Sentence examples for Age of materialism from inspiring English sources
One might have supposed that this position would have put an end to the need to investigate epiphenomenalism; but, as we shall see under Arguments in the Age of Materialism, such a supposition is far from being the case.
We are in an age of materialism and tremendous sensualism.
The machines, the medicines, the mathematics seem characteristic of that age of philosophical materialism.
New Humanism, critical movement in the United States between 1910 and 1930, based on the literary and social theories of the English poet and critic Matthew Arnold, who sought to recapture the moral quality of past civilizations the best that has been thought and said in an age of industrialization, materialism, and relativism.
Since the performance I directed in the 1980s, we've lived through an age of luxuriant materialism in which Mack the Knife - a gangster-capitalist shark who sings a champagne-fuelled Ballad of the Good Life - would have felt quite at home.
With its lucrative profits in our age of omniscient materialism, prohibition attracts millions of teenagers into the world of gangs and cartels.
It also has a classic hero – Christopher Tietjens is the last gentlemen in an England going to the dogs, facing enemies at home and abroad, an anachronism clinging to noble ideals in an age of hypocrisy and materialism.
Much of the incidental detail of everyday life in AF632 derives from England in an age of all-conquering US materialism, the aftermath of America's intervention in the first world war.
Not long ago, a preacher friend confided: "The black church is in a struggle for its collective soul--to find itself in an age when it is consumed by the God of materialism".
By shrewdly leaping on the new age bandwagon, publishers have managed to capitalise on this rejection of materialism.
What better way to kick off a marriage than with a tune about the anxiety of aging that was written for a movie about the dangers of materialism and the hollow core of awesome parties?
