Sentence examples for abstract merits from inspiring English sources
Like a 1960s liberal in love with the abstract merits of a guaranteed income, Mr. Rove misread the mood of the country and tried to do too much.
But what it lacks in decency, today's debate easily makes up in realism, for the stakes are much clearer: we are no longer debating the abstract merits of "digitalisation" but the consequences of leaving strategic industries under foreign control.
And some of Clinton's friends think that that is exactly what he would have done if the abstract merits of the hypothetical alternatives had been the only factor he needed to consider.
Drawing such a distinction presents certain abstract merits – like enabling the level of government that has the greatest interest in a matter to assert that interest irrespective of its interest in any specific policy outcome.
The approach is not, in the abstract, without merit, Beckmesser having always seemed a proto-Jew to Wagner, awaiting modern redemption; the opera's end comes across as the screed it always seemed.
Thomasson, for example, argues that at least some works of art (i.e., musical and literary works) are a kind of "abstract artifact" meriting recognition as genuine creations (1999, 2005, 2006a, 2006b, 2010).
Each of us winds up with favorites, and those kinds of choices don't hinge on abstract notions of merit.
A young recruit to The Economist, somewhat intimidated by her formidable reputation and spinsterish appearance, once ventured that, whatever the merits of abstract art, he really preferred the representational kind.
But a few points may merit amendment: Abstract: Note that what 'publication' means is the same as in print as in digital form.
