The stone is the basic material of the mausoleum, but it is also given life by the stain and corrupting smear upon it.
The subject is the idle rich, the problem is idleness, the crisis is self-delusion in the face of fear and despair, and the basic material of the movie is the definition of identity.
He is best known for his doctrines that things are constantly changing (universal flux), that opposites coincide (unity of opposites), and that fire is the basic material of the world.
When you sit at the center of the world and are unlikely to ever lack for the basic materials of self-sufficiency, the idea of blind, gnawing resentment – let alone of feeding that resentment even with irrational aims – is ineluctably beyond your ken.
Indeed the basic materials of most textual investigation, the manuscripts themselves, have as yet not all been identified and catalogued, much less systematically exploited.
The upper Midwest has a history of advanced manufacturing, and machined parts and many of the basic materials of photovoltaic panels — polycrystalline in central Michigan, glass in the Toledo region, plastic films in Ohio — were already being made in the region.
Cuban artists work with a wealth of knowledge and a constant lack of the basic materials of their craft.
Different semiconductor heterostructures made of Si and Ge are the basic materials for the fabrication of commercial circuits for microelectronics.
La Fontaine did not invent the basic material of his Fables; he took it chiefly from the Aesopic tradition and, in the case of the second collection, from the East Asian.
The worldwide success of the calendar they produced, and the huge popularity of the film The Full Monty, meant the women's story was marked out from the first as the basic material of an international cinematic hit.
