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Reflecting on the song, Madonna told author J. Randy Taraborrelli: Academics analyzed the usage of the term material as odd because, according to them, materialistic is the correct word.

"The desire to be materialistic is basic to being human," said Tim Kasser, a professor of psychology at Knox College and the author of a book called The High Price of Materialism.

This strictly cause-and-effect materialistic view is the traditional scientific perspective.

Instead, what we're faced with in a materialistic world is the normalization of risk and disease.

A contemporary has rightly said that the only deeply religious people of our largely materialistic age are the earnest men of research.

In our materialistic culture, tap water is the generic brand.

Russophilia is widespread among intellectuals, who like to romanticise the Russian soul for being more in tune with spiritual German culture than is the materialistic and utilitarian "Western civilisation" (a woolly contrast made famous by Thomas Mann).

That is the biggest thing, is to realize that there is more to living then the materialistic things, and being upset all the time.

Gore commented on the song: "Popular culture is morally bankrupt, flagrantly licentious and utterly materialistic and Madonna is the worst of all".

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

But as other decades passed -- the bland, polyester 70's; the greedy, padded-shoulder 80's; the materialistic, designer 90's; the bullying, Botox 00's -- I've become nostalgic for the idealistic passion of the 60's.