"material embodiment" is a correct and usable expression in written English.
You can use it to refer to a physical object or representation of an idea. For example: "The material embodiment of this law should be made available to the public."
The Bible, perhaps the first book to be characterized in these terms, was thought to be the material embodiment of Jesus Christ, "a living and breathing likeness of Him" in the words of Erasmus.
Nor does Sheehan attempt to capture a 19th-century vernacular; we must take her contemporary language on faith as a sign of her central character's spirit, not a material embodiment of it.
Little punctuation is used and the distinction between direct and indirect speech is often blurred, as if language is meant to be a material embodiment of the fervent mood of the supposedly deceived husband.
In a similar manner, has been portrayed in the visual and the verbal arts as a material embodiment of the Spanish soul, Gaelic football is thought to be an expression of an authentic Irishness, and sumo wrestling is said to represent the indefinable uniqueness of Japanese culture (which is why foreign-born sumo wrestlers are almost never elevated to the sport's highest rank of yokozuna).
Instead of arguing positively from the essence of God to His properties, one will argue from God's effects, particularly the perfections of creatures that do not of necessity involve material embodiment, to the affirmation that God possesses these perfections.
Writing constituted in his view an essential part of language, the material embodiment of the specific formative principle a language employs to construct meaning rather than being the mere representational mirror of speech.
Also, it looks like a typo: here, as throughout her career, Howe is interested in the accidents, smudges, and tears that fasten works of literature to their material embodiments on the page.
The embodied energy, however, is not included because it is not directly related to work and the materials' embodiment varies [68].
The result, then, is an identity grounded in the person's material reality and embodiment but more explicitly "reflective and aspirational" (Stokes 2012, 365) in its presentation.
Human nature is ethical, and humanity is akin to the Divine, emanating from the primal fire or aether, which, though material, is the embodiment of reason; and people should conduct themselves accordingly.
These paintings are dismal rafts, laden with their own material history - embodiments, perhaps, of what WG Sebald called a Natural History of Destruction.
