The ideas of landscape as literal and as illusion are illustrated by the play between actual texture of the surface of the painting landscape and simulated atmospheric depth. (fluxfactory.org)
I saw many analyses of American politics and social needs go wildly wrong about the actual texture of American social reality, and decided I must write (firstthings.com)
Similarly, despite his emphasis on the importance of the supernaturalized culture of Counter-Reformation Catholicism, there is relatively little exploration of the actual texture of popular religious practice. (firstthings.com)