Sentence examples for large abstraction from inspiring English sources

The rhetoric of the report puts its authors on the side of that ideal, but when push comes to shove, they are all too ready to dilute it in the name of some large abstraction — democracy, culture, social progress, whatever.

But be sure to spend time with her large abstraction, an untitled work from 2013, hanging in MOMA's ground-floor lobby: gestural glyphs and splotches in white, black, green, and orange on a ground imprinted with a blown-up page of newspaper want ads.

Abstraction of D on virgin GC by H exhibits the same phenomenology as on graphite: Eley Rideal mechanism and large abstraction cross-section at small D coverages.

I did not reference any photos, but rather just thought of it as a large abstraction," Cross says.

Chris' love for diplomacy was not that of large abstraction, but of intimate humanity; the kind of diplomacy that comes with a heart and a mind and despite great differences in religious perspective much common ground in the hopes and dreams underneath.

This Rio de Janeiro-based painter continues to produce large abstractions that teeter on the divide between the expressive and the decorative.

In Life of Pi, Martel used a Bengal tiger, trapped on a lifeboat with a teenage boy, as a way of thinking about large abstractions such as adversity and resourcefulness, and pulled off a remarkable triumph.

In 1946, too poor to buy artists' pigments, he turned to black and white household enamels to paint a series of large abstractions; of these works, Light in August (c. 1946) and Black Friday (1948) are essentially black with white elements, whereas Zurich (1947) and Mailbox (1947 48) are white with black.

Her point about Updike, once she gets around to making it and empties herself of incantations ("His effects are of sheen and shadow, color and form, spine and splay, hair and haunch"), is that he knows how to ground his large abstractions in small particulars.

The relatively high search overhead in our results is caused by the larger abstraction gap between NoSQL query interfaces and JPQL (which is a SQL-inspired query language by origin).

They include a Piranesi engraving, a laser-cut book by the conceptual artist Olafur Eliasson, a collage by the Pop-Surrealist Ray Johnson and a large pink abstraction from the early 1950s by Esphyr Slobodkina.