How To Use Abstract In A Sentence

There is still a level of abstraction (you're manipulating something removed from the screen) but it's more concretized now. MIND MELD: The Apple iPad: Sizzle or Fizzle?
Golub was an odd man out, one of those who kept alive certain ambitions scuttled by the artists who followed Abstract Expressionism.
Many of the ideas presented are on the cutting edge and deal with anything from abstract concepts to fiddlehead ferns, from a number to numeral, from software to the nuts and bolts of a computer.
Finally, in the formation of an opinion as to the abstract preferableness of one course of action over another, or as to the truth or falsehood or right significance of a proposition, the fact that the majority of one's contemporaries lean in the other direction is naught, and no more than dust in the balance. On Compromise
And the prints represent Abstract Expressionism's entire stylistic range, from fast and visceral to cool and ethereal.

They spent many hours searching in commercial databases, looking for abstracts and full-text articles.
He comes to be disgusted by all abstractions and ideas.
It's about the right image going with the right story in the right direction, rather than it being abstract.
It also provides a condensed primer to some of the issues at stake in American avant-garde cinema, which, partly because of its historical opposition to the dictates of commercial mainstream moviemaking and partly because it resists commodification unlike, say, abstract painting, oppositional cinema doesn't rack up big sales at Sotheby's, has been relegated to the status of museum pieces and festival marginalia. NYT > Home Page
No major American artists in the twenties were making totally abstract, non-objective paintings.
In his abstract ballets or interpretations of music, he rarely worried about the mood or emotional content of the music.
Flat lawns are formed into an abstract pattern that recalls tectonic fractures and fissures in the earth's surface, their edges defined by dark grey concrete retaining walls.
Object Relational Mapping was created to abstract details of the underlying database from the Java object model.
A vast, impersonal, abstract pattern stands be-hind this legend.
Under her they merely turn from pointillistic snapshots into abstract expressionism.
Leonardo da Vinci was not only one of the earliest European abstractionist, but also a sculptor, an architect , and an engineer.
Note 62: TNA SP 10/1, no. 38 abstracted in CSP Domestic Edward VI, 36. back From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
The abstract representations are also a reflection of the artist's mastery over colour and light.
abstractness," of science, it also accounts for its wide and free range of fruitful novel applications in practice. Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education
The abstract ideas of which the air consists, indispensable for life, but irrespirable by themselves, as it were, and only active in their re-directing function. Pragmatism
Then it struck her that he was in a state of deep abstraction. COME AND BE KILLED
Data used to produce the I9X binding profile was abstracted from reference 21.
Talking about crime in the abstract just isn't enough.
For that reason, abstract art has been anxious to distance itself from decoration.
But to frame an abstract idea of happiness, prescinded from all particular pleasure, or of goodness from everything that is good, this is what few can pretend to. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, by George Berkeley
If I reason, Every student who can concentrate his attention can learn quickly, George Marston has a notable power of concentration, Therefore George Marston can learn quickly, I again break up the abstraction _student_, and the concrete fact The Making of Arguments
The term 'kinematic' is used when motion is considered abstractly without reference to force or mass. Man or Matter
Simple convenience as the abstract selling point for an appliance is a hard position to defend over any length of time; someone will inevitably separate the convenience from the hardware, and sell it at a significantly lower price. Schooner Launches Specialized Servers for Speedy Data Delivery
The Underground Notes is one of the most controversial and abstract works of Dostoevsky.
Typically the characters of a masque would be classical deities or abstract qualities such as a Virtue and Beauty, contrasted with rustic figures, and the story would represent an archetypal conflict proceeding to resolution.
When I say "value", I'm not using that term abstractly - I mean the bottom line, practical dollars and cents value of visual effects to the film, television and video game industries. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
I think that the second point might be a little abstract to understand, but what is boggling my mind is are these two ideas that dictate our morality and state of mind mutually exclusive?
The lower half of the artwork consists of dark splotches and torn-paper abstract effects.
Any such definitive analysis, however, would need to respond, at the very least, both to his at once ‘avant- garde’ and hard-headedly commercial use of abstracted, deliberately over-stylised backgrounds and movements, and to the logical circularity which repeatedly dictates the emotional lives of his characters.
Since the theory is more general it is also more complicated and, in its advanced forms, more abstract.
This is, strangely enough, an unusual example of an abstract noun being masculine in Hebrew - most of them are feminine.
