materialist

Example Sentences

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But Lightman also wishes us to know that he is a materialist and that he is committed to a scientific view of the world.

From Washington Post

The government’s experiment stirred a collective consciousness that art was not about a personal pursuit or materialist effort.

From Los Angeles Times

The era’s tumultuous bouts with the debilitating effects of materialist greed, international corporate capitalism and abusive authoritarian power structures were among the forces instrumental in the movement’s organized formation.

From Los Angeles Times

To the extent you can, at least, because you could have taught them frugality and produced backlash materialists, or spoiled them to the bejeezus and launched a generation of backlash eco-ascetic evangelists.

From Washington Post

A few years later, the Puerto Rican salsero Tony Vega covered it, indulging in all the materialist trappings of 1980s “salsa sensual,” yet still resonating with locals, losing nothing in the cross-Caribbean translation.

From New York Times