Sentence examples for more abstract sense from inspiring English sources

There is also a more abstract sense of markedness, which is independent of the presence or absence of an overt feature or affix.

You might try exploring the idea of furniture in its more abstract sense – the idea of invisibility that's implicit in an expression like "part of the furniture".

The principle of markedness, understood in this more general or more abstract sense, came to be quite widely accepted by linguists of many different schools, and it was applied at all levels of linguistic analysis.

As I've said, the story was inspired by my time in Italy, but I am working to free my work from geographic coördinates, and to arrive at a more abstract sense of place.

But they were also often used in ordinary prose in the more abstract sense of 'form', 'sort', 'type', or 'kind'kind

In a more abstract sense, both Claudius and Hamlet are trying to direct, or control the actions and outcome of the ensuing tragedy.

This is a great metapoetic moment in the play, which is full of conceit, and I am struck by the Queen's familial structuring of how conceit works: it must descend from some literal referent, some "forefather," in order to have "begot" the definite grief she feels, which in turn begets more abstract senses of grief in her.

"It was insignificant because it was only about that specific thing, whereas the atmosphere should be wider, should be more abstract in a sense, so that there is room for imagination and you can relate to what you are seeing in your own personal way: without us directing your thoughts into speech, words, meaning".

No more than this abstract sense seems to be presupposed in the discussion of the Euthyphro.

Whereas our eyes perceive living entities as compounds of form and matter, our understanding is focussed on the form stripped of matter, so that thinking is a more abstract version of sense perception.

Maybe even more important that any abstract sense of "fun," there's something to be said about being totally in control of the hardware being used to grind from level 1 to level 80.