Painted in 1953, it dates from the period during which Barns-Graham, originally a figurative painter, was reconciling hard-edged geometrical abstraction with a love of landscape.
I trust his sincerity, but not his understanding of the abstractions which underpin good, stickable, co-ordinated policy. UNCoRRELATED
What he can do, however, is render remarkable mixed-media abstract works that revel in the auras of his subjects.
Duty is no longer determined in abstraction from the consequences or vice-versa.
I think “it is not an abstraction that animates them” could actually be a pretty revealing sentence, and not merely a bizarre self-contradiction. Matthew Yglesias » Peretz: Obama Needs “Harsh View of Islam Today”
The audio is sure to give the venue's newly upgraded sound system a thorough breaking-in, while the images transport with a hypnogogic flow of abstract patterns conjured through digital manipulations of a dozen shots of what looks like crumpled aluminum foil. Sad Sacks and Barrels of Laughs
Her recent acrylic abstractions are boldly graphic with radiant colors in dynamic geometric compositions.
The piece is illustrated with images that demonstrate the austere intensity of his work since then, exquisite abstract interiors and still lifes executed in his preferred palette of white, grey, light ochre and sienna.
We encounter Judd before the rest of the minimalists and Clyfford Still after his fellow abstract expressionists.
In abstraction from all such contexts, epistemic questions simply get no purchase.
Though such an important chief, he is the meanest dressed of his subjects, — is always filthy, — ever greasy — eternally foul about the mouth; but these are mere eccentricities: as a wise judge, he is without parallel, always has a dodge ever ready for the abstraction of cloth from the spiritless Arab merchants, who trade with Unyanyembe every year; and disposes with ease of a judicial case which would overtask ordinary men. How I Found Livingstone
Both are catalogues accompanying major exhibitions of Minimalism and Geometric Abstraction in the postwar period.
These works refer to the contents of software maintenance models, program viewing, program database, hypertext, program high-level abstraction, and decompiler.
I'm interested in your view of how the abstract or ungraspable relates to the limitations of our physical lives-to the fact that we are material, mortal beings.
The water has not been ‘predrunk’; it is not abstracted from a river and is as good as the best water you could find anywhere, even bottled.
As is often the case with dissertations, mine dealt with dramatic events but was abstract, academic, and lifeless.
Their abstract certitudes seemed far removed to him from the inherent contradictions in human nature.
This is a laudable but somewhat abstract concept.
For this solo, he exhibited untitled watercolors and monotypes with his typically whimsical mixture of abstraction and figuration.
The Romantic laureate is to be felt beyond the grave by the Victorians, and by their own poet, not in the wispy or whispering touch of his breathed words but in the abstract feelings generated from the written traces of their prophetic aura of aurality. Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
With all due respect to his sincerely held if abstractly formed views on this subject, it would be reckless to require the military to carry out a major sociological change, one contrary to the preferences of a large majority of its members, as it fights two wars," wrote the Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol. the support of Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Michael Mullen, conservative fearmongering about the potential effects of repeal have gone into overdrive with suggestions that the policy change would "mortally" damage the all-volunteer military. RSSMicro Search - Top News on RSS Feeds
And from the business point of view it is just merely wrong to abstractedly speculate that someone wants something. Russia's Sechin Defends Investment Climate
His movements were slow, his gaze abstracted, as if he were composing a poem in his head.
He can flit from populist argument to high brow abstraction and then back into quango-speak and then consultancy jargon with amazing felicity.
And if we examine Frege's definitions of particular finite cardinals we see at once why the notion of cardi - nal numbers can hardly be extracted as traditional abstraction doctrines suggest. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
In 1937 the historian Meyer Schapiro, writing first in Marxist Quarterly, analysed the opposition of realist and abstract art.
Enterprise 2.0 is often derided as a buzzword enveloped in ivory-tower abstractions that obfuscate as much as enlighten.www. newsgator.com) today launched a new blog from the trenches of Enterprise 2.0 - yes, there are trenches - called "Everyday Enterprise 2.0," authored by Christy Schoon, the company's director of Enterprise 2.0 consulting. Undefined
Much Middle Eastern art in the Biennale revealed a combination of older styles of modernism (early abstraction, Cubism).
Covered with eye images and other biomorphic motifs (that frequently recall eccentric abstractionists such as Myron Stout and Nicholas Krushenick), these unreal botanical specimens exhibit a delightful variety.
Conceptual abstractionists like ADS Donaldson may have all the theory in the world to underwrite their practice but, to be blunt, so what?
