Sentence examples for age of materialistic from inspiring English sources

An Islamist terror group claimed responsibility.The film has spellbound French audiences, moved by the simplicity and faith of the Tibhirine monks, in an age of materialistic excess, celebrity froth and empty churches.

To James Dean wannabes who came of age in this materialistic postwar era, a car was a means of escape from the restrictions of home life, income level and social class.

In this regard, the presence of third variables, such as the high endorsement of materialistic values among young people, which has been shown to be an effective mediator of the effect of age on compulsive buying [ 45], jointly with the craving for new experiences and the marked need to reaffirm self identity [ 46], are some of the explanations which have been reflected in literature.

Whatever else it may be, this is a painting about the waning of an age of faith and the rise of a materialistic era of science.

I didn't have a lot of materialistic things.

This new culture of materialistic consumerism has delivered a dramatic, unprecedented rise in living standards.

They're birds of a self-consumed feather, inhabiting the same amoral diorama of materialistic Manhattan life.

Now she has to repay that icon of materialistic Germany in ruinous monthly instalments.

He argued that after Positivism Marxism had become the main conduit for the spread of materialistic concerns.

Putana's bird form symbolizes desire of materialistic objectives.

Human phenomena are beyond the reach of materialistic and empirical approaches.