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Examplesofmateriality
materialityIn fin-de-siecle cultural discourse, women, through their 'materiality', are endowed with 'unlimited plasticity'.From theCambridge English CorpusThe authors contribute then to a better understanding of the workings of political economies as well as to the materialities of colonialism.From theCambridge English CorpusBitonal dissonance ascribes a dense, repellentmaterialityto the women and locates the source of pollution in their polymorphism.From theCambridge English CorpusThere can be no access to the body without recourse to norms, power, and discourse that operate to circumscribe thematerialityof the body.From theCambridge English CorpusAnother example, one drawn from the everyday experience of speaking, can help us better understand how vocalmaterialityis lost behind signification.From theCambridge English CorpusFrom this standpoint, whatever might interfere with meaning is necessarily proscribed, beginning with the reintroduction of vocalmaterialityand the jouissance connected to it.From theCambridge English CorpusThe source of the problem lies, once again, in the slippage from materials tomateriality.From theCambridge English CorpusWritten sources can provide a wealth of new and revealing information on the materialities of objects as the authors of this article have clearly shown.From theCambridge English CorpusHowever, they do not predetermine the materialities in which the discourse will be produced.From theCambridge English CorpusOnly when the hammer announces itsmaterialityby failing, breaking or being defective do we revert to thinking of it as an object.From theCambridge English CorpusFor me, qualities such as aura point to extensions or continuities frommaterialitythrough to spirituality.From theCambridge English CorpusMy argument is that this seeming contradiction has confounded archaeology's attempts to come to terms withmateriality.From theCambridge English CorpusPerversely, it is the verymaterialityof the luxury objects with which her father surrounds her that suggest her immaterial qualities.From theCambridge English CorpusBut at the same time, the work allows some aspect ofmaterialityto be glimpsed which is not entirely worldly.From theCambridge English CorpusIt leads the archaeologist into interesting and productive territory, to engage with issues ofmateriality.From theCambridge English CorpusThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/materiality##
