Sentence examples for reject materialism from inspiring English sources

The sisters' eventual dependence on Babette presupposes another side of the pair: they no longer want to reject materialism but have no idea where to begin.

It also intensified opposition to his ideas, and he was angrily accused of holding a strictly determinist and materialist view of man not altogether unfairly, even though he claimed to reject materialism and argued that moral responsibility was compatible with determinism as he conceived it.

Buddhism rejects materialism as one of the Three Poisons that lead to suffering.

Consumers are rejecting materialism and looking towards brands that create memories, research suggests.

I live in pretty comfortable circumstances, but I've rejected materialism in any excessive form.

Here was a woman who had grown up amid tended lawns and new cars, yet she rejected materialism.

They were, like the Romantics and the Dadaists before them, assaulting bourgeois complacency, redefining obscenity (as the news did), and rejecting materialism — the production of theatrical illusion, and of art objects that could be commodified.

The beat writers rejected materialism and conformity and promoted personal freedom and the use of mind-altering drugs.

Leibniz rejected materialism on the grounds that it could not, in principle, ever capture the "true unity" of perceptual consciousness, that characteristic of the self which can simultaneously unify a manifoldness of perceptual content.

Who rejects materialism, lives in a guesthouse and likes to be driven in second-hand cars?" The answer, as spelled out in the Daily Express, is a hamper of royal goods.

Beilhart rejected materialism and disavowed personal property.