The Bible is no academic tome with an esoteric appeal to those with scholarly minds who can handle abstract concepts.
What I'll be working with tomorrow, then, is not a model provided by a film, or even by a filmmaker, but an abstract idea that I've not really had laid out before me in any concrete, imitable way.
Also striking was a realistic portrait from around 1970 of a woman with upswept hair seated in an ornate chair and another more painterly portrait of a faceless male figure against a background of abstract gestures.
From plastic abstraction to documentary reportage, from psychic investigation to political pamphleteering, from the autobiographical essay to a demonstration of the powers of montage, from graphic and textural work to militant revindication - Whitehead's work accomplishes an exceptional synthesis, open to every different dimension of avant-garde cinema, tending towards percpetual explosion and euphoric fusion with phenomena. GreenCine Daily: Rouge. 10.
In 1912 Braque and Picasso began to introduce collage and papier collé: this lent a clearer, if schematic, system of reference into a style which had become increasingly abstract.
He was a man whose mind was closed to abstractions and new ideas.
We reviewed abstracts and selected relevant articles.
Abstract Sickle hemoglobin nucleation occurs in solution as a homogeneous process or on existing polymers in a heterogeneous process.
All historical writings, even those which deal with complicated and abstract ideas, narrate stories about people and their lives.
The solicitor listened with an air of glassy-eyed abstraction.
Reaching this skill in what Piaget would later dub in his characteristically dry fashion “the fourth sub-stage of the sensorimotor stage” typically between the ages of nine and twelve months was an essential precursor to more abstract and sophisticated thought. The Truth About Grief
Abstract: The study of constant acceleration test was presented, and the problems in test were discussed.
It's the abstract that is called system analysis.
They have not been taught systematic approaches more abstract than those of addition and substraction and as a consequence have not become very sophisticated thinkers. Chapter 3
Description: Transcript, 36 pp. Abstract: Don Chamberlin is a research staff member at IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California. Oral history interview with Donald D. Chamberlin
On one hand, aesthetic Physic falls back into the equivoke of the theory of artistic and literary classes, by attempting to determine aesthetically the abstractions of our intellect; on the other, fails to recognize, as we said, the true formation of so-called natural beauty; for which the question as to whether some given individual animal, flower, or man be beautiful or ugly, is altogether excluded. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic
His absence had regained for him much of that aureola of saintship which had been nearly abstracted during her reproachful mood on that miserable journey from London. A Pair of Blue Eyes
For the most part, Alvin could not help but imbue the most abstract of movements with drama and emotion.
A common problem is when researchers use abstract concepts but participants interpret these literally.
Gone were the bronze statues and late-modern abstractions of earlier years.
Poems reach their audiences not as abstract linguistic constructs that are pretty much the same whatever their material published form, but either as performance or as printed artifacts.
Consider the problem in the abstract.
On his second day in office, President Obama repudiated George W. Bushs obsessive and destructive secrecy by ordering his government to obey the Freedom of Information Act. He said it should not withhold documents because they are embarrassing, or reveal failures and errors, or because of speculative or abstract fears. OpEdNews - Quicklink: NYT OP ED: Did They Miss the Memo?
No doubt reduced flows, due to water abstraction, increased clarity and apparent reduction in numbers of smaller species have all played a part in this increase in bream sizes.
The energy of the scattered light is abstracted from the original beam.
It's all very big and heady - the world of abstract construction - but it's child's play, really.
Here, you find everything from 12-tone to boogie-woogie, neoclassic to blues, and neo-romantic to completely abstract constructions.
An antique four-poster bed dominated the room, surrounded by abstract watercolor paintings in vivid jewel tones. Rogue Oracle
It is not easy to translate these abstract generalities into terms that admit of a genuine comparison with our own democratic achievements…
Also very summery are the whitewashed pastel cotton pants, bold cotton stripes and abstract floral prints and pinstripes on denim, cotton satin and viscose stretch fabrics.
Later on he looked at such semigroups in more abstract settings and produced some further beautiful results characterising projective mappings and certain geometric objects.
These two shows, a few months apart, displayed the tactile and abstract effects she wrings from such small-scale marks.
The Bible is no academic tome with an esoteric appeal to those with scholarly minds who can handle abstract concepts.
I don't think if you just consider products or a market in the abstract that you can be ahead of your time.
Up to that point he has held himself aloof, the professor lecturing on abstractions.
Philosophical constructs like mind-body dualism are explained as the transfer of master/servant relations into the domain of abstract thought.
