Sentence examples for materialistic civilization from inspiring English sources

The day must come when the castles of this materialistic civilization will be laid low upon the heads of their inhabitants.

Some of the traditional elite even declared that someday the Confucian theory will regain its glory in the world when the Western materialistic civilization collapses (Tsai 1986: 21).

His first book of short stories, Dark Carnival (1947), was followed by The Martian Chronicles (1950), which is generally accounted a science-fiction classic in its depiction of materialistic Earthmen exploiting and corrupting an idyllic Martian civilization.

Materialistic values came to pervade our culture.

Engels noted in the preface to Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State that "Morgan in his own way had discovered afresh in America the materialistic conception of history discovered by Marx forty years ago, and in his comparison of barbarism and civilization it had led him, in the main points, to the same conclusions as Marx".

Or materialistic.

Less materialistic.

Young people are materialistic.

I'm not materialistic.

She isn't materialistic.

She was so materialistic.