Sentence examples for abstract the from inspiring English sources

Ideologies are abstract; the acts they inspire are real.

All of it was abstract — the kid, the country.

"In the abstract the magazine would have faced this challenge at some point," Mr. Sabin said.

In the abstract, the 21st-century abolitionist movement sounds uplifting and even glamorous.

"It's very abstract, the idea of building your home," she says.

You can similarly abstract the differences among these companies, and make some decent comparisons.

The larger the social entity considered, the more abstract the concept tends to be.

Don't speak in the abstract ("The job interview didn't go well").

Sarah Browder will use a motion-tracking technique to abstract the moving bodies.

"Slowly, I learned to abstract the essence of that movement," he said.

"Clearing IV," above, suggests that the closer Mr. Gormley gets to the abstract, the better.