Sentences with phrase «in consumerist»

Rather than liberating us from our roles as «cogs» in a consumerist machine, the necessity of survival in Ecotopia would likely make us slaves — both materially, and politically.

And in a socially satiric vein, Mike Kelley's «Memory Ware Flat,» a large panel bearing hundreds of pieces of cheap metal jewelry, ponders the sentimental value people invest in consumerist junk.

During these same years, the reflections on prehistoric art by the French archeologist and historian André Leroi - Gourhan gave contemporary artists an opportunity to rethink manual work and the value of an object's fabrication in a consumerist world.

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.

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.

As a descendent of Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol, and after Pop art had magnified critical interest in consumerist culture, Prince's «rephotographs» could be seen as a cynical representation of reality, and as a piercing inquiry into the ethos of the American vernacular.

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.

EA beat such companies as Bank of America, Comcast, Anheiser - Busch, AT&T, and Ticketmaster in Consumerist's poll, and by no small margin: 78 percent of the overall vote by readers.

We are living in a consumerist world and having a credit card gives you a new kind of freedom to spend.

Can we really afford to have a key component of our overall bookish canon be especially hobbled, either in the consumerist corridors of online retail (Catton) or the cultural insecurities of an anti-intellectual age (Miller)?

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

Holed up in this consumerist dream space, they play dress - up, host a dinner, are visited by ghosts, watch coverage of their attack on display model TVs, and act out fantasy lives — only to have it all come to a halt when Nocturama reveals itself as the bleak, desperate genre movie it's been all along.

But like everything else in our consumerist society, we're being prompted to buy more «stuff» to celebrate properly.

Further, in the consumerist market, while the bodies of the women are converted as commodities, they are also co-opted into the mechanism as the single largest consumers in commodity mass production.

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.

Our commitment must be deep and steeped in the Universal soul, not in consumerist gluttony and sexomania.

Unfortunately, living in a consumerist society even our most intimate relationships have become commodified.

«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.

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The «answer» was to financialize the U.S. economy with vast increases in credit, debt and leverage, enabling a hyper - consumerist economy built on a pyramid of debt and leverage.

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.

«We would never put our crew or our passengers in a situation where it was unsafe to fly,» a United Airlines spokesperson said in a statement, according to Consumerist.

In the case of Ronnie Segev, ReputationDefender and a blog called The Consumerist ended up in a spitting match after ReputationDefender requested that an article about Segev be removeIn the case of Ronnie Segev, ReputationDefender and a blog called The Consumerist ended up in a spitting match after ReputationDefender requested that an article about Segev be removein a spitting match after ReputationDefender requested that an article about Segev be removed.

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.

«We can no longer sit idly by and watch poor decision after poor decision deeply affect our customers and Southwest Airlines,» SWAPA president Captain Jon Weaks said in a statement obtained by Consumerist.

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 societIn 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 societin 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 societin fact it is an insidious instrument for taking Christianity captive to provide «legitimation» for a capitalist, consumerist, warmongering society.

In a throwaway, consumerist world, they accept, preserve, and continue tradition.

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

Common among many of the critical comments from the «churched» was the assumption that the «un-churched» had left church, or were in transition between churches, because of unrealistic expectations based on a consumerist mindset.

Here in Nairobi we are not strangers to the western consumerist and hedonistic mentality; far from it.

The consumerist market forces a crisis in the being of woman when they were turned as puppets at the interest of the market.

I'm describing not fourth - century monks, but present - day communities of Christians who think the church in the United States has too easily accommodated itself to the consumerist and imperialist values of the culture.

Greider confronts the ways in which our democratic, entrepreneurial and altruistic impulses conflict with our self - interested, consumerist and competitive urges.

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.

The deterioration of neighborhoods in our inner cities, the decline of elemental safety — never mind education — in many of our schools, the burgeoning of jail populations (to the point that we have the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens of any country in the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risin our inner cities, the decline of elemental safety — never mind education — in many of our schools, the burgeoning of jail populations (to the point that we have the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens of any country in the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risin many of our schools, the burgeoning of jail populations (to the point that we have the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens of any country in the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risin the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risIn the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risk.

But it is also true that the consumerist culture we live in makes it harder than it needs to be.

Consumerist readers are interested primarily in moving quickly from one text to the next in search of things that will excite, titillate, entertain, empower and give them some advantage over others.

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 general, students seemed quite aware of the need to draw some lines in their personal behavior to avoid being sucked into the consumerist behavior of American youtIn general, students seemed quite aware of the need to draw some lines in their personal behavior to avoid being sucked into the consumerist behavior of American youtin their personal behavior to avoid being sucked into the consumerist behavior of American youth.

It is one kind of thing to understand a person when she is my wife in the context of our life together, another to understand her when she is a potential buyer and I an advertiser in the context of contemporary American consumerist culture, still another when she is a client and I a psychiatrist in a psychotherapeutic context, even though these various senses of «to understand» overlap in various ways.

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 losIn 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 losin 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 losin the end of career advancement or even job loss.

In particular, he highlights the work of Charles Taylor and Nicholas Boyle, which while critiquing various aspects of postmodernity — the dehumanising nature of the growing secularism and the rise of the consumerist ideology — positively suggests the potential of Christian humanism to contribute to a renewal.

As more parents express concerns about the consumerist and hedonistic youth culture that their children are exposed to in mass media, they naturally favor schools that filter out its worst elements and focus young minds on worthier things.

And in that regard he represented the larger consumerist approach in higher education these days.

• I say consumerist, because we live in a culture that believes that the whole world and all its resources are available to us without regard to the neighbor, that assumes more is better and that «if you want it, you need it.»

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.

The lighting in the produce section has been carefully chosen and placed to make everything look as enticing as possible, both to convince you that, yes, this is the week to finally try making something with chayote, and to get your brain thinking that maybe, just maybe, it is feeling a tad peckish, as you begin your stroll toward the consumerist version of Oz.

-- New York Times «While she skewers the celebrity - driven and consumerist Southern California culture she indulges in, Lauren also writes darkly and beautifully... Lauren cracked me — cracked me up and cracked me open... Part of the many joys and sorrows of reading «Everything I Ever Wanted» is this generous and funny and intelligent writer knows that, despite the many hardships, it is in fact she who is the lucky one.»