Sentence examples for a certain concreteness from inspiring English sources
The question acquires a certain concreteness each January, when the sprawling, contentious sphere of outsider art -- the very phrase starts arguments -- takes over center ring of the New York art world.
And I told myself that it had to be a play for the stage, instead of a novel or a screenplay, because the theatre, being confined to the use of a few actors and a handful of props, is a natural medium for allegory: the inherent poverty of its technical means allows for symbols and ideas to remain the abstractions that they are, even as the theatre grants them a certain invisible concreteness.
Writing in The New York Times Book Review, Diane Johnson said that while "the author gives a rather extreme interpretation of Hemingway's start in life, the concreteness of this biography lends a certain convincing reality others have lacked".
Dianne Johnson, reviewing the book in The New York Times, wrote that "at the same time that the author gives a rather extreme interpretation of Hemingway's start in life, the concreteness of this biography lends a certain convincing reality others have lacked".
For all its well-built concreteness, it isn't what it appears to be; it is a simulation like a Warhol Brillo box, a slightly surrealistic representation of a certain sort of domestic kitsch, a meditation on the allure of fake traditionalism.
But for all its well-built concreteness, it isn't what it appears to be; it's a simulation like a Warhol Brillo box, a slightly surrealistic representation of a certain sort of domestic kitsch, a meditation on the allure of fake traditionalism (Johnson).
