Sentence examples for immaterial elements from inspiring English sources

Second, Barr argues that only human minds, with immaterial elements, can think, understand, and distinguish true from false.

The socio-technical landscape relates to material and immaterial elements at the macro level: material infrastructure, political culture and coalitions, social values, worldviews and paradigms, the macro economy, demography and the natural environment.

Western political, business and opinion leaders have to be ready to act in a world with material or immaterial elements not only "made in China" but "created by China".

Whether we believe it is just our bodies, or at the other end of the scale, that it features some immaterial element that might be called a soul, we act as if it is an independent self, clearly distinguishable from the world it inhabits.

(NB3) For B death is a passage, a crossing, a dimension-jump which definitively fixes the quality of that immaterial element that deeply defines each individual – the soul.

To understand the human perception of landscapes in the past, archaeologists would require knowledge of the immaterial landscape elements: the stories that are connected to physical landscape features.

Rather, these two elements contrast sharply with one another in an immaterial balance.

So presence as an artist is really a manipulation of elements to get to a materiality that affects the immaterial.

While some emphasise the quality of material elements such as inputs, local production and design, others focus on immaterial aspects such symbolic value and exclusivity.

We observe that, since the array elements are assumed isotropic, the (random uniform) polarization of the received field components is immaterial here.

And she added to the mix an element of the uncanny, through which the existence of a transcendent, eternal and immaterial reality impinges on the lives of her ageing characters, reminding them of their mortality.