A desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters.
1 It seems that materialism has grown in the Church, as in society.
2 The Jacobins were idealists; there was about this man a murderous materialism .
3 Or it may lead, as in the case of Helveticus, to materialism .
4 We were poor sceptics trusting to economics-theeconomics of a base materialism .
5 Not only does he despise materialism ; he also disdains rationality and calculation.
6 In this island many people are being lost to secularism and materialism .
7 Certainly, individualism tends to be correlated with materialism , and so is narcissism.
8 In Britain there is a long tradition of moralising about mindless materialism .
9 The Stoic system of physics was materialism with an infusion of pantheism.
10 A refined materialism is stamped on all the habits of Flemish life.
11 Many argue that, for residents who have renounced materialism , this is impossible.
12 But as soon as it becomes intelligible, it ceases to be materialism .
13 They adhered to coarse materialism with its confusion of ends and means.
14 Whence comes a latent materialism , ready to grasp the chance of self-expression.
15 Fan is pragmatic when considering the rampant materialism of the new Beijing.
16 But our present bishops are only one more aspect of Victorian materialism .
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Materialism в диалектах
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