Sentence examples for abstract by from inspiring English sources

The war, such as it was, was fairly abstract by then.

"I am fascinated how the orderly and everyday is rendered abstract by natural or manmade disasters.

Paul Rudolph's administrative building was called "rigorous and abstract" by some, and a "monstrosity" by others.

The 18-minute-long video called "Landscape (Western Hemisphere)," made last year, is abstract by comparison.

"It makes some of my other classes seem abstract by comparison".

Modotti's emotional engagement, made almost abstract by the European modernism she had inherited from Weston, makes for some striking invention.

Also, he said, if it is moved, it will compete with a new sculpture, an abstract by John Rhoden, that is in the new garden space.

The star lot, an important abstract by the revolutionary Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, sold for a price at the lower end of its estimate.

That philosophy of restricting government was shared yesterday, at least in the abstract, by many voters; just over half said they agreed that government should be doing less.

3. Abstract, by Richard Mishaan, a New York interior designer, is a handmade 6-by-9-foot wool rug; $4,900 (or $90 a square foot for custom sizes) from Homer, 150 East 58th Street, (212) 744-7705.

But while I can find deep meaning in, say, an abstract by Jackson Pollock, the game of football has always been as indecipherable to me as some people profess to find modern art.