Sentence examples for material society from inspiring English sources

This is the theme, though, that comes increasingly to dominate the Glass chronicles: the unsolvable problem of ego and self-consciousness, of how to lead a spiritual life in a vulgar, material society.

"The private schools are all jammed with long waiting lists; the clubs — all the old clubs — are jammed with long waiting lists today; the harbors are clogged with yachts; there has never been a more material society than the one we live in today".

"Maybe the most sophisticated aspect is that they don't have all these material things that ultimately we can see bringing us undone – if we're talking about climate change and having to deal with the devastating destruction created by our material society.

Have these questions mattered much in a densely rich, material society such as ours?

At its core, the debate over NC-17 is a matter of what material society considers mainstream, who gets to make those determinations and what standards they use in doing so.

So can we be so certain that absolutely no one in this post-biological or post-material society is capable of or interested in studying and communicating with humans?

"If you have an interest in this type of material, then society has a right to know who you are, what's your DNA and have we got you on the Sex Offenders' Register".

She calls herself a "pro-porn feminist" and is evangelical about the benefits of sexually explicit material to society in general - "There should be sex kitchens in every town like they have soup kitchens, then there would be less rape, less war, less violence" - and to women in particular.

With a couple of exceptions what they saw were not objects but ideas — some funny and entertaining, some deadly serious — situated at the fertile nexus where social networking and the Web's data-gathering power is providing artists and scientists with immense piles of raw material about society and psychology.

Later a trip to India convinced him that a lot could be made with the material that society threw away.

Recycled aggregates (RAs) production techniques are essential for the material circulation society because RAs from demolished concrete waste can sustainably be reused as a concrete material.