English example sentences with "materialism"

Freegans embrace community, generosity, social concern, freedom, cooperation, and sharing in opposition to a society based on materialism, moral apathy, competition, conformity, and greed.
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You grew up with too much materialism, and now you envy your neighbours.
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The prosaic materialism of the majority condemns as madness the flashes of super-sight which penetrate the common veil of obvious empiricism.
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I thought "like money for a cat" was different than "like pearls before swine". I thought it was a tribute to the exemplary nature of the cat and the ultimate meaninglessness of the materialism of money.
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The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.
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Historical materialism is a pseudoscience.
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Life is best lived unencumbered by materialism.
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Reason has long been declared the "harlot of the devil", and dialectical materialism a diabolical delusion.
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It follows from the teaching of dialectical materialism about the knowability of the world that the laws of the development of social life are just as knowable as the laws of the development of nature.
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On the contrary, I planned an intensive study of the works of the later Victorians, of that blissful period in the history of Europe when we could believe in the comforting doctrine of materialism.
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The pillars of the new world are materialism, egoism and idiocy.
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Materialism affirms reality.
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