oniomania
being addicted to
addictive allure of shops
Shopping is a means of lessening negative emotions
volunteered
self-confessed addicts
an eight-week period
shopping urges
indulge those urges
a compelling argument
relapse
Publicly funded arts institutions
under pressure to quantify the social benefits they (arts) bring
larceny
austerity
dwindling public funds
patrician
ennobling
repertoire
provoke
grumble
Art’s primary purpose is to communicate perceptions about the human condition that can’t be communicated in any other way.
wrest something back from someone
reckon with
grandiose
rhetoric
Art’s aims/purposes :
- to increase people’s capacity for life – helping them to understand, interpret , and adapt to the world around them
- enrich their experience – bring color, beauty, passion and intensity to their lives
- Provide a safe site in which they could build their skills, confidence and self-esteem
Arts promote community cohesion and a sense of national pride
dissent
profligately
a persuasive argument