Sentence examples for material expressions from inspiring English sources

Calasso is interested in charting how literature named the gods and then took it upon itself to unname them — to transform Vishnu and Zeus into less material expressions of enchantment — and how those wily pagans, cast out and nameless, managed to sneak back into the literary imagination in new forms.

Hegemonic dominance relationships and the limited intentional material expressions of imperial power they usually encompass pose an interesting and well-known problem for the archaeology of early empires.

That identification has lots of material expressions, but for many it is spiritually known.

But that's how things are in the world; Socrates claimed to be guilty of corrupting the youth -- corrupting them by helping them appreciate the higher ideals of life over and above their material expressions.

Suffice it to note that while such aspects of Swahili practice and tradition undoubtedly have deep historical roots, correlating their emergence with the initial appearance of material expressions of a distinctly maritime orientation remains challenging and can only be resolved, if at all, by future research.

The Madonna has a very material expression".

I n his earliest buildings, Nouvel gave material expression to critical ideas.

"They are the material expression of the most secret rites, passed down from one generation to the next.

In Mr. Fecteau's work everything invites you to look closer and to better understand the possibilities of material expression.

Their way of life had been so successful that it found material expression in the form of a gigantic stone edifice, a reification of a spiritual world view.

As the historian James Buchan put it, "Edinburgh's New Town is intriguing not merely as a suite of handsome buildings, but as the material expression of ideas of civilian life".