As long as we pursue this materialistic kind of lifestyle where we make money, and possessions [are] the only ambition in life, we are going to go downhill and eventually destroy ourselves.
Rather, there has been an evolution, bringing us to the point where we can go beyond crude animism, whether of the spiritual or materialistic kind, at last seeing how consciousness works in the whole scheme of reality.
At heart, "Sex and the City" sympathized too much with its protagonist to either stand between her and happiness or pass any kind of judgment on the hyper-materialistic form that happiness ultimately took.
Futurism held in equal contempt symbolism, classicism, moralism, parliamentarianism, feminism, "Don Juanism", individualism, archaism, egoism, pessimism, "and every kind of materialistic self-serving cowardice".
Increasing prosperity from the 1950s, among other factors, had contributed to a decline in respect for traditional authority and institutions, such as marriage, and fostered a kind of materialistic hedonism, according to many communitarians.
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.
Since this is reality television, it turns out, of course, that this seeming paradise is in fact a kind of materialistic hell and, one way or another, the women are all leading lives of quiet unhappiness, if not flat-out desperation.
As played by Kristy Swanson, Buffy's a Valley girl the kind of materialistic, Southern California teen queen who was christened in a 1982 song by Frank Zappa and his daughter Moon Unit and fleshed out the following year in a movie of the same name.
Look out for the following warning signs that a girl might be somewhat materialistic, and also just crummy kind of date: She refuses to split a tab.
For fashion of all kinds is fundamentally materialistic and utilitarian.
This sum comes from the K Foundation, a prank outfit run by wealthy pop musicians aiming to stir up mischief in what they see as the grossly materialistic art world.Materialism of another kind is at the root of the controversy over the Turner prize.
