Citations:material

English citations of material

1922, Richmal Crompton, chapter IX, in Just William:
“Those children are a leetle disappointing as regards character—to a child lover like myself,” confided Miss Grant to her intellectual fiancé. “I’ve tried to sound their depths, but there are no depths to sound. There is none of the mystery, the glamour, the ‘clouds of glory’ about them. They are so—so material.”

1984, Peter Brown, Robert Rans (lyrics and music), “Material Girl”, in Like a Virgin, performed by Madonna:
'Cause we are living in a material world / And I am a material girl

1855, Ireland. Maynooth Commission, Report, page 341:
By “heretics,” in this passage of Bailly, are meant persons guilty of the “formal crime of heresy,” not persons who, […] Distinctly against formal heretics alone; there is no censure for a merely material crime—that is, for an act sinful in its own nature, […]
1952, John A. Abbo, Jerome Daniel Hannan, The Sacred Canons: Canons 870-2414
But even in the case in which the crime contemplated by the penal law is the formal crime, this act is composed of several successive and component steps. If these are taken, but the formal crime itself (or the material crime, in the respective case) is not committed, the steps constitute an attempt; if an outside force interferes to prevent them from producing their effect, the crime […]
1965, Duquesne University Law Review:
Thus, we must reject all theories which make a distinction between a formal crime "definition" and a material crime "description." To make this distinction is a useless, if not confusing, doubling of notions, also ontologically incorrect.
2001, Astolfo Di Amato, Italian Law on Business Crime (→ISBN)
Event
(i) Material event: material crime
The event is the result of the criminal conduct which is criminally relevant. [...]
(ii) Formal event: formal crime
From a formal point of view, the event is the offence to the interest protected by the […]

1952, Rex Stout, Prisoner's Base, chapter 4:
[Inspector Cramer] expressed appreciation for the information I provided, taking a dozen pages of notes in his small neat hand, and asking plenty of questions, not to challenge but just to elucidate. […]

"I believe you, for a change." He left his chair. "Especially since he has no client, and none in sight that I can see. He'll be in one hell of a humor, and I don't envy you. I'll be going. You understand you're a material and you'll be around."

I said I would.