Sentence examples for materialistic that from inspiring English sources
Participant 9, a 41-year old female administrator who was adopted when she was two years old, was still disappointed by parental favouritism, " They can never give me anything materialistic that would equal what they sacrificed for [sister]"; and neglect, "They had an opportunity to take care of me... but they didn't, and I have a lot of struggles from that".
Our enemies believed America was weak and materialistic, that we would splinter in fear and selfishness.
Then God announces that Everyman has become so craven and materialistic that he can purge himself of these impulses only by dying.
I've got a question for Heather Fenby: If her Buddhist boyfriend is right in telling her that she's too materialistic, that she's too busy worrying about her (conveniently missing) stuff, instead of thinking about "what really matters," why has he filled her apartment to overflowing with his stuff?
So I took advantage of a free trial on a well-known Internet-based matchmaking service and created a personal for an obnoxious, conceited geek I named David Otto Swiss {His friends call him DOS.} I made the ad so over-the-top, so unabashedly shallow and materialistic, that I figured anyone who answered it deserved a guy like DOS.
Have we as African descent persons become so materialistic that we have turned what are supposed to be houses of prayer for the nations into dens of robbers and markets?
In a way they proved beneficial to our protagonists – forcing them to take control of their lives and look beyond the materialistic concerns that once seemed paramount.
For some conservatives, accepting Darwin undercuts religious faith and produces an amoral, materialistic worldview that easily embraces abortion, embryonic stem cell research and other practices they abhor.
"You're bringing children up in the single most materialistic culture that has ever existed on the face of the earth," he said.
Professor Frost, who has appeared as a therapist on the TLC program, "Hoarding: Buried Alive," said that although we might assume that compulsive hoarding was the result of a materialistic society, that was not necessarily true.
"There's so much more to black life and culture than the materialistic portion that seems to consume all the lyrical content on the radio," Mr. Williams has said on MTV's Web site.
