21 examples of materiality in sentences

AS IN THE FINE ARTS, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilization is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over the rude materialities of nature, so in the art of cookery is the progress gradual from the earliest and simplest modes, to those of the most complicated and refined.

In that little Goshen there will be light, when the grown world flounders about in the darkness of sense and materiality.

It is a point which seems to me to be put out of the reach of our knowledge: and he who will give himself leave to consider freely, and look into the dark and intricate part of each hypothesis, will scarce find his reason able to determine him fixedly for or against the soul's materiality.

2. BEING, IN THE CONCRETE 3. Substantiality N. substantiality, hypostasis; person, being, thing, object, article, item; something, a being, an existence; creature, body, substance, flesh and blood, stuff, substratum; matter &c 316; corporeity^, element, essential nature, groundwork, materiality, substantialness, vital part.

Materiality N. materiality, materialness; corporeity^, corporality^; substantiality, substantialness, flesh and blood, plenum; physical condition.

Materiality N. materiality, materialness; corporeity^, corporality^; substantiality, substantialness, flesh and blood, plenum; physical condition.

And with the accumulation of temporal comforts and luxuries, the divinity within men is drugged, and they sink deeper and deeper into materiality, into the perishable life of the senses, and where there is sufficient intellect, theories concerning the immortality of the flesh come to be regarded as infallible truths.

The Judge did not perceive the materiality of the distinction.

The Judge did not perceive the materiality of the distinction.

It is false, that any representation is mistaken for reality; that any dramatick fable in its materiality was ever credible, or, for a single moment, was ever credited.

MATERIALITY THE MIRROR OF CONSCIOUSNESS Our vicious habit of seeking the explanation of everythingeven thought and emotionin materiality, has betrayed us into the error of attributing to organic and environic changes the very power by which they are produced.

MATERIALITY THE MIRROR OF CONSCIOUSNESS Our vicious habit of seeking the explanation of everythingeven thought and emotionin materiality, has betrayed us into the error of attributing to organic and environic changes the very power by which they are produced.

Just as a savage looks for a man behind a mirror, we foolishly seek in materiality for that which is not there.

In deep sleep, consciousness reverts to its pure conditionthe individual self becomes the All-Self: the rainbow, no longer prismatic by reason of its refraction in materiality, becomes the pure white light; the melody of life resolves itself into the primordial harmony; sequence becomes simultaneity, and Time, no longer "besprent with seven-hued circumstance," is swallowed up in duration.

" Reincarnation is the periodic "dip" of an immortal individual into materiality for the working out of karma, after an interval, long or short, spent under other conditions of existence.

Thus a physical incarnation, in the broadest sense of the term, is the interval, long or short, of the immersion of consciousness in materiality.

The Russian novelist obviously had a conception of the purity of love, for Goncourt reports him as "speaking of his first love for a woman as a thing entirely spiritual, having nothing in common with materiality.

Man has in all ages been oppressed by many evilsby war, by tyranny, by materiality, by mental and moral darkness.

I watched it, studying its changes, seeking to understand its effect, ever attracted by an awful materiality and its easy power to drown me.

To charge the appearance in which art chooses to embody its ideas as deception, receives meaning only by comparison with the external world of phenomena and its immediate materiality, as well as with the inner world of sensations and feelings.

" De Tocqueville, a French writer, speaking of our separation from England, says: "It might seem their folly, but was really their fate, or, rather, the providence of God, who has doubtless a work for us to do, in which the massive materiality of the English character would have been too ponderous a dead weight upon our progress.

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