Sentence examples for driven by materialism from inspiring English sources

Lewis isn't driven by materialism, a friend says.

Dr James Roberts, of Baylor's Hankamer School of Business, in Texas, said that the "instant messaging" addiction was driven by "materialism and impulsiveness".

On June 10-11, 2016, the International Rural Sustainability Workshop was held at the University of North Texas in Denton, TX, USA (http://cas.unt.edu/ruralsustainability). The Spiritual Ecology Youth Fellowship recognizes the need to create a future that is not driven by materialism and greed, but rooted in the spiritual values of interconnectedness, service, stewardship, and reverence for nature.

It continues to ravage the natural environment and ignore poverty both at home and abroad, and its culture is increasingly driven by materialism and consumerism.

In some cases, the girls said they believed the push by some to enter computer professions was driven largely by materialism.

Driven by recession and a rejection of materialism, she says we are rediscovering doing rather than watching, making rather than consuming, baking rather than gawping.

She is simple, unswerving, and self-effacing, driven by the light of knowledge which gives meaning to solid materialism in an age that is shrouded by impulse, passion, and desire.

An installation in which a ship goes round and round, driven by a pivot arm balanced by a cartoon moneybag, represents the futility of materialism; smaller works spoof New Age therapy culture, like a picture of people dancing in silly cat suits, one exclaiming, "This is an excellent workshop!" Under the satiric surface, there's a genuine religious yearning (Johnson).

Talking about values in present-day America, he decries what he sees as selfish materialism, before entering into an odd segue, arguing that people are driven, "by the pursuit of happiness".

Things are much more complex and in a way interesting in epigenetic research and the reductionism and materialism that we are witnessing today may be qualitatively very different from the one driven by genetics in the last decade of twentieth century.

Analyzing within CEO variation, we find that increases in a CEO's level of materialism during his tenure are associated with decreases in the CSR scores in his firm, driven by both decreases in CSR strengths and increases in CSR weaknesses.