Sentences with phrase «status symbols of»

Employing inexpensive materials, such as enamel paint, papier - mâché, or acrylic on canvas, to reconstruct lacquered mahogany, gilded ornaments, and marble surfaces, Lowe transforms the once intimidating status symbols of wealth into easily accessible and disarmingly cartoonish props.

As the artist describes: «It is about pearls and the discrepancy between their perceived status of being timeless status symbols of refined taste and wealth (with exotic overtones) and the often very unromantic reality.»

Simply put, trophyism is the tendency for men to view women as objects to be collected and displayed as status symbols of their sexual prowess or virility.

This wasn't quite as big of an issue in America, but for many years, the Burberry brand was the standard issue dress as a status symbol of thugs and gangs all across England.

Once the status symbol of anti-establishment Silicon Valley tech companies such as Google and Facebook, the open office floor plan now pervades American workplaces.

This way parents from far - flung towns can flaunt the status symbol of spending beautiful warm weekends in a freezing ice rink watching 14 mind - and butt - numbing hockey games.

the new status symbol of success to be married to an eastern European women..

While a new Mercedes - Benz is a status symbol of sorts, it doesn't have to cost you six figures.

The opening line for the podcasts starts out with Dave saying «This is the Dave Ramsey show where Debt is DUMB, Cash is KING and the paid off home mortgage has taken the place of the BMW as the status symbol of choice».

I'd love to be in a place where debt is dumb, cash is king, and the paid off home mortgage (instead of the BMW) is the status symbol of choice.

In the old days, the villagers kept leopards in the caves as a status symbol of the owner.

The latest model of a high - end brand is the classic status symbol of wealth and prestige.

Not exact matches

««Modern» means brands that are inclusive, brands that are more approachable, that are not just based on exterior symbols of status,» says Luis.

If you're one of the few guys in a city who owns a Harley, people are going to see that as a status symbol.

One example of this is that they don't see a vehicle as a status symbol.

The headphones have become a bit of status symbol worn by celebrities as well as audiophiles.

For those of you who like to live on the cutting - edge side of the tech world, there's no better status symbol than the smartwatch.

Its high price and lack of IT - friendly ports make it hard to see it as much more than a status symbol, but a good laptop is a good laptop all the same.

The company touts the terminal as a Stradivarius for the beautiful music of making money, and as a status symbol.

Style is important as a status symbol and a measure of their success, but they're unconcerned with personal health.

Jack Ma has achieved rock - star status in China as a symbol of Chinese entrepreneurship and as an evangelist for small business.

Louis Vuitton sells plenty of goods in China, but now the core consumers include young office workers with spending money who save up to buy the status symbol.

Quite the opposite; a brand - name pack of smokes, like Marlboro, is a status symbol.

While Starbucks coffee can be an everyday indulgence for urbanites in the West, with a price tag of 30 yuan (US$ 4.43) for a medium latte in Shanghai, it is still a brand with plenty of snob appeal — a status symbol for the emerging Chinese middle class and a «liquid luxury» for an average worker.

For much of history and in many developing countries today, it has been and is considered a status symbol.

Society views this as a right of passage and a status symbol.

And my thoughts danced around shades of Indian cloth shot with silver, a symbol of Jewish marital status.

Fewer working - class and poor Americans are marrying nowadays in part because marriage is seen increasingly as a sort of status symbol: a sign that a couple has arrived both emotionally and financially.

The church removes any symbol of authority from the person... they have no special status in the church that they could exploit by trusting members of the church.

For many of them, tax exempt status, full donations plates and status symbols trump Jesus, Harry Jackson included.

It is ironic that the very activists who emerged from this new environment developed the strategy of claiming victim status through the use of such symbols as the pink triangle.

My critism is not at people working 9 to 5 jobs but at the whole system of 9 to 5 jobs.Having a 9 to 5 job also becomes a status symbol in South Africa cause a job means money, money immediately means a better standard of material living.Its very frustrating actually.There are many creative options as a way of earning a living.Again, to reitterate, its the system that gets me mad, institutionilisation of peoples lives for money...

Maxine Glaz has provocatively observed that the move away from psychology in pastoral theology may be part of an «impetus to avoid issues of gender» Just when women in pastoral theology begin to find feminist psychology an incisive tool for reconstructing pastoral care and theology, she suggests, the «people of a dominant perspective emphasize a new theme or status symbol»

To stay with the automobile illustration, cars no longer were merchandized as transportation machines but were sold primarily as extensions of the self — symbols of power, of sexual drive, of freedom, and status.

Finally, the feminist perspective can contribute an important critique of structures, symbols and patterns which continue to reinforce the secondary status of women.

And because the self tends to be multidimensional, if not transformational, the process of choosing and adapting religious symbols may acquire the quality of a lifelong «journey» rather than a once - for - all decision, let alone an ascribed status.

Logically speaking the psychological interpretation of symbols says nothing about their revelatory status.

The secularistic view of symbols, however, is usually one of skepticism about their revelatory status.

By Dave DeWitt The peach appears to have originated in China, where it achieved cult - like status because it was symbol of immortality among poets, sculptors, and painters.

I think that this premium might end up becoming further enticing to a new or unintended target of Chinese consumers that enjoys making large ticket purchases at the aim of being a status symbol or «showing off» their wealth.

The peach appears to have originated in China, where it achieved cult - like status because it was symbol of immortality among poets, sculptors, and painters.

Joe Coffman skillfully managed to commit his group to a post-SMU-game party (or pre-Texas-OU-game party) in the cultural suburbs, where the status symbols are a lawn of St. Augustine grass and a full - growing mimosa tree.

To many more, less interested in the status of boxing, those in the large cities and small towns who are scared or just simply combative, he was a symbol.

The dynamic of footballer transfers has become polarised by the emergence of billionaires who see owning a football club as a status symbol, and at the other end of the scale, by the growing debt of clubs at all levels.

That's how parents can sound about their own children, unaware that their miniature status symbols are only of utmost importance to them.

Ms. Agrell suggests that stamps in children's passports are merely status symbols for the aforementioned «affluent, affected parents», and even quotes the godfather of travel guidebooks, Arthur Frommer, as questioning how children or parents benefit from family travel.

«I've been accused of being overly restrictive, uptight, even elitist (apparently, fruit is a status symbol these days!)

Given that most well - heeled Chinese women do not work, these nannies - with - extras are more of a status symbol than a necessary accessory to a busy life.

Collecting nude photos of girls can be a status symbol for teen boys — something to brag about to their friends.

Will the Minister require the Royal Mail to keep red pillar boxes, or ensure that some form of listed heritage status is applied to them so that we do not lose this great British symbol?