How to Use temporality in a Sentence

temporality

noun

• 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
• The effect strips the song of any discernible temporality.
  — Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2022
• 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
• Out of those hedges grows an infrastructure built for the churn of temporality.
  — Ryan Bradley, GQ, 7 Mar. 2018
• 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
• As the opening credits sequence ran for the last time, the devastated Mayans reflected on the temporality of life.
  — Henry Chandonnet, Peoplemag, 20 July 2023
• 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
• Like buggy whips and cassette tapes, however, the Postal Service has been marked by temporality.
  — National Geographic, 18 Feb. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Distilling as a process has a similar kind of temporality.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 2 Aug. 2021
• These are the moments when late-night comedy is, theoretically, still very much stuck in its temporality.
  — Vulture, 9 Sep. 2022
• 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
• Ng'ok explores this temporality through the intersection of people and place.
  — Alexandra Genova, Time, 20 June 2017
• 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
• 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
• The choice is between two completely opposite values: legibility on the one hand, temporality on the other.
  — Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2017
• That’s because Nelson’s sons Lukas and Micah understand their father’s unique position in temporality with an intimacy the rest of us will never comprehend.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 2 May 2023
• It’s about passing, it’s about temporality, it’s about contingency.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2022
• 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
• 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
• It’s sparsely furnished, creating a sense of foreboding temporality.
  — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 3 Nov. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The hipster’s temporality was both nostalgic and accelerated.
  — Hari Kunzru, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024