Sentences with phrase «than these material objects»

Sex is arguably a more precious thing than these material objects.

ultimately deliver more long - term happiness than material objects, when we reflect on them.

Under # 3 — Memories are better than material objects, he writes: The rule of diminishing returns -LSB-...]

Sehgal constructs situations rather than material objects.

Conceptual art is a postmodernist art movement founded on the principle that art is a «concept» rather than a material object.

Eliasson uses these concepts to create works like Multiple Shadow House which exist as experiences more than material objects.

It has been shown by a recent study from San Francisco State University that greater happiness comes from seeking experiences, rather than material objects.

The study found spending to help others or buy experiences does more for you than material objects, too.

It will be much easier on your wallet, and it has the potential to improve your relationship far more than any material object that you and your money can buy.

Not exact matches

That is, the form is received in matter as it is in any physical change, but also the form is received without matter, that is, it is possessed in disassociation from the sentient's material constitution.3 In virtue of this second mode of reception, the sensible thing is something more than an agent; it becomes an object for an experiencing subject — though this is not, of course, how Aristotle expressed it.

Today the shelves of Christian bookstores bulge with material that makes Charlie Shedd look like a prophetic sage (even if he did recommend only a trifling 15 minutes of exercise per day) rather than an object of easy derision.

... [Americans] have become a nation that may defy every foe but that most dangerous of foes, herself, destined to a majestic future if she will shun the excess and perversion of the principles that made her great, prate less about the enemies of the past and strive more against the enemies of the future, resist the mob and the demagogue as she resisted Parliament and King, rally her powers from the race for gold and the delirium of prosperity to make firm the foundations on which that prosperity rests, and turn some fair proportion of her vast mental forces to other objects than material progress and the game of party politics.

A «thing» is thought of as a constant pattern through repetition rather than a substance or a material object in the old sense.

Such material should be rejected as pornographic when its fundamental message is degrading and exploitative and when it treats sex as an object for use rather than as a medium of human relationship.

Since that time, material vaporizing from sunlit areas of the comet and then condensing in shadowed regions (which a recent report suggests are about 50 °C cooler than those illuminated by the sun) may have helped form the neck joining the once - separate objects.

Rather than using substances known as metamaterials to hide objects in plain sight, some scientists instead want to use the strange materials to build windows into worlds with fundamentally different physics.

The observed disk obeys Keplerian rotation: the material orbiting closer to the central star revolves faster than material further out.The high - sensitivity observations provided other important information about the object.

Using under $ 1,500 worth of materials, scientists have built a 3 - D metal printer than can lay down thin layers of steel to form complex geometric objects.

By adjusting the material properties of the object and the polarizations and synchronization of the individual light waves in the beam, physicists can make the object radiate more light forward along the beam than backward toward its source.

Previous research has suggested that the spheroids were used as percussive tools for shaping or grinding other materials; however most of the objects analysed by the team had weights that produce optimal levels of damage from throwing, rather than simply being as heavy as possible.

Consequently the skirt material, like the atmosphere, experiences a Coriolis force, even though the pyramid is merely a shape rather than a solid object.

«These diamond objects have a single - crystalline structure, making them stronger than polycrystalline materials.

The halos around quasars — the brightest and the most active objects in the universe, they are galaxies formed less than 2 billion years after the Big Bang; they have supermassive black holes in their centers and consume stars, gas, interstellar dust and other material at a very fast rate — are made of gas known as the intergalactic medium and extend for up to 300,000 light - years from the centers of the quasars.

Because of a little phenomenon called the hedonic treadmill, focusing our attention on amplifying what we have will always have a greater impact on net happiness than pursuing more money or more material objects.

Sometimes material things are more than just objects.

A widower whose heartbreak touched the world when his childhood sweetheart died from cancer less than a year after their wedding has revealed that he's Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon - 14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by

Recent cinema has been rife with object lessons on why it's probably better to risk angering fans of source material rather than sacrifice momentum (look no further than Watchmen), so it stands to reason that Azkaban benefits from having taken the road less traveled, even if it wasn't the way that the original fans wanted it to go.

Try to get the posts covered with a material of a different texture than your upholstery, so the kitten doesn't get confused about which object is OK to scratch and which isn't.

Artists can create a library of basic textures and objects this way, allowing them to customize the raw material rather than painstakingly building every costume, fencepost, and machine rivet from scratch.

