Sentence examples for abstractedness from inspiring English sources

There is an abstractedness in learning – when we learn because learning itself absorbs us, not because we have an eye on a good job in the City or the media – that is a million miles away from the self-pleasing, time-consuming roguery of laddishness.

Traces of a lingering girlish abstractedness are the only hint that she was in any way affected by this disturbing adventure.

Yet the production tends to turn the cast members' performance signatures -- Mr. Wood's befuddled abstractedness, Ms. Testa's robust zinger slinging -- into something approaching shtick.

Though he has talked (written, shown) of his mother's abstractedness in the midst of her chafing marriage, it is the father Mr. Bergman more often despises.