Sentences with phrase «obscene wealth»
The phrase "obscene wealth" refers to an extremely large amount of money or riches that is considered morally offensive, excessive, or shocking to others. Full definition
It's no accident that the events of the film play out against a backdrop of obscene wealth.
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Thousands of civilians were killed and several hundreds of thousands displaced from their homes and living in refugee camps; both in Nigeria and in the neighbouring countries, while those that looted and shared the war fund live and swim in obscene wealth and luxury, with properties and bank accounts littered in Nigeria and in foreign countries, just as majority of Nigerian masses live in abject poverty and helplessness.
Here he's punishing Americans who accrued obscene wealth out of...
Instead, he hugs a deformed man for the cameras and tells us that we are too fixated on money, while he lives in a place of obscene wealth and luxury.
Yes, Wednesday is the silliest day in the footballing career, a giddy festival of shouting and chaos, an orgiastic explosion of obscene wealth and the color yellow.
All we have read about the 2016 budget in the last 30 days easily explains the obscene wealth into which civil servants retire into in Nigeria.
No matter how committed they may be to the role, it's hard to suspend disbelief; the disparity between the character's poverty and the celebrity's obscene wealth is so pronounced that it continually gets in the way.
Our labour will be truly valued only when we kick the addiction to obscene wealth that characterises the American and international art world today.»
This is a backdrop of obscene wealth and mediated overstimulation, where the Hummer limousine comes already loaded with a contextual meaning that a white cube — whether online or off — consciously, but possibly even more artificially attempts to avoid.
Last year the Guardian's Jonathan Jones described it as «a giant conceptual artwork» that «forces you to evaluate your attitude to obscene wealth», adding: «It is a celebration of the market that mocks the idea that art means anything.»