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Example sentences for: materialistic

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"The more materialistic science becomes," he boasted to Oscar Wilde, "the more angels shall I paint."
Do I get it when “I shall not want,” four simple one-syllable words, swaying in iambic rhythm, with the shall sliding irresistibly into the breathy w of want calling up the memory of God's “breathing the breath of life” [Genesis 2:7] and man becoming a “living soul” is “improved” to “I shall lack nothing” with its jagged k sound, its materialistic, vacuous nothing , or changed to “I have everything I need” to which “Well, whad-daya know!”
"The lamentable moral degradation that leads some people to exchange human lives for money has its roots in our materialistic society, characterized by badly swollen egos," the paper claimed.
Time 's trend cover story concludes that Generation Xers are not slackers: They're materialistic, ambitious, and entrepreneurial.
Crumbling, generic, enervated, debt-ridden, materialistic ...