Sentence examples for abstract notions from inspiring English sources

Instead, he has abstract notions of Parisian mistresses and decadence.

Even his abstract notions of pleasure are grisly.

"Maturity" and "legality" were abstract notions behind my threadbare eyelids.

She designed for them, not for editors or abstract notions.

But these verses are also concerned with less abstract notions: love, and love's uncertainties.

For novelists like Thackeray, she observed, expressing abstract notions like truth posed serious challenges.

The child has begun to know how to deal with mental symbols and acquires abstract notions, such as "responsibility".

The Old Quarter of Hanoi is where a visitor's abstract notions of population density meet a living and breathing reality.

Such abstract notions may put off fans of the genre in its most elemental, slice-and-dice form.

Each of us winds up with favorites, and those kinds of choices don't hinge on abstract notions of merit.

Most real voters do not, of course, pick a party on the basis of abstract notions about social democracy.