Sentence examples for abstract entity from inspiring English sources

"During Communism, responsibility for everything was always assigned to some abstract entity somewhere that was really no one at all.

He moved away from the idea of music as an abstract entity towards orchestral music as a representation of something extra-musical with his symphonic poems.

"It will force me to continue my unwanted professional association with God, an abstract entity who has given me nothing but discomfort and agita.

The government does not cut an abstract entity called "government spending" but numerous spending programs, from veterans' benefits and homeland security to Medicare and Medicaid.

"Right now, it's just so much a symbol of this war on an abstract entity called terrorism that it's hard to see past that to what this may actually mean for Western civilization," Mr. Spiegelman said.

It's a reminder that evil is not some abstract entity, but a distinctly human behaviour, perpetrated by people who are, on one level, ordinary men and women with the kinds of interests you might meet more or less anywhere.

Much to the reverse, he writes, "I have often been amused by these per-student expenditure figures," and then wanders off into one of his familiar "thought experiments," as if he were no longer talking about real and living children but about some abstract entity that brings him cerebral enjoyment.

While at the top end of society – for the gated 1%, with their offshore accounts and property portfolios – money has become physically unmoored from "domicile", so in the middle and at the bottom it has come to seem an increasingly abstract entity even as there is less of it to go around.

It is an abstract entity.

Is it the relation of consequence, construed as an abstract entity?

Since a rule is an abstract entity, a rule by itself strictly has no consequences.