The club's four bathrooms are divided into elements: Earth, Fire, Air and Water.
Transparent plastics also have come into use, especially as they can be molded into elements with aspheric surfaces.
What for other people is an inchoate flow of mental life is broken up into elements and cross-referenced.
Many ancient practices associated with the court and the wat have been transformed into elements of contemporary Thailand's national heritage.
Thorstein Veblen, in his 1899 classic, "Theory of the Leisure Class," discussed how the newly moneyed turned everything, including art, into elements of conspicuous consumption.
"I don't think he should be giving into elements of the base who have been asking him to be going after, using Wright, using Ayers, Mr. Cullenn said.
What it meant was that the heaviest of elements had been split into elements of lighter weight, with a consequent release of atomic energy.
Anyone who can date the moment when parties stopped being parties and turned instead into elements of a retailing stimulus package gets a gold star.
Or at least it has been to Mr. Wong's fervent European and North American admirers, who have elevated his couture fetish, his melancholy sensuality and his flair for arresting visual compositions into elements of a major cinematic style.
There they traffic in nutrients, processing the hard lignin and resistant woody tissues – five tonnes of this vegetable junk per hectare is dumped annually – and converting it into elements that trees and flowers can re-use.
The authors wrote that "imagined memory elements regarding what something could have been like can turn into elements of what it would have been like, which can become elements of what it was like".
