The phrase "abstract grace" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a quality of elegance or beauty that is not tied to a specific form or physical representation, often in artistic or philosophical contexts.
Example: "The dancer moved with an abstract grace that captivated the audience, transcending the boundaries of traditional ballet."
Alternatives: "ethereal elegance" or "intangible beauty".
Last April, Canadian and American researchers reported in a brain-imaging study that psychopaths processed certain abstract words -- grace, future, power, for example -- differently from nonpsychopaths.
Perhaps his most notable sculpture is the abstract "S" that graces the Department of Surgery.
The Lady in Red had positioned herself like a gypsy queen against one of the spectacular framed abstract paintings that graced the mansion's foyer.
He hopes that "a daring feat of arms in the service of public order would place me in the monarch's hand, to be set down in a position more to my liking" — and nothing in the book is funnier or sadder than this invincible desire for promotion, a goal by now as abstract as God's grace.
Later, the paintings of abstract expressionist painter Alma Thomas graced the walls of the White House after a call was issued to curators to seek work by contemporary artists, and more specifically those of African American, Latino, Native American and Asian American backgrounds.
For all their grace and "greater abstract agility," they lack initiative, and have let a mindless, pancake-shaped creature take over their habitat, resigning themselves to eventual extinction.
He exemplifies a certain quality of grace in orthodox Abstract Expressionism, and the show does a service by reminding us of his achievement.
Saying grace to an abstract God is an evasion; there are crowds, whole communities of actual people, many of them with aching backs and tenuous finances, who made the meal possible.
To this spare foundation, Blum adds an illusionistic grace note — a small abstract composition that looks like either a sketch or reproduction on a discrete manila card taped to what now reads as a wall.
To the other lie flat, relatively abstract works in which well-placed elements grace expanses of bare paper.
