Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Usage examples of "consumer society".
Even in a rampant consumer society, the quantity of ultraspecialist crystals and chemicals that could be produced only in microgee facilities was limited to a few hundred metric tons a year—.
From the kitchen comes the noise of the washing machine as a reproach to his compromises with the consumer society.
Such symbols of the consumer society make him feel guilty, but with Jeanne working full-time, they cannot be avoided.
God is meals-on-wheels to old people that our consumer society has no more time for.
I did my best to bolster her belief in the consumer society with a few well-chosen words then asked her to rustle me up a cup of coffee.
The day of the use-and-discard consumer society was nothing but a galling memory.
She was a widow, living alone, surrounded by prosaic snapshots of her family, by artefacts of the modern consumer society, by souvenirs of Italy and Spain.
Out in the bloodied desert it was like a shimmering vision of the lost consumer society.