Sentence examples for it was materialistic from inspiring English sources

It was materialistic yet deeply religious, commercial but puritanical.

All this conspicuous consumption was as strategic as it was materialistic.

Mr. Solzhenitsyn is our friend when he's the enemy of our enemy, but when he turns his judgments on America — saying that it is materialistic and immoral, among other things — he suddenly doesn't know what he's talking about.

"I know it's materialistic," she said.

It's been called "American materialism" because as much as it is materialistic, it is American.

Don't buy something you hate, just because it's materialistic.

"Two of them were free-spirited, one was materialistic and Katherine was the social butterfly".

The death of disco came as a duel effort made by pop culture and the backlash from punk rockers who criticized it for being materialistic, vapid, and politically unengaged.

Advertising is necessarily vulnerable to these attacks: it is experienced by everybody, its products are on show for a long time, and its purposes are materialistic.

Though the project began as a means to make his daughter a princess, he also rejects the suggestion that it was a materialistic pursuit, and insists it was only ever intended to be altruistic.

Maybe it was the materialistic mindset of the retail business, but Amazon didn't delude themselves that developers would be writing apps to use these APIs to win a prize at a hackathon.