conspicuous consumption
Example Sentences
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The dwindling may have become speedier, but it is an old and continuous condition.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 2, 2015
The patient is in a continuous condition of fear, physically and mentally.
From Time Magazine Archive
The last is a general, continuous condition, whose force seems unlikely to decline, but more likely to augment from year to year.
From The Future of Brooklyn by Chapin, Alfred C.
The hypnotic, or somnambulic subject, may be more or less affected at first, and slowly fall under the influence, until the continuous condition is the same as that in which a premonition is received.
From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Tuttle, Hudson
It must be well understood, however, that comfort lies much more in variety and response to feeling than in any continuous condition.
From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
