Sentence examples for materialistic ones from inspiring English sources

He said that law also appeals to more idealistic impulses, not just to materialistic ones.

The characters in "Essex" enact normal lives, if wildly shallow and materialistic ones, in such an obviously artificial way that you find yourself not giving a moment's thought to what's real and what isn't.

Nonetheless, a shift in imaginary realms--from selfless, poetic myths (Hercules) to more materialistic ones (Vader -- has happened.

"It's interesting that people point the finger at her for being the materialistic one and not Roger," she says.

The immigrants of 1890-1910 arrivedrined in a milieu that was "in many ways utterly dissociated from the rest of America," yet they had a vision — a rather materialistic one, but still a vision — of what life in America could be if they worked hard enough; and they did work, and they did aspire to something more than they had; and they did get out of the slums.

Whether impressively entrepreneurial or worryingly materialistic, one thing is certain: 14-year-olds have never dressed so well.

Luckily, a growing number of people concerned with the origins and impacts of their food are rejecting this materialistic and one-dimensional view of what we eat.

Why is it that humanity has not yet made the transition from a materialistic society to one based on principles of harmony, respect and love?

"I don't think there's been any era as materialistic as this one," said Choo of Gospel Light Christian Church.

Only last weekend the Sunday Times, quasi-bible for many materialistic aspirants, quoted on page one a private school head (paywall) warning that layers of middle-class doctors, lawyers and teachers accustomed to sending their kids to private schools were being priced out of the market by fast-rising fees, quadrupled in 20 years.

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.