Sentence examples for earthly materials from inspiring English sources

If this exhibition makes a case for any particular point of view, it is a pragmatic pluralism: what matters here is not nearness to transcendent aesthetic ideals but the particular realization in earthly materials of singular sensibilities.

The computer, Khalifa believed, was a latter-day "creature made of earthly materials" through which the Koran was broken down mathematically, and God's true message, the miracle of 19, was revealed.

In the next column, I'll be asking whether it's time to slow our planetary plundering, and I'll be looking at what happened in the last 60 years to produce such an escalation in our lust for Earthly materials.

To get these ideas across to audiences, Tellart likes to combine natural, tangible, and earthly materials with the immaterial of digital imagery, data, and networks.

It concludes (at least until next year's sequel) in 2160, with James Franco in a silver space suit, tampering with boomboxes, VHS tapes, and more sculpted from earthly materials including obsidian and volcanic ash.

For his latest exhibition, Welcome to the Future, Arsham filled an archaeological site with old and dead technologies (boomboxes, VHS tapes) sculpted from earthly materials including obsidian and volcanic ash. .

As an artist in the 1970s, Mendieta embarked upon her iconic series "Silhouettes," in which she merged body and earthly material, making nature both canvas and medium.

The Romans, the British and the French went about annexing large parts of the world more for earthly or material gain than for spiritual dominance.

In his great book on Rabelais, Mikhail Bakhtin observes that: "In the eyes of Rabelais's fool, truth presupposes freedom from personal material interests, from the unholy gift of managing family and personal affairs, but the language of this foolish truth is at the same time earthly and material".

Striving towards the life beyond, Strindberg explained, he could permit nothing in the apartment that would lead the thoughts towards the earthly and material.

In four chapters — the movie's title can be translated as "The Four Times" — Mr. Frammartino successively chronicles the earthly transit and material transmutation of an old man, a young goat, a tree and a batch of charcoal.