"She wasn't materialistic at all, she didn't get excited about materialistic things, but she loved that dress," Polo, 33, tells PEOPLE.
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People become more materialistic when they feel insecure: Research shows two sets of factors that lead people to have materialistic values.
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When She Slammed Accusations That She Was Making True Materialistic
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To them, China is authoritarian, vulgar, brutal, materialistic and uncivilised.
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Lastly, materialistic students reported being more dependent on their smartphones.
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I'm not materialistic, but it's no fun being stressed about money.
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A lot of us were chasing this life of materialistic things.
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Leo can be very generous, but it has a materialistic side.
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While you are vain, you're not materialistic— well, today you are!
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Consider the assertion that Jews are more materialistic than non-Jews.
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Let go of whatever materialistic bologna is fogging up your brain.
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"Chloe isn't very materialistic, neither of us are," Mr. Panjwani said.
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It attracted young people disillusioned with the modern materialistic way of life.
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"I believe in spending money on experiences, not materialistic things," she says.
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Moments from some shows have gone viral, with many emphasizing materialistic values.
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But I immediately clarified that I didn't mean that she was materialistic.
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Everyone thinks you're materialistic, Capricorn— and, honestly, you can't argue with them.
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First, you're going to have to fight your party's materialistic mind-set.
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This person believes our society is too materialistic, too reliant on things.
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And mine was so territorial, so materialistic, so possessive, greedy and grabby.
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And it seems that social media might be fueling materialistic attitudes, too.
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I really enjoy the materialistic and dirty aspect of painting with oils.
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Instead, the boomers turned out to be remarkably self-absorbed, cynical and materialistic.
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One can also be competitive — and maybe even a little materialistic and flashy!
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But the world is shifting from a materialistic culture to an experiential culture.
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Kanye lives a privileged life, therefore, Trumpism benefits his materialistic and narcissistic world.
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As these are materialistic things that will never hold true value to us.
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We need both decent speech and good materialistic ideas in this campaign season.
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Plus, there are indications that Americans are less materialistic than they once were.
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We need both decent speech and good materialistic ideas in this campaign season.
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The message may be materialistic, but Burna Boy delivers it like an incantation.
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These crabs aren't exactly materialistic people, but they're very attached to sentimental items.
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Sarah Baker: At that time, I was interested in this high class, materialistic personality.
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As we are growing more materialistic, we are in danger of losing this connection.
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Here, he presents two sculptures that change their perceived function to something less materialistic.
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With that proclamation, it makes sense that this album is his least materialistic yet.
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It's a shame we fall prey to materialistic thinking because we certainly know better.
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"Did you not learn a valuable lesson about displaying materialistic items????" one person wrote.
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Let's be honest, Taurus: You're one of the most materialistic signs in the zodiac.
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I was definitely materialistic before… I'm so happy that my kids get this me.
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At first, the materialistic lyrics seem out of place for the otherwise dreamy singer.
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We're connected with materialistic things, and all this shit that's on TV. It's fucked up.
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Dhammakaya's mostly middle-class adherents complain that older Buddhist temples have grown complacent and materialistic.
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You're not a materialistic person, Pisces, but money and ownership are on your mind today.
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Money is also a major theme during materialistic Taurus season, especially inheritances, debts, and taxes.
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Granted, Scorpio isn't the most materialistic sign, so you'll be thinking of the bare necessities.
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She believes that there is something to the stereotype that Igbo culture is too materialistic.
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But most of the new arrivals bring with them real problems instead of materialistic items.
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It's vacuous and shallow and materialistic, and that's what keeps me coming back to him.
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It's said that "experiences" are the best gifts, but you're in a materialistic mood today.
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There is a human economy that supersedes the monetary and materialistic ideals of powerful people.
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You're not a materialistic person, Pisces, but it's important to reflect on these issues today.
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There's nothing wrong with pursuing a materialistic view of success: more money, greater status, notoriety.
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You're not a materialistic person, Pisces, but money is an important theme for you today.
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First, people are more materialistic when they are exposed to messages that suggest such pursuits are important ... Second, and somewhat less obvious — people are more materialistic when they feel insecure or threatened, whether because of rejection, economic fears or thoughts of their own death.
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" Continues Heidi: "It was such a materialistic world and I was so caught up with myself.
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Where to watch: Netflix Dre worries that his children are too materialistic, especially around the holidays.
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You're in a materialistic mood today, Aries, with the Moon in opulent, fancy Earth sign Taurus.
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You're not very materialistic, Pisces, but somehow you're lucky as hell when it comes to cash!
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Her message of love and compassion was much needed in the materialistic age of the 80s.
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You're not a materialistic person, usually, but today you feel very strongly about situations concerning cash.
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But part explodes the idea that we Americans are irredeemably materialistic creatures, fixated on our possessions.
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I thought the answers that were flawed were the ones that just looked at materialistic explanations.
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"It just shows that Cole is mentally mature, that materialistic objects don't trigger him," Williams said.
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A completely straight line may suggest meticulousness and practicality — but it could also reveal a materialistic streak.
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"Materialistic things can only make you feel so good," Jordyn says of her best friend's farm-mania.
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As we evolve, our minds, bodies, spirits and ambitions are shifting beyond the materialistic, spiritual and physical.
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"I don't care about the car it's materialistic you can't take it with you when you're gone."
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While you don't like to think of yourself as materialistic, the fact is that you totally are.
