materiality

Example Sentences

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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

“Usually, shows of his work focus on his ethereality, like the ‘Monochromes’” — Klein’s single-color canvases — “but his show is anchored in the materiality and the tangible.”

From New York Times • May 3, 2024

The second point in the Thomistic doctrine is that corporeal substances are individuated by reason of their materiality.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter