How To Use conspicuous consumption In A Sentence
- Maybe it's all about conspicuous consumption. Times, Sunday Times
- The creative ones turned their backs on conspicuous consumption and decided in favor of a simpler, personalized lifestyle.
- Even so, a significant number of takeover bids were probably no more than a form of corporate conspicuous consumption.
- The less we spend on conspicuous consumption goods, the better we can afford to alleviate congestion; and the more time we can devote to family and friends, to exercise, sleep, travel, and other restorative activities.
- It is all conspicuous consumption of premium champagne, BMWs and surface flash.
- One very potent display of status is conspicuous consumption. Times, Sunday Times
- They're young and poor and the patriarchal culture they inherit and the conspicuous consumption of their contemporaries sanctions their irresponsibility.
- Boat designers feel that the days of conspicuous consumption afloat may be numbered. Times, Sunday Times
- Like messages about conspicuous consumption, messages that glorify violence have increasingly become a staple of American mass culture. On the Edge: A History of Poor Black Children and Their American Dreams
- The Sextons dub this syndrome "conspicuous conservation," which is directly diametrical to "conspicuous consumption" -- our current materialistic cultural orientation that contributes mightily to the unsustainable exploitation of the earth's natural resources. Edward Flattau: Conspicuous Conservation