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But selfies are discussed in op-eds as a symptom of a self-obsessed and materialistic culture.
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Because you're completely materialistic, Capricorn, your mind is often on these topics anyway, but especially so today.
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Far Cry 4's most materialistic character, who lives in a palace, is also its main antagonist.
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I loved how it mixed flamboyance with a hard materialistic silver sensationalism that demanded my aesthetic contemplation.
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" The book's thesis: "America is a crassly materialistic and 'innocent' nation with no understanding of other peoples.
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He denounced what he saw as the corrosive effect on Islam of the materialistic and hypersexualized West.
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You're not very materialistic, Aries, but this Valentine's day you're definitely into jewels, treats, and other gifts.
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Materialism is linked to media exposure and national-advertising expenditures: The research shows that the more that people watch television, the more materialistic their values are ... A study I recently published with psychologist Jean Twenge ... found that the extent to which a given year's class of high school seniors cared about materialistic pursuits was predictable on the basis of how much of the U.S. economy came from advertising and marketing expenditures — the more that advertising dominated the economy, the more materialistic youth were.
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"We are living in an epoch where money can do anything, and we are so materialistic," she said.
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Sophie Kinsella's 2000 novel would come to typify a certain sort of super-materialistic pre-Great Recession mindset.
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Millennials have been demonized as lazy, entitled, narcissistic, and materialistic virtually since the generational category entered the lexicon.
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I get it — what was groundbreaking at the time now seems rather hopelessly backward and almost criminally materialistic.
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Your mind shifts to cash tonight when the Moon enters Aquarius (not really a surprise, you materialistic goat)!
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Miami is tacky and materialistic—that's not news to anyone who lives here or has visited the city.
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Ironically, perhaps, he survives by selling the clothing he dyes to the same people he considers too materialistic.
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"Jaden is not really materialistic," Dallman said, adding that he would have a lifetime supply of Uber Eats.
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Taurus is often known for being materialistic, but a more positive way to describe this sign is sensual.
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I'm not saying you're materialistic or greedy, but conquering issues around cash and work is important to you.
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"I never left Him, I was just a little bit secular, I was more materialistic and more career-driven."
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Punk fashion was originally intentionally anti-materialistic, a grimy basement to the glamour and glitter of the disco upstairs.
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You're one of the least materialistic signs in the zodiac, but even you need to pay your bills, Pisces.
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"We try to not be materialistic with our kids, but it kind of hurt that he noticed," she added.
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Attempting to find fulfillment by purchasing materialistic things isn't going to work and it certainly won't make you happy.
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"Friends can bring out bad stuff for you, and make you competitive, snarky, materialistic, judgmental, or lazy," she says.
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I was talking to this guy—he told me, you can't be conscious and materialistic at the same time.
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But the memory of that materialistic longing, as superficial and bratty as it now seems, always stuck with me.
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When asked if she was going to treat herself to anything after the win, nothing materialistic came to mind.
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This was in large part due to people becoming "more individualistic, materialistic and socially antagonistic," according to the report.
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It posits instead the idea of the "middle path," a life that is neither excessively materialistic nor too ascetic.
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As Kate Dries reported for The New York Times in 2013, trend pieces portrayed millennials as materialistic but cheap.
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But among the less well-heeled believers, I sensed a different kind of yearning, one that wasn't entirely materialistic.
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I cannot take Kiefer's heavy, materialistic side in these questions, even as I can respect him and his side.
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This Leo season, your personal finances and self-esteem are highlighted by the Sun in the proud, materialistic sign.
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This materialistic mind-set means that many Democrats are perpetually surprised by events that involve cultural threats and national identity.
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You're not materialistic, Gemini, but today's full moon in Cancer is finding you focused on issues concerning cash and security.
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If your only love in life right now is money (you're so materialistic, Capricorn), no worries—Venus also rules cash.
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Though Fautrier's crusty, lumpy, smeared canvases dominate the exhibition, to me these materialistic muddles wane next to his earlier works.
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I dislike the fact that society has become so accustomed to prioritizing the materialistic items brought on by these trends.
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Thomas Nagel recently wrote that the thoroughly materialistic view of nature can't account for human consciousness, cognition and moral values.
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Although these incidents were far from the norm, they were used to paint African-American youth as immoral and materialistic.
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In less than 800 words, it gives instructions for charitable giving, staying humble, the power of forgiveness, and not being materialistic.
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Many of the materialistic goals we strive for make little to no lasting impact on our overall life satisfaction, Santos argues.
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If you're feeling overstimulated by materialistic concerns, you can lean into your immaterial, priceless treasures like sex, art, friendship, and community.
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Unsurprisingly, the consumerist and materialistic aspects of V-Day kind of put it in opposition to the values of Ash Wednesday.
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You aren't exactly materialistic, Sag, but you do like to party, indulge, travel, and buy more books than you can read.
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Business Insider's Hillary Hoffower previously reported that wealthy people are spending money on investments like health and wellness over materialistic goods.
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They'll also be more likely to grow up to be materialistic, which is associated with decreased levels of happiness in adulthood.
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She also talked about how she and husband rapper Kanye West are determined to raise their kids to not be materialistic.
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We had been very [materialistic,] even when with all the money we had, I couldn't save my father from a sickness.
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"In this materialistic era, I believe literature is more crucial than ever for the conscience of my motherland," Mr. Xue said.
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The liberal donors and activists who have mobilized this year have a less materialistic stake in the outcome of local elections.
