Sentence examples for physical permanence from inspiring English sources

And he was among the first to make work that fit the definition: work that played down the unique art object, with its associations of individual genius, exchange value and physical permanence, in favor of utopian proposals, collective visions, objects that existed first and last as ideas.

It is instructive to note that in the course of the 15th century the progress of the three-generation lineage of Josetsu, Shūbun, and Sesshū can be described as a movement from physical permanence and relative security to a peripatetic existence necessitated by political instability and from conservative to more generalized or secular themes.

For me, there's something hefty about the simple physical permanence of a postcard, flimsy as they may be, because they actually come from somewhere, or a giftshop in the lobby of somewhere anywhere.

And possibly its enduring appeal may rest on its physical solidity and permanence, the very reverse of rootlessness.

Like children too young to understand physical or emotional permanence, time after time we tell ourselves that the club'll save us from the crushing weight of the quotidian.

The channels formed are remarkably similar to amyloid peptide channels in their appearance, physical and electrical size, permanence, lack of ion selectivity, and multiple channel conductances.

The object concept permanence (OCP) physical-search test consisted of four tasks: plain reach, screen, well, and A-not-B (Sackett et al. 2006b).

But Mr. Rose sees an element of permanence in the physical grid of the area that has endured for a century or more.

One of the areas of focus on object permanence has been how physical disabilities (blindness, cerebral palsy and deafness) and intellectual disabilities (Down syndrome, etc).

They evoke a sense of wonderment for their aesthetic fascination if not for their seeming permanence over both cultural and physical landscapes.

The superimposition of one chair form over another emphasizes both the joinery of its parts and the form as a whole, raising questions about the function of a chair versus its physical reality and ideas about material and permanence".