(n.) Attachment to the doctrines of Epicurus; the principles or belief of Epicurus.
Example Sentences:
(1) ‘Someone who’s bright enough to find a job with no heavy lifting,’ said a voice in his head.” “His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools – the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans – and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, ‘You can’t trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there’s nothing you can do about it, so let’s have a drink.
(2) [Editor's note: andouille is a kind of sausage popular in Cajun cooking, and also what a French epicurean sort might idiomatically call you for ordering a dish named the "Slayer".]
(3) Alma has the epicurean Hitchcock on a diet and one senses trouble in paradise.
Materialistic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Materialistical
Example Sentences:
(1) This is contrasted with the dialectical materialist concept of psychic phenomena as the highest integration level of man's relationship to the environment.
(2) One school of thought, the "eliminative materialistics," see FP as a misdirected and scientifically redundant approach to the mind which should be discarded; the "functionalists," in contrast, consider FP categories, such as belief, to be essential.
(3) Similarities between the notion of life style and concepts of cultural integration are noted, and the various uses of life style are categorized along an idealist-materialist continuum.
(4) In his excellent book Affluenza , Oliver James observes that Danes and Kiwis enjoy a greater immunity to our obsessive, depressive, materialistic world than do we in the UK.
(5) Yet there is Samantha, bawdy as the Wife of Bath, always cheerfully horny and materialistic, utterly without Calvinic redeeming qualities, living at last with her devoted younger boy toy in LA in the Sex and the City movie – finally leaving him because she is just not cut out to mix her driving, unmediated sexual energy with commitment.
(7) The search for a synthesis bridging the gap between materialist and idealist approaches in anthropological theory has been invigorated by recent efforts to develop a critical medical anthropology.
(8) The American spirit often has been attacked as atomistic, cruel, and materialistic.
(9) It is an oasis of humanity in a materialistic desert - and the leader of the Labour party should celebrate it.
(10) The one-to-many relationship between the displacement of the medium and the force actualized in the medium necessitates a materialistic capacity for making choices on the part of molecules and cells in transforming future possibilities into actualized reality, the latter of which again serves as the source of the further future possibilities.
(11) This reply to John F Catherwood's criticism of brain-related criteria for death argues that brainstem criteria are neither reductionist nor do they presuppose a materialist theory of mind.
(12) "I was very materialistic – it was all about having stuff and buying labels.
(13) Because Freud philosophically was committed to a materialistic, nonteleological, biologically based theory, he carried over into the new formulations some of the metapsychological assumptions of the earlier theory.
(14) "Zeitgeist" has been since the french revolution and still is agnostic, secularized and materialistic--also in the scholastic medical sciences: Presence and action of gods supernatural forces in all nature, including disease processes and healing has not been and is not recognized.
(15) Since then, while some mainstream rap has veered to the materialistic and misogynistic, there have always been successful rappers who have rallied against the vapid.
(16) Based on the premise of curing physical disease, the physician's approach to the patient is materialistic, activistic, and benevolently authoritarian.
(17) In this historical materialist analysis of health and medical care, health is defined as a component of labor-power (capacity to work).
(18) They (diviners) are believed to have become unduly materialistic and prone to dubious activities.
(19) But if in that period they became less materialistic, they became happier.
(20) Iain broke out of that dichotomy with all the panache of the spaceship exploding from inside another spaceship on the cover of Consider Phlebas, the first of his SF novels to be published, by writing of an expansive, optimistic possible future rooted in the same materialist and evolutionary view of life that had in the past been seen only as a dark background to cosmically futile strivings.