Sentence examples for of this materialistic from inspiring English sources

The day must come when the castles of this materialistic civilization will be laid low upon the heads of their inhabitants.

They're inhabitants of this materialistic universe with values defined by money.

To James Dean wannabes who came of age in this materialistic postwar era, a car was a means of escape from the restrictions of home life, income level and social class.

By the middle of the '90s this materialistic world was in place".

Some of his followers adopted this materialistic position and advocated some sort of spontaneous generation in the distant past.

Luckily, a growing number of people concerned with the origins and impacts of their food are rejecting this materialistic and one-dimensional view of what we eat.

It's easy to dismiss all of this as materialistic, even Faustian, but to a country that had so little for so long many rural inhabitants still have next to nothing smart phones and cars that don't drive backwards of their own accord are a good enough reason to put up with a seemingly soulless leader.

Malbranche, Leibniz, and Berkeley — again, according to Jacobi — had recognized this materialistic implication of Spinoza's thought, and, in order to counteract it, they had all taken the obvious step of declaring 'extension' itself to be just an appearance.

In large part an exposé of the materialistic and uncultured character of American life, the work nevertheless indicates that many aspects of capitalist society appealed to the authors.

It's not just in-state students feeling the brunt of these materialistic policies.

Before leaving this survey of the family of materialistic theories, a quite different sense of the word materialism should be noted in which it denotes not a metaphysical theory but an ethical attitude.