Sentence examples for abstract end from inspiring English sources
"The sense that the EU is somehow an abstract end in itself, immune from developments in the real world, rather than a means of helping to deliver better living standards for the people of its nations.
Having suffered an allergic reaction to the conventions – both musical and personal – of stardom, they almost split up after OK Computer but instead settled on a "change everything" ethos, largely dispensing with guitars in favour of skittish rhythm and an electronic sound palette inspired by krautrock, free jazz and the more abstract end of hip-hop.
In this way, they give practical concreteness to the philosophically abstract end of the greatest happiness.
Dates are more than abstract end points.
Impatient with the ignorance of the movement he attacks, he writes "those who now call themselves progressives would substitute the state for the king and once again make the individual a subservient means to an abstract end".
"Facts" stumbles somewhere between the more abstract end of the grime spectrum and the clanking minimalism of the kind of club music you hear coming out of the Classical Trax collective.
His selections emphasize how different old masters used line to simultaneous representational and abstract ends.
Shulamit Ran's eloquent, soulful "Soliloquy," a piano trio distilled from her opera, "Between Two Worlds (The Dybbuk)," drew as clearly on Jewish stylistic sources, here turned to darker, more abstract ends.
Last year, for instance, Microsoft wowed with Moon Studios' melancholic fantasy "Ori and the Blind Forest," while Sony devoted theatrical space to the abstract end-of-the-world adventure from the Chinese Room, "Everybody's Gone to the Rapture".
Fans of "Black Mirror" or "The Twilight Zone" might be drawn to the fantastical setup of Fever Dream, but may be dissatisfied with the book's quiet, abstract ending.
This was the abstract, volatile end of the jazz mainstream, perfectly well-practiced and coherent: these same four musicians toured together two years ago, and Mr. Hancock and Mr. Shorter helped redefine jazz's mainstream during the mid-1960's with Miles Davis, and later in other projects.
