Sentence examples for material or thing from inspiring English sources

Sometimes while traveling, I obsess on a particular material or thing.

The personal finance guru recently gushed about her wife, Kathy Travis, during an interview with "Oprah: Where Are They Now?", saying that no matter what types of material or financial things people strive for, the one thing we all dream about is finding love.

The New Oxford American Dictionary defines spiritual as "relating to, or affecting the human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things".

Never put your disco balls beside a fabric or blanket material or your things might go on fire.

The theory denies that immaterial or apparently immaterial things (such as minds) exist or else explains them away as being material things or motions of material things.

Another variant is the symbolic allegory, in which a character or material thing is not merely a transparent vehicle for an idea, but rather has a recognizable identity or narrative autonomy apart from the message it conveys.

If one accepts Locke's view (apparently also endorsed by Newton) that we should attribute thinking to material things, or to aspects of material things, then perhaps Newton has successfully followed Locke in likening gravity to thought, thereby making room for aspects of nature that are not mechanical after all.

Aquinas declares 'being in general' (ens commune) to be the subject of metaphysics and God to be the principle of this subject (In Metaph., prooem).. Parallel to this restriction of the subject of metaphysics to created being, there is a restriction of the first object of the intellect to the 'quiddity of material things' or to 'being and the true as found in material things'.

We modify algebras for the materials (basic elements) of shapes to define algebras for the materials of objects, or things.

Metanoia is based around the concept of impermanence, one of the essential doctrines in Buddhism known as anicca (impermanence) that asserts that the existence of all temporal things, material or mental, is subject to change.

In my essay "Constructive Politics as Public Work," in Political Theory, I shorten the definition to mean self-organized efforts by a mix of people who solve common problems and create things, material or symbolic, of lasting civic value determined through deliberation.