Collagists turned pictorial space inside out, casting lines and colors as material facts, on a par with ticket stubs and rope, rather than as ciphers of the imagination.
Palestinians say this has been the story of the 18 years since the Oslo accords of 1993: endless on-and-off talks, while the material facts on the ground – from new roads to restrictions on access and movement – change and the settler population more than trebles.
UnitedHealthcare, "has ended its limited use of rescissions effective immediately, except in cases of fraud or intentional misrepresentation of material fact," the company announced on Wednesday in a clear admission that it was engaged in the practice as a matter of policy.
Thomas added: "The material fact is that [the LSE students on the trip] were made fully aware of what the risks were if this journalist were to be discovered.
It's a philosophically catchy play on the Modernist tension between material fact and illusory fiction in painting.
Although Mr. Jobs disagrees with me on this, that strikes me as a "material fact," at least as the Securities and Exchange Commission defines the term.
And then last week on CNBC, Warren E. Buffett said that his own recent medical procedure "is a material fact".
On the question of who owns the bible, "there is no genuine issue of material fact," McBurney wrote.
Citing the pressing need of science "but also of our age in general" for a "comprehensive world view based on the material facts accumulated in the individual sciences", the appeal appears above all to have been an orchestrated attempt to buttress Mach's positivist conception of science in the face of recent realist criticisms of Mach by Max Planck, then Germany's leading theoretical physicist.
More than its geographical, material facts or its winding blue filament on an OS map, it provides a metaphor for time's eddy and flow, and for memory.
Detective fiction, relying on the accumulation of material facts, is the only fiction that makes sense to Christopher.
