The phrase "materialistic needs" is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used to refer to people's tendency to become overly focused on material possessions and financial success. For example, "She was so obsessed with achieving her materialistic needs that she forgot to take time to enjoy life."
While the temptation to earn more money while seeing fewer patients may be understandable, couching one's materialistic needs in idealistic rhetoric about wanting to provide quality, personalized care is transparent.
As our materialistic needs are being satisfied, as we live in abundance rather than in scarcity, people are looking more and more for a meaning in their life.
Battistelli and Lucianetti (2010), for instance, argue that such high living standards, accompanied by high levels of economic development, lead to the development of post-materialistic needs (Inglehart 1996); which in turn would result in "forms of participation, aesthetics and self-fulfilment"ad (Battistelli and Lucianetti 2010: 46).
How can it develop a set of criteria and goals that speak to what appears to be a growing non-materialistic need in people – a need to feel connected; valued; part of a community of equals – not Thatcherite individuals fighting alone?
This personifies their shallow materialistic existence and need for overpriced bags and shoes.
Those are only the materialistic items you need.
And for the more materialistic among us, August needs a reason to buy cards and gifts.
Though she's "not particularly materialistic" she understands that she needs to bring in enough income to support her lifestyle.
In hyperkinetic, brashly materialistic boom times, the Middle Kingdom needs a real role model who extols and perhaps even profits from -- this timeless truth.
In those which have, positive associations have been attributed to attempts to satisfy the unmet needs of more materialistic individuals.
18 It has been suggested that these associations may reflect attempts to satisfy the unmet needs of more materialistic individuals, 15 in a manner akin to self-medication.
