The unabashedly corporate event practically redefined Italy's idea of commercialism.
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Or an apocalyptic relic, the only sign left of modern commercialism.
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"Disgusting" Some Chinese netizens are unimpressed with the commercialism of the day.
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Such spectacles debased music with Jewish commercialism, or so thought Richard Wagner.
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But today they're mere bywords for cynical commercialism and deliberate consumer misdirection.
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I think people believe that I should feel guilty about the commercialism.
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Commend self for protecting bookstores from onslaught of crass digital commercialism. 2.
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But despite that, the biggest surprise in the show was the commercialism.
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Our message is anti-commercialism, anti-capitalism, and free income for all.
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She embraces both Japan's neon commercialism and its moments of antique serenity.
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And eventually they do their deal with commercialism, with professionalism, and with sponsors.
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But most Germans still prefer their flat, egalitarian meritocracy over bubbly, caffeinated commercialism.
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Micah: Music and commercialism are tied at the hip, and they always will be.
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He quoted George Washington and lamented creeping commercialism and an erosion of civic participation.
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The most culturally sacred corners of the city have been turned into dens of commercialism.
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He has quoted George Washington and lamented creeping commercialism and an erosion of civic participation.
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But for the moment, Baby Yoda is still untouched by the tacky trappings of commercialism.
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Yes, there's an element of crass commercialism to it — but these are, after all, the movies.
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Traditionalist Buddhists accuse the temple of commercialism and say it has put Nirvana up for sale.
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This analysis gave way for some powerful discussions about media, commercialism and the art of persuasion.
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Commercialism was creeping in and the year after they took the show on a global tour.
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I'm bringing up a lot of hard things in terms of religion, family, commercialism gone mad.
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It's invention run amok, marketing gone mad, the odoriferous emblem of commercialism without compunction or bounds.
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Some people complained that her aggressive commercialism went beyond the wishes of her very private husband.
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Behind its commercialism, Christmas remains fundamentally a celebration of the coming of Jesus and His message.
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It was fun and kind of funny and entirely toothless; a triumph of commercialism over content.
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It comes out of the fact that we're in a city that's entirely based on commercialism.
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The way that their products are meticulously considered in holistic multiple dimensions is really artistry in commercialism.
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In it, Murrow spoke of journalistic responsibility and warned of the dangers of commercialism in the news.
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"His work is not about commercialism, and it's not about ego," said Ms. Lam, the gallery owner.
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She believed commercialism detracted from true sentiment, and charity made the mother into an object of pity.
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Yet by the '90s, Cher's use of her persona to cut across media was viewed as cheap commercialism.
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And fans will keep buying the excellent graphic novels, despite the disturbing commercialism of Darth Vader jelly beans.
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" Rather, he blames commercialism: "You're selling to a mass audience, and a mass audience isn't necessarily forward thinking.
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No. The focus is not on the selling of war to the sports fan or the runaway commercialism.
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Part of artistry is to elicit an emotional response; but to elicit and elicit (and elicit) is commercialism.
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"The Times Sotheby Index … represents the very height of vulgarity and crass commercialism," wrote L.J Olivier of Coggeshall, Essex.
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His lyrics explored teen life and American commercialism, and his music fused exciting guitar solos with flare and showmanship.
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"Our commitment to naked products is ... not driven through pure commercialism," said Giles Verdon, Head of Lush's Earthcare division.
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"It's less concerned with commercialism than with addressing the world as it stands," he said of his new scene.
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Young adults who lack basic knowledge of economics and personal finance are vulnerable to fraud, debt, commercialism and worse.
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Christmas — with its crowds, its commercialism, its obligations — doesn't always feel like the most magical time of the year.
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Valentine's Day may be a holiday of commercialism, a lot of cash exchanged for red roses and cubic zirconium.
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The utopian ideals of BrewDog have been lost in a mire of "equity-for-punks" commercialism and transphobic marketing campaigns.
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And you probably think it's gauche for a presidential candidate to be engaging in crass commercialism on the campaign trail.
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The victory sent a strong message from Tony voters, who rewarded adult emotion and artistic integrity over commercialism and familiarity.
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It's a move that could awaken the kind of transparent commercialism powerful enough to ruin the magic of both films.
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But dismantling the distinctions between irony and sincerity, counterculture and commercialism, subversion and self-promotion, is what DIS does best.
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Moore's refusal to participate in adaptations mostly stems from his distaste for essentially anything that reeks of commercialism or selling out.
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The festival, which just celebrated its 19th year, is a favorite among musicians for its friendly vibe and lack of commercialism.
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The news media did notice the hotel comments; many of them even criticized Trump for the crass commercialism of it all.
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But the concept has gone mainstream only in the past 29 years, growing exponentially in popularity and commercialism over that time.
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It was in the era before the transfer market took off, when commercialism had yet to take hold in the game.
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But unpacking the irony inherent in their sincere bubblegum commercialism is more exhausting than waiting in a 3AM Saturday Berghain queue.
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Telling Vogue ahead of his debut, Peters finds yet another problem with fashion: Losing the delicacy of one's vision to commercialism, e.g.
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It's the opposite of all the tourism and commercialism around us in Midtown, where everyone drinks out of paper and Styrofoam cups.
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Neon was not merely graphically appealing to the artist, but pleasingly paradoxical: Associated with crass commercialism, it is in fact entirely handmade.
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Stephen Varble, whose works confront gender and commercialism, will be the subject of a retrospective — more than three decades after his death.
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Most accounts of the first Thanksgiving reflect the perspective of the English settlers, mixed with more modern strains of romanticism and commercialism.
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In keeping with his anti-establishment bent, Banksy's most consistent and scathing critiques have long been directed at the commercialism of art.
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With a debut that generates that much money, commercialism has always been a part of the group's life irrespective of their sonic evolution.
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Also, these aren't crayons — he doesn't buy into that kind of commercialism — they're literally scraps of charcoal that he whittles with his pocketknife.
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Somehow, Kane always manages to comfortably straddle commercialism and artistic credibility, and this collection works (even if those garbage-bag head protectors don't).
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One room, dedicated to the burgeoning commercialism of the 1960s, highlights how design fixated on new materials and the idea of space travel.
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Next came a semi-orderly downsizing of his wine label, Bonny Doon, prompted by fears of its being corrupted by too much commercialism.
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Which brings us back to the second and perhaps most important purpose for Trump's action against NATO -- an underlying drumbeat of rank commercialism.
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It's ironic that an intellectual tendency that champions free markets was ruined by the forces of commercialism, but that is the essential truth.
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Jarvis had lost control of the holiday she helped create, and she was crushed by her belief that commercialism was destroying Mother's Day.
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Several voters said they went with "The Band's Visit," at least in part, as a protest against the commercialism of the other entrants.
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Even when it jumped to the front of the queue in 1998 and proved this wrong, it suffered from the taint of commercialism.
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Don't pander to the the illusion of commercialism -- even the biggest hits of today's sales pale by comparison of the sales of past decades.
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After the commercialism, cynicism, disorganization and violence of Woodstock '99, Coachella seemed like a move in the right direction: It took the festivalgoer seriously.
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What makes the Disney classics, old and new, so durable is their ability to fuse commercialism with magic in a way that overwhelms cynicism.
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And the theater industry, despite some leeriness about creeping commercialism, has embraced it because of the talent brought to the story and the staging.
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At first pass, it revealed a depth and pliability in his songwriting few believed possible after the stilted commercialism of his debut Thank Me Later.
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Yet it reflects broader issues of climate change, species loss, and global commercialism, like the plant trade, and how these can have longterm local effects.
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Everyone already knows about the commercialism, affluent old people, new agers, and the relentless commodification of Indigenous cultures from all directions, so why be redundant?
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I'm not sure there's ever been anything like that in the past for punk culture, which is low-budget, international and inherently suspicious of commercialism.
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The impulse isn't misguided: New York may currently be weathering an imbalance of commercialism and gentrification, but big dreams still do become big realities here.
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The expansion of glass sizes seems rooted in a blend of historical developments, modern commercialism and a taste for wine itself, whether sipped or swigged.
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At heart, "Slings & Arrows" is a workplace comedy: A community tries to get through another op'nin', another show while battling commercialism and egos run amok.
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They are warmly applauded for their service and also callously exploited, fodder for a spectacle that collapses the difference between patriotic sentiment and gross commercialism.
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Some transformational-festival enthusiasts have been turned off by the crass commercialism and fashion culture associated with big and beery music festivals like Coachella and Lollapalooza.
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Many are even closed on weekends when leisure travelers are apt to go, but their lack of commercialism combined with their rich history is their appeal.
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Founded in 290, the academy was known for its classical pedagogy, emphasizing art over commercialism — its fashion department, created in 21999, was a relatively new addition.
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Cats represents the excesses theater fans often associate with Lloyd Webber, with an emphasis on glitz and commercialism, bombast, and perhaps a touch of general weirdness.
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While commercialism has invaded Carnaval (tourism officials claim an infusion of 3 billion reais into the economy), the samba schools still feel like mom-and-pop operations.
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Like many of his works, the painting has a satirical bent and is unsparing in its portrayal of the event's commercialism and commodification of Native American cultures.
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The Venice Film Festival was the finest jewel in the Nazi–fascist cultural crown, founded by Mussolini's regime in 1932 as an aesthetic counterweight to Hollywood commercialism.
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What unites them all is a desire for greater freedom and a sustainable mode of living, whether born out of economic precariousness, political ideology, or aspirational commercialism.
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And despite the association's absurd claim that it helps fight commercial exploitation of athletes, the National Championship is the best example of rampant commercialism in college sports.
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He was "in" with a bunch of malcontents who celebrated the idea of "inspired amateurism" from the lonely outpost of Provincetown, Massachusetts before commercialism ruined that town.
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Part of it, she acknowledges, is "commercialism" — if you're a witch, Salem is a great place to make a living — but part of it is more profound.
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In fact, it wasn't until the '90s, as the commercialism of the previous decade gave way to a collective hung-over anguish, that she began gaining notice.
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But while other protagonists of the movement — like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein — used their art as a commentary on commercialism, Mr. Max's happy palette defined it.
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We are doubtless being invited to side with such homely virtues, and to sniff at what Dick refers to as the "crass commercialism" of the Krocist ideology.
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" He specifically called out The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times as outlets where "sensationalism and commercialism have superseded accuracy and journalistic integrity as primary objectives.
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You probably think of Yosemite National Park as a haven for nature, a place to experience all that is good and pure, in a landscape untainted by commercialism.
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And although it sits just steps from the touristy bustle of Bedford Avenue, the funky lounge serves as a refreshing departure from the encroaching commercialism that surrounds it.
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Music is whimsical by nature but commercialism has dumbed everything down by insisting that it follow rules in the way it's structured, its delivery, and, especially, in its imagery.
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This faux children's reading book, inspired by Ladybird's "Peter and Jane" books of the 220s, offers a mordant take on the conceptualism and commercialism of the contemporary art world.
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The best memes always have multiple layers within layers that contradict and conflict with each other, while ultimately responding to a larger social impetus — in this case, overhyped commercialism.
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Traditionalist Buddhists accuse the temple of commercialism, though it says it is just as dedicated to Theravada Buddhism as them and its money is only to do good works.
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But an increasing number of galleries have become disaffected with the neighborhood's concentrated commercialism, or have been priced out, or simply want a change and are seeking new territory.
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The alternative would be a lamentable victory for mega budgets and commercialism, and a critical failure by the Academy to celebrate and promote great filmmaking, in all its forms.
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As the show develops, these schemes emerge as helpful metaphors for bigger American issues, among them the bizarre marriage of new-age spiritual thinking with good old-fashioned commercialism.
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Songs like "Season of Hype" and "This Ain't Boheme" skewer the musical as an overrated product of commercialism, fueled not by substance but by its own drama and media frenzy.
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"It includes punks who embrace the do-it-yourself ethos, express positive outrage and reject corporate commercialism," the center's board members and volunteers wrote several years ago of their constituency.
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But a year ago, the government flipped the switch, opening the program to for-profit companies as well, ending one of the last remaining holdouts to commercialism in health care.