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"I always had this thing for having stuff that I couldn't normally have, materialistic things that I didn't need," she said.
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This sort of fantasy is often perceived as rather materialistic and self-indulged, but I am actually quite intrigued by it.
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" She continued, "It was probably no secret, you see it on the show me being flashy, but I was definitely materialistic before.
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It was probably no secret -- and you see it on the show -- I was being flashy and I was definitely materialistic before.
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The bearded, self-proclaimed guru recruited scientists and others to his cult, attracting people who were disillusioned with a modern, materialistic lifestyle.
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As is the case with all signs of the Zodiac, there are some misconceptions out there about Tauruses: They're materialistic; they're lazy.
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" You can see why Jasanoff didn't quote the amendment: "If you prefer a less materialistic view, I am a sort of fate.
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The goal of the protest was to bring attention to the "false and destructive materialistic values" O'Connor saw in the music industry.
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The life he breathes into these two characters allows them to emerge as three-dimensional women caught in an oppressive, materialistic world.
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And let's talk about those greenbacks: sensible Taurus governs both budgeting and our materialistic desires, which is a bit of a paradox.
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"I got some cool stuff, but I feel the love and support is most important, nothing, like, materialistic," Disick told the magazine.
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And so, celebrating as it does, a victory, if a temporary one, over the materialistic worldview, Hanukkah is a truly profound holiday.
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Then God announces that Everyman has become so craven and materialistic that he can purge himself of these impulses only by dying.
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That perspective was a form of gaslighting, shaming the marginalized for being materialistic in a society built on capitalism and slave labor.
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And even if we don't consider ourselves materialistic, we use our consumer choices to define ourselves and broadcast our identities to the world.
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"It was probably no secret, you see it on the show — me being flashy — but I was definitely materialistic before," she told DeGeneres.
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Pisces is not a materialistic sign, and you, Aquarius, value ideas over stuff any day; however, money will be on your mind now.
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Convinced that he's a brilliant mind who will lose his gift to an overly materialistic society, Lisa decides to pay him special attention.
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As you may have guessed, the more materialistic you were as a young freshman, the more likely it led to less life satisfaction.
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Poking fun at the materialistic consumer, Babaeva has titled these three hangers Sartorial, 2015, Dressed to kill, 2016, and Victim of fashion, 2016.
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I know, Sagittarius—as much as you love to spend money and you love giving (and receiving gifts)—you're not a materialistic person.
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You Pisces people don't seem materialistic due to your mystical personality, but no one has a messier, over-cluttered makeup bag than you.
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As millennials and Gen Xers strive toward having more meaningful existences, we will see even less ownership of homes, vehicles and materialistic possessions.
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It doesn't matter how rich or poor they are, when you talk to them you don't even get a sense of materialistic things.
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Germany's Christians had grown too complacent and materialistic, and the challenges ahead — ISIS attacks included — would force them to remember their Christian values.
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"It was probably no secret, you see it on the show — me being flashy — but I was definitely materialistic before," she told DeGeneres.
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You're not a very materialistic sign, Scorpio, but that doesn't mean money isn't an object or powerful tool for getting what you want.
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Carrie Bradshaw and her gal pals were shrill, materialistic, or judgmental by turn, but they were also nice women who loved one another.
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So I think we're being overly materialistic if we assume that the struggles with the working class are just material and cultural deprivation.
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If you bring them a gift, wow them with something fancy—they're not materialistic per se, but they are impressed by snazzy presents.
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Capricorn moons are also more likely than other signs to be slightly materialistic, so they tend to love receiving gifts—especially nice ones!
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Some of the lifestyle changes I have made [since] have been dramatically reducing single-use plastic along with other materialistic items and packaging.
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"It was probably no secret, you see it on the show — me being flashy — but I was definitely materialistic before," she told Ellen DeGeneres.
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Pluto, the planet of power and transformation as well as manipulation and addiction, turns retrograde on April 18 in driven, materialistic Earth sign Capricorn.
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However I think this projects the message that designers think Millenials/Gen Z are dumb, materialistic, and vapid, because they only care about logos.
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" He added: "American culture is probably the least Christian culture that we've ever had, because it's so materialistic and it's so full of lies.
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So how best for a family to share in a way that will not subtly shame some other adult having a more materialistic holiday?
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You're not the most materialistic person, Gemini, but today you'll find yourself reflecting on your possessions, your budget, and your sense of self-worth.
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In the class, Professor Santos talks about a study done by Nickerson et Al. where they surveyed 210,113 freshmen on how materialistic they are (211).
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He says #HePlaysForMe has changed his life, reminding him that kindness and humility are necessary in a city that can get over-competitive and materialistic.
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Like the cover of Snoop Dogg's Da Game Is to Be Sold, Not to Be Told, it looks to be ostensibly celebrating a materialistic lifestyle.
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" He adds that for all of Amanios's accomplishments, "True wealth is not measured by materialistic wealth but by the people who we love and treasure.
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They're not especially materialistic, but having a partner who surprises them with gifts is exactly the sort of unexpected treat that dazzles an Aries moon.
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Typically, we think of the American dream in materialistic terms — a well-paid job; a half-acre lot; children with better opportunities than our own.
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However, this belief is due to the selfish and materialistic society in which we live: money is not the only consideration when choosing a career.
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The "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" star previously said she was "meant" to get robbed because the experience taught her to be less materialistic and flashy.
