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
The desire to show off, to excite envy in others, is always present at the homes where material pleasures are the rule.
From Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep by Hunter, William Crosbie
Such a study will prevent us from being overwhelmed by the uglinesses of life, or from becoming sunk in a morass of material pleasures, and will open up ways of escape into the heavenly realms.
From Modern Saints and Seers by Marrett, Evan