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On top of that, the overtly commercial nature of fashion — versus the less acknowledged but very real commercialism of art — leads some people to dismiss fashion as an art form.
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The commercialism that art fairs make manifest confirms our worst instincts about contemporary art being merely an asset for a certain class rather than the property of a wider culture.
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The latest is from Jeff Koons, the artist famous for turning art world commercialism on its head — selling massive stainless steel balloon animals for tens of millions of dollars, for instance.
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Not as a chef, for he'd never been a really great chef, and he loathed the commercialism of the celebrity-chef crowd; he would rather write "serial wanker" in his passport.
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But all of this back and forth is a smoke screen for the true origins of the black and white cookie, which can actually be traced to good old fashioned commercialism.
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ESPN is hosting College Gameday Presented by Home Depot (remember, college sports are not about commercialism) at Wisconsin this week, which gave Hayes the opportunity to hold up the sign above.
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Months before the 2320 Summer Olympics, Stefan Kanfer, then a cinema critic for TIME magazine, unleashed a tirade on the bawdy commercialism he felt had come to define the modern Games.
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But it is not hard to imagine a divide growing, as it did with White, between Kim and her peers — the women she continues to leave behind in competition and commercialism.
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Bong wandered through the season with his camera in tow, documenting his unlikely journey and returning some joy and excitement to a process that has been overrun with cynicism and commercialism.
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It was a perverse mix of brazen commercialism and the infliction of genuine pain: the amateurism of the performers translated into a brawling performance that left most people in the crowd delighted.
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It leaves the question that many had after Migos released Culture II earlier this year: how many decisions from music's biggest stars are being made with commercialism in mind before artistic integrity?
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In his striking images, you can see experiences shared by pilgrims everywhere as well as the mix of crass commercialism and genuine faith common among holy sites across religions (Lourdes, Fátima, Varanasi).
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That unbridled commercialism was what Kanfer objected to in a New Republic column titled "The Great Sports Swindle" published in February 22018: Paavo Nurmi, Eric Heiden, Cassius Clay, Jim Thorpe, Jesse Owens.
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"In his striking images, you can see experiences shared by pilgrims everywhere as well as the mix of crass commercialism and genuine faith common among holy sites across religions," Mr. Peer wrote.
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Though many may not recognize it, we've always toed a fine line between an "underground" sensibility and commercialism, and when confronted with a choice between the two, we've always chosen the former.
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For some critics, too, the musical is a symbol of how commercialism has increasingly and clumsily encroached on the country's cultural heritage, once seen as a sacred bastion for research and learning.
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Still, it has a feeling both of humor and commercialism: The coffee is excellent, and the hotel serves the "best hummus in the region" (according to the kitchen staff, the website jokes).
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On a global scale Western art is more championed and promoted — perhaps overly so, sheerly for reasons of commercialism — often to the detriment of nonwhite art throughout the Arab world and Africa.
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Each beach might have a parador, where you can buy a cold bottle of Zillertal, one of the national beers that's big enough for two, but otherwise they're mostly empty of commercialism.
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A time before the marriage of sport and commercialism where scoreboards are operated manually and the only signage directs you to someplace picturesque rather than entice you to buy a car or smartphone.
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I wish that I could write those words with the callous commercialism with which some will no doubt read them, as overheated rhetoric simply designed to stir agitation, provoke controversy and garner clicks.
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Happy Mother's Day even if, like my mother, you reject the holiday as crass commercialism, a fabrication of the greeting-card industry, a sop to the flower market and the brunch industrial complex.
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At its peak, broadcast TV was derided for its shallowness, for its crass commercialism, for the way it celebrated conformity and rejected heterodoxy, and mostly for often not being very creative or entertaining.
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He does an impressive job of capturing the current mood of disillusionment, echoing left-wing complaints about rampant commercialism, right-wing complaints about narcissistic and bullying students, and general worries about atomisation and selfishness.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Forget authenticity, anti-commercialism and the like — above all, indie-rock as a genre fascinates for how performers quiver beneath the anxiety of influence, nervously seesawing between referents.