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"It was probably no secret, you see it on the show... I was definitely materialistic before," she told DeGeneres of who she was before the robbery.
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After more than a decade of hard-fought efforts in music, Navarro's motivations, unlike those espoused by her more overtly materialistic peers, seem unpretentious and honest.
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Because Taurus is a materialistic Earth sign and it rules cash and jewelry, be careful not to lose your wallet or any of your important belongings.
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I am their target demographic: a materialistic young woman, born in the mid- to late 1980s, partial to fine fabrics and various ideas about blond hair.
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Pluto is the planet of power— not something you're particularly hungry for, sweet Taurus, but certainly something driven and sometimes-materialistic Capricorn easily gets seduced by.
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Disturbingly, I found myself becoming a vapid, materialistic succubus; it was as if a lowly troll had snuck up on me and flipped a personality switch.
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America was becoming the shallow, materialistic country the Soviets had always accused it of being, and the Jenningses were forced to go along for the ride.
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You could consider Point Blank like an anti-La La Land—the film offers a dour impression of 1960s California as a vapid and materialistic wasteland.
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People are usually reluctant to be upfront and direct about what they want as a gift, because they don't want to impose or seem materialistic, Boykin explains.
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A little ditzy, and a lot materialistic, she's just here for the sorority parties or high school ragers — as uncomplicated and cheerful as the cloudless Pacific sky.
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The legacy of reform includes severe environmental problems, a breakdown of social safety nets, and a conviction among the middle class that materialistic pleasure equals spiritual happiness.
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And the concept of renting clothes and furniture wherever we are, rather than being tied down by formal purchases, may sound liberating and even healthily anti-materialistic.
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During an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in April 2017, she explained that she's a whole new person post-robbery, one who isn't as materialistic as before.
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Since the meme is essentially materialistic, it was ripe for co-opting by tech companies, pet food companies, and the government alike, all for self-promotion and marketing.
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Venus enters Cancer on June 17, which will be awesome not only for a self-esteem boost, but also for good news around money and other materialistic concerns!
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During an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in April 2017, she explained that she's a whole new person post-robbery, one who isn't as materialistic as before.
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When it comes to shopping for Leos, the truth is that they're not as materialistic as they seem, despite the gold accents they like to put on everything.
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Rappers rarely get a good rap on TV. Almost always, stereotypes about them being flashy, uninformed, materialistic, self-centered, and shallow fuel the way they're depicted on screen.
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" Predictably, Kylie retorts, "Probably that I'm just super fake and that at 16/17, I got my full face reconstructed and that I only care about materialistic things.
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And then the other side is people who think she's obnoxious, and she represents this materialistic obsession we have in our culture, and she's in this bubble, etc.
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These images of the working person endow them with qualities of excellence, nobility, and respect, and evoked in me mixed sensations of hard materialistic capability and human tenderness.
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Contrary to what many caramel macchiato drinking pseudo-intellectuals may say, the real root of the problem is not "materialistic and exploitative capitalism", but rather our cultural values.
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Kim was on Ellen's show last week talking about how the Paris robbery changed her life and she wasn't into flashy, materialistic things that once defined her life.
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His relatives, who are materialistic and can't look past Rachel's working-class background, are Bad Rich People; they're the villains in both the book and the 2018 film adaptation.
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There can be some curveballs thrown in there, too, as the moon gently harmonizes with Uranus, the planet of the unexpected, helping you think differently about the materialistic world.
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Idol dramas, a format also popular in Japan and South Korea, have also been criticized by state media as overly materialistic and for being a negative influence on society.
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It's a cherished and heartwarming memory for the family, but viewed from the outside, it will be perceived as overprivileged and materialistic enough to inspire a thousand mean tweets.
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" The New Republic's longtime literary editor, Leon Wieseltier, a professional lowerer of the boom, said it was "the worst, last gasp of Reaganite, grasping, materialistic, narcissistic, banal self-absorption.
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"I got some cool stuff, but I feel the love and support is most important, nothing, like, materialistic," Disick told PEOPLE about his birthday gifts before entering the club.
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You're not a materialistic person at all, Pisces, and you hate having to worry about mundane shit like your bank balance, but it's going to be unavoidable this month.
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Raised in Hasidic communities in Europe, Rabbi Hager was so intent on avoiding carnal and materialistic lures that he deliberately took off his glasses while walking down the street.
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This is the focal point of "Expect Great Things," and it is one that is vitally important in a materialistic age that risks losing its senses, spiritual and otherwise.
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" Linton said she was attempting to "portray a certain public image" with her social media post, but concedes it was "boastful and materialistic and my response was extremely thoughtless.
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Maybe that's because they are so unabashedly materialistic (Khloé recently posted an Instagram photo of her 21970-month-old daughter, True, in a $220,214 pile of multicolored Birkin bags).
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But the more you got up into the more educated classes, the more you ended up with the materialistic view that we're just going to be corpses and that's it.
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The irony of an extended commercial that preaches about being less materialistic this holiday season while also reminding us about Apple products we can buy for loved ones isn't lost.
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"I'm doing special charity things on my birthday and I like sentimental things, because the materialistic things, if I want something, I'll usually get it myself," Jenner revealed to E!
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"On the surface, it seems like millennials are competitive, materialistic, and flashy, especially as a result of their tight connection to social media," said Andrew Brown, president of WP Diamonds.
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" The mother of two lost an estimated $11 million worth of jewelry in the heist, but said the experience that there are more important things to life than being "materialistic.
