material pleasures
Example Sentences
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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
History will merely smile at his railing against Western ways, industrialism and material pleasures.
From Time Magazine Archive
But I see, instead, intellectual cynicism, intellectual apathy, an absorbing love of physical exercise, an appetite for material pleasures, a distaste for books and thought.
From From a College Window by Benson, Arthur Christopher
He practised self-denial, repressed his appetites for selfish desires and turned away from material pleasures.
From Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas by Bahá'u'lláh
