Sentence examples for materialistic world from inspiring English sources

The materialistic world of Gatsby is defined by social politics in a metropolitan America.

He is rather like the contemporary artist trying to make magic in a materialistic world".

He's the perennial outsider and spiritual pilgrim who feels stranded in a vulgar, materialistic world filled with hypocrites and bores.

Joe Bonaparte is an Italian immigrant's 21-year-old son, hell-bent on making it in a materialistic world.

Fitzgerald's warnings have not been heeded and we still live in an increasingly materialistic world obsessed by youth and beauty.

The designer understands that branded goods which will never be available to buy on the open market are the absolute pinnacle of desire in a materialistic world.

It is about the gentrification of New York, the commercialisation of creativity, the effect of religion on an individual's life, the determination to work when many of your colleagues are a quarter of your age, and how to maintain integrity in the materialistic worlds of Manhattan and the fashion industry".

Second, the materialistic world-view underlying neo-Darwinian writings often privileges the objective over the subjective, ignoring mind, intention and consciousness as immune to objective analysis, and too immaterial to affect the material world.

They retained their major-label deals and set sail for modernism's materialistic new world: electronics, funk, personal autonomy, interesting trousers.

In other ways they could not be more different from the materialistic western world, because the Bradleys are Mormons and belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

This sum comes from the K Foundation, a prank outfit run by wealthy pop musicians aiming to stir up mischief in what they see as the grossly materialistic art world.Materialism of another kind is at the root of the controversy over the Turner prize.