Sentence examples for Intellectual abstraction from inspiring English sources

It was a world innocent of modern bureaucracy and of the modern move to intellectual abstraction in defining the state: the entity we would call "Athens" in the abstract was called in its own day by the collective noun for its living and breathing citizens, "the Athenians".

Third, France is profoundly an intellectual abstraction; the French, in essence, are Italians trying to be German.

While by some measure it is the best law school in the nation, it is also known for intellectual abstraction and disdain for the actual practice of law.

The greatest scamp had a Raphael face, with a profusion of blonde hair; Oakhurst, a gambler, had the melancholy air and intellectual abstraction of a Hamlet; the coolest and most courageous man was scarcely over five feet in height, with a soft voice and an embarrassed, timid manner.

These include people like Heisenberg and Bohr (played with great verbal elan by Michael Cumpsty and Philip Bosco), whose high-minded retrospective debate (they are brought back from the dead for the purpose) makes excruciatingly clear the application of intellectual abstraction to concrete events.

Zen abhors an intellectual abstraction that merely thinks time and space.

If you're an architect, you long to design gloriously intellectual abstractions to be photographed in glittering, sterile perfection.

Like Dante, Milosz makes intellectual abstractions full-bodied, "transmitting the sense that the world is organized into a system... where everything has its place".

One can imagine all too easily their creators — sitting in comfortable armchairs, drinking high-grade tea and smoking fine cigarettes — discussing the issues at hand as if they were purely intellectual abstractions, never considering how ordinary people might react.

And they were so refreshing because, given the nature of the audience, there was no way even the most accomplished adult could veer into intellectual abstractions or indulge in the lingo of the art theory industry.

Resisting intellectual abstractions, his notes exude a young man's pleasure in physical movement miles clocked on country roads and Parisian streets on his trusty bike and they reveal the emergence of an original literary voice.