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The closest parking lot was more than a mile away, and the only hint of commercialism was a small truck selling snacks, but these beachgoers were undeterred by the walk and lack of amenities.
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Over a period of more than 60 years, Mr. Avakian and Ms. Ajemian played their small part in bridging modernism and commercialism by recording the works of artists who pushed the boundaries of music.
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Psychedelic flora and fauna explore notions of corporate branding and global commercialism that the museum suggests is an intentional ploy by the artist to equate his own celebrity artist personality with a corporate entity.
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But giving financial incentives to the academics for their work meant both more commercialism at public expense and more reasons for scientists to keep their findings secret, hindering the free exchange of research findings.
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It seems doubtful that Mr. Legend would have shown up to perform music that he thought was bad, and Keith's unapologetic commercialism is less a strawman for Seb's high-mindedness than a plausible counterargument.
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In the process, the company became so intertwined with the idea of holiday celebration that the term "Hallmark holiday" entered the public vocabulary, connoting a holiday rooted as much in commercialism as in tradition.
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In both Hail, Caesar and The Americans, Christian faith serves as a counterpoint to American national religions (in commercialism on the one hand and democracy on the other) and to a Marxist/communist ideology.
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Browsing the tables, I thought about what brings people to books and publishing in the first place: community, exchange, and a desire to share, themes that are often overshadowed by the necessary commercialism of retail.
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This really does make a lot of sense now, the elaborate photo shoots, the counter-culture concept art, the brash comments on commercialism and industry, the post-streetwear fashion statements, the outlandish social media presence!
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There is, inevitably, an element of crass commercialism in remaking any show from a quarter-century ago, hoping that the familiar title will serve as a lure for people to tune in, at least initially.
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After the collapse of the Soviet Union, during the chaotic Boris Yeltsin years, the ensemble sacrificed a little of its soul to a crasser commercialism, performing alongside the Finnish rock group Leningrad Cowboys in 1994.
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The show also features a live jazz trio playing Vince Guaraldi's score for the television production, in which a glum Charlie, at first depressed by the season's commercialism, learns from Linus what's really worth celebrating.shapeshifterlab.
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A late-70s safety pin through the ear is punk, while an ear gauge from Hot Topic is distinctly not, despite what commercialism wants you to believe, although both promise to give a nasty ear infection.
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If you live in Manhattan, there's a good chance that the city itself is your living room and for creatives; it's your workspace, dotted with unpredictability and unfortunately, a charm that's rapidly giving way to commercialism.
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"Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge" will contain 14 acres of all kinds of thrilling, money-draining activities for young Star Wars fans who haven't yet been depressed by the glut of commercialism that has choked the franchise.
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This outlook was also taken up by the Southern Agrarians, a group of writers who idealized the slave South as a bastion of manly virtue in contrast to the commercialism and individualism of the industrial North.
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The production's message has enduring appeal as well: When Charlie grows depressed (when doesn't he?) by the commercialism of the season, he learns, with Linus's help, that Christmas is about far more than tinsel and toys.charliebrownchristmasinbrooklyn.
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When Hadid's roving Chanel Mobile Art Pavilion opened in New York's Central Park just as the magnitude of the 2008 recession became apparent, New York Times critic Nicolai Ourroussof took Hadid to task for her commercialism.
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Whenever pop aesthetes assemble spritzy drum machines under chintzy keyboard hooks plus comforting softer washes of electronic texture to blur the edges and evoke light, one might ask whether the resulting music represents commercialism or eroticism.
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Deitch said that contemporary artists are particularly interested in how Stettheimer might provide some guidance for the present: She managed to build a community around herself, something that has been diluted by the art world's current commercialism.
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But this 94-minute film, directed by Alexis Bloom and Fisher Stevens, is so lovely, life-affirming and filled with memories that given the grief expressed by fans, it feels more like a public service than crass commercialism.
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There's a plot, of sorts, but mostly, it's a chance for the man behind Beavis and Butt-head and Silicon Valley to crack cynical, despairing, and routinely hilarious gags about America's increasingly aggressive commercialism, crassness, and self-absorption.
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One of the charms of wandering the outer-circle neighborhoods of New York, far from the towering commercialism of Manhattan, has been the statues of the Blessed Mother staring out serenely from the postage-stamp lawns of rowhouses.
