That a work of fiction has now assumed the form of an auction catalog could be seen as a sign of the times — deeply materialistic and, with a big recession on, increasingly for sale.
Fay Chung, Mr Mugabe's former education minister, says he was not materialistic and lacked a proper understanding of budgeting.
Many of our British readers view the riots as the sum of a materialistic culture and a welfare state that has spoiled its citizenry.
Ms. Edelkoort's concept for the exhibition, which sounds a lot like her trend forecasts, foresees "a break with a materialistic mentality" and a return to "modest earthbound and recomposed matter," envisioning "a Fred Flintstone of tomorrow".
Now that that better world has arrived it can be argued that life for the Chinese youth might have more opportunity but has in turn become more complicated with difficult career decisions, an increasingly materialistic society, and a complex relationship with the West.
Tribal elders worry, though, that the young men will return from their one-year enlistments with the white man's materialistic values and a sense of cultural inferiority that will make it difficult for them to fit back into village life.
Once you find what ultimately makes your readers tick on both a materialistic level and a human level, people will be able to relate to you and your words.
Tocqueville's emphasis on cultural values contrasted sharply with the views of the German socialist theorists Karl Marx (1818 83) and Friedrich Engels (1820 95), who advanced a materialistic and economic theory of the state as an instrument of domination by the classes that own the means of production.
"The focus on other people's money has created a materialistic and self-serving milieu".
Essays and criticism were written by Mihai Ralea, who also published travel books and philosophical and psychological works, and by Tudor Vianu, who revealed in his writings a materialistic and methodological approach after first having adhered to the aesthetic school.
