If the mosaic of quotations is built up correctly, a pattern should emerge that is more than the sum of its parts but which cannot exist independently of them: this is the essence of the new form of historical-materialistic writing that Benjamin believed himself to be practising.
"A passionate and serious man, Austin has no patience for shallow and materialistic pursuits," they wrote.
As William F. Buckley, Jr. once wrote: "Materialistic democracy beckons every man to make himself a king; republican citizenship incites every man to be a knight.
He is depicted as the opposite of the gauche, materialistic and bellicose artists who rap about designer brands, guns and strippers, instead writing tracks that attack Wall Street.
Maybe it was the materialistic mindset of the retail business, but Amazon didn't delude themselves that developers would be writing apps to use these APIs to win a prize at a hackathon.
By 1933, Adams was writing in the New York Times of the way the American dream had been hijacked: "Throughout our history, the pure gold of this vision has been heavily alloyed with the dross of materialistic aims.
Until Flaubert proved by doing it that it could be done, it wouldn't have been obvious that one could write a successful novel about a selfish, materialistic woman whose life is almost unbearably hopeless and who in the course of the book sleeps with three men (including her husband), and never once has a love affair whose success the reader roots for.
He writes that: "new ideologies, characterised by rampant individualism, egocentrism and materialistic consumption, weaken social bonds, fuelling that 'throw away' mentality which leads to contempt for...the weakest and those considered useless".
In the United States, Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter (1850) and Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1851) are surprisingly complete embodiments of the tragic form, written as they were at a time of booming American optimism, materialistic expansion, and sentimentalism in fiction and no tragic theatre whatever.
Their next work, Die deutsche Ideologie (written 1845 46, published 1932; The German Ideology), contained the fullest exposition of their important materialistic conception of history, which set out to show how, historically, societies had been structured to promote the interests of the economically dominant class.
In the Times, Mike Hale wrote that the show exploits "the longstanding stereotyping of Los Angeles's Iranian-Americans as vulgar, materialistic show-offs who don't fit in among the city's supposedly more cultured elites".
