Sentence examples for highly materialistic from inspiring English sources

Participants blamed inattentive parents, girls swept away by a highly materialistic society and the girls' lack of self-esteem.

Even though we're "highly materialistic and self-absorbed," we're also "hell-bent on change," and "tolerance and an expansive world-view are second nature".

The results indicate that highly materialistic people are more likely to view themselves as spenders and have more favorable attitudes toward borrowing.

However, because money increases focus on product possession, the reverse effect can occur in cases where merely owning the product reflects the self (i.e., for prestige possessions, or for highly materialistic consumers).

Although Americans are seen as highly materialistic consumers, they are also despised and feared for their spiritual interests, their participation in religious worship and their subscription to creeds of morality.

If there is a mismatch between the prosperity of our material culture and the enrichment of our spiritual world, it would be easy for the upper social class to develop a highly materialistic consumer attitude that will weaken the whole society's developmental value.

What setting could have been more humbling for 23 highly paid materialistic footballers, many of whom will probably never set foot in Africa again?

This is an amicable investigation, however, so in Friday's episode Mr. Krulwich also manages to find a quiet, poignant figure in the highly charged, materialistic hip-hop world.

Today we've lost our connection to the life-giving properties of seeds as a by-product of our highly industrialized and "materialistic" culture, according to author and Sufi mystic Llewellyn Vaughan-Llewellyn

Are we seeing a less individualistic, less hedonistic, more community-minded Generation A – anxious, austerity-minded, anti-materialistic but also highly aware of the importance of a connection to others?

For all of these reasons, the purposeless, materialistic aspect of Darwinian evolution is highly repugnant to many people (Gould 1974).