Sentence examples for are rather concrete from inspiring English sources

Thus it may seem to distort our understanding of friendship, for instance, to maintain that what friends value fundamentally are states of affairs (involving, say, joint activities with the friend); what people value as friends are rather concrete particulars or relations, such as the persons with whom they are befriended or their relationships with those persons.

Where did you get the idea for this T? I submitted two different ideas: the first was about transparency and it was rather concrete.

In between, there are rather a lot of concrete apartment blocks, gifts from the eastern bloc.

Today, it's rather soulless in its concrete and steel garb.

The problem of pre-stressed concrete elements in ultimate limit state is rather complicated compared to ordinary concrete.

In fact, it is rather a mortar than a concrete mixture because of the lack of coarse aggregate.

Ornamentation of the concrete slabs is rather limited and exists only in incised triangles and slanted rectangles at the rear and front of the lintel, and incised pyramids at the front and rear of the fountain tray.

It is found that the empirical damage criterion for surface structures on an underground explosion site is rather conservative for modern reinforced concrete structures, but it appears to be reasonable for the masonry infill in the frame.

No other form or style has so much common-sense opprobrium launched its way, frequently over something so simple as a dislike of fair-faced concrete (which is rather like saying all string quartets are rubbish because we don't like the viola).

They showed that the empirical damage criterion for surface structures on an underground explosion site is rather conservative for modern reinforced concrete structures, but it appears to be reasonable for the masonry infilled in the frame.

But, since the terrorist assaults on New York and Washington, and America's counter-attack on Afghanistan, the contrast between the two is no longer set in concrete: Saudi Arabia has been rather less co-operative in the war than America expected it to be; Iran rather more.The crudest form of the American rethinking is to criticise Saudi Arabia for its "ingratitude".