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 highest felicity which we are yet able to imagine is a felicity based upon much money; our highest pleasures the material pleasures which money buys, yes?
From The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation by Wilson, Harry Leon
There are two principal pleasures man seeks; one is material pleasures and that takes in about ninety-nine per cent of the human family.
From Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep by Hunter, William Crosbie
