Sentence examples for overly abstract from inspiring English sources

Dr. Arnold spoke out against what he considered the overly abstract teaching of mathematics.

Overly abstract definitions are often helpful only if you come to them already primed by context.

At the end of a focus group, results can be overly abstract and are not visible.

This can be due to the meaningless or repetitive learning tasks (Reid, 1986), overly abstract activities (Condry, 1978) and tasks being less or too challenging (Cullingford, 2002; Moneta and Csikszentmihalyi, 1996).

Hilary Putnam proposes loyalty to what is best in the multiple traditions in which each of us participates, apparently a middle way between a narrow-minded patriotism and an overly abstract cosmopolitanism (ibid, 114).

This is what makes The Great Divergence such a tour de force". Cheney who is currently co-teaching a course with Pomeranze on the economic history of the early modern world went on to note that Pomeranz has a gift for comparing economic structures and processes across time and space: "When he writes and teaches on such an immense scale, it never feels forced or overly abstract.

But he was also, as her meticulous, and meticulously nonjudgmental, narrative demonstrates, an awkward man, overly abstracted about his own intimacies.

In our opinion, reforming the entire fiscal policy process is too abstract and overly ambitious -- especially in these contentious times.

"For the dissociation of mind from experience has resulted in truncated works of art," he wrote, works that were either naive, "flat reproductions of life" or overly sophisticated abstract pieces bereft of "evidence drawn from the sensuous and material world".

Students deal with a large number of diverse nervous system disorders in clinical situations and perceive neurology as being overly complex, abstract, and far more difficult than other disciplines [ 1- 3].

The specificity of the New York stand-up comedy world that Louis C. K. presents on this show lets him explore universal themes without becoming abstract, overly cerebral or ever less than intensely funny.