How to Use materialism in a Sentence

materialism

noun

• The young man leaves with a copy of the NIV and returns lauding the materialism of Marx.
  — Luther Ray Abel, National Review, 30 June 2021
• All is made of atoms, a claim that leads to a brief overview of the history of materialism.
  — Denis Alexander, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2023
• In essence, the problem wasn’t a shortage of gas, but an excess of materialism.
  — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2021
• If Rodgers’s example is anything to go by, the road warriors of the old school were above such base materialism.
  — Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 11 Jan. 2021
• What this film tells the viewer is that success is not measured in materialism, but how much one gives back.
  — Rachael Scott, CNN, 25 Dec. 2021
• The two lyricists found themselves in a genre now ruled by materialism.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 13 Apr. 2021
• Let these guys soak in the joy of the achievement before drowning them in mindless materialism.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 16 Jan. 2020
• Adams was, above all, a critic of the materialism of the late 19th century and the early 20th century.
  — Diane Scharper, Washington Examiner, 31 Dec. 2020
• The fifth and final single from Born to Die is a playful take on love as materialism, with a dark underbelly.
  — Richard S. He, Billboard, 28 Aug. 2019
• They are rooted in the spiritual world—a realm that feels lost amid our own tumult of materialism.
  — Sara Wheeler, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2021
• Yet there is something in her vision, its materialism and its idealism too, that might serve us.
  — Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
• As part of the rapid social change of the late 1960s, idealists in rebellion against rat-race materialism joined communes and encounter groups.
  — New York Times, 7 May 2022
• But naming something can serve to push against a culture of materialism.
  — Kathryn Hymes, The Atlantic, 14 Apr. 2022
• No wonder so many of us, even in this age of scientific materialism, still believe in God.
  — John Horgan, Scientific American, 5 Nov. 2020
• Is the turn toward panpsychism a kind of neo-Romanticism born of our yearning to reënchant the world that materialism has rendered mute?
  — Meghan O’Gieblyn, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2019
• But this woman holds something else — a prism, an object that strikes a note of potential and promise, not materialism.
  — Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 16 June 2017
• This makes perfect sense, since if the self has an end (materialism, remember), then the self is an appropriate end in itself.
  — Harper's Magazine, 25 June 2024
• Turgenev saw in them a crude but powerful materialism that counterposed the needs of the peasantry against the vague consolations of art.
  — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2022
• Sounds like someone took the lesson of overwhelming materialism from the Christmas special to heart.
  — Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2020
• Young women being asked to tell a story that’s outside of materialism or their bodies or their careers is very rare and [those stories are] hard to get funded.
  — Hanna Phifer, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Aug. 2023
• Her pieces are collide-o-scopic mashups of materialism and consumerism.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 4 Aug. 2019
• The hajj in Islam is meant to unify Muslims, with pilgrims shedding displays of wealth and materialism.
  — Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2019
• The reality is that really just reflects the cosmopolitan materialism of the West of our day.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 22 Dec. 2011
• There are some places where moral outrage should triumph materialism.
  — Mei Fong, The Atlantic, 11 July 2020
• Now, Santa is all but entrenched in the Christmas lexicon, the rosy-cheeked face of Christmas who is the subject of movies, perennial parental lies and debates about childhood materialism.
  — Author: Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Alaska Dispatch News, 5 Oct. 2017
• The movie opens with a weirdly joyless wedding scene, then invites the audience to stare at garish displays of 1 percenter materialism.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 8 Feb. 2018
• The demise of the Gilded Age, with its gross materialism and blatant political corruption, led to the Panic of 1893, the worst depression the nation had ever endured.
  — David Conrads, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 May 2021
• The splashy project landed him on talk shows and magazine covers as the photogenic shorthand for Reagan-age materialism.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2018
• The project has prompted the photographer to reflect on her own materialism -- and society's consumerism at large.
  — CNN, 7 July 2022
• The pursuit of Christian unity will continue under Francis, not only because the new pope already has a good ecumenical track record but also because the threats of materialism, intolerance, and oppression show no signs of abating.
  — Victor Gaetan, Foreign Affairs, 3 Apr. 2013

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