How to Use temporality in a Sentence

temporality

noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • And this easy understanding of temporality, in turn, took form in my writing.
    — Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
  • But in producing visual work, temporality is fixed or frozen.
    — Laura Brown, Artforum, 25 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Oil coats our temporalities, protects and destroys our health, balms our intimacies.
    — Hazlitt, 21 Aug. 2024
  • These are the moments when late-night comedy is, theoretically, still very much stuck in its temporality.
    — Vulture, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Like buggy whips and cassette tapes, however, the Postal Service has been marked by temporality.
    — National Geographic, 18 Feb. 2017
  • Ng'ok explores this temporality through the intersection of people and place.
    — Alexandra Genova, Time, 20 June 2017
  • 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
  • Behind his daily effort in painting the quince tree, the spectator may perceive (that has always been my hope) the sign of a different, essential temporality.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 23 Aug. 2024
  • In early modernity, women were the keepers of this obsessive temporality of attention—of the current of time that flows beneath event, beneath change.
    — Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
  • 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
  • Birth taught me—forced me—to imagine and experience temporality differently.
    — Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
  • 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
  • It’s sparsely furnished, creating a sense of foreboding temporality.
    — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 3 Nov. 2022
  • 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 works presented — some of which haven’t been exhibited since the time they were made — span various mediums that explore history, temporality and biography.
    — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • The word has since been widely embraced and discussed by critics as a way of talking about the multiple temporalities and complex hauntologies of the Northeast, and by extension modern China.
    — Philip Tinari, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • The Canyon itself remains completely untouched by any flickering temporality on its edges, as feeble as a firefly against Alpha Centauri.
    — Tom Zoellner, AZCentral.com, 25 July 2025
  • The book, the story of Seymour, an ambitious would-be filmmaker and a second-rate husband, explores different temporalities, creating a polyphony of the sweeping, legato past and the rhythmic present.
    — Sam Thielman, The New Yorker, 21 July 2023
  • After so many roles that required him to straddle between different temporalities, DiCaprio was cast in the role of someone whose entire reality hinges upon keeping them separate.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The hipster’s temporality was both nostalgic and accelerated.
    — Hari Kunzru, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
  • Urbano’s work evokes a complex past that hasn’t yet occurred and a future that already has—a present that has always already been, to employ the idea of non-dialectical temporality favored by philosopher Maurice Blanchot.
    — Javier Montes, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
  • 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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