The possibility of sex is mixed with an austere saying: "Expect much of yourself and little of others," "You cannot love life until you live the life you love," and "Financial hardship in your life is coming to an end!" Every message alludes to themes of hidden ambition, materialistic influences, personal aims at inner peace, and the disconnect between physical and mental states.
Whereas aims that exceed materialistic goals bring a higher, more satisfying meaning to success.
Stump tagged Folie à Deux as a "message record" that takes aim at "the materialistic dance between any two parties obsessed with each other, whether it's teenage girls and handbag makers, politicians and lobbyists or tabloids and stars".
In the main aim, their cultural ethos is almost as materialistic as European cultures, with a similar egocentricity.
And she finds it "depressing," she tells him, that he continues to buy a steady stream of items online when her aim is for them to lead a less materialistic life.
The Amish aim to live a life of simplicity, unfettered by the materialistic trappings of the modern world.
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.
Declaring that advertisers were directing a "barrage of materialistic marketing" at young children, Hillary Rodham Clinton today called on the federal government to ban commercials aimed at preschool children, and to prohibit advertising inside public elementary schools.
When designers mined the 80's of Aaron Spelling last season, they seemed in touch, at least, with a materialistic world glued to the television taking in "Sex and the City," and a new generation of women aiming to sleep their way into residences of greater square footage.
Since 2008, we've seen documentaries like "Inside Job" and films like "Too Big To Fail" aim squarely at the financial institutions and fire: In contemporary Wall Street cinema, any instance of materialistic indulgence is only a precursor to damnation.
