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The idea that materialistic values can obstruct our path to happiness dates back hundreds of years.

By the way, killjoys, American charitable giving goes up by 42 percent during this season of crass materialistic greed and excess.

They succumbed to infidelity, remained materialistic, and acted selfishly.

And so he bears within him the potential to rise above his skewed materialistic values and tap into a true sense of dignity.

This is sort of a materialistic tradition, but every year for Sundance, my friends and I road trip out here.

And for the inescapably materialistic aspirations of that blacksmith, DuBois did not have much regard.

Because we have become so materialistic, we have lost that grand triumphant conviction that there is no death.

She made her lover effeminate and materialistic, advising with him about everything.

The cardinal point in Holbach's philosophy is an inexorable materialistic necessity.

The spirit of the land is as yet materialistic, and the democratic spirit shows itself in the outward forms.

It was not what we materialistic people should call a fine August day.