material object

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When this material object was effected in safety, he arose to his seat, and took a better survey of his situation.
In this case there was no material object to feed upon, but the eye of reason saw a probability of mental sustenance in the shape of gossip.
All material objects around announced their irresponsibility with terrible iteration.
I ask for information, as a plodding man of business who only deals with such material objects as guineas, shillings, and bank-notes--may not the retention of the thing involve the retention of the idea?
As a material object, an item of dress, an accessory or a marker of status, the burqa can be seen as a thing in the world that exists outside of the individual subject.
For his leading question--Ward wants to look at the material object and its power of testimony through the encounter, as well as the power of the facilitating agents involved in making this encounter possible--he focuses on Andreas Huyssen's concept of the "museal gaze.
Although the thunder and lightning produced by these components sometimes distract from Melaney's own theory of modernist literature, the insights that this book offers for thinking about the literary text as a disruptive material object are worth braving the storm.
His topics include the material object, commentaries on the Gold Seal in the 1780s, revival of interest in the Gold Seal during the Meiji era and Miyake Yonekichi's breakthrough, modern science and the Gold Seal, and conspiracy theories and better science.

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