This, of course, made sensory qualities as experienced inexplicable in materialistic terms. From Wordnik.com. [September 13th, 2009] Reference
The so-called materialistic “American dream” will be dismantled, in the process. From Wordnik.com. [On the Importance of 'Us,' and Our Embracement Waiting in the Wings] Reference
I realised that what I should now call the materialistic hypothesis would not help me to. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography] Reference
I realised that what I should now call the materialistic hypothesis would not help me to a solution. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventure of Living]
B) Participation can’t be evaluated in materialistic terms, so it’s excluded from consideration. From Wordnik.com. [Angelical Participation? « Unknowing] Reference
But there are redeeming features even in what people have come to characterize as a materialistic age. From Wordnik.com. [The Educational Problems and Responsibilities of the Empire] Reference
He founded it on a general philosophy of society which is known as the materialistic conception of history. From Wordnik.com. [A Preface to Politics] Reference
Coming from a generation that has been called materialistic and cynical, such idealism should be refreshing. From Wordnik.com. [What's Wrong With Idealism?] Reference
I've heard our culture described as materialistic, but we don't seem to love the material world all that much. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Moore: Redefining Education: Cultivating the Soul] Reference
But this position cannot be called materialistic, if, as seems to be the case, physics does not assume the existence of matter. From Wordnik.com. [The Analysis of Mind] Reference
That is the so-called materialistic view, but to the writer it seems an erroneous one, and it is certainly one that is not proven. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Matter A Criticism of Professor Haeckel's 'Riddle of the Universe'] Reference
Darwin's teachings provide the framework for the western "materialistic" mind to arrive at the "Truth". From Wordnik.com. [The President and Intelligent Design] Reference
And I think at the end he realized that he had sacrificed his daughter to this kind of materialistic existence. From Wordnik.com. [Salmon P. Chase: A Biography] Reference
Surely being good for an eventual reward is "materialistic". From Wordnik.com. [بالاترین] Reference
But although it accepts both the extreme "materialistic" view and the extreme. From Wordnik.com. [The Complex Vision] Reference
If you will, you may use, for what he was, the word "materialistic"; but such a word gives an absurdly wrong impression. From Wordnik.com. [Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions] Reference
On the other hand, those interpretations that are characterized as materialistic ... are daily winning serious respect. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
And so it befell, that this eighteenth century, which is usually held to be the most "materialistic" of epochs, was, in fact, a most. From Wordnik.com. [The Ancien Regime] Reference
And people call her materialistic!. From Wordnik.com. [For the record: Paris Hilton IS capable of memorizing a two-minute script | EW.com] Reference
"materialistic" any more than any industrial system must necessarily be. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Conduct] Reference
I don’t care how the Kiosk looks, its materialistic which is exactly how Sony have always made their money…. From Wordnik.com. [EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - PS3 Kiosks] Reference
"materialistic" into someone "with access to a lot of money, boasting about all the influential people she was meeting". From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
"We are a more materialistic generation," says Leventhal. From Wordnik.com. [ACTIVISM: HARVARD HITS THE SWING STATES] Reference
You've got to forget all this materialistic bull and move on. From Wordnik.com. [Saving Grace] Reference
Remember the materialistic joy of making out a birthday wish list?. From Wordnik.com. [Be Careful What You Wish For] Reference
The biggest factor may be that they have also become much more materialistic. From Wordnik.com. [Family under the microscope] Reference
Not sure whether Americans are becoming more materialistic and self-absorbed?. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Time Magazine's Bizarre Assault on Large Families] Reference
To some observers, we are so materialistic that we can easily make sacrifices. From Wordnik.com. [A Darker Future For Us] Reference
As Twenge shows, the older you are, the less materialistic you are likely to have been when young. From Wordnik.com. [Family under the microscope] Reference
I did not consider myself particularly materialistic before cancer, but I am definitely less so now. From Wordnik.com. [LIVE LIFE TO THE FULLEST: ENJOY EVERY SANDWICH] Reference
Many sociologists say Germans are too materialistic and too busy to bother with children these days. From Wordnik.com. [Be Kinder To Your 'Kinder'] Reference
Yet doing the right thing seems to be insufficient motivation for action in our materialistic world. From Wordnik.com. [Money For Mortality] Reference
Ten years on, the women are still funny, cutting, narcissistic, materialistic (the labels!) and loyal. From Wordnik.com. [Girls Gone Mild] Reference
For these materialistic children, the answer is to take away the perks and privileges of their affluent lifestyle. From Wordnik.com. [MAIL CALL: LEARNING TO DRAW THE LINE] Reference
I love giving and receiving gifts, and I do not consider holiday gift-giving to be a coerced, materialistic surrender. From Wordnik.com. [The Good of Gifts] Reference
In our materialistic world, the American way of life has become the model and the envy of many in the less developed world. From Wordnik.com. [Letters] Reference
"" He gave away money, objects of art and other things he felt were concerns that were more materialistic than spiritual. ''. From Wordnik.com. [The Art Of Dying Well] Reference
To the reader, the travelers all come across as vacuous, materialistic and utterly uninterested in the cultures around them. From Wordnik.com. [Gen X Invades Asia] Reference
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