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The bond I share with my grandmother has always felt indelible, and while I don't necessarily consider myself a materialistic person, I liked having these physical symbols of our relationship.
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They alight on the materialistic and the machiavellian, the flippant brand loyalties and the all-consuming narcissism of beauty guru culture, all while remaining a part of this community themselves.
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" What Berrigan and others did, he writes, "was to connect the dots between racism, permanent war in the name of defense, daily violence, and the narcotic of the materialistic life.
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But although I didn't necessarily grow up influenced by someone who subscribed to materialistic beauty standards, the importance of clean, healthy hair, skin, and nails was never lost on me.
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So despite disliking her at first blush, I'd almost always agree to hang out with the ostensibly bitchy and materialistic Ai, because that's the path my game had set itself on.
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As the liberal tradition's most astute contemporary defender, Peter Berkowitz, often points out, the charge that liberal individualism is self-destructively materialistic is itself an important strand of the liberal tradition.
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As he begins a bid to define the economy and hedge against a recession, Trump is testing a searing, materialistic message to voters who might spurn him if tougher times arrive.
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News. "How f—ing dare you talk about lowering standards," she added, before telling haters to "wake up" and realize that love should not be based on materialistic desires and circumstances.
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The youngest of the four sisters, she&aposs portrayed as spoiled, self-centered, and materialistic in the novel and subsequent adaptations, and is frequently considered the "worst" of the March women.
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"I felt like we were all being forced into vapid, materialistic, image-obsessed boxes, and the only way to break free of those boxes was through savage competition," Little told Business Insider.
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The result is a love letter to the movement, as a subtle critique of its generally materialistic nature, and an exploration of their own nascent identities—all built on wondrous, anachronistic clothes.
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As much as you love shopping, Libra, the truth is that you're not a totally materialistic person—yes, you love beautiful things, but it's really beautiful ideas that make your heart sing.
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Maybe it was the materialistic mindset of the retail business, but Amazon didn't delude themselves that developers would be writing apps to use these APIs to win a prize at a hackathon.
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The full moon in materialistic Earth sign Capricorn comes on July 19—so much of this month has been about complicated, emotional, intimate stuff, but dry, straightforward Capricorn wants none of that.
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" Colin is at pains to point out his parents didn't "give him any money" for Christmas last year because he's earned enough of his own through reselling and is becoming "too materialistic.
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The best definition of being materialistic that I can give is that it means caring more about your possessions than people and judging yourself and others by the cost of these things.
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As vain and materialistic and you can be, you know that spending all of your money when you go shopping isn't smart and that saving your cash doesn't need to be drag.
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It'll be easy for you to over-indulge and seek comfort in other Venusian ways, like shopping or eating, but use your Taurus sensibility to overpower your materialistic desire for creature comforts.
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The sex between Lucy and Theo is described less as a materialistic evaluation than as an enchantment, an embrace of and escape from all the emptiness the universe can throw their way.
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Singapore's main island is sometimes described as diamond-shaped — fitting, perhaps, since the sparkling city, which had a starring role in the movie "Crazy Rich Asians," is known for its materialistic pursuits.
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Nietzsche argued that the humanistic values of most secular people, such as the importance of the individual, human rights and responsibility for the poor, have no place in a completely materialistic universe.
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In a 2005 exhibit called "White Cube" at the John Batten Gallery in Hong Kong, he painted the walls with insulting phrases aimed at materialistic rich girls and art dealers, among other targets.
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This evening's tone is serious and mature with the Moon meeting with Saturn at 6:20 PM. Mercury has been retrograde in Taurus, a materialistic Earth sign, but today it finally moves direct!
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Like any callow American kid, Cardona was hopelessly materialistic, and Slater reels off brand names like a catalogue of ships in the Iliad: Volvo, GMC Denali, Jeep Grand Cherokee, Joe Brand, Versace, Lacoste.
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While presidents' wives are often portrayed as promiscuous, materialistic or political meddlers, said Geingos, her contemporaries are in reality doctors, economists and academics "who ran very productive lives before they became first ladies".
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In the thinking of the Vatican, the manipulation of vulnerable individuals for the sex trade is the epitome of a darkly materialistic age, when everything can be monetised and intangible values are cast aside.
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"Weddings set a standard for how much you're willing to invest in the other person and display your happiness in front of people, and in a lot of cases it's very materialistic," she says.
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But, let's be real, the 5-footer is infamous because of his relationships -- or lack thereof -- with women ... and he says he's got a short fuse with females because he feels they're too materialistic.
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Today's new moon in materialistic Earth sign Taurus is creating a fresh start around finances for you, Aries, as well as around your self-esteem—sometimes it's hard to feel awesome if you're broke.
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Paradoxically, the trade center's most spiritual landmark was designed by Santiago Calatrava, the architect of its most materialistic landmark: the Westfield World Trade Center shopping mall, part of the greater $4 billion transportation hub.
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Orth judges Madson a bit harshly for this; she's frustratingly tough on Cunanan's gay friends and lovers throughout the book, framing them as fame whores, drug addicts, perverts, and, at best, materialistic, superficial flakes.
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" And lastly, he comes for the parents: "And parents, please don't raise your children like the materialistic type, because once they don't have Jordans on or cool clothes, they're gonna feel like they're not important.
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" In her essay "Facing Reality," Marilynne Robinson channels Thoreau as she chides her materialistic fellow citizens, who embrace an ethos that she believes is "relentlessly this-worldly, very serious about material success, of all things.
