Sentence examples for completely materialistic from inspiring English sources

He makes an excellent point that an appreciation of biological evolution does not necessitate a completely materialistic and deterministic worldview.

In this sense it was less completely materialistic than the ideas of radicals like Grant, but its implication that humans were only the last step in the ascent of animal life incensed many conservative thinkers.

Buffon's works, Histoire naturelle (1749 1789) and Époques de la nature (1778), containing well-developed theories about a completely materialistic origin for the Earth and his ideas questioning the fixity of species, were extremely influential.

Spiritualism appealed to many educated Victorians who no longer found traditional religious doctrine, such as that of the Church of England, acceptable yet were unsatisfied with the completely materialistic and mechanical view of the world that was increasingly emerging from 19th-century science.

Although Lamarck often used the phrase "pouvoir de la vie" to denote this fundamental tendency, his idea was completely materialistic, even mechanistic, as he attributed the trend toward progress to the motion of fluids in the animal body which would carve channels and cavities in soft tissues, and gradually lead to the evolution of increasing organizational complexity.

I am not at all materialistic".

But hers is not an entirely materialistic view.

"Brooklyn doesn't need that whole materialistic thing".

She was old-fashioned and not at all materialistic.

Was it all materialistic things?

It was all very materialistic.