Sentence examples for mere material from inspiring English sources
In particular, how could any mere material thing possibly display the phenomenon of intentionality, rationality, or consciousness?
For the writer holed up in a study with the illusion of privacy, friends, acquaintances, and relatives are mere "material".
All secularized faiths tend to converge on a set of agreeable values: compassion, empathy, the renunciation of mere material riches.
And it is when the description of objects hints at something other than their mere material constitution, much less their function, that the sorcery of painting begins.
But they seek legitimate authority rather than mere material dominance, favor cost-benefit analyses rather than ideological litmus tests, and prize good results over good intentions.
As the young men who have rediscovered the venerable shaving brush will tell you, affection for the object goes far beyond the mere material.
Beyond mere materials, Wagner is ushering new technology into skiing.
And while some design practices too often reduce material to the mere stuff of building (however sophisticated that stuff may be), new materialist practices have begun to explore deeply human drives and desires that construct architectural experience as performative, indeterminate, and multiple.
The "didactic" (i.e., utopian) Whitman can hardly be said to disappear into an autonomous verbal structure that makes all propositions mere "raw material," as Vendler asserts.
Treating foreign works in this cavalier fashion sends the same message as the decline of language teaching in schools; we are increasingly a monoglot culture, treating classic plays in other languages as mere raw material for our own theatre.
The thinktanks, some of whose own workforces need to better reflect cultural diversity, must shift from regarding black and Asian people as mere evidence material to treating them as equal partners with robust opportunities to put forward challenging and different perspectives in research and policy development.