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It's not materialistic, it just means that "some people place a lot of deep personal meaning in [gifts and social engagements], so receiving a thoughtful gift can feel like an expression of love," she says.
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But after several years of experiencing tropical weather all year long, with a simple, non-materialistic lifestyle, healthy living, and business opportunities that far exceed the coastal opportunities in the U.S., I'd never go back.
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At its heart lies the idea that female empowerment is at the center of a less violent and materialistic society, and it is helping people reconsider what they value and what truly makes them rich.
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The comedy about a man (Matt Damon) who shrinks to the size of thimble in order to live in a materialistic utopia collapsed at the box office, eking out $6.1 million over the long weekend.
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Timed to coincide with our country's most grotesquely materialistic season, Fiber is setting up a week-long pop-up alterations shop at Santa Monica's turn-of-the-century Camera Obscura, kicking off on Black Friday.
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Making financial sacrifices for children, for example, in the form of travel or private music lessons, teaches them to place importance on less materialistic experiences as opposed to direct possession of money or other goods.
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Many of her peers at the private Crossroads High School in Santa Monica were significantly wealthier and more materialistic, and it is easy to see how her work has been informed by negotiating these different worlds.
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Millennials aren't as materialistic as previous generations: an Eventbrite study conducted by Harris Poll in 103 found that 78% of them would prefer to spend money on a desirable experience or event over a desirable object.
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The sculpture's cold satire — the breakdown of an individual, in this case, the artist, into his habits of consumption — struck an expressly nihilistic chord at the time, the last gasp of the crass, materialistic Reagan years.
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"I was definitely materialistic before, not that there's anything bad with having things and working hard to get those things and I'm really proud of everyone around me that's successful," she told the talk show host.
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"I've been reading some of the negative comments on Facebook people, saying, 'All these materialistic people, they're getting what they deserve, their crap town is burning,'" she said before boarding a chartered city bus to Northlands.
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In video clips and in his songs, Usher situates himself in an Atlanta of skyscrapers and strip clubs, and he can be as brazenly materialistic as his hip-hop contemporaries, singing about luxury cars and champagne.
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I agreed that was at the core of Ben — the emptiness in the modern man who has materialistic abundance, who can accomplish anything he sets his mind to, yet emotionally he is unable to do anything.
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While we may agree that China represents a newly emerging force in Asia (it had no previous pretensions to the East or South China Sea), I believe its aims are primarily economic and materialistic, not political.
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Is the society we want one in which it is acceptable for some people to have tens of millions or billions of dollars as long as they are hardworking, generous, not materialistic and down to earth?
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My problem is: should I try to exploit the fact I have such a powerful being helping me out or should I just 'enjoy the ride' and try not to think about it in materialistic terms?
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The moon enters Cancer today, Gemini, lighting up the financial sector of your chart, and while you aren't a materialistic person, security is certainly important to you, even if it's something you don't consider too often.
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You know the usual advice: Avoid signing contracts, avoid travel, expect delays, be patient with miscommunications, and, especially because this retrograde is in a materialistic Earth sign Taurus, watch out for losing important objects and paper work.
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Mr. Timbers, who again directs, and Mr. Byrne, who wrote the new show's book as well as its music and lyrics, might argue that the austere Joan is of even more searing topicality than the materialistic Mrs.
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Yes, she&aposs still snobbish, self-centered, and materialistic at times (the novel-burning scene is still as infuriating as ever), but Florence Pugh&aposs Amy is shown to have a level of intelligence rivaling Jo&aposs.
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Consequently, the average American was no longer a farmer, but a city dweller, transforming the American dream from the picturesque scene of a quaint farm with a white picket fence to one of wealth and materialistic success.
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They're starting to question a purely materialistic approach to life and saying, maybe we need to focus more on the end goal and that's happiness and not focus so much on getting stuff but working towards positive emotions.
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Lilly knows this, but she's a realtor and drives a brand new Lexus, so she is immediately offended by my "…people in Miami are materialistic" comment, and I know she thought I was putting her in that category.
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You're not very materialistic, so it's unlike you to get sensitive about your bank account, but full moons are times for release—you'll be letting go of some deep-seated, complicated feelings around feeling financially secure and stable.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis led the world's Roman Catholics into Christmas on Monday, urging people in the developed world to seek a simpler, less materialistic life and condemning the yawning gap between the rich and the poor.
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As a materialistic Earth sign, you love money, and today is a fantastic day to reflect on your financial situation—thanks to the Moon entering inventive Aquarius and lighting up the sector of your chart that rules cash.
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Even though these and other moments are poetic and allude to beautiful material contradictions, the show frustrates traditional value systems — Prieto makes us realize how attached we are to capitalist and imperial constructs, where value is inherently materialistic.
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The song speaks on materialistic woes and versions of love, while honoring the late A$AP Yams, Pimp C and Trayvon Martin—perhaps the most chilling moment of the song is when Ocean says he looks just like Trayvon.
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Mai and Nguyen, who have firsthand experience with Lolita by dressing in that fashion, observe the psychological ramifications of the lifestyle itself, particularly how it's fueled by a very materialistic drive, which can cause a state of permanent dissatisfaction.
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What's engaging and artistically real is, taking it as axiomatic that the present is grotesquely materialistic, how is it that we as human beings still have the capacity for joy, charity, genuine connections, for stuff that doesn't have a price?
