Sentences with phrase «with consumerism»

Through an extensive display of ephemera, including letters to Hugh Hefner and private collectors, glossy magazine advertisements, personal musings and sketches, My American Dream appears as a kind of bellwether for the art world's symbiotic relationship with consumerism, corporate sponsorship (a relic of another economy), and the market — political and ethical concerns that could not have been expressed in the sculptural objects she had made up until that point.

What do you make of these associations with consumerism, environmentalism, or whatever?

And it also has a great deal to do with America - with the amorality of the movie industry, with consumerism, with hypocrisy, double standards and repression.

By the late 1990s, disgust with consumerism led to a spree of art that defied commodification altogether.»

Whereas Warhol made representational works that dealt with consumerism or the cult of celebrity, Krushenick stayed away from commentary.

Replacing classical icons with symbols of contemporary pop culture such as taco trucks, canned beans, and an alter ego named Spaztek, Ortiz's work maintains a tense relationship with consumerism and his heritage.

Similarly, CO2 responds to the fast - paced nature associated with consumerism in the 21st century.

Here not only are materials transformed, their intended uses are subverted along with consumerism's tenets of freedom, happiness and choice.

«Under a critical gaze, the cartoon characters and pop icons shed their innocence, revealing allegiance with consumerism, narcissism and patriarchy.

Joe Haygood, Joe Fourhman, Tony Sadowski and Kat Riley are back with another consumerism - fueled episode of You Like the Worst Stuff, as we discuss some holiday deals and True Black Friday Adventures!

It has sneakily been repackaged as the new vessel for our society's capitalistic obsession with consumerism.

I don't think it will get any better with consumerism and companies like Amazon on an all time high, but I guess people like us can hold on to the true meaning of Christmas and pass on our beliefs to future generations, in the hope that some of it sticks!

Kel, My god man, wait til you here Wenger quotes today giving out about managers spending and that a managers job is to take players and improve them, that he would rather have a squad of 18 young players and that people (i.e us) have gone mad with consumerism for the sake of it and he will not be pressurised away from.his own ideals.

By Jesus, and in His name, the powers of the Kingdom bring liberation and wholeness, dignity and life both to those who hunger after justice, and to those who struggle with consumerism, greed, selfishness and death.

Your country is suffering from a deep depression which is being treated with consumerism «buy more».

Eventually, Q will need to address the culture's unavoidable fault lines as well as its own complicated (and sometimes contradictory) relationships with consumerism and relativism.

which centers on an obsession with consumerism isn't as ironic as the creators may have intended to be.

Leave a little room on the edges, don't fill it all up, Church, with consumerism and light show performances or with hermeneutical gymnastics and atonement theories: leave a little room for the Love and the breathing, for the remembering and suffering, for the grieving and the longing, and the Holy stirring of an interruption.

But here's the thing: Having been advertised to our whole lives, we millennials have highly sensitive BS meters, and we're not easily impressed with consumerism or performances.

Not exact matches

Just keep the above strategies in mind and you can keep up with the changing hearts and minds of customers as this new era of consumerism takes shape.

We would be agape with awe, look grimly at our Woolco tube socks and the terrible compromises Canadians make in the name of affordability and dream of the day we could join in all that uncompromised consumerism.

Sears grew dramatically, as did consumerism, because it did one thing above all else, it simplified people's lives at a time of increasing socioeconomic complexity by eliminating the friction in a transaction and replacing it with a trusted experience.

At the same time Aetna, along with other large national insurers, has been converting from largely wholesale operations focused on the employer to more retail operations infused with an emphasis on consumerism.

#OptOutside is the name of the sticky social game and it's catching fire fast on Twitter and Facebook, keeping pace with a steady gush of media coverage surrounding the company's «shocking» jab at over-the-top Black Friday consumerism.

With that in mind, people have become aware of their responsibility to buy into conscious consumerism.

«With the Canadian economy in recession, it is of no surprise the period characterized by consumerism has ended,» wrote Diana Petramala, an economist at TD Financial Group, in a May 2009 report that conveyed the spirit of the time.

