Sentence examples for abstract term from inspiring English sources

Why does David Brooks use an abstract term when describing the changes he envisions?

With two seasons left on his contract, and a player option for 2014, retirement is an abstract term, somewhere out in the haze.

The poet's own attitudes are subsumed by the abstract term rindī ("vagabondry"); some have ascribed to Ḥāfeẓ the stance of a rebel to the social order.

As we argue in our report, these benefits are not a luxury for sick and disabled people: "For this group, above any other, social security is not an abstract term.

Austerity has been the name of the game for the Cameron coalition, an abstract term for lost jobs and squeezed incomes that have fueled the disgruntlement on which anti-immigrant rightists thrive.

"'Jobs' is a very abstract term," he muses; easy to demand, hard to create.On January 21st Neel Kashkari, a Republican who ran the bank bail-out under George W Bush, announced his candidacy for governor.

These are antiseptic and abstract terms.

Part of the problem is that citizens view the death penalty in abstract terms.

If we are sure of our argument, why bury it in abstract terms?

Our economy and society are too dynamic to be confined in such abstract terms.

Architects work in abstract terms, while engineers work more with models of nature.