Sentence examples for material fragments from inspiring English sources

On the other hand, their inner lives remain true blanks; we have only a few material fragments to give us clues as to what their conscious experience of the world might have been.

He filled the little room with the material fragments of Kahlo's tumultuous life and, upon his own death, demanded that the special room be sealed until 15 years after he had gone.

In 8 cases that used an early design, the embolic material fragmented during withdrawal from the access sheath.

Nearly everything Mr. Frost touches is finished with a tight, sparkling white screenlike pattern through which glimmer bits of strong color and disparate materials: fragments of the Sunday funnies, flattened oil cans or masklike faces that evoke the art of the Northwest Indians.

However, our results reveal that even in initially pure tensile cases, for low strain rates and brittle materials, fragment interactions drastically change the fragmentation process as well as the fragments' residual velocities.

Since secondary microplastics are generated when larger plastic materials fragment, sources of macroplastics and their routes of entry into the environment are considered in this section.

Associated material (mainly fragments of wood) was dated by radio carbon 'Bayesian' dating techniques to between  6010 BC and 5960 BC.

There's some fine old material here: fragments, kept under glass, of 12th-century weaving by pre-Dogon Tellem people who used caves, some near the cliff where I'd seen the masquerade, for burials.

The hacker sends the material, in fragments, to Hank, and, as he sorts through the mesmerizing rubble — partial scenes of terror, exhilaration, torture, and death — we're reminded of classic sequences from Antonioni's "Blow-Up," Coppola's "The Conversation," and De Palma's "Blow Out," in which the evidence of a crime lies buried in visual or aural hash.

Biodegradation of polymer is described as any alteration of the polymer properties such as digestion by microbial enzymes, reduction in molecular weight, and loss of mechanical strength and surface properties, in other words, the breakdown of material into fragments via microbial digestion.

Millipedes are detritivores, feeding primarily on dead plant material and fragments of organic matter.