How To Use Conspicuous consumption In A Sentence
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Maybe it's all about conspicuous consumption.
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The creative ones turned their backs on conspicuous consumption and decided in favor of a simpler, personalized lifestyle.
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Even so, a significant number of takeover bids were probably no more than a form of corporate conspicuous consumption.
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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.
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It is all conspicuous consumption of premium champagne, BMWs and surface flash.
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One very potent display of status is conspicuous consumption.
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They're young and poor and the patriarchal culture they inherit and the conspicuous consumption of their contemporaries sanctions their irresponsibility.
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Boat designers feel that the days of conspicuous consumption afloat may be numbered.
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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
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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
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It was an age of conspicuous consumption — those who had money liked to display it.
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The era of conspicuous consumption is over.
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Poetry and history trump vulgarity and conspicuous consumption.
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We remain a nation conflicted about conspicuous consumption.
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What better forum for conspicuous consumption than the locker-room or the golf club car-park?
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As environment minister, Michael Meacher fulminated that ‘housing is not, and should not be a status symbol, an object of conspicuous consumption or a source of market power and wealth.’
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This was conspicuous consumption on the grandest of scales.
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The creative ones turned their backs on conspicuous consumption and decided in favor of a simpler, personalized lifestyle.
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Conspicuous consumption of incongruent high-rise real-estate at the expense of venerable neighborhood community centers!
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This is evident in the conspicuous consumption of the elites.
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The final frontier in conspicuous consumption: space.
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Akadie's profession included the offices of epigrammatist, poet, calligrapher, sage, arbiter of elegance, professional guest (hiring Akadie to grace a party was an act of conspicuous consumption), marriage broker, legal consultant, repository of local tradition, and source of scandalous gossip.
Trullion: Alastor 2262
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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
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Here Kun tossles and jars the untouched environments that painters such as Thomas Cole and Frederic Church perfected by adding disjointing products of conspicuous consumption and human activity into the pristine landscape paintings.
The Election and Art Swimming in my Head
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But one can only take just so much wretched excess and conspicuous consumption.
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What we saw was wealth and conspicuous consumption beyond the wildest dreams of avarice.
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They're young and poor and the patriarchal culture they inherit and the conspicuous consumption of their contemporaries sanctions their irresponsibility.
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The emergence of stratified societies culminating in states increased conspicuous consumption of precious substances.
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If this conspicuous consumption made people more contented, I would be less inclined to question it.
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The creative ones turned their backs on conspicuous consumption and decided in favor of a simpler, personalized lifestyle.
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They are big brash symbols of conspicuous consumption, a way for flash men and women with a lot of cash to flaunt their wealth.
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The disaster occurred at a time of year when we have just wallowed in a shameful orgy of over-indulgence and conspicuous consumption.
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This was conspicuous consumption on the grandest of scales.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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One very potent display of status is conspicuous consumption.
Times, Sunday Times
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Inevitably London, the greatest centre of mass and conspicuous consumption, dominated with its tremendous appetite.
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They are big brash symbols of conspicuous consumption, a way for flash men and women with a lot of cash to flaunt their wealth.
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It was an age of conspicuous consumption — those who had money liked to display it.
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Typically these outlanders are lampooned for their conspicuous consumption and lack of community commitment.
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The return of florals and chintz is also a reflection of a new opulence and conspicuous consumption in interiors.
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The emergence of stratified societies culminating in states increased conspicuous consumption of precious substances.
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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
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By shifting the balance of tax exaction to consumption taxes, the government was able to reap the benefits of the growth in conspicuous consumption associated with the rise of the middling classes.
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Similarly, conspicuous consumption or display is now regarded as an acceptable form of behaviour.
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The era of conspicuous consumption is over.
Times, Sunday Times
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What we saw was wealth and conspicuous consumption beyond the wildest dreams of avarice.
Times, Sunday Times
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Similarly, conspicuous consumption or display is now regarded as an acceptable form of behaviour.
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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
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Maybe it's all about conspicuous consumption.
Times, Sunday Times
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But economists and culture vultures seem to be waking up to the possibility that era of conspicuous consumption may be giving way to a new period of what I call conscientious consumption.
Rare-auto breeds
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Boat designers feel that the days of conspicuous consumption afloat may be numbered.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was an age of conspicuous consumption — those who had money liked to display it.
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One very potent display of status is conspicuous consumption.
Times, Sunday Times
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Foreign imports such as colour television sets and hi-fi systems cram shop windows, catering to demands for conspicuous consumption.
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Inevitably London, the greatest centre of mass and conspicuous consumption, dominated with its tremendous appetite.
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Similarly, conspicuous consumption or display is now regarded as an acceptable form of behaviour.
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Stylish Mike doesn't like it if you suggest that his enthusiasms are all about ostentation and conspicuous consumption.
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What we saw was wealth and conspicuous consumption beyond the wildest dreams of avarice.
Times, Sunday Times
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Boat designers feel that the days of conspicuous consumption afloat may be numbered.
Times, Sunday Times
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We remain a nation conflicted about conspicuous consumption.
Times, Sunday Times
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The era of conspicuous consumption is over.
Times, Sunday Times
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For all the pain endured and ahead, if the current economic crisis spawns a new ethic to replace the conspicuous consumption of the recent past, future generations will benefit.
The gifts of 2008 are the surprises no one saw coming
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What better forum for conspicuous consumption than the locker-room or the golf club car-park?
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This was conspicuous consumption on the grandest of scales.
Times, Sunday Times
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We remain a nation conflicted about conspicuous consumption.
Times, Sunday Times
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What better forum for conspicuous consumption than the locker-room or the golf club car-park?
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Complaining about this kind of ostentation, and this evidence of conspicuous consumption, of course makes one sound like Scrooge.
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Their conspicuous consumption was glamorized by a media that coined fawning new terms to describe them, like "masters of the universe," but forgot relevant old terms, like "robber baron" and "vulgarian.
Marty Kaplan: The Upside of Outrage
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Maybe it's all about conspicuous consumption.
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