Sentence examples for abstract ideal from inspiring English sources

For Rousseau, however, the general will is not an abstract ideal.

And yet that strike, like many of his efforts, rose more from scrappy pragmatism than from any abstract ideal.

According to Berlin, Herzen believed that any dedication to an abstract ideal leads to victimisation and human sacrifice.

What that material reveals is the quality of the listening among the players, an abstract ideal made nearly tangible.

Under the criteria that you just set out, each of those were betrayals of some abstract ideal.

With yMusic the performers act as co-conspirators in the compositional process, interacting with the music as a living document, not an abstract ideal.

Identity politics isn't much concerned with abstract ideals, like justice.

Abstract ideals like freedom and opportunity are far removed from what really counts in helping Elian get better.

Incrementalism emphasizes the amelioration of concrete problems rather than the pursuit of abstract ideals such as social justice.

The answer used to seem obvious enough: a beautiful building was one that realized certain abstract ideals of symmetry, proportion and harmony.

In response, German composers, in an astonishing intellectual sleight of hand, defined the national style not in terms of folk sources but in terms of abstract ideals.