Sentence examples for accumulations of stuff from inspiring English sources
She is as drawn to systematically organized natural history collections as she is to the anarchy of Mr. Buckminster's junkyard, and especially fascinated by the anomalies and serendipitous patterns that can be found in large accumulations of stuff.
Interesting trends, such as a rejection of home and car ownership, suggest there's greater hunger for meaning and relationships in life than for accumulation of stuff.
Mess has become a moral issue: the mindless accumulation of stuff is seen as thoughtless and materialistic, a symptom of western decadence.
"Older adults scaling down from a large home still want room for grown children and grandchildren to visit," he continued, "and for a lifetime's accumulation of stuff, from a great-aunt's bedstead to books and knickknacks.
Space and the accumulation of "stuff" is out; special and "one of a kind" is in, a harkening back to a bygone era when craftsmanship was standard and mass production was in its infancy.
Now, as we claw our way out of a recession that forced many to embrace a "less is more" lifestyle, Nicodemus and Millburn have captured a moment of backlash against the endless, mindless accumulation of stuff.
This is the challenge facing those of us who sense that life is something more than the accumulation of "stuff," who have heard the cry of the Earth and recognize that it is also the cry of our own soul.
Then, she says, "I store up phrases, a bank of words that are the starting point for thinking about an accumulation of physical stuff".
Historically, wealth was about the accumulation and display of stuff.
