Sentence examples for a material nature from inspiring English sources

The firm would not comment, but a spokesman said that it always scrutinizes "good will of a material nature" in audits.

Or is it a lower, bodily faculty, more akin to the five bodily senses, and with objects of a primarily material nature?

The Song philosophers held that human beings have a lower, more physical nature (qi) that is responsible for the passions and a more spiritual nature (li) that sets a limit on the material nature.

Moreover, at this juncture the participating subject is assumed to be a material particular, whose material nature goes without analysis.

It only exists online in a digital state unlike the material nature of traditional art, which is valued both for the skill involved and its tangibility (so you can impress the Joneses with your fine collection of 18th century horse portraiture).

Nor does he talk about the parts of an animal as its material nature, nor about its living capacities as aspects of its formal nature.

The true color of the sky, of a tree, of all of material nature?" But his doubts about the truthfulness of photographs seemed to free him to use them as documents of a fantasy world in Tahiti and Samoa that he knew no longer existed.

As a Christian Platonist, Gregory followed the great Alexandrian theologian Origen, though not slavishly; most notably, he shared Origen's conviction that man's material nature is a result of the fall and also Origen's hope for ultimate universal salvation.

Scudéry's interpretation of the natural world is not only empirical; it involves a sympathetic and aesthetic embrace of material nature.

By combining juicy anecdotes and fun with a wealth of up-to-date reference material, "Nature's Building Blocks" hits the spot.

The body and the mind that we have are a part of the "prakriti" or the "material nature" that operates by itself according to its own nature.