It's viewed as "materialistic" and "greedy" to want to keep what you have earned.
You come back to this world, which is so different, so materialistic, and listen to some of the pettiness.
Leaders are described as materialistic and unable to understand reality.
In a letter to Public Opinion, a Dublin newspaper, he announced "with inflexible materialistic logic, and to the extreme horror of my respectable connections, that I was an atheist".
To the extent that he gave it any attention, he tended to regard the United States as vulgar, materialistic, and a threat to the English language.
In this worldview, Americans are becoming more likely to trust our neighbors, less prejudiced, more tolerant of people different than us, less materialistic and more apt to desire a good life based on satisfying relationships.
"Kids surveyed from 2005 were most materialistic and least willing to work hard: 62 percent said that having lots of money was important, compared with 48 percent of those surveyed between 1976 and 1978," as New Scientist put it.
It means that they share different values, from spiritual to materialistic, and they agree on many things from where they want to live to how they spend their free time.
The perversely lopsided sway of power is evident in the relationships of teacher and student, rich fiancé and materialistic bride-to-be, dying widow and only child.
Cosans uses the works of Karl Marx and John Stuart Mill to reveal how these economists model materialistic and humanistic philosophies later to be represented by Huxley and Owen, respectively.
