Sentence examples for materialistic ways from inspiring English sources

I was surprised that the central character doesn't cast off her materialistic ways.

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.

The film's putatively radical protagonists break into rich people's houses while they are out, pile the furniture in a heap and leave slightly insulting notes telling the victims to mend their materialistic ways.

The men most likely to feel emotional and physical distress when their wives have a higher status or income tend to be those who are more invested in their identity as breadwinners than as partners and who define success in materialistic ways.

"On the mathematical side you could in principle build a society in which people were fulfilling their needs and flourishing as human beings in a higher way than in a consumer society, provided you had the right investments in the opportunity to flourish in less materialistic ways.

Now I'm not shackled by materialistic ways, but c'mon who doesn't like free shit?

Christmas is a time to show your love in a totally materialistic way – with gifts.

Seabrook's fascinating book – part intellectual history, part heartfelt polemic – is a plea to redefine wealth and poverty in a less materialistic way.

And – in the most materialistic way imaginable for a film that's ostensibly spiritual – it has the crass message that there's always money to be made from following your dream.

On the Stoical view that it is both necessary and sufficient, a eudaimon life is a life that has been successfully lived (where "success" of course is not to be understood in a materialistic way) and such people die knowing not only that they have made a success of their lives but that they have also brought their lives to a markedly successful completion.

And not in an icy, snobbish or materialistic way -- just in a let-me-live way.