Sentence examples for materialistic and use from inspiring English sources

I mean, I wish I could believe all the optimism of people who say we'll become less materialistic and use less energy, that good things will come out of it.

And even if we don't consider ourselves materialistic, we use our consumer choices to define ourselves and broadcast our identities to the world.

His more mordant satire is reserved for the living, focusing, as ever, on our manic solipsism and affectless self-regard; and in this novel in particular on our refusal to look death and ageing in the eye, and the materialistic tactics we use to distract ourselves from the void.

James says she's not materialistic and that she doesn't want to use her money to buy "more stuff".

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.

They are less materialistic and more creative.

America was built by materialistic and sometimes superficial strivers.

For fashion of all kinds is fundamentally materialistic and utilitarian.

For centuries, people have ridiculed American culture for being tepid, materialistic and middle class.

The shared creed is materialistic, and holds that appearances are of greater significance than substance.

"Two of them were free-spirited, one was materialistic and Katherine was the social butterfly".