Sentence examples for return to concrete from inspiring English sources

It is the properly philosophical mode of reflection because, in Marcel's view, philosophy must return to concrete situations if it is to merit the name "philosophy".

And until recently, visitors had no choice but to return to their concrete beachfront hotels at the end of a day.

When they returned back to concrete yard in Barwon, they were met with a standing ovation from the inmates.

"The residents and their representatives have warned about a massacre by the Iranian regime and the Iraqi forces," the statement said, "and demanded several times from the secretary general of the United Nations and U.S. officials to return to Camp Ashraf, where concrete buildings and shelters are available".

The poems shift in tone and register from the matter of fact to the highly rhetorical ("O world!"), the statements from the simple ("the hand of the countryside on my shoulder") to the more abstruse ("He is affection and the present since he opened the house to foaming winter and the hum of summer"), while always departing from and returning to a concrete, sensory world.

There's a certain nostalgia in the air too, with a return to brick and precast concrete panels, and a restraint that perhaps reflects the chastened times in which they were designed – the slow trudge of the building cycle running several years behind the economy.

What we see in Dionysius, by contrast, is a retention of one's place in hierarchy and a very concrete return to identity in the case of human beings, for instance, through scripture, ritual, and practical performance to a deeper union with God rather than a simple, spatially conceived movement "up" the hierarchy.

Mr. Cunningham has an answer for those who worry about misunderstanding: dance gives one nothing concrete in return, to paraphrase one of his most famous comments, only the pleasure of doing and seeing it.