But it is a concreteness of sounds, word, letters and feelings.
What sets Grossman's novel apart is not its abstractions but the satisfying concreteness of his metaphors.
Knausgaard offers us intimations of the beyond while Ferrante offers us the dignity and concreteness of the world we share.
But with some disasters, like this week's tornado in Moore, Oklahoma, the concreteness of the damage is overwhelming.
Broadly speaking, the mythic power of Welsh is great for scenes set in the timeless landscapes, while the concreteness of English suits police procedural.
Milosz is a writer of weight as Calvino defines (and honors) weight: he gives language "the density and concreteness of things, bodies and sensations".
When he broke into a standard bebop pattern on the snare drum for a few seconds, the audience laughed at the concreteness of the gesture.
Part of what appealed to her about donating a kidney was the concreteness of it: she knew that she was helping someone, and she knew exactly how.
The mystery of mastery, felt in the child's mind or muscles, is more compelling than the concreteness of achievement, the trophy pressed in her hands.
All I cared about was the firm reality of her breaths on my chest, the concreteness of her slipping into slumber as I sang my three lullabies.
I suppose that certain constraints — the physical realm defined, as it were — give me a sense of concreteness, of dimension in space and historical, personal time.
