material pleasures
Example Sentences
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By contrast, presumed happiness focuses on things that corrupt, such as power, money, and material pleasures.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
In a simpler age, before the arrival of globalisation and its many consumer distractions, it was easier to advocate a monastic life that disavows all material pleasures.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2017
History will merely smile at his railing against Western ways, industrialism and material pleasures.
From Time Magazine Archive
As luxury and extravagance and material pleasures were the prominent evils of the old Roman world in its decline, it was natural that the protest against these evils should assume the greatest outward antagonism.
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 04 Imperial Antiquity by Lord, John
Self-love is wrong in a sense--the usual sense in which the term is used, of giving priority to oneself in the acquisition of material pleasures.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir
