Sentence examples for from materialistic from inspiring English sources

In Tehran, Housden finds an artistic community energized both by opposition to the regime and by distance from materialistic distractions.

People had distanced themselves from materialistic ambitions -- or so they thought.

Actually, in Hinduism it is Mokshya, which means salvation, freedom from materialistic things.

According to some interpretations "the best" referred to the traditional ruling classes of Europe who were unable to protect the traditional culture of Europe from materialistic mass movements.

If we are to make the right decisions and change the course of humanity, each of us must evolve our consciousness from materialistic to spiritual, and eventually to universal consciousness.

In other ways they could not be more different from the materialistic western world, because the Bradleys are Mormons and belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

The poem was printed in 1649 and popularized by Pierre Gassendi, a French priest who tried to separate Epicurus's atomism from its materialistic background by arguing that God created atoms.

But then he goes on to say that he connects with Campbell – notwithstanding the Iraq war – because he has been "liberated from the materialistic projections of anatomical humans, who I now see are a refracted projection of one supreme consciousness".

"Strippers" isn't about stripteasers but about evil sharks, from rapaciously materialistic girlfriends and duplicitous business managers to unsympathetic financial institutions, that take pleasure in "stripping" an innocent guy of his wealth.

Like the British Romantics and like the '60s counterculturalists, Dr. Hofmann also saw a "spiritual crisis" in "Western industrial society," one that demanded that we "shift from the materialistic" and discover new modes of understanding.

And the compliment often given subjects of photographs: "Mais, you stayed so good!" The very elements of Cajun culture that distinguish it from a materialistic lifestyle — an emphasis on living in the moment, independence, self-sufficiency and generous hospitality — can often work against the people's best interests.