materiality

It includes, or at least invites, us—drawing us into the scene as our gaze continues upward into celestial immateriality, all courtesy of the materiality of paint.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

In recent years, the centre has commissioned fourteen exhibitions by diverse international artists - including Adham Faramawy, Ntiense Eno-Amooquaye and Abi Palmer - which have explored themes from climate crisis to materiality.

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2025

The 34-year-old often engages with the concept of ever-shifting time and materiality as a tool for preserving and archiving realities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2025

Alys and Helaena fulfill their truest purpose outside the confines of mind and materiality, using the heart tree of Harrenhal's godswood.

From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2024

It is false that any representation is mistaken for reality; that any dramatick fable in its materiality was ever credible, or, for a single moment, was ever credited.

From Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare by Smith, David Nichol

Abner accepted his environment; after all, he might force the conversation to soar far above the mere materialities.

From Under the Skylights by Fuller, Henry Blake

Substance comprises all corporal materialities: instinctive needs, irrational movements, in a word, all actions where common sense is not a factor.

From Common Sense, How to Exercise It by Yoritomo-Tashi, Mme. Blanchard

And napery, silver, iridescent glass, all the materialities, were well worthy of so pretty a floral setting.

From Captivating Mary Carstairs by Crosby, Raymond Moreau

What this country longs for is personalities, grand persons, to counteract its materialities.

From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Teachers, being purely ethereal she felt, never descended to the discussion of materialities.

From Suzanna Stirs the Fire by Blake, Emily Calvin