materiality
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"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
The artist’s eponymous 2025 sculpture, crowned with an array of Bantu knots, ties the entire show together, joining materiality, traditional cultural identity, and the outward-looking nature of the exhibition in a single work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
“There’s something that happens with real materiality, real construction, there’s an alchemy to it,” Hawley says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026
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
True art must have the warp of materiality, interwoven with the woof of life, or else the coloration and designs of the imagination cannot avail to dower it with immortality.
From Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman by George M. (George Milbrey) Gould
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
"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
This very mental heaviness, holding him down to materialities, kept his contemplation of contingencies from becoming bewildering.
From Never-Fail Blake by Arthur Stringer
Abner accepted his environment; after all, he might force the conversation to soar far above the mere materialities.
From Under the Skylights by Henry Blake Fuller
Teachers, being purely ethereal she felt, never descended to the discussion of materialities.
From Suzanna Stirs the Fire by Emily Calvin Blake
