Like a giant, concrete version of The Thing, Phoenix is a bloated tangle of tasteless architecture that never seems to stop ballooning outwards. .
Like a giant, concrete version of The Thing, Phoenix is a bloated tangle of tasteless architecture that never seems to stop ballooning outward.
In section 1.4, a much more concrete version of an incompatibility argument was set out, which, rather than appealing to the mere existence of some evil or other, appealed to specific types of evil in particular, situations where animals die agonizing deaths in forest fires, or where children undergo lingering suffering and eventual death due to cancer.
Of the remaining 36 pretest participants, 15 judged whether the abstract version was "a good abstract description" of the concrete version on a scale of 1 9 (where 1 = a very poor description; 9 = a very good description), while 21 judged whether the concrete version was "a good example" of the abstract version on a scale of 1 9 (where 1 = a very poor example; 9 = a very good example).
Of the remaining 36 pretest participants, 18 judged whether the abstract version was "a good abstract description" of the concrete version on a scale of 1 9 (where 1 = a very poor description; 9 = a very good description), yielding a mean rating of 7.61 (SD = 0.26).
A separate group of 18 participants judged whether the concrete version was "a good example" of the abstract version on a scale of 1 9 (where 1 = a very poor example; 9 = a very good example), yielding a mean rating of 7.99 (SD = 0.23).
They are also seen as desirable objects to have in the home, even though the new design, made in brightly coloured PVC, costs a fraction of the concrete version.
For the corresponding concrete version, we specified a person with a first name and instantiated the behaviors in the context of that particular person using concrete terms.
A campaign to save the brutalist concrete version in Preston, north-west England, recently resulted in the station being listed by the World Monuments Fund as worth preserving.
Each block began with a filler item, followed by the six disorders listed in Table 1, with half of the disorders in the abstract version and half in the concrete version, presented in a random order.