Of course, the universe on one reading is highly abstract and some of its laws are mechanistic and deterministic.
This paper also describes abstractly distributed multistep intrusion scenario modeling based on BNF.
Teens comprehend abstract language, such as idioms, figurative language, and metaphors.
Had it not been for the obituary notice they placed in the Mumbai newspapers, this once well-known abstractionist's death on June 23, at the age of 76, might have passed unnoticed.
And yet, we still describe symbols as intellectual abstractions.
Surrealistic and abstract human figures instead dominate his oil paintings.
At the entrance to the gallery an upright, abstracted figure, smoothly curved, sat atop a heavy-duty steel truck spring.
Dominant currents in the philosophy of technology thus essentialise technology, decontextualise it, and abstract it from culture and human meaning, and thus fail to see how deeply embedded technology is in everyday life.
Video has a place on blogs, especially in reporting about tsunamis and other events that are dramatic and not abstract.
Above this ensemble, on the wall against which it is set, hangs a grid of 25 square encaustic paintings, monochrome abstractions that evoke the night sky.
Her work is abstract, using geometrical shapes subtly arranged and typically painted in soft colours.
On one eventful night we saw some refuse fish being wheeled off in a barrow, and we begged leave to abstract a fish, which was -- I say it without fear of contradiction -- the knobbiest and scaliest member of the finny tribe. The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary
From 1936 to 1939 he worked for the Federal Art Project, painting several abstract murals in a severe geometrical style.
He nodded abstractedly, went upstairs to the big, sunny sewing room, searched the family needlecase for a long stiff darning needle and extracted several rubber bands from the red cardboard box on the library table. A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life
Thus, although Greenberg champions avant-garde abstract artists, his is not the more rational avant-garde aesthetic of, for example, the Soviet Constructivists (e.g. Malevich, Popova, Rodchenko and Rozanova), or that of Mondrian, but a mystical one that suited his denegation of exact knowledge better. Political Affairs Magazine
The soul forms in itself likenesses of things inasmuch as, through the light of agent intellect, forms abstracted from sensible objects are made actually intelligible, so as to be received in the possible intellect.
He is looking up abstractedly into the middle distance with a slightly suppressed smile.
It assumes humans can abstract themselves from reality and go romping through history looking for the all-powerful distant cause that will explain each and every aspect of our current situation.
She pronounced the name abstractedly, for she was surprised at the admission. The Trail to Yesterday
As a result, the world of nature is studied in abstraction from the reality of God.
It's not a question of some abstract concept.
Words are only essential to put across more abstract concepts and intellectual ideas.
‘Through abstraction I aspire towards the infinite rather than the specific,’ she observes.
The foray into spirituality had evolved into an abstract series called ‘The Fragments’, which she exhibited in 2003 in Mumbai.
He turned his back on the London art-world and renounced the idea of abstraction, believing that a figurative style would be the only way to convey clearly what he had seen.
Zero and fractions were interesting to examine for different reasons: zero because it is an abstract notion meaning absence, and fractions because they are technical computations derived from wholes.
Your children must learn to use standard English, but that is best taught in conjunction with their writing and not in abstracted exercises in grammar workbooks.
The challenge for economic geographers is to engage globalization on the ground by socializing these abstract mechanisms.
Through the quantification of fire risk, underwriters reconceptualized fire in abstract, economic terms, taming it on paper.
The most obvious, and in the abstract perhaps least objectionable, kind of informal imperium is that exercised by a country seeking to protect its interests and those of its friends by taking on a policing role in regional conflicts.
Judges present decisions behind the veil of abstract principle which often conceals the naked face of consequentialist considerations of loss distribution.
Importantly, for Robert, in contradistinction to Kant, civil society cannot supplement this abstraction with the relative concreteness and historicity of traditions contractually entered into and upheld.
Linear simplicity, naive spontaneity, subtlety of tones and interesting techniques mark his abstracts.
It's just an amazing range - from Greek-like naturalism to total abstraction.
But when I became an adult, I began to see the importance of those abstract principles in a personal way.
The abstract idea of the Rechtsstaat must not be set above the values which it is designed to defend.
In that profession you start with a blank sheet of paper and a concept or abstract idea.
This is fairly obvious with a relatively abstract form such as a moral code.
‘Blackness’ once again results from the abstraction of a process or movement into an Idea, and once again becomes an ideology.
