Sample sentences for MATERIALISTIC

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concerned with wealth and possessions at the expense of other interests

She thinks Americans are too materialistic.

This was how America had embraced Communism; this was America's first green fruit of materialistic rebellion.
Richard Wright -- Black Boy
We are mundane and materialistic—and do you know of any other nation that acts for ideals?
John Steinbeck -- East of Eden
JACQUELINE: Essentialists and materialists.
Eugene Ionesco -- The Future Is in Eggs
They are godless through and through, gross egotists, despicable materialists.
Wladyslaw Szpilman -- The Pianist
On the other hand, dialectic materialism...
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
Is anything wrong with you this evening that you grow so materialistic?
E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India
His voice resisted the pressure of materialistic civilization.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tender is the Night
I call it cynical and disgusting materialism.
George Bernard Shaw -- Man And Superman
The Depression had made materialists of us all; almost everybody wanted "to be a success."
Russell Baker -- Growing Up
And how did he handle the growing materialism in which so many people feel no need of faith and consider the church almost an anachronism?
Margaret Craven -- I Heard the Owl Call My Name
Folks just believed it was materialistic for a long time until our class.
Peter Jenkins -- A Walk Across America
It is a strange lack in the sex which is in other things more primitive and more materialistic.
Virginia Woolf -- A Room of One's Own
Even if there isn't supposed to be any such thing as love in a purely materialistic conception of society?
Ernest Hemingway -- For Whom the Bell Tolls
The whole tendency of our latest centuries, in its scientific and materialistic aspect, is most probably accursed.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot
And afterward an out-and-out materialistic world—and the Catholic Church.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise
We are all realists here, and materialists.
Ralph Ellison -- Invisible Man
His father is a failure in business and therefore a great disappointment to the materialist mother.
Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
His outlook was bleak and materialistic.
Jack London -- White Fang
Carley had been told by a Columbia professor that she was a type of the present age—a modern young woman of materialistic mind.
Zane Grey -- The Call of the Canyon

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