You have to reach back to the historical platitudes of the 1950's and early 60's, in which the term "Victorian" is equivalent to prudish, philistine and materialistic, to find the picture Gay has worked so long, so inventively and so successfully to correct.
A 2005 survey showed that four out of five Americans think the holidays are too materialistic, according to the Center for a New American Dream, which promotes responsible consumption.
If so, then functionalism can stand as a materialistic alternative to the Psycho-Physical Identity Thesis (introduced in Place 1956, Feigl 1958, and Smart 1959, and defended more recently in Hill 1991, and Polger 2011), which holds that each type of mental state is identical with a particular type of neural state.
When designers mined the 80's of Aaron Spelling last season, they seemed in touch, at least, with a materialistic world glued to the television taking in "Sex and the City," and a new generation of women aiming to sleep their way into residences of greater square footage.
In a letter to Public Opinion, a Dublin newspaper, he announced "with inflexible materialistic logic, and to the extreme horror of my respectable connections, that I was an atheist".
Possibly the age of economics will be recorded as an interregnum to build the materialistic foundation to take humanity into an age of non-materialistic values as was the case for many ancient cultures.
No one's materialistic.' To ease the mental stresses he surfs every morning; to ease the pain in his knee he crawls down the stairs.
To the extent that he gave it any attention, he tended to regard the United States as vulgar, materialistic, and a threat to the English language.
Since then, while some mainstream rap has veered to the materialistic and misogynistic, there have always been successful rappers who have rallied against the vapid.
