Being a working class person did not mean being deprived, but meant working and becoming a consumer of goods and material excess.

We ask Thy guidance in conquering the evil of the material excesses we experience every day.

Like three-dimensional work in general, what appears in "Interval" ranges from near-invisibility to material excess, low-tech to (almost) high, flat to walk-in, tangible to televised.

You never quite know whether it represents a genuine embrace of holiday cheerfulness or, rather, is being worn as a mischievous statement about material excess.

The movie is about Asian American overachievers who become bored with their lives and enter a world of petty crime and material excess.

In a county known for material excess, he has lived in the same house in Yorktown since 1962.

They also define sculpture's current amorphous state, ranging from near-invisibility to material excess, low-tech to (almost) high, flat to walk-in, tangible to televised.

The giant Fiat conglomerate, which took over the Ferrari enterprise after Enzo's death in 1988, must now cope with a shrinking demand for symbols of material excess.

Ms. Curtis's recent paintings are even more explicit in their blending of sensuous appeal and commentary on transience, decay and material excess.

Ornament, too, had a psychological role to play; it did more than reflect the material excesses of a gilded age.