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How To Use materialistic In A Sentence

• That we are justified in thus partially travestying the technical methods of some of our modern scientists, so called -- especially those of the materialistic school -- those advocating a purely physical theory of life, we need only quote a sentence or two from Life: Its True Genesis
• At least, we may have two types of happiness: [ wv ] spiritual happiness and materialistic happiness.
• Korean shamanism is very, very materialistic and this-worldly, as Koreans tend to be.
• But feminism is not about an obligation to look like you're above what some might call materialistic things, because none of us are, really... if you dress down just to look smart, you're still compromising your own interests for the sake of what someone else finds suitable, when really the most subversive thing you can do as a girl is just do what you want. Catherine Epstein: Feminism and the 14-Year-Old: Tavi Gevinson Says Do What You Want
• Materialistic solutions in the science of man, humanitarian ends in legislation, naturalism in art, active faith in the improvableness of institutions -- all these are once more the marks of speculation and the guiding ideas of practical energy. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2)
• Not only would a leader need to model Christlikeness and nonmaterialistic motives, but he must also confront those troublesome individuals. Rich in Every Way
• Indeed our materialistic, pansexualist society makes its necessity almost inconceivable to us. Archive 2007-03-01
• Neil is vain, priggish and, like his wife Iona, grimly materialistic.
• Yet it would seem that such a proposition must be held by a materialist, or by what can be implied by the term "monist," used in its narrowest and most unphilosophic sense -- a sense which would be better expressed by the term materialistic-monist, with a limitation of the term matter to the terrestrial chemical elements and their combinations, _i. e._, to that form of substance to which the human race has grown accustomed -- a sense which tends to exclude ethereal and other generalisations and unknown possibilities such as would occur to a philosophic monist of the widest kind. Life and Matter A Criticism of Professor Haeckel's 'Riddle of the Universe'
• The so-called materialistic “American dream” will be dismantled, in the process. On the Importance of 'Us,' and Our Embracement Waiting in the Wings