"Material things and limelight are fleeting, they come and go.
It involves a successful lawyer who renounces material things and joins a monastery.
It is not about material things and cash in the bank.
They became obsessed with material things and went over the top.
"They lost their income, all their material things and worst of all, their pride," she said.
The article integrates literature from Accounting research and Science and Technology Studies to contribute to our understanding of how material things and the economy mutually constitute one another.
The corollary to all these material things, and to the bond between the Owenses, is that life has so often been a real physical pain for him.
Americans, for example, may love material things and the consumer society but they are much more religiously observant than almost all Europeans.
"I know it's material things, and compared to what a lot of other people have lost, it's minute," Ms. Morgan said.
The point is not that I'm a Buddhist who's oblivious of material things and sits here smiling serenely and – Om! – not wanting.
You see, these cars say, we don't care about material things, and by the way, we paid as much as we would have for a Mercedes.
