materiality
Example Sentences
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Such tool use—notably hand letter-cutting in stone, producing forms like those we see on traditional monuments—stands for “materiality, for slowness, for permanence” in the face of boardroom brainstorming and assembly-line production.
And, literally, across the street, you have Basquiat doing what he is doing, and it’s the opposite: It’s naming, materiality.
From Los Angeles Times
“Usually, shows of his work focus on his ethereality, like the ‘Monochromes’” — Klein’s single-color canvases — “but his show is anchored in the materiality and the tangible.”
From New York Times
He argued that the “materiality provision” of the 1964 Civil Rights Act was designed to prevent that.
From Seattle Times
National and state Republican committees argued the date requirement is useful in detecting fraud and that the materiality provision of the Civil Rights Act was inapplicable.
From Seattle Times
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