Sentence examples for vague abstraction from inspiring English sources

But Mawer resists obvious sentimentalising and sticks to the facts, plus vague abstraction.

A scary word, yet an essentially vague abstraction that speaks to more general worries about unfairness, impunity, abuse of power and waste of scarce public funds.

In the strong version of social anthropology, exemplified by Radcliffe-Brown, culture was thought to be a "vague abstraction" of little scientific value; rather than talking about culture, social anthropologists should concentrate instead on the supposedly harder, more factual comparison of different social structures.

Their liability is just this vague abstraction.

Orwell's "modern English" version, by contrast, is teeming with nominalizations (considerations, conclusion, activities, tendency, capacity, unpredictable) and other vague abstractions (phenomena, success, failure, element).

The unfortunate small-i irony of this collection of experimental metafiction is that Yu, a Los Angeles writer, seems to have big ideas about conspicuous consumption and emotional longing, but he rarely bothers to sculpture grounded stories from such raw, vague abstractions.

In summary, participants failed to see a causal