Encourage him to help others, even in the smallest of ways, and to find value in non-materialistic items.
This is an amicable investigation, however, so in Friday's episode Mr. Krulwich also manages to find a quiet, poignant figure in the highly charged, materialistic hip-hop world.
At her best, Casey is a stand-up philosopher posing the most vexing questions about human existence while satirizing the materialistic ways we find to hold our despair at a distance.
But most films imply that they're too sanitised, synthetic and materialistic to take seriously.
Although it may seem shallow and materialistic to be focused on appearance, it's normal.
And Michael Obiora as Deli's brashly materialistic son finds a chilling surrogate father in Shaun Parkes' racketeering mentor.
In recent seasons, Mr. de la Renta has sought to make his clothes more distinctive and rich, without necessarily looking materialistic, and the palette has been full of interesting, hard-to-find colors.
I call this solution "experientialism" and the people who live this way "experientialists": instead of looking for happiness, identity, status and meaning in material things, like materialistic people do, they find them in experiences.
Whether it be about themselves, materialistic possessions, boyfriend, getting married, or a vacation, they always find something to make them sound better than you.
Readers might expect our materialistic outlook to point us to simple measures of economic performance, but they can be misleading.
