.

Grant's theme is super-relatable: searching for completeness in an over-stimulated society awash in consumerist taglines and self - help jargon, and her acid - punk color theory does little to diminish the gravity of her message.

By dressing these foam lengths in shop - bought accoutrements and clothing, he attributed each with certain humanoid characters, built around three pre-determined sub-sets of contemporary consumerist America: teenagers (or «tweens», the more specific category for those aged in - between 10 and 12), middle American fans of the rock - rap star Kid Rock and Wall Street traders.

Polke, meanwhile, offers a whole narrative of Germany of his own, from works from the 1960s, with titles like Sekt für Alle («fizz for all») sending up consumerist West Germany, to the great series of watchtower paintings of the 1980s, which complicatedly recall the fortifications of Nazi prison camps.

Carsten Höller clearly had a blast filming two raucous sound clashes in Kinshasa, while his slowly revolving funfair ride is a witty metaphor for getting off the financial merry - go - round and shunning the consumerist rat race.

Living and creating in postmodern and consumerist societies, artists are often forced to find alternative ways for articulating their concepts and presenting their works in public space largely contaminated by corporative and consumeristic practices.

In addition, the imagery and colour schemes for most Pop - art painting and sculpture was taken from high - profile and easily recognizable consumerist or media sources such as: consumer goods, advertising graphics, magazines, television, film, cartoons and comic books.