Sentence examples for elemental things from inspiring English sources

American growth lags not because of higher order problems, but because of the bad elemental things, like lousy schools and bad infrastructure.

For 35 years, Nash painted a small range of elemental things – trees and tree trunks, knapped flints, birds' nests, doorways – regrouping them like pieces on a chessboard, or like soldiers on a battle plan.

The British use irony as a way of distancing themselves from all kinds of elemental things that people in other countries do without layers of self-reflection — sex, for example, and food.

The thickest textures came in the second movement, "Elemental Things," and even here, where movement slowed to the measured pace of a large beast waking up, long-held notes were brought into focus by details: the whisper of a brushed cymbal, the punctuation of piano.

Each time I go there, I reconnect with elemental things.

Football stirs up these elemental things that are connected with childhood.

"It's an elemental thing.

The only way forward was to celebrate the "mono," or elemental thing, by making its essence more visible.

Denise Giardina, one of the state's best novelists, told me, "Water — it's the most elemental thing except for air".

Conor's monster is a yew tree, a huge, gnarled, creaking, elemental thing, as old as the Earth.

Berneray beach, Berneray, North Uist Wild swimming is an elemental thing, and places don't come much wilder or more elemental than the Outer Hebrides.