Whereas our eyes perceive living entities as compounds of form and matter, our understanding is focussed on the form stripped of matter, so that thinking is a more abstract version of sense perception.
"Schoolteaching does not take place in generic classrooms stripped of subject matter concerns, mindless of the backgrounds, needs, and interests of the students who come to school, or impervious to department, school, district, and other context influences.
Rather than going to landfill, Olympic matter stripped from the sites (the same will happen after the Paralympics) is sent to vast warehouses in Tilbury, Essex to be split up and sold.
Matter stripped from a companion star by a black hole can form a flat, pancake-like structure, called an "accretion disk". As material spirals toward the inner edge of the accretion disk, it is heated by the immense gravity of the black hole, which causes it to radiate in X-rays.
Using publicly available scripts from the 1000 Functional Connectomes Project (Biswal et al., 2010), we stripped skull, segmented grey matter, white matter and CSF, and regressed out nuisance parameters.
The dispossessed and the people who don't vote".. Thrillers, by contrast, are inherently conservative, "probably because the threat implicit in the thriller is the world turned upside down, the idea of being stripped of what matters to you".
This is the crucial matter: fame stripped of its everlasting value, its promise of a life after death, at least for one's reputation, has lost its spiritual underpinning.
The characters' middle-class assumptions crumble as life is stripped down to a matter of mere survival: a college degree in design or music becomes an unimaginable luxury (Lowell's 17-year-old daughter turns instead to prostitution) and they look back with incredulity on a world where people had the leisure and means to indulge affectations.
Anyway, the end-of-life matter was stripped from the bill.
