Equating conspicuous consumption with hospitality, Beverly pours endless drinks down everyone's throats. |
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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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If this conspicuous consumption made people more contented, I would be less inclined to question it. |
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Society observers and media sources agree that conspicuous consumption has exploded in the past decade. |
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In the past bringing in a professional would have been seen as a luxury or a form of conspicuous consumption. |
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In Thailand, a cappuccino costs the equivalent of three bowls of noodles, enhancing its potential for conspicuous consumption. |
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Academic and corporate titles are seldom used, and conspicuous consumption is condemned. |
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It is all conspicuous consumption of premium champagne, BMWs and surface flash. |
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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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Complaining about this kind of ostentation, and this evidence of conspicuous consumption, of course makes one sound like Scrooge. |
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Typically these outlanders are lampooned for their conspicuous consumption and lack of community commitment. |
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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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Legislators have penalized certain forms of conspicuous consumption by imposing luxury taxes on expensive cars, yachts, and other items. |
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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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In nearly all, it is a symbol of status expressing itself in conspicuous consumption or possession of prestigious things. |
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The affair probably dates back to the hedonistic days, of the late Eighties and early Nineties when conspicuous consumption was the order of the day. |
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Mogul Style is less about conspicuous consumption than contemptuous consumption. |
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The affluence of ordinary consumers manifested itself in a growing market for luxury items, conspicuous consumption, and very short product cycles. |
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Don't celebrate the fact that you're like everyone else, with your SUVs that never go off-road, your all-star kids and your conspicuous consumption. |
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The roots of hip hop's infatuation with expensive, outrageous and overtly customised motor vehicles lie in ghetto fabulous, the trend for conspicuous consumption. |
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Poetry and history trump vulgarity and conspicuous consumption. |
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The Valley is a strange blend of workaholism and conspicuous consumption, hot tubs and traffic jams. |
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As recently as a few years ago, buying and driving a hybrid was an exercise in conspicuous consumption. |
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This is evident in the conspicuous consumption of the elites. |
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Finally, luxury property is now the place for truly conspicuous consumption. |
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I am talking about work from Kerwin Charles, Erik Hurst, and Nikolai Roussanov on conspicuous consumption and race. |
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If England was marked out from the rest of Britain and Ireland by the quantity of its stone building by 1100, it was also distinguished by its conspicuous consumption. |
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So-called generous displays may be conspicuous consumption designed to inspire envy. |
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In this country any haute cuisine tradition that exists is almost solely because of the appetites and conspicuous consumption of the British nobility, hereditary or otherwise. |
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Such conspicuous consumption may take place at the expense of investment and may even reduce investment that otherwise would have taken place. |
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It is rather that, in being so entirely permeable to the public view, privacy becomes merely an opportunity for conspicuous consumption. |
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The plaster became thicker and thicker as the kings sought to outdo each other's conspicuous consumption. |
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I don't want to pay the freight on the kind of conspicuous consumption that thrives on Mercedes or Jaguars. |
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Feel the itch for a fortifying shot of conspicuous consumption? |
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Though Adam is a pompous would-be philosopher fond of engaging in Socratic dialogues, though he's contemptuous of Salthill's ethos of conspicuous consumption, the men in town look up to him as a wise man and kindred soul. |
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First, young people positively relish conspicuous consumption. |
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Délicatesse néoplastique » gives a strong nod to pop culture while creating a playful montage using some of the more banal objects of conspicuous consumption, waste management and recycling. |
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However, there is a risk of further entrenching the culture of dependency that is reflected in the development of consumerism and in conspicuous consumption. |
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Excessive leveraging by hedge funds of derivative products, a lax regulatory environment, and conspicuous consumption financed through debt, finally came crashing down. |
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He says that neither selecting certain universities for research intensiveness nor allowing them to capitalize on conspicuous consumption represents sound policy. |
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In a society where conspicuous consumption is the norm rather than the exception, civil society should challenge these types of practices that undermine the whole moral and ethical fabric of a society. |
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Happiness or success is equated with conspicuous consumption. |
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Like many other small communities of the prairie, L'Anse Maigre is for the most part socially unpretentious and its members do not indulge in conspicuous consumption. |
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As a society becomes richer, those whose incomes do not grow spend more on conspicuous consumption in an attempt to keep up. |
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By the latter part of the 19th century, the bourgeois house contained a home that had been remodelled by conspicuous consumption. |
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Though himself a millionaire, Brandeis disliked wealthy persons who engaged in conspicuous consumption or were ostentatious. |
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They brag about their conspicuous consumption Jay-Z, eat your heart out. |
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Frieze New York started life as a gatecrasher: the colonial kid sister of London's main art fair, staking its claim in a city that already has its fair share of venues for art and conspicuous consumption. |
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Conspicuous consumption has never been more evident than in the explosion of the bottled water business. |
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Conspicuous consumption of incongruent high-rise real-estate at the expense of venerable neighborhood community centers! |
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