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
I ask you, why should the Inquisitors and the Jesuits of your imagination live but for the attainment of 'mean material pleasures?'
From The Grand Inquisitor by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
There are two principal kinds of pleasures that man seeks; one is material pleasures, and about ninety-nine per cent of the human family devote themselves to these.
From Think A Book for To-day by Hunter, Col. Wm. C.
