Sentence examples for earthly elements from inspiring English sources

In Aristotle's system the four earthly elements were not stable but could change into one another.

The body disintegrated into its five earthly elements: earth, wind, water, fire and ether.

These black-and-white poems, where earthly elements crouch under an enormous looming mystery, are Tranströmer's sharply cinematic contribution to nature poetry.

The doctrine of the four earthly elements was later embodied in the universal system of Aristotle and thereby influenced Western scientific thought until late in the 17th century.

UBUD, Indonesia — In a roar of orange flame, the body of Agung Suyasa, head of the royal family of Ubud, was reduced to its earthly elements on Tuesday, liberating his soul to fly upward, in a spray of sparks, through the night sky to the heavens.

Photographing nude bodies in nature, Hang captures his subjects as if they were part of the earthly elements with which they mingle.

Occasionally, hokey language halts the action in its tracks: an old-timer warns Randall that he's being beckoned into a trap; the fort he's trying to find is home only to wind or echoes or some earthly element.

On its way to Mount Sharp in the middle of Gale Crater, Curiosity has been turning up a wealth of evidence that Mars could have contained living things: A water-rich environment, low acidity, elements key for Earthly life — hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur and phosphorus.

These fragments of rock that have tumbled from the sky often seem like the only solid element in the earthly narratives they leave like twisting trails of light in their wake.

Toward the end of his scientific career, Dr. Tada, who studied literature in college, took up writing Noh plays, a genre that features masked characters and blends elements of the spiritual and earthly worlds.

However, there have been instances of later artists incorporating elements of The Garden of Earthly Delights into their own work.