Sentence examples for a material sense from inspiring English sources

Art is worthless in a material sense.

That did mean something for us, even if it didn't do anything in a material sense.

Of all forms of modern autocracy, the Chinese is perhaps the most insidious, because unlike the Soviet Union, it is so successful, at least in a material sense.

There is, though, an astonishing monologue, designed to invoke a material sense of the word "smoke" like a haemorrhage in your brain.

"In a material sense, Japan's self-defense forces are a full-fledged military," said Shunji Toaka, who covers military affairs for the Asahi Shimbun, a major daily newspaper.

Various attempts have been made to explain how such things can be in a country that, in a material sense, is amongst the most civilised in the world.

Among works that give a more material sense of the area is Gary Orlinsky's "Dwelling," a tepeelike structure afloat in the river.

It almost doesn't matter whether their suspicions are true in a strictly material sense.

The death of a false material sense and of sin, not the death of organic matter, is what reveals man and Life, harmonious, real, and eternal.

It may be true in a strictly material sense, but psychologically, experiences are more joyful, more memorable -- and now we know, more exciting to look forward to.

He's understood abroad as a "pragmatist," and in his year as acting president he has been busying himself with things like making the nation's public transport system run more efficiently, and with making the daily lives of Cubans marginally less miserable, in a strictly material sense of course.