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How to use abstraction in a sentence

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At this point, neorealism returns full circle to neoclassical abstraction and its generalizing quality.
In abstraction from all such contexts, epistemic questions simply get no purchase.
Over the past two decades, Gina Werfel has developed a way of painting that tantalizingly walks the line between landscape and abstraction.
Palmer's abstraction is in illustration of very private experience, not a wordsmith tinkering at several removes from experience.
A full range of styles, from figurative and abstraction to portraiture, landscape, naturalism and cartoon-like renderings, is on display.
Untitled, from 1984, is an abstraction of long brushy passes of bright purple, orange, cadmium yellow, red and turquoise.
Neither was it a Rousseauist abstraction, but a body of angry sans-culottes protesting against the recession and tax increases.
There is an important sense in which open Marxists are unnecessarily restrictive in their remarks about abstraction.
Robin Rose is known for subtly nuanced, richly textured paintings that examine the expressive possibilities of monochromatic abstraction.
His sculptures and etchings on this theme straddle a nebulous elegance, somewhere between abstraction and technical drawing.
Strand scission in DNA can result from the production of a carbon-based radical following hydrogen atom abstraction from deoxyribose.
It is the perspective of abstract ideality that, just because of its abstraction, is morally justified.
The question is one which is much affected by the degree of abstraction with which it is posed.
Here the secret of American hegemony has lain rather in formulaic abstraction, the basis for the fortune of Hollywood.
He can flit from populist argument to high brow abstraction and then back into quango-speak and then consultancy jargon with amazing felicity.
Similarities across actually encountered expressions allow the extraction of schemas of varying degrees of abstraction.
But it is still very uncomfortable when the discourse moves beyond rather bare abstraction.
That surprising, sinking, excited feeling may be the essence of thought as felt experience, rather than as bare abstraction.
That exercise provides no support at all for the idea that Heather is incapable of handling abstraction.
This historical perspective is by no means simply a theoretical abstraction.
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Examples from Classical Literature
There was no abstraction about Letitia, no cursory, unweighed chattering of things so obvious as to need no comment.
In the hymns he is losing his definite character and becoming an abstraction, a god of dogmatics rather than of history.
What will be the ultimate effect of plucking geese's quills, and of the eider duck's abstraction of the down from her breast?
My foolishness, I suppose, is typical of the scholar's abstraction and impracticality.
In the end, shocks like these gradually roused him from his anguished abstraction.
Attempts at orderly abstraction of manipulable symbols from the realities of history seem to me doomed from the start.
But it still remains to him but an unapplied abstraction, a mere category of thought, a frame for the All.
She has been used to her father's abstraction, and does not construe it into any slight.
Pauline, of course, exists only as an abstraction, and porphyria is in no exact sense a portrait from the life.
He has to try to reconceive God, and when he has done so, nothing but an unsatisfying abstraction is left.
But the object of that indignation was not the abstraction which Mr. parton presents to us.
When Lester returned, he saw her standing by his desk, lost in an abstraction of grief.
The latter was a curious example of what I have described as abstraction of color.
And the great aim of education is the cultivation of the habit of abstraction.
Are there any instances in which the abstraction of latent heat will reduce the hulk of bodies?
This abstraction is the far-off heaven on which the eye of the mind is fixed in fond amazement.
At dinner Beverly noticed his abstraction, and recommended a mint julep, which Emily went out immediately to prepare.
Besides, the abstraction of electricity, by the sitz-bath, should be taken in account of its action.
The giant was plunged in gloomy abstraction, and Vetch and the moocher interchanged a significant glance.
So much of truth is got from being a gymnosophist and regarding your own toes with aloof abstraction on a sunny Christmas morning.
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