materiality
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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
Perhaps to amplify the difference between analog and digital, the show’s savvy installation goes all-in on emphatic materiality.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2023
It is the consciousness of good only, without a trace of materiality or evil.
From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis
His clothes were a necessary envelope, to which he paid not the slightest attention, for his eyes looked too high among the clouds to concern themselves with such materialities.
From A Daughter of Eve by Balzac, Honoré de
"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 Bolton, Sarah Knowles
There is something about an empty room, empty except of memories, but containing nothing besides, no materialities, no certainties as to the future, which is intimidating to one who stops and thinks.
From By the Light of the Soul A Novel by Brett, Harold M.
The arc of descent ends in materialities, and the arc of ascent ends in spiritualities.
From Some Answered Questions by `Abdu'l-Bahá
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
