How to Use temporality in a Sentence
temporality
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But Seibert explained that the temporality of sand castles is part of what draws him to them in the first place.
—Bridget Mallon, ELLE Decor, 14 July 2015
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The effect strips the song of any discernible temporality.
—Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2022
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There was a lack of temporality, a sense that the point of being there was not to see things, necessarily, but to simply be.
—Hanya Yanagihara, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Nov. 2018
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Out of those hedges grows an infrastructure built for the churn of temporality.
—Ryan Bradley, GQ, 7 Mar. 2018
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What we have been left with is an empty, windswept landscape almost devoid of all trace of temporality.
—Carlo Rovelli, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2018
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Our dinners have a similar temporality and everything is carried away the same night - both leave no trace.
—Irene S. Levine, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2021
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Like buggy whips and cassette tapes, however, the Postal Service has been marked by temporality.
—National Geographic, 18 Feb. 2017
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For some the visceral sense of loss and its magnitude, and the long temporality of illness and slow recovery, is already part of their experience of Covid.
—Wired, 22 July 2022
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As Rosita waits for the mail, striving to ignore temporality, the flowers tended by her green-thumbed uncle symbolize time and aging.
—Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2021
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The sound of the water clock slowly filling up and then suddenly emptying brings a subtle sense of temporality that is at the same time an invitation to disconnect from time.
—Felicity Carter, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021
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Their contribution, then, is in line with all the pop-up structures that have taken over the streetscape and offers a new through-line of temporality, communal gathering, and ritual.
—Eva Hagberg, Curbed, 15 Mar. 2021
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But as long as both people are on the same page about its temporality, a micro-romance avoids the biggest pressure on a new relationship: uncertainty about the future.
—Daisy Alioto, The Cut, 9 Apr. 2018
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Distilling as a process has a similar kind of temporality.
—Adam Rogers, Wired, 2 Aug. 2021
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These are the moments when late-night comedy is, theoretically, still very much stuck in its temporality.
—Vulture, 9 Sep. 2022
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There’s more than enough blurring of the lines between reality and dark fantasy, not to mention any conventional grasp of temporality, to position Inside as a new entry in the Greek Weird Wave.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2023
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Ng'ok explores this temporality through the intersection of people and place.
—Alexandra Genova, Time, 20 June 2017
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The Simple Past is told entirely from Driss’s perspective, in frank, vivid, often coarse language and jarring, Faulknerian shifts in focus and temporality.
—Adam Shatz, The New York Review of Books, 2 Jan. 2020
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Stored in caves or dedicated shrine boxes, they’re occasionally left to melt in a symbolic commentary on the temporality of life — a kind of existential art.
—Aimee Farrell Anthony Cotsifas Martin Bourne, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2022
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The choice is between two completely opposite values: legibility on the one hand, temporality on the other.
—Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2017
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It’s about passing, it’s about temporality, it’s about contingency.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2022
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Inside the museum, a series of videos ruminates further on temporality and sequencing, language and different forms of perception.
—Jason Farago, Martha Schwendener and Will Heinrich, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018
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Advanced tentative theories of the universe even discard temporality altogether from the basic ingredients of the world.
—Carlo Rovelli, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2017
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It’s sparsely furnished, creating a sense of foreboding temporality.
—Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 3 Nov. 2022
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García’s latest work is less a novel than an exhilarating orchestration of competing voices and temporalities.
—Chronicle Staff Report, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Dec. 2017
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At BlackStar, Nkiru’s nonlinear, intergenerational story will be part of a larger conversation about form, temporality and the visual language of contemporary Black cinema.
—New York Times, 3 Aug. 2022
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His work depicts intersections of masculinity, intimacy, and temporality, and is often inspired by his own experiences of isolation and trauma.
—Sarah Nechamkin, The Cut, 2 July 2018
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Early photographers developed a practice of splicing images together, allowing them to meddle with temporality and dissolve the boundaries between the natural and supernatural – a theme that the Surrealists would explore.
—1843, 24 July 2019
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The hipster’s temporality was both nostalgic and accelerated.
—Hari Kunzru, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
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