Sentence examples for the materialistic and from inspiring English sources
Certainly, education points to the materialistic and instrumentalization of knowledge as a pure byproduct of socio-economic and political imperatives.
Modernity has rightly rejected past architectural excesses, but, Pérez-Gómez argues, the materialistic and technological alternatives it proposes do not answer satisfactorily the complex desire that defines humanity.
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.
Since then, while some mainstream rap has veered to the materialistic and misogynistic, there have always been successful rappers who have rallied against the vapid.
Russophilia is widespread among intellectuals, who like to romanticise the Russian soul for being more in tune with spiritual German culture than is the materialistic and utilitarian "Western civilisation" (a woolly contrast made famous by Thomas Mann).
While in the Baroque period the skull appeared serene and comforting, it gradually lost its sibling elements (a candle, a faded flower, an hourglass), eventually taking center stage in the materialistic and atheistic 21st century.
Western culture is learning yet again from populations which lagged behind the materialistic taint and preserve many of their traditional values, and such is the case for Eastern countries.
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.
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.
"It's interesting that people point the finger at her for being the materialistic one and not Roger," she says.
Her decision to live with the unscrupulous Mr. Bykov makes her an outsider, not typical of sentimental novels; unlike the heroine in Samuel Richardson's 1748 novel Clarissa, she chooses the materialistic path and loses her interest in literature.
