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It’s been a record-breaking summer of gluttony in the Premier League.—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
2 Sep. 2025 -
The nutria’s cardinal sin, however, is gluttony.—
Nathaniel Rich,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
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The record captures mounting angst, pushes back against control and calls out the capitalistic sides of our culture that fuel materialism and overconsumption.—
Audrey Gibbs,
Nashville Tennessean,
20 Oct. 2025
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Jeff Manchester might have been a folk hero of the early 2000s, but his story resonates even more today, with wealth inequality and performative materialism higher than ever.—
Katie Walsh,
Twin Cities,
11 Oct. 2025
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Every February and September, when the event takes place, critics and showgoers bemoan that the entire affair is strangled by commercialism and limping toward irrelevance.—
Ana Karina Zatarain,
New Yorker,
19 Sep. 2025
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Such a move would never be tolerated or accepted by a footballing environment that remains deeply suspicious of commercialism and militantly on guard against any move in that direction.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
New York Times,
20 Aug. 2025
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Blending Sufi classics, absurdist dreams, careful mathematical calculations and lyrical narratives, Ismailov invents an ingenious transnational poetics of love and longing for the digital age.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
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The documentary explores that moment as both a turning point in the investigation and a look at Wuornos’ history of abuse and abandonment — and the longing for connection that runs through her story.—
Christina Coulter,
PEOPLE,
9 Nov. 2025
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The trend captures a kind of affordable opulence, a desire to evoke the elegance of wealth without its cost.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
9 Nov. 2025
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His decision to make the move to college was in large part driven by a desire to test himself.—
Scott Wheeler,
New York Times,
9 Nov. 2025
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“Piggishness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/piggishness. Accessed 20 Nov. 2025.
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