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

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

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 ● Jun. 4, 2024

The coarse food necessary for you in order to keep up the crude materiality of which your physical make-up is composed, is not needed by the denizens of Mars.

From A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead by C. G. (Carl Gustaf) Helleberg

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

From Captivating Mary Carstairs by Raymond Moreau Crosby

This very mental heaviness, holding him down to materialities, kept his contemplation of contingencies from becoming bewildering.

From Never-Fail Blake by Arthur Stringer

Suzanna stood a long time at the window, so long indeed that Maizie feared she was lost to all materialities.

From Suzanna Stirs the Fire by Emily Calvin Blake

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

From Suzanna Stirs the Fire by Emily Calvin Blake

"With the great, one's thoughts and manners easily become great; ... what this country longs for is personalities, grand persons, to counteract its materialities," says Emerson.

From Famous American Statesmen by Sarah Knowles Bolton