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The historian Julia Hessler has written that, “in a real sense, the stiliagi heralded the advent of an individualistic, self-expressive approach to consumption characteristic of the consumer societies of the postwar West.”
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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According to Pew, this cohort of teens and twenty-somethings is "confident, self-expressive, liberal, upbeat and open to change."
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There is a beautiful array of photographs here, on the self-portrait challenge website, which describes itself as "a continuous artistic self-expressive art project community".
Writing Maxine 2009
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Forget figure-skating: these fast-gliding girls are both aggressive and self-expressive, so expect fishnets and nose rings alongside the kneepads and helmets.
This week's new events Iain Aitch 2010
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I saw Max staring at it, not because he is into girls yet (thank you, Lord) but because he is very into graffiti, street art, tattoos and other forms of self-expressive artwork.
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It can elicit an artist's awareness to use performance to "shape the world in the way that we want it to be," where both sexes are liberated from history and made more self-expressive.
Curtain Raisers: A Future for Circus in the Balance Lizzie Simon 2011
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This difference, however, held only for the self-expressive products, not the functional ones.
Matt J. Rossano: Sacred Brands: Consumerism As Modern Religion Matt J. Rossano 2010
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This difference, however, held only for the self-expressive products, not the functional ones.
Matt J. Rossano: Sacred Brands: Consumerism as Modern Religion Matt J. Rossano 2010
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Once again, however, this difference was only found for self-expressive products not functional ones.
Matt J. Rossano: Sacred Brands: Consumerism As Modern Religion Matt J. Rossano 2010
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The state is justified in protecting the equal opportunity of minority groups to participate in public discourse not ‘to further their self-expressive interests but only as a way of furthering the democratic process’ (18).
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