Sentence examples for Materialistic man from inspiring English sources

James Bond has always been a materialistic man.

Barbara Hutton called him the least materialistic man she had ever met.

It tells a story of redemption and faith through a lawyer bent on saving both the neck and soul of his client, a materialistic young man facing death for killing a police officer.

American Psycho is, of course, a satire on those materialistic wealthy men and women who defined Wall Street – and by extension, America – in the 1980s; and in the case of its most unreliable narrator Patrick Bateman, an individual for whom the American Dream was not quite enough.

Perhaps this is what McGregor intends: to reflect back at us a world of bleak, materialistic plenty, every man and woman an island, bound by unsparing codes of control.

As William F. Buckley, Jr. once wrote: "Materialistic democracy beckons every man to make himself a king; republican citizenship incites every man to be a knight.

Tribal elders worry, though, that the young men will return from their one-year enlistments with the white man's materialistic values and a sense of cultural inferiority that will make it difficult for them to fit back into village life.

That means breaking with the materialistic and individualistic view of man and believing that there is something sacred in each individual, which is the foundation of human dignity.

A contemporary has rightly said that the only deeply religious people of our largely materialistic age are the earnest men of research.

He has an awful, very materialistic son who is a money man in the City of London.

His supporters regard him as a rare Gandhian, a simple, principled man in a new, materialistic age.