Sentence examples for elemental qualities from inspiring English sources

Thus, Greek thought encompassed the idea that all matter could be understood in terms of elemental qualities; in this sense, the elements themselves were thought of as nonmaterial.

The characters evoke elemental qualities that Mr. Tomasson has kept in mind.

Additional elemental qualities were introduced to accommodate newly discovered chemical transformations.

Recently, however, there has been a surge of interest in just these elemental qualities to the land.

This was essentially the point of view taken by Aristotle when he associated his elemental qualities with continuous matter.

In this problematic cliché, lighter-skinned and higher-class people look to "darker," lower-class music for elemental qualities supposedly missing from their own lives.

The background is tempestuous water, and the painting's strength is in its elemental quality.

The use of Norse rather than Greek mythology heightens this elemental quality.

Gerald Finley was strong as Jaufré, and Monica Groop brought a dark, elemental quality to the role of the Pilgrim.

The music had a elemental quality, gradually gathering momentum and moving towards a cataclysmic outburst of sound.

This concert, given by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under the Swedish conductor B Tommy Andersson, as part of Radio 3's current season of Nordic music and words, had a decidedly elemental quality, if little obviously ecstatic light.