Sentence examples for of material excess from inspiring English sources

Bo said he had rejected a life of material excess.

She believes a lack of material excess in her childhood, paradoxically, left her more secure.

Muslim critics of the redevelopment love to pontificate that the purpose of pilgrimage is to "cleanse" oneself of material excess.

Jeremy Corbyn is criticised in much of the media for questioning a system that engorges a tiny minority of wealthy executives while buying the acquiescence of millions through a pampered existence of material excess.

This artist goes to even greater lengths than usual to state the obvious, handmaking a 31-piece suite of luggage that has all the comforts of the most luxurious Upper East Side co-op apartment to remind us that we live in an era of material excess.

The artist goes to even greater lengths than usual to state the obvious, handmaking a 31-piece suite of luggage that has all the comforts of the most luxurious Upper East Side co-op apartment to remind us that we live in an era of material excess.

On "good kid, m.A.A.d city" he vividly depicts the struggle to withstand the dehumanizing effects of violence and deprivation – and of his own appetite for material excess.

This time the news that ours is an era of extreme material excess is conveyed by a 31-piece set of luggage, fabricated by the artist and two assistants in pale yellow caning with forest green leather trim, chartreuse lining and brass fittings (TG logo included).

Everything from the homes we keep to the foods we eat is evidence of our material excess.

In their hilltop retreat, the Rastas smoke weed, listen to reggae music and try and purge themselves of the material excesses of the world.

Testimony by Bo's wife, his former second-in-command Wang Lijun, and Patrick Devillers, a French architect with ties to the family, revealed lives of extreme entitlement, material excess and graft.