Object motion blur also makes its way to the PC version, and advanced surface shaders are deployed en masse across characters and environments, resulting in material properties - such as wetness, sheen and reflections - all handled with far more realism than on current - gen platforms.

Composed of two seemingly antithetical materials — wood and galvanized iron — this work would at first seem to go against Judd's statement in «Specific Objects» that his work be viewed as» [a] thing as a whole» rather than a conglomeration of parts.

In Soap Box (4)(1999), Hanson and Sonnenberg fabricate typical sturdy packing containers from Styrofoam rather than a strong and supportive material, subverting their function as weight - bearing objects.

Part homage, part ironic reinvention, Thomas's 1990s abstractions can be seen as following the 1980s work of Peter Halley, Phillip Taaffe, Sherrie Levine, but their deft shuffling of the material and the immaterial, of the object and its image, orient them toward the future (i.e., now) rather than the past.

As this exhibition makes clear, Rossi's twentieth century contributions were less Pop in their registration; other than the gestalt effect of the abstractions, they feature almost no conventionally familiar material, brand, object, or otherwise.

Totaling more than 1,400 objects, the Hammer Museum's collection of her work is particularly notable for its extensive selection of preparatory materials.

Hesse does it her own way: she tends to pale or dark tones, disguises the hardness or pliability of materials, and carries the space of the room deep within an object rather than the other way around.

Under his pseudonym, loosely translating as «Dr Delinquent,» he draws over vintage printed materials and found objects rather than skin, manipulating images of pin - up girls, 1940s Mexican businessmen, luchadores, and Japanese sumo wrestlers.

Her expressionist paintings are inspired by a wide variety of art historical references, from Situationism and Abstract Expressionism to graffiti and cartoon, and her found - object sculptures assembled from urban detritus feel more playful and light than their material constituents.

Thanks to developments in conceptual art in the 1970s, wherein artists, in the lineage of Joseph Kosuth, attempted to distill the artwork into the presentation of words and ideas rather than crafted objects — not to mention the recent vogue for archival ephemera as exhibition material — artists, curators, and museumgoers are well - acclimated to seeing pieces of text on display in museum galleries.

Born in Osaka in 1935, Tetsumi Kudo was essential to the development of «anti-art» avant - garde art in Tokyo in the late 50s and early 60s that used store bought objects and found material in order to shock and revolt the status quo and to make art that would be defined by experience rather than medium, author, or commercial value.

Rather than finding beauty in traditional hierarchies, he finds potential in all manner of ordinary materials and objects found in the world around us.

Blacks read as negatives, greys as positives, indicating that some materials reflect more than others and underscoring that what we are seeing is ultimately not an object but light.

Her sculptures resolve this concept of prosaic «practicality» by the refusal to sensationalise her subjects, metaphorically transcending their designated purpose and intended limitations, and taking reassurance in objects and materials existing for their own inherent value, rather than a perceived use.

The first major investigation into his iconic and groundbreaking early work in more than 20 years, this exhibition surveys the renowned American designer's wood and fiberglass objects, and presents related materials from his archives.

Prohibited exchange items include but are not limited to: electronics, heavy items (over twenty pounds), small - scale objects (less than six inches in diameter), loose - leaf paper, tote bags, mass - produced garments, food or other perishables, weapons, and chemicals or other hazardous materials.

The works are displayed mounted to materials such as aluminum or plexiglass, though rather than using these materials in their traditional mounting methods, the images are adhered to the surface and leaned on shelves or stood on the floor, with exposed sections of their mounting substrate and their freestanding nature highlighting the object qualities of the prints, along with their physical connection to the depicted subjects.

For Sachs, a bricoleur is one «who hobbles together functional contraptions out of already given or collected materials, which he re-tools and re-signifies into new objects with novel uses, but more importantly, which he regenerates into a new, oscillating syntax: one of loss, gain, and more than anything, one of play.»

As I travel, I have been affected by other individuals, not necessarily artists, who repair or restore rather than «do away with» objects and materials, and habitat that exist within their environment.

For more than twenty years the artist has been using diverse mediums and many kinds of objects — including electric lights, fabric, wax, wood and mirrors — to explore architectural space, the nature of materials in abstract forms and the spectator's response to all of them.

This material is now part of the Burchfield Penney Art Center at Buffalo State College which houses more than twenty five thousand objects by this visionary American artist.