Less historical than hysterical, "The Untitled Kartik Krishnan Project" is a movie-within-a-movie shot in frequently abstract black-and-white — "arty-farty," as one character describes her cinematic preference — about a lonely office worker's effort to make a short film with the help of a more established director (the film's actual director, Srinivas Sunderrajan). Kids Take Over the School
Bourdieu implies the same Romantic preference for the work ethic and antipathy towards abstraction as Veblen.
Within the present exhibition, the emphasis is on Richter's paintings based on photographs, his pure paintings, his famous grisailles and in particular the abstract expressionist works.
It looks as if the concept of the isolated gene as a unit of selection is an idealized abstraction from reality.
I have difficulty dealing with the abstract - let's discuss particular cases.
Even with abstracts, the theme was, more often than not a Biblical one.
Esther Kläs's engaging, unpretentiously reductive sculpture evokes the postwar, semiabstracted, universalist figures of Reg Butler, Germaine Richier and Kenneth Armitage. Abstracts (Subtle or Semi) And Bold Dimensions
He also admitted a further charge of abstracting electricity under the Theft Act.
Indeed, one might argue that the languages of music and of dance share a degree of abstraction somewhat compromised by the incursion of word and plot.
This swelling border, added last, embraces all but the lower left corner of the centralized image, canceling out the lingering sense of rational space of "Sketch 1" and pushing the vestiges of the troika, St. George and a mountainous landscape firmly toward abstractness. Complementary Abstractionists
Your intelligence tells you that such a process is not abstract reasoning, and your homocentric thesis compels you to conclude that it can be only a mechanical, instinctive process. The Other Animals
Faintly glowing silver sigils appeared on the slips, in the form of a circle enclosing an oil lamp, a river, and several abstract designs.
Abstract:Take the Sorbus tianschanica Ruper as raw material to determine different parts of terpenoids content.
The concepts [dog], [cat], [horse], as well as [animal], occupy the abstract domain of types.
Platonism began the West's pursuit of abstract truth from the times of ancient Greece.
He finds the source of skepticism in the theory of abstract ideas, which he criticizes.
The exhibition will include new works on paper through print and wood block, abstract sculptural wall pieces to functional ceramics, glasswork, iron works and clean contemporary textile works.
By the age of seven, children are capable of thinking in abstract terms .
But she had no more time for abstract thoughts.
I only wish the handle/stand were less cartoonishly abstract. Boing Boing
The dominance of abstract expressionism has been buttressed by an impressive degree of partisanship and an illusion of consensus.
Functional abstraction involves the restatement of any problem in terms of performance specifications.
Roland Barthes's semiology finds it foundation in the structural linguistic theory of Ferdinand de Saussure, who posited an abstract notion known as langue to explain the system of language.
Fear, fury, desire, shame -- the whole philosophy of the religious moralist is simply an abstraction, systematisation and indoctrination of emotional reactions as so-called moral principles. Duncan Does Deus
A characteristic of many psychiatric disorders is the person’s inability to assume the abstract attitude or to shift readily from the concrete to the abstract and back again as demanded by circumstances. alexia Loss of a previously intact ability to grasp the meaning of written or printed words and sentences. alogia An impoverishment in thinking that is inferred from observing speech and language behavior. Think Progress » ThinkFast: May 11, 2006
One manifestation of this was the hypothesized existence of orgone which, as Wiki says, entailed: ... an extrapolation of the Freudian concept of libido as a physical, bioenergetic force, developed by psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich in the late 1930s, who generalized and abstracted it far beyond Freud's semi-metaphoric use. Archive 2008-09-01
Lately I have been studying the paintings of an abstract expressionist named Diebenkorn.
His paintings were exhibited in Pittsburgh as early as 1927 and again in 1931 at the Museum of Modern Art. But Nazi rule (which deemed his art degenerate), World War II and postwar abstractionism relegated Dix to the background, and unlike Max Beckmann and George Grosz — the Berlin painter with whom he is often linked — Dix did not immigrate to the U.S. Sex, Blood and War
Everyday life is much more interesting to me than big, abstract theories. Through my poetry, I aim to reflect our times. I don’t want to dwell on the olden days, although it is a period I mention often. Gulzar
And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp. Nineteen Eighty-four
But the exchange of commodities is evidently an act characterized by a total abstraction from use-value. A Bland and Deadly Courtesy
At the same time, the awakening interest in international trends at the expense of the Irish landscape tradition and pretty pastel abstraction is revealing.
