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How to use abstract in a sentence

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It's a beautiful work of abstract colour and texture, of contrasting dark and light.
She is represented by two unprepossessing abstract heads rendered in polychrome clay.
It was a figurative abstract of Pare Argile holding his son as a newly born baby.
But terror is an abstract noun, not a country as our Constitution pickily insists for a war.
Charter issues must be decided in the factual context before the court and not in the abstract or on hypothetical facts.
These two shows, a few months apart, displayed the tactile and abstract effects she wrings from such small-scale marks.
But it is Brutus who is the most instantly recognisable modern figure in his use of abstract nouns to justify political ends.
It's about the right image going with the right story in the right direction, rather than it being abstract.
But equally, he claimed that he was capable of dissociating himself from his physical disorders only through abstract thought.
So a culture based on abstract reasoning, or on various metaphysical precepts, may itself be simply a product of evolutionary change.
The question of Being, far from being too abstract or theoretical an issue, will prove to be important for understanding exile.
It is grotesquely, disastrously wrong about the Labour Party, and it imposes an abstract answer on a concrete situation.
Courts are not supposed to decide questions which are merely moot, theoretical, abstract or hypothetical.
While the research work is highly abstract and theoretical, it has practical applications in computer science, Goins notes.
Second, this shaky notion was based on a highly abstract and contentious branch of physics known as string theory.
One does not mind the ending, but one notices that when Taylor strings together abstract nouns, he is at his least compelling.
As your Honours have seen the substantive provision of the Act is one which uses the abstract noun.
How, if it's a category mistake to think that you can fight a war against it, do you organise an international campaign against an abstract noun?
I knew that I needed to abstract what I wanted from the general confusion and the disorder of the scene.
This sort of abstract illusionism brings to mind certain early canvases by Bridget Riley.
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Examples from Classical Literature
An abstract principle called God, or Aum or any other impersonal formless all-inclusive Being?
And this idea of authoritativeness is one element in the abstract consciousness of duty.
In the late 1960s the PCR was disturbed by the extent to which abstract art had blossomed despite party disapproval.
As a piece of abstract music, the movement appears long, but not if the dramatic situation be kept well in mind.
This is the only one of the sonatas which, as abstract music, would be satisfactory without any programme.
He purchased the aldermanry of this ward, as by the abstract of deeds, which I have read thereof, may appear.
This abstract source, which sprung from sexuality, ab initio, they deified and worshiped.
Another Boehme, say you, with a tougher book and subtler abstract meanings of what roses say?
But it is possible that Joy itself is not the abstract noun, but a shortened form of Julian.
Long legs may be in the abstract an advantage, but scarcely so in what was called in France une grande berline.
The grammatical change which accompanied this psychological movement was the transfer of the adjective into an abstract noun.
But Tashmitum, being feminine in gender, as an abstract noun, seemed appropriate as the designation of a goddess.
Make from each adjective and verb in this week's lesson an abstract noun by the addition of the proper suffix.
And T must be, not a sum of concrete goods, but a sum of abstract numbers, and so itself an abstract number.
With scholars and philosophers they held their own in abstruse and abstract discussions.
But this would appear to be too abstract, and not so accordant with ordinary concepts.
This is not the fault of Columbus, albeit we only have an abstract of his journal.
Nor can we draw the immediate inference that abstract art is inappropriate in a frame.
The screen went into a beautiful burst of abstract art, and cleared, after a while, with Skordran Kirv looking out of it.
He worshiped what he called thoughts, would rave about a thought in the abstract, apostrophize an uncaught idea.
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