Sentence examples for material accumulation and from inspiring English sources

In her new book, Robinson revisits this theme of Christian restlessness by decrying Max Weber's "unaccountably influential" book "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism" for portraying Puritans as early-to-bed, early-to-rise drones, driven to material accumulation and convinced that worldly prosperity is the best measure of worth in God's eyes.

This extra relaxation leads to material accumulation, and, thus to an initial thickening of the WL.

Due to common situations of material accumulation, and irregular and material fault in the structural topology optimization results, it is not possible to directly obtain the structure configuration.

Moreover, he writes, "the focus, in development strategy, [is] on material accumulation and achievement.

They tend to value cooperation and friendship over competition and material accumulation and are strongly grounded in relationship ties, cultural expression, and spiritual growth.

This process has made me realize that, even though Gina and I are not particularly committed to material accumulation, and don't even like to shop, we seem to have acquired a whole lot of stuff.

How strange that Toby was so simple and yet his simplicity had had all these solid, complicated effects in the real world, these material accumulations and accretions and children, too, the branching out and infinite complication of children.

Everything about Chua's recent books exemplify a capitalist soul -- an experience of the world in which value is measured by higher numbers (test scores and income), more material accumulation (wealth and possessions), and brand recognition (prestigious schools, institutions, or achievements).

Sustainability empowers human development in harmonic synergy with nature, and discards our imperative need for consumption and material accumulation.

The OCT changes, manifested as hyperreflective material accumulation in the intraretinal and subretinal pigment epithelial spaces, were caused by lymphomatous infiltration.

This material accumulation is completely unfaceted and, therefore, we have chosen a surface-sensitive height mode representation since else the image contrast would be too low.