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He ruined the nation by making it consumeristic and greedy."

Eventually, he did say, "He's very much a part of the consumeristic, commercialized society that we live in, and that's fine for him."

This collapse was due to the consumeristic drive that infiltrated society, so citizens became more concerned about consumption than political actions.

He thought the piling up and saving of images for future use pointless if corrupted by a consumeristic present.

To dwell only on the consumeristic aspects of this country shows intellectual or political bias and lack of intellectual curiosity.

The university is becoming more like a business, with contracts for faculty instead of tenure, and a consumeristic relationship to education on the part of both faculty and students.

Self-management behaviors fall into three broad categories: health behaviors (e.g., exercise); consumeristic behaviors (e.g., reading the risks about a new treatment); and disease-specific management strategies.

While denouncing the evils of the rampant consumeristic and greedy way of life taking hold from the 60s onward Scerbanenco always has a warm word for the peaceful, quiet, hard-working Milanese.

He often described consumeristic culture as "unreal", as it had been imposed by economic power and had replaced Italy's traditional peasant culture, something that not even fascism had been able to do.

As a result of the annual miracle offering Pastor Slaughter authored a book calling on Christians to reject self-centered, consumeristic approaches to the holiday season and remember the true meaning of Christmas.

One can only hope that commentary such as Ms. Smith's will help to turn around the damage already inflicted by art museums on the globalized art public by excessively political interpretations and superficially consumeristic attitudes.

"We're going to do our best to terrify them," said Tom Morello, the guitarist for Rage, when questioned by a reporter for Spin Magazine about the band's appearance on that highly consumeristic show.

Supplanting them was the new ideology of what he called "consumeristic hedonism," which had transmuted the country's once proud working classes into a homogeneous generation of "gray, fearful neurotics," unmanned by false freedoms, sedated by prosperity.

Lamont Herbert Dozier credits Klein as an inspiration for the song he co-wrote "Loco in Acapulco"; "I believe the song depicts the consumeristic nature of the materialist society that is obsessed with brand identity."

And your cover line, "Reality Bites," is the title of a mediocre film that portrays my generation as a trendy, unimaginative, lazy and consumeristic lot who are interested only in sponging off our parents, watching television and smoking - hardly an accurate description of Bennington students.

The movie is considered one of the best Commedie all'Italiana ever and a poignant portrait of Italy in the early 1960s when the "economic miracle" (dubbed the "boom" - with the actual English word - by the local media) was starting to transform the country from a traditionally family-centered society into an individualistic and consumeristic one.