Sentence examples for ideological abstraction from inspiring English sources
They focus on the people they can talk to, see, and touch, not on ideological abstraction.
It remained nonetheless important for the value of civic humanism as a paradigm of politics and civil society that it not be considered a mere ideological abstraction but that it be believed to have roots in the lived experience of the English-speaking polities.
Setting aside the barren old debate about ideological abstractions that the opposition spent much of the last 14 years stoking, Capriles grasped the need to broaden the opposition's base of support.
Today, our debates and disagreements about the state of the nation focus too often on abstractions and ideological differences.
Since February, I have traveled around the country meeting workers for whom the minimum wage increase is not a policy abstraction or a point of ideological purity.
This is an issue – straddling political and ideological boundaries and putting flesh on the abstractions of communities, big societies and social mobility – that Miliband and the Labour leadership, encouraged by the stirrings in Bristol, should seize.
More likely, the problem is that the ideological style of argument — of pitting an untainted abstraction such as "equality" or "progress" or "democracy" against the messy realities of complex modern societies — has come to seem dangerous.
Abstractions were also endowed with a more urgent ideological content than in former centuries.
It is remarkable that an artist famous for her ferociously ideological purpose would turn out to be a painter of appealing, confectionery abstraction.
Pictures and objects do not "argue" particularly well, so the tone of much contemporary American art became debased, with the cryptic languages of high abstraction and conceptual art put in the service of narrow ideological arguments.
