Mathison became increasingly disillusioned with popular films, saying, "I go to movies with my children and see fat kids burping, parents portrayed as total morons, and kids being mean and materialistic, and I feel it's really slim pickings out there.
"I go to movies with my children and see fat kids burping, parents portrayed as total morons, and kids being mean and materialistic, and I feel it's really slim pickin's out there," she told The Times in 1995.
Modernity has rightly rejected past architectural excesses, but, Pérez-Gómez argues, the materialistic and technological alternatives it proposes do not answer satisfactorily the complex desire that defines humanity.
Originally conceived in the middle of the eighteenth century as a real alternative to materialistic and naturalistic perspectives, it may now become sublated and integrated into views about the nature of reality that ignore metaphysical oppositions or epistemological questions connected with the assumption of the priority of mind over matter or the other way round.
(Space constraints prevent a full justification for that goal, but suffice it to say, it's not as materialistic and pro-rich as it sounds). So if the auction rules somehow result in Jim getting the painting, then economists would consider the outcome inefficient and might well start looking for better rules.
He found it boring and materialistic and his memories of it were further shaped by the fact that his tuberculosis took a turn for the worse during his stay there.
They teach that scientists must believe that they are investigating a universe which is totally materialistic and that everything in it is a product solely of time, chance and naturalistic physical and biological evolution" (A Science Kit About Science 2003).
In our capitalistic, materialistic and status-driven society, it is very difficult for us to declare that we have made enough money, or that we are satisfied with reaching a certain level of power and fame.
Mr. Solzhenitsyn is our friend when he's the enemy of our enemy, but when he turns his judgments on America — saying that it is materialistic and immoral, among other things — he suddenly doesn't know what he's talking about.