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Like the decluttering empress Marie Kondo, whose "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up" has sold over 5 million copies and spun into a buzzy Netflix series, Johnson promises a simpler, less materialistic life, richer in time, space, and experiences.
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Like, I'm such a different person," she said, later adding, "I was definitely materialistic before, not that there's anything bad with having things and working hard to get those things and I'm really proud of everyone around me that's successful.
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To my mind, no book better encapsulates this spirit than "More Than I Dreamed: A Lifetime of Collecting," by Malcolm Forbes, whose deliriously materialistic account of his own life gives the lie to the notion that success is its own end.
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Tacticool may still exist on the range, but videogames have adopted the same mindset and made it into something of their own—a weird and materialistic worship of cold, misanthropic parts, all designed with one goal in mind: to look elite.
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Though not a collector herself, Leah Schwagerl from Wilmington, N.C., has seen from firsthand experience how collections sustain cultures: (part 1) I don't collect anything, yet, maybe it's because I'm not passionate or fascinated by any one particular materialistic thing.
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I don't want to deprive my two girls of holiday magic, but I don't want them to become materialistic nightmares, and I don't want to go into debt every December buying trendy toys that will become landfill fodder in six months.
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And contrary to now, in the 1970s and 80s, you could venture into almost any city in the Western hemisphere with almost no contacts or any substantial materialistic means if you were adventurous, tough, or desperate enough to take a chance.
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He then called those same citizens falling into despair to recognize their own selfishness before unifying to solve the energy crisis, in part by embracing the value of sacrifice over the self-indulgence that Carter associated with America's materialistic, consumer culture.
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On Tuesday, the rapper dropped a new single — the materialistic anthem "Money" — on which she gives shoutouts to the Black Panther franchise ("Bitch, I will black on your ass / Wakanda forever") and even her 3-month-old daughter, Kulture Kiari, with husband Offset.
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During the five-week trial, prosecutors depicted the former first couple as materialistic to the point of corruption because they accepted luxury gifts and low-interest loans from Jonnie R. Williams Sr., who sought the governor's help in advancing his business interests.
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This cult-centric episode sees one of the rich "09er" kids from the prestigious 90909 zip code (this one's played by Jonathan Bennett, the love interest from Mean Girls) joining a compound only to find true happiness there away from his materialistic parents.
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You're not generally a materialistic person, but you're definitely in the mood to shop as the planet of beauty moves into the sign of the crab, activating the sector of your chart that rules your material items—just be smart about your purchases!
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"Could it be that the growth of a materialistic 'throwaway culture' has in fact made us increasingly indifferent to the poor and to the most defenseless members of our human family, including the unborn, deprived of the very right to life?" he said.
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"North Koreans are now as materialistic, greedy and unsatisfied as their comrades in the Soviet Union and East Germany once were, and as are most of us in the West," wrote Rüdiger Frank, a North Korea expert at the University of Vienna.
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As the 1980s gave way to the '90s, there were few more zeitgeist-defining shows than "Thirtysomething," a thoughtful and emotional drama about baby boomers struggling to reconcile the counterculture rebellion of their youth with the materialistic success of their Reagan-era adulthood.
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What these corporate playgrounds truly demonstrate is how the radical potential of 'playful' and 'zany' aesthetics can be appropriated to mask a capitalist logic, which conceives materialistic motivations existing in tandem – rather than in tension – with the desire for freedom and self-expression.
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While you're not a materialistic person at heart, you don't discount the need for security—and when it comes to wealth, it's important for you to have a solid living situation, savings for the future, and access to plenty of food that's comforting yet wholesome.
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While it sounds dark, CNN reports that the phrase, which can sometimes be represented through various objects like skulls, is intended to get people thinking about their own mortality and the importance of living a meaningful life void of too many materialistic attachments or vanities.
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But back to money: The new moon in materialistic Earth sign Taurus comes on May 6, and Libra, it's time for you to get serious about your finances, as well as to develop better boundaries around how much help (emotional, financial, whatever) you offer people.
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As played by Kristy Swanson, Buffy's a Valley girl—the kind of materialistic, Southern California teen queen who was christened in a 1982 song by Frank Zappa and his daughter Moon Unit and fleshed out the following year in a movie of the same name.
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" The self-made millionaire has also realized that "money ultimately doesn't bring you the happiness that people from the outside might see," she tells CNBC Make It. "Of course, it allows you to buy more materialistic products, but all of those things are very temporary.
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The search for knowledge is your life's destiny, and honestly, you're really not very materialistic—worrying about money just isn't you, Gemini, but still, there is something about dealing with material matters that triggers in you deep feelings of self-worth, safety, and security.
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We as society have become more materialistic, I think advertising does have its part to play with its tendency to suggest that we can't be happy unless we have x, y, z—but obviously it's down to the individual purchaser as well, a little willpower.
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"I also explained that buying flowers won't automatically fix the problem and made sure that he understood he couldn't be mean and expect anything materialistic to fix what he says, and that it is never okay to be mean to anyone especially a girl," Williams told Metro.
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It was during these prodigal years, after a more conventional second novel was greeted with shrugs, that Ellis wrote the New York noir "American Psycho," about a soullessly materialistic 26-year-old financier who suffers a breakdown while pathologically committing gruesome acts of rape and murder.