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The movement was perhaps the most radically significant artistic development of Italy's fertile postwar period: Artists rebelled against the commercialism and elitist strictures of the day with readily accessible materials and constructions far outside the canon of art.
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" She bristles only at self-hating hedonists, and she said that the art world is in denial about its commercialism, feigning high-mindedness when, in fact, "being at an art fair is like being at a fucking mall.
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It's commercialism and capitalism blowing the trumpets to herald the arrival of one day a year when it's completely acceptable to yearn for a hazy, barely remembered past full of sleigh rides and ice-skating and family togetherness.
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It's not only Madonna's greatest song but also Madonna in a nutshell – Catholic imagery wrapped up in human sexuality with a dash of commercialism (the video began as a Pepsi commercial) and controversy (oh, just about everything about it).
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In 2007, he braved a rainy stage to unleash what, in my mind, is the best Super Bowl halftime show we've ever seen, turning what is largely a drudgery of desperate commercialism and overdone stage design into something unforgettable.
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Particularly when it's displayed in front of sanctioned graffiti and street art, which have become their own symbols of commercialism, given how often they're exploited by individuals and corporations for profit (see recent examples in lower Manhattan and the Netherlands).
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I know that Christmas, as popular culture has come to define it, is a nightmare of commercialism, a creepy propaganda tool of the evangelical right, and a truly unfortunate time to work in any service industry — hardly a heartwarming combination of things.
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There is much to be wary and cynical about regarding the Summer Games — like the corruption and the doping and the commercialism — but the opening ceremony can provide a flickering respite from pessimism, a brief chimney sweep of the sooty Olympic ideal.
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With an inclination towards ethnomusicology, he's as prone to go deep into the Colombian jungles in search of music culture unsullied by commercialism—as he did for the 2012 documentary Jende Ri Palenge—as he is to hunt down rare synths in Bogotá.
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We've seen dance routines choreographed around smartphones in music videos, and we've seen FaceTime deployed in music videos, and we've sure as heck seen Beats product placement in music videos — but have we ever seen all three in one shockingly digestible piece of earnest commercialism?
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Had, 15 years earlier, the first generation of grime stars taken on quite so much sponsorship, they'd have been accused of becoming corporate shills, but Stormzy rightly gambled that today's fans see self-determination, rather than anti-commercialism as the biggest sign of authenticity.
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Like watching the Mongolian family in Davaa and Falorni's film, the exhibition as a whole demonstrates a lifestyle of appreciating what is in front of you, understanding the land and nature in a way that is far removed from the commercialism and urbanism of today.
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At a time when working in fashion feels more like a blip of nothingness, where Galliano-like visions are overshadowed by the constant pressures of commercialism, she is one of the only legends left paving the way for young experimenters to actually create something fresh and new.
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The Edge of Seventeen actress is being asked about the feminist messages she included in a music video for her song "Most Girls," which the writer felt had a political vibe, considering the whole "Nasty Woman" and "The Future is Female" commercialism stemming from the 2016 election.
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If anything, it's rather pagan in its riff on the season's twinkling-lights-in-trees motif, ditching the trappings of religion and commercialism without losing any of the storybook magic your inner child craves this time of year—if your inner child is kind of a tripper.
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With the advent of networked technologies, these dynamics and dilemmas have only intensified, and yet we rarely talk about the problem of commercialism, perhaps because we are too marinated in it to see the problem clearly, let alone imagine a way out or an alternative system.
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And that comparison point naturally suggests the question: How can the Bourne and Apes movies get franchise filmmaking so right that they transcend the crass commercialism of even some of our best blockbusters, to become something more artistic and challenging, where so many other franchises flounder?
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As owners of factories that neglect their employees and place them in abhorrent working conditions, Scrooge and Marley ultimately have to repent for their sins as diehard capitalists who've exploited others through imperialism and commercialism just as much as they repent for being all-around awful men.
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" When the Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is profiled as a contrast to the libertarian fanaticism and raw commercialism of the Know-It-Alls, his inability to raise funding is used to reinforce this point: "Wales and his partners had no rich friends to lean on in tough times.
