The word 'materialism' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a preoccupation with material possessions or money, or to a belief system that places an excessive emphasis on material possessions. For example: "The focus of modern society on materialism has had a negative effect on our quality of life."
In Turkey, the author learns how their rejection of materialism spurred their host's material prosperity.
Even non-believers have been moved by the radicalism of his message, decrying runaway materialism, "unbridled capitalism" and a cult of money that he condemns as latter-day idol worship.
Christian Democrats could present themselves as antitotalitarians par excellence: they were a bulwark against godless communism, but also argued that fascism had really been a form of "materialism", making their own spiritualism the obvious antidote to a return of the past.
In this brilliant, jet-black comedy, Bret Easton Ellis satirises the excesses of yuppy materialism and examines the dark side of the American Dream.
With Rougon-Macquart, he aimed to capture every aspect of life under the Second Empire, a period of unparalleled economic expansion and unashamed materialism.
Materialism is another problem which leads people to believe that they need what they can't afford.
IN A scholarly screed entitled "The History of Underdevelopment in Turkey", which many thoughtful Turks took rather seriously, Ismail Cem blamed a lot of Turkey's ills on his country's embrace of western materialism.
What Eliot considered "the waste land" of modern life the deracination, impudence and profane materialism was mother's milk to Groucho.Read more.
Those of us who warned over the years that they were playing with fire were sneered at and smeared as Right-wing nutters who wanted to turn the clock back to some mythical golden age.From the left, here is the Daily Mirror's Paul Routledge, attacking foreign music and British materialism The mayhem erupted overnight, but it has been building for years.
The panpan ladies, with their brightly rouged lips and colourful clothing, had merely been the first to grasp the new ideology materialism that was to become the creed of modern Japan.Those wishing to learn more about the change in national mood that finally overwhelmed Japan during, rather than after, the war should turn to Richard Frank's latest work, "Downfall".
This sum comes from the K Foundation, a prank outfit run by wealthy pop musicians aiming to stir up mischief in what they see as the grossly materialistic art world.Materialism of another kind is at the root of the controversy over the Turner prize.
