Sentence examples for a material reality from inspiring English sources

Human figures with faces streamed into view, and Ms. Blake's brain sought a match between a recent memory and a material reality.

Although Mr. Markovics sometimes slides into poetic allegory, as in short scenes of Roman swimming in the center's pool, the film earns its power through its revelation of a material reality so palpable you can almost smell the perfume in a dead woman's home.

On such a view, experimental systems are not "out there" as mind-independent parts of a material reality; they exist only within some concept-guided practice (Weber 2006).

The paper examines the material, institutional, and economic conditions necessary for a neoliberal agenda to transform its urban policy objectives into a material reality.

Like vinyls and mixtapes before them, the company's 3D-printed sound sculptures turn musical data into a material reality.

(This despite the fact that it took having a baby with a black man for her to realize racism was a material reality).

Rossellini changed the filmmaker's point of view from the transparent replication of a presumed material reality, into a virtual debate engaged with what's in the movie and with the viewer.

But these lofty ideas — the same ones that animated Sean Penn's "Into the Wild," another movie about a young person's trek toward Alaska — are grounded in an unyielding material reality, subject to the remorseless logic of the cash nexus.

This is complicated by the frequent assumption by the piano of an imitative role in which it represents nature or material reality: a spinning wheel; a galloping horse; a whispering forest.

Such a pattern fits material reality more convincingly than the "discovery" story.

Healthy communities and strong individuals, a healthy environment and a robust economy, hard work and creative freedom, a regard for the sacred and an appreciation of material reality -- all these opposites are designed to attract, not repel.