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" In effect, postwar prosperity in America and in Western Europe allowed many voters to shift their political priorities from bread-and-butter issues to less materialistic concerns, "bringing greater emphasis on freedom of expression, environmental protection, gender equality, and tolerance of gays, handicapped people and foreigners.
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In both Europe and the U.S., the decline in motherhood – and the increased decline in the number of men accepting the responsibilities of fatherhood (40 percent of births in the U.S and Europe occur out of wedlock) are indicative of a materialistic, pleasure-seeking, live-for-today ethos.
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Once you have braved the wait to enter the main store at Augusta National, you are ripe for the plucking even if you are a semi-jaded, not particularly materialistic sportswriter who before that visit to Augusta National had covered most of the other major global sports events.
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On the one hand, shopping for new clothes and school supplies when you're 12 can bring about some fleeting sense of materialistic joy that will be long gone by the time the first Milky Pen runs dry; on the other, being an adult means... you don't have to go to school.
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" Tate also points out that the eyes of the world are fixed on American politics right now because of how "the non-Western parts of the world—and much of the Western world—now think about America not as Uncle Sam, but as egotistical, materialistic, bombastic, arrogant, imperialistic, and racist.
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Screenwriter Kay Cannon (New Girl, Pitch Perfect) reframes Sophia' story in 13 episodes (based "real loose" on actual events from the early to mid-0003s), breaking down all the humanizing flaws of a narcissistic, caustic, and materialistic woman as she finds her footing in a new kind of business landscape: the internet.
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This is how degrowthers envision the process: After a reduction in material and energy consumption, which will constrict the economy, there should also be a redistribution of existing wealth, and a transition from a materialistic society to one in which the values are based on simpler lifestyles and unpaid work and activities.
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Reading the book was a strange experience; while I knew it was about my home, there was very little in it that I found recognizable, which is why I have little hope that the film will help anyone see Singapore as anything more than "kooky Asia," stuffed with materialistic, flamboyant billionaires with bedazzled lifestyles.
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But Shrobe is employing all these images and items to get at something deeper: the Dadaist tactic of mocking materialistic (in the sense of items indicative of social status) concerns, using the nonsensical and irrational as tonics for the relentless instrumentalization of what we purchase and consume to advertise the personas we want to project.
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It also is associated with more spending problems and debt ... We found that the more highly people endorsed materialistic values, the more they experienced unpleasant emotions, depression and anxiety, the more they reported physical health problems, such as stomachaches and headaches, and the less they experienced pleasant emotions and felt satisfied with their lives.
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Metal fandom demands a certain commitment to materialistic excess, whether you prefer to hoard T-shirts or vinyl or Lemmy action figures or ultra-limited Rhinocervs tapes, and for most of its existence, participating in metal culture has meant accruing stuff: patches for your kutte, records for your shelves, pins for your jacket, posters to upset your mom.
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"You have to implement a practice of taking a walk outside and just realizing how great your life is," Reining tells Make It. "And just realizing that those other materialistic things, while they might provide you a momentary moment of happiness, in the long term, that happiness fades and then you're looking for the next thing to buy or to consume."
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Yet shortly after the couple's faith in their cause (and each other) is reconfirmed, they discover their daughter — whom they've raised like a normal American kid, if a tad less materialistic — has gotten interested in God, by way of a youth group led by the affable and earnest Pastor Tim (Kelly AuCoin), with whom they eventually become at least somewhat friendly.
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Perhaps this is why it feels like we've entered what Jia Tolentino dubbed "grifter season": the warped lens of social media has magnified our materialistic aspirations and celebrity obsessions into epic scams like Fyre Festival, while innovations like Bitcoin, which capitalized on distrust in governmental and financial institutions, have turned out to be just as corruptible as the systems they claimed to subvert.
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Years later, Jay Z would give rappers who signed to his label "Roc-A-Fella" chains; Kanye West would take us through his materialistic urges in "All Falls Down," rapping about how he went to Jacob the Jeweler before purchasing a home; and Big Sean would offer some insight as to why this particular accessory is so important to an artist once they become successful.
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The larger culture itself needs to be revived in four distinct ways: We need to be more communal in an age that's overly individualistic; we need to be more morally minded in an age that's overly utilitarian; we need to be more spiritually literate in an age that's overly materialistic; and we need to be more emotionally intelligent in an age that is overly cognitive.
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"Forming a tense square with asteroid Vesta in materialistic Taurus, this moon's influence could play out as a guilt trip for putting ourselves first, but luckily, the balancing energy of asteroid Juno makes its presence by a harmonious sextile to help us realize that at the end of the day, having our five minutes of fame does bring us emotional comfort and security," Montúfar explains.
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Pretentious, politically conservative, materialistic and deeply bigoted, Carlotta seems a peculiar match for O'Neill, who was none of those things — though for a supposed friend of the little guy (see "The Iceman Cometh"), he would prove surprisingly blasé about their good fortune in coasting through the Great Depression on the cushion of their combined wealth (thanks, in part, to the savvy financial advice of her banker sugar daddy).
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"Although some self-identified 'incels' assert that the nihilistic views of 'the black pill' are what connect them, and not overt misogyny or alt-right beliefs," he told Vox in an email, "notice the misogynistic basis of the worldview": "Success" with women is defined as sexual conquest; men are presented as being entitled to sex with women, but being thwarted by the next point; women are presented as fundamentally materialistic and shallow, only attracted to physicality and beauty and nothing else; feminism is presented as the source of the problem; men are understood to be the "real" victims.
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