materiality

"What we're seeing is that brutal materiality is still important," says Alexander RE Taylor, senior lecturer in communications at the University of Exeter.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

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

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

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

"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

The materialities were not invented in the interest of righteousness; that there is more righteousness in the world because of them than there, was before, is hardly demonstrable, I think.

From Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 5 (1901-1906) by Albert Bigelow Paine

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

From Suzanna Stirs the Fire by Emily Calvin Blake

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

From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes

His New Year's message to the Legislature opened with a businesslike discussion of the State's finances and other materialities.

From The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by George Spring Merriam