Sentence examples for materialistic concerns from inspiring English sources

In a way they proved beneficial to our protagonists – forcing them to take control of their lives and look beyond the materialistic concerns that once seemed paramount.

A friend who grew up in Seoul told me that the cheerleaders' appeal in South Korea is a matter of contrast: the girls are fresh-faced and traditional, seemingly unspoiled by materialistic concerns.

He developed a hierarchy of values where those of a spiritual nature reigned over crass materialistic concerns.

He argued that after Positivism Marxism had become the main conduit for the spread of materialistic concerns.

A 2014 Netflix show called Life In the Dreamhouse, centered around a very blonde doll with many materialistic concerns is popular with girls of a certain age.

In his powerful book The Three Secrets of Aging: A Radical Guide (O-Books, 2012) he writes: "The initiation of age, if handled consciously and wisely, creates a developmental transition that moves us from the materialistic concerns of middle age to the awakened consciousness of the Elder in winter...Aging is enlightenment in slow motion".

For a quest, especially a spiritual one, it is profoundly materialistic; concerned with the stuff of the world, literally clay.

This allows Wyclif to describe just, grace-favored civil dominium as different in kind from the civil lordship predicated on materialistic human concerns: "It is right for God to have two vicars in His church, namely a king in temporal affairs, and a priest in spiritual.

Although it can be argued that society in China is becoming more materialistic and selfish, the care and concern for their parents by Chinese youth is something that those in the West could learn from.

Americans' methods of speaking English kept popping up as a criticism, and many of the writers felt the Americans were not up to Europe culturally, and were too concerned with "materialistic things".

But how does that protest differ from those of religious fundamentalists or environmental fundamentalists who claim that people "ought not" to be concerned with materialistic improvements of any kind?More importantly, the policy which flows from the incorrect assumption may be diametrically wrong.