Even though abstract, the analogue's phenotype supports the idea that in vitro cytogenesis may be explained by a small number of generative principles adhered to tightly by each individual cell. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
Guilford College, Greensboro, North Carolina Manuscript received January 4, 2008; manuscript accepted April 19, 2008 Abstract Purpose: To test a mediational model of the relationships among motivation-related variables in middle-school physical education and leisure-time physical activity behavior. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
For any attempt to resolve the issue by pronouncing the work of critique to be wholly isomorphous with the contingent material experiences that gave rise to it or, alternatively, as sublating (aufheben) aesthetic experience into pure abstractions invariably forecloses on the ethical implications of critical practice. Pfau, Coda & Works Cited'
Music poses an enormous challenge to a writer: its abstraction refutes description, but its very otherness can be liberating.
Beneath that Kiwi veneer of earthy, beer-swilling practicality, we're actually outstandingly good at the pure abstract stuff.
In abstracting from the morphology of our bas-relief towards a Grand Unified Morphology with a cardinal morphological form as Prime Cause, they seek an articulation of the ground as a figure in its own right, the frame as form, not a sub-class of Being but a class of NonBeing, something beyond reality itself. Archive 2007-04-01
I'm not sure why my numbers on foreign versus US scientists differ from the abstract (their 39 and 15 versus my 37 and 17), my guess is that they have opportunistically included 2 scientists who have some minor US connection as being from here. Two Cowenian Tenure Claims, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
In structuralism, these formal properties are taken at a relatively abstract level.
This little incident led us to reflect upon the most prominent characteristics of bashful young gentlemen in the abstract; and as this portable volume will be the great text – book of young ladies in all future generations, we record them here for their guidance and behoof. Sketches by Boz
We encounter Judd before the rest of the minimalists and Clyfford Still after his fellow abstract expressionists.
Classical art has its own temptations and sins; as Maritain hints, it may obscure the originating sense of congruence or confluence, the 'pulsion' which stimulates formal composition, by over-insistence on an abstract rigour of structure. Clark Lectures, Trinity College, Cambridge Grace, Necessity and Imagination: Catholic Philosophy and the Twentieth Century Artist Lecture 4: God and the Artist
His syncopated, rapid-fire freestyle flickers between abstract movements and pantomime, but he never loses the beat.
O'Hara's list of friends reads like a Who's Who of abstract expressionism.
If strategy games and Utopian architectural proposals schematize the operation of the urban realm into an abstract diagram, what can gaming and architectural representation teach us about how we might "play" the city? Serial Consign
Abstract: The freshwater sawfish Pristis microdon is a critically endangered elasmobranch. Breaking News: Ontogenetic Depth 2.0! - The Panda's Thumb
It seems to me very significant that Dr. Southard should interest himself, as his paper leads one to judge he does, in such problems as Shand's somewhat abstract work, and should seek correlations with legal characterology like that of Roscoe Pound. The Journal of Abnormal Psychology
The deity was a lingam, the abstract phallic symbol which is the most common representation of Shiva.
We cannot permit the discussion to be sidetracked into yet another sterile debate about human rights conceived in the abstract and unrelated to the concrete circumstances of the historical moment.
Those who write about sex and sexuality from an ecclesial perspective are usually intellectuals, academicians and professors who approach the subject so abstractly in convoluted, scholastic language; a prime example of this would be John Paul II himself in his Wednesday talks on the Theology of the Body. David L. Schindler criticizes Christopher West's work with TOTB
It was not Toms practice to tell, but here justice clearly demanded that Maggie should be visited with the utmost punishment; not that Tom had learned to put his views in that abstract form; he never mentioned justice, and had no idea that his desire to punish might be called by that fine name. X. Maggie Behaves Worse Than She Expected. Book I—Boy and Girl
Identical fragments had been found on the clothing quietly abstracted from the locker of a prime suspect. COFFIN ON THE WATER
Abstract words form the bulk of the vocabulary of major modern languages like English.
Invariably a bureaucrat of the media company concerned fronts up and runs an abstract sort of case, but I insisted on turning up myself to argue my own case.
They are biomorphic shapes, but it is clear what they are abstracted from. The Times Literary Supplement
For example, we ask authors to use a structured abstract format.
Thank Heaven, we have not yet come to think that the highest form of wisdom is enshrined in the _sesquipedalia monstra_ of chemical formulae, still less in the extreme abstractions of mathematics. Nature Mysticism
Abstract painting did have an equivalent in sculpture but it was largely unsuccessful.

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