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Recent Examples of materialism
The book is a Christian parable, pitting faith against 20th-century materialism.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
1 Apr. 2026
Crucially, however, there is another view onto Bove’s sculpture beyond the double illusionism of its oblique materialism and front-facing near-pictorialism.
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Gordon Hughes,
Artforum,
1 Mar. 2026
The scene offers a pitiless view of the sexism, and materialism, of the culture in which the girls were being raised.
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Mark Oppenheimer,
Vulture,
25 Feb. 2026
In fact, what materialism can’t adequately capture is experience itself.
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Christopher Beha,
New Yorker,
14 Feb. 2026
See All Example Sentences for materialism
Encyclopedia Britannica,
1 Apr. 2026
Crucially, however, there is another view onto Bove’s sculpture beyond the double illusionism of its oblique materialism and front-facing near-pictorialism.
—
Gordon Hughes,
Artforum,
1 Mar. 2026
The scene offers a pitiless view of the sexism, and materialism, of the culture in which the girls were being raised.
—
Mark Oppenheimer,
Vulture,
25 Feb. 2026
In fact, what materialism can’t adequately capture is experience itself.
—
Christopher Beha,
New Yorker,
14 Feb. 2026
See All Example Sentences for materialism
Recent Examples of Synonyms for materialism
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While commercialism exists, the authentic human connection ignited by shared emotions, like a goal celebration, represents the Cup's most enduring and invaluable legacy, transcending mere competition.
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That’s not to say that Davis solely chased commercialism at the expense of art.
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He was lost in his personal problems, and, perhaps, blinded by greed.
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Entering our 250th year, America will either emerge as a more perfect union, or crumble under the weight of our own cruelty and greed.
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This can trigger jealousy, possessiveness, taboo-like attractions, emotional ultimatums, social power plays or money issues that reveal deeper conflicts.
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Shot in Scope, filled with intimate closeups of the couple, the film lets the audience experience the same upsetting jolt as Gil over Jacques’ desire for control and toxic possessiveness.
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The theory here is that avarice and ambition can best be defeated by means of somebody else’s avarice and ambition; power’s inevitable corrupting effect is thereby mitigated or delayed.
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And the forces that contributed to their demise — avarice, ignorance and a lack of imagination — are ascendant, illustrated by plans for a five-story Rolex shop on Las Olas and the Gekko district being built in downtown West Palm Beach.
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Many critics of such wanton cosmic acquisitiveness balk at the idea of scarcely regulated private-sector lunar strip-mining.
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Following too closely in its protagonist’s footsteps, The Queen of Versailles presents only two options — tough but spiritually fulfilling material deprivation or unconstrained acquisitiveness.
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People in the comments shared in the woman’s frustration, agreeing that her mother's greediness needs to be addressed.
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When kids didn’t withdraw, it was sometimes seen as greediness.
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Most accounts of the era blame greed—a new ethic of cupidity that displaced whatever youthful idealism remained from the 1960s.
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The stories of corporate cupidity and stupidity are perhaps more relevant now with technology discrupting markets.
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The French—and, later, Anglo (Wilde, Beardsley, Rossetti)—attitude, mannered and morbid, was perhaps too Old World, at odds with our cheerful, Protestant rapacity.
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Unlike the specialized literary magazine and its informal cousin, the literary blog, the general-interest newspaper has a kind of noble rapacity, an encyclopedic ambition to wrap its arms around the whole of the world.
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“Materialism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/materialism. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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