'materialistic lifestyle' is an acceptable phrase in written English.
You can use this phrase when referring to a lifestyle focused on accumulating material possessions or having a strong attachment to material goods. For example, "John leads a very materialistic lifestyle, always striving to buy the best and newest items."
Gary: It's the opposite of a materialistic lifestyle.
A materialistic lifestyle seems to be more and more modern especially for college students.
How will they learn about the pitfalls of an excessively materialistic lifestyle?
Fluffy pillows, wine, Pepsi-Cola and glamorous couples enjoying recreational activities are featured; a materialistic lifestyle beyond the reach of most Yugoslavs is cheerfully encouraged.
Feelings of insecurity incline people toward materialist values, the research suggests, and that insecurity can also lead to relationship troubles and other problems associated with a materialistic lifestyle.
And two of his granddaughters have appeared in a reality television show called "Being Mandela," about their materialistic lifestyle, as well as starting a clothing line called LWTF, an acronym for Mr. Mandela's autobiography, "Long Walk to Freedom".
Papanek accused designers of creating useless, unnecessary and unsafe products; of wastefully propagating product obsolescence; of creating "stuff-lust" that promoted materialistic lifestyles.
Until recently ad salesmen in the magazine world were famous for living the materialistic lifestyles their publications promote.
The Western world decides to turn away from consumerism and adopt less materialistic lifestyles, drawing back the economic output to a level consistent with sustainability.
Sadly, despite this realization, the more-more-more drive of our materialistic lifestyles -- more money, more status, more stuff -- is slowly killing us, from a combination of stress, isolation and emptiness.
Your inner voice begins to ask, "Are these what I truly want?" Facing all that can be difficult, even painful, because we're so easily trapped within our past choices and/or materialistic lifestyles, and there we may not be able to see any viable alternatives.
