elemental

Example Sentences

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Beyond diplomacy, the trip is also an opportunity for the president to nurture his Irish roots, an elemental part of his political image.

From Washington Times

At the heart of each story here is the sense of something elemental underneath the surface.

From Los Angeles Times

Another foe besetting both Ukrainian and Russian forces is a more elemental force — the mud that follows winter’s end, transforming wide swaths of the front line into swamps of brown ooze.

From Los Angeles Times

Such earthy, elemental minimalism helped inspire Ms. Wilson’s primary medium at the time: quilts painted with abstract geometric patterns.

From New York Times

The film cleverly relies on color, physicality and elemental symbolism to express these tensions: the repressed Joanne swims daily in freezing waters; the untouchable Julia lights things aflame.

From New York Times