Sentence examples for abstract himself from inspiring English sources

He wanted to savor time, to abstract himself from the little harrowing things that the day presented.

He can abstract himself from all the noise around and focus like no one I know.

Clarke did a good deal of abstracting himself, and even managed to get astronautics into the journal as a legitimate scientific subject.

Mr. Mehldau by contrast stepped into each improvisation by abstracting himself, finding an entirely new melodic structure; he seemed to be taking a walk through his subconscious to find material that he could get out through his hands.

The conceit of the Meditations is a thinker who has abstracted himself from any connection to the external world.

Perhaps because Mr Golding is an abstract painter himself, he avoids these extremes.

Hell, director Boots Riley came off like an abstract personality himself (in the best way), but that's for another story.

Why did Dwight Farmer, described as America's most famous abstract painter, lock himself in his studio for two days, paint his masterpiece and then hang himself there, later to be found with a huge rattlesnake coiled beneath his corpse?

Norman Rockwell and Pollock may not seem a likely pairing, but the realist illustrator channeled the Abstract Expressionist in himself for a 1962 Saturday Evening Post cover that wryly depicted a man staring at a giant Pollock-style canvas.

He's the kind of misogynist who adores femininity in the abstract but feels himself "dragged down to earth — no, into the slime" by an actual flesh-and-blood woman, and who believes that women are too crazy to be allowed to vote.

This indirection was in keeping with Cunningham's preference for artist-collaborators who "tended to be more abstract, like Merce himself," said Darsie Alexander, chief curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, who recently purchased sets from 150 of Cunningham's works for the museum's collection, including some by Mr. Arsham.