The women behave like "materialistic whores".
It's not to say that we don't like materialistic things, because we do; we like television and Apple products.
I call this solution "experientialism" and the people who live this way "experientialists": instead of looking for happiness, identity, status and meaning in material things, like materialistic people do, they find them in experiences.
In a 1979 study, when I asked undergraduates to describe themselves, they focused on the commonalities their generation shared, like being materialistic or career oriented.
Like their materialistic peers, they are tied not to nation states, not to lofty ideals, but invested in tangible things: the particles of air they breathe, that their children breathe, the taste of steamed fish, Palm trees, blades of grass, blue skies, API indexes, an authentic and sustainably sourced Chinese-style burrito.
For example, Tamra (an 8) would like to be less materialistic and more generous.
Why are artists' drawings of ape-like humans used to justify materialistic claims that we are just animals and our existence is a mere accident — when fossil experts cannot even agree on who our supposed ancestors were or what they looked like?
To close (and to momentarily counteract this week's materialistic theme), I'd like to clarify that true love is not all about consumerism.
They don't like being called "unintelligent", "materialistic", "sexually promiscuous" and "devoid of taste" in print.
It seemed to him that for all the talk of family and faith and neighborliness the heartland virtues held up in rebuke of competitive, materialistic Gomorrahs like San Francisco there was something not quite wholesome in this placidity, something lazy and sensual.
It seemed to him that for all the talk of family and faith and neighborliness — the heartland virtues held up in rebuke of competitive, materialistic Gomorrahs like San Francisco — there was something not quite wholesome in this placidity, something lazy and sensual.