Consumerism in healthcare is having it's day with «creating a great patient experience» one of the leading mantras.

This is prevalent in the United States since the country is built on consumerism and a «keeping up with the Jones» mentality.

The Christian artist who wraps himself in sunbeams and daffodils fails to be Christian at all, producing a bloodless, lifeless art that pleases a middle - class consumerism, not an authentic Christian encounter with a hurting world.

Might this be religous consumerism with a happy face with a large dose of prosperity gosple thrown in?

The writers accuse us of painting with broad brushes (this is often true), of consumerism (this is sometimes true), of abandoning orthodoxy (this is rarely true), of deconstructing just for sport (this is almost never true).

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.

We preach virtue while exporting a culture that is saturated with sex and violence and rampant consumerism.

The widespread promotion of the products of western capitalism, coupled with increased availability of goods and the sustained cultivation of desire through commercial media, has led to a profound influence of the philosophy of consumerism in western societies and increasingly in developing countries as well.

Certainly, some of these transplanted Christians may find deeper intimacy and fellowship with God and with other believers in their new circle of friends, but unless they are also finding ways to love, serve, and become friends with people who are not Christians, all they have done is substituted one form of Christian consumerism for another.

Indeed, I believe much of religion is consumerism with robes on.

With private property initiatives and market incentives kept in place, appropriate cultural changes («a great deal of educational and cultural work,» CA No. 36) can be introduced to purge capitalism of consumerism and thereby bring the market economy to a higher level of moral perfection.

With a bit of conscientious consumerism, it's fairly easy to ensure your purchases support the people and places that need it most and sustain eco-friendly companies.

As ecologism becomes more widespread, consumerism will decline with no loss to the real quality of life.

The truth is that we are all part of the problem when we capitulate to our culture's fascination with greed, materialism, consumerism, entitlement, irresponsibility, their assertions that we are what we own (or charge on the credit card, at least).

At another level, Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory reflects Balmer's attempts to come to grips with the meaning of his own fundamentalist past and to identify «those kernels of truth and insight into the human condition» that he suspects are embedded within the evangelical message but that have become distorted by consumerism and other corrosive elements of American culture.

Rather, it is to work honestly and lovingly with that growing body of righteous Christians who look to Judaism as to an older sibling, who are seeking to expiate Christian guilt for the Holocaust, and who recognize that Christianity and Judaism need each other desperately if religion in 21st - century America is to offer a compelling alternative to unbridled consumerism, self - centeredness and arid secularism.

So much that is wrong with contemporary Western society — radical individualism, consumerism, the glorification of choice for its own sake — represents the debased enactment of originally rich religious images and philosophical ideas.

With the globalization of informational and cultural production, not only US transnational companies, but equally Dutch, German, or Japanese firms use information and culture to sell consumerism across the globe.

Paradoxically, this process frustrates the spiritual desires of many modern secular people, who are unsatisfied with thin consumerism and wish to participate in something greater than themselves.

So yeah I guess I would be pretty much on the same page as you with this with God being above all other gods that we may have — of which there are many consumerism, status, money, beauty etc. could be included — any «external projections of the real».

These ideas, in marked contrast to the whole of Christian experience, have most recently been embraced by the church growth industry, which, together with its basically sociological approach, promotes those quintessential American values of pragmatism and consumerism.

But the following decade saw this European «bible belt» disappear as an unprecedented wave of prosperity would combine with the spiritual exhaustion that had set in after two world wars to produce a nihilistic consumerism largely indifferent, if not altogether hostile, to the traditional faiths.

but when sex is treated as nothing but an animal instinct or bodily function, it loses its mystery and sacredness and gives us one more excuse to approach relationships with an attitude of consumerism.

The report deals with the subject: The Kingdom of God and Human Struggles, under five areas of concern: The Kingdom of God and the struggles of people in countries searching for liberation and self - determination; The Kingdom of God and the struggles for human rights; The Kingdom of God in contexts of strong revival of institutional religions; The Kingdom of God in the context of centrally planned economics; and The Kingdom of God in the struggles of countries dominated by consumerism and the growth of big cities.