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Isolated within grim East Germany, the city became a subsidized showcase for capitalism and democracy inside the Soviet bloc, full of young West Germans fleeing what they saw as their country's hypocritical commercialism and, for the men, the draft (since residence in Berlin exempted them from military service).
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Beyond questions of historical accuracy and the glorification of war, the expansion has also been criticized for its commercialism — the Afghanistan exhibition is sponsored by Boeing — the secretive process by which the government approved the plan, and concerns that the money could have been better spent to help veterans.
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As the commercialism of the art world expanded in the 2010s, painting became a subset of interior decorating, something that was easy to mass produce and inoffensive to live with: paintings marked by bold colors and forms, sometimes literally depicting flowers (the work of Nate Lowman) or sunsets (Alex Israel).
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Yes, there are journalists who make mistakes, yes there are forces of partisanship and commercialism that taint what you get from some outlets — but there is also a lot of strong work being done to examine and scrutinize power, and provide people with the information they need to make good decisions.
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As a black, literature-loving kid, growing up in an all-white neighborhood, and one that became increasingly difficult for me when I entered middle and high school in the 73s, he was a lifesaver, an emblem of individualism who seemed able to transcend his industry's facile commercialism and easily disposable style.
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The Manhattan store opened in December, two months after the opening of her first stand-alone store in Paris and one month after she and her son, Joseph Corré, set fire to 5 million British pounds worth of punk memorabilia on a barge on the Thames to protest the commercialism of the movement.
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When John Carpenter released They Live in 1988, his attack on the selfishness and commercialism of 1980s America (the white family in Get Out has the same name, Armitage, as one of the characters in They Live), the Washington Post sneered that "the heavy artillery of sociological context and political implication" was just a distraction from a silly plot.
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There was a president of Duke University who once wrote an essay complaining about all the things that we've just been talking about — that there was too much commercialism creeping into college sports, that it was corroding academic standards, and basically that money was becoming a serious problem and skewing everybody's perception of right and wrong.
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For more on the glories of Boxing Day commercialism, check out the following comedy sketch from the British Columbia comedy troupe LoadingReadyRun, in which a man and a puppet discuss the "true meaning of Boxing Day" with help from a rather disturbing children's book: Though not nearly at the same level as Christmas or even Thanksgiving, Boxing Day does get its pop cultural representation.
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Day 67: "Phone Home" – Tha Carter 3 , 2008 How's this for a Black Friday sale: People around the country are knocking down the doors of big box retailers while others are decrying commercialism and still others are using the day for protest (while somehow the right wing, which finds a way to complain about everything except actual racism, is managing to make said protests about persecution of white people yet again).
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Every match was watched by tens or hundreds of thousands of viewers — largely 16- to 25-year-olds for whom the video-game homage intuitively makes sense or older, cynical Gen Xers like me who long for the authentic "Englishness" that drew them to the game before it got swallowed up by commercialism and who sit in front of a computer all day at work — again, like me.
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Through his studio and his two magazines, Domus and Stile, he was also a champion of homegrown talent (such as the furniture designer Carlo Mollino and the decorator Piero Fornasetti; even Ettore Sottsass, a leader of the color-mad Memphis Group of the 1980s, was in thrall to him), whose work Ponti elevated beyond commercialism into the realm of art, safeguarding his city as an epicenter for avant-garde design.
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In a string of writings that begins with the chapter "The Nature of Gothic" (The Stones of Venice, volume 1) and includes Unto This Last (83) and the proto-blog pamphlet series Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain (1871-78, 1880-84), Ruskin forcefully, sometimes stridently, reiterates his conviction that industrial capitalism and commercialism were crushing the humanity out of whole classes of the populace, and were reducing human laborers to mere machines.
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But if he also cast his child in commercials, and that was on top of a web campaign in which the little boy or girl was otherwise a prominent fixture, and if my friend already inhaled the rarefied air of the ultrarich and I suspected the deployment of the adorable tyke was a strategic showcase for his own relatability as a normal parent and a measure to downplay the crass commercialism of the enterprise — well, then I might be concerned.
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