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"material enjoyment" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to something that is enjoyed due to its physical properties, such as food or a luxury item. For example, "After a long day of work, she was looking forward to the material enjoyment of a hot bath."
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The great question is, by what means may this increase be met, by a corresponding increase of MATERIAL ENJOYMENT.
The key to true happiness comes from within, through personal practice, not through material enjoyment.
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Tocqueville also recognised, however, that the logic or psychology of equality made Americans physically and mentally restless – seeking to rise from obscurity and secure material enjoyments in a society where relationships, and fortunes, were constantly made and undone.
The perpetual need to apologize for the "material enjoyments" of the United States, or of the past decade, he would have recognized as a very American performance, but he would not have thought it much to the point.
Within Hinduism, it is not uncommon to encounter assertions that the Shaiva and Vaishnava schools of Hinduism lead to moksha, or spiritual liberation, whereas Shaktism leads only to siddhis (occult powers) and bhukti (material enjoyments) – or, at best, to Shaivism.
While the Knicks' starting team is the smallest in the National Basketball Association, averaging 6 feet 6 inches, the Knicks still have enough material to provide aesthetic enjoyment to basketball fans, as well as win games.
Related to asceticism is the Protestant work ethic, which consists of a radical requirement of accomplishment symbolized in achievement in one's profession and, at the same time, demanding strict renunciation of the enjoyment of material gains acquired legitimately.
Whates's colourful tale of derring-do along the space lanes is unashamedly old-fashioned – similar tales graced the pages of Astounding Science Fiction magazine in the 50s – but he's a natural storyteller and works his material with verve, obvious enjoyment and an effortlessly breezy prose style.
He argues that the rights to physical integrity and subsistence collectively provide the material preconditions necessary to the enjoyment of all other rights, such as the right to property, the right to equal political participation, and the right to freedom of association.
I read that material, more out of obligation than enjoyment.
Jon Pareles of The New York Times expressed his enjoyment of the "crisp" material that incorporated "catchy melodic interludes".
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