Sentence examples for somehow abstract from inspiring English sources

A figurative painter whose work is somehow abstract, his use of text is highly visual while his use of images is profoundly literate.

In his celebrated painting The Year 1918 in Petrograd, also known as the Petrograd Madonna (1920), the events of the revolution are treated as bloodless and humanitarian, as if they were somehow abstract.

Those pictures are often soft in feel while the Venus Transit pictures are hard-edged, but equally they seem somehow abstract, when in fact they are totally representational, depicting the celestial body that is the source of light on Earth.

This method does not care about the somehow abstract topic of the document (like traditional IR does or at least claims to) but instead it just looks for the occurrences of query terms.

We've somehow abstracted these professional athletes into 1's and 0's, no longer viewing them as real-world personalities, only as data and statistics that change on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.

"The sense that the EU is somehow an abstract end in itself, immune from developments in the real world, rather than a means of helping to deliver better living standards for the people of its nations.

This suggests that we somehow link abstract number representations in the brain with movement in space.

But the utterance of any pro-Europe thought, of even the most abstract kind, somehow eluded them.

Platonists who reject (1) maintain that the human mind is not entirely physical and that it is capable of somehow forging contact with abstract objects and thereby acquiring information about such objects.

Now we find ourselves advancing toward technologies that, forty years ago, existed only on science-fiction shows, but, somehow, instead of becoming abstract creatures of light, sound, and pure wisdom, we're still sitting on the couch in our Jockey shorts wolfing down pizza and cursing the ref. We may be looking at a thinner screen, but we're wearing the same old underpants.

Somehow, too, Wilson's abstract inventions have lost a lot of their visual magic: a narrow rectangle of light slowly rotating from the horizontal to the vertical to the accompaniment of Glass's churning patterns isn't quite the iconic image it once was.