material pleasures
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By contrast, presumed happiness focuses on things that corrupt, such as power, money, and material pleasures.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
In a simpler age, before the arrival of globalisation and its many consumer distractions, it was easier to advocate a monastic life that disavows all material pleasures.
From BBC • Jul. 21, 2017
Mao seems unable to entirely fend off the "sugarcoated bullets"�the term he uses to describe material pleasures and temptations�that threaten to push China down the Soviet road.
From Time Magazine Archive
History will merely smile at his railing against Western ways, industrialism and material pleasures.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was five years since, a convalescent leaning upon his staff, he had felt himself taken possession of by a loathing of material pleasures.
From Life of St. Francis of Assisi by Houghton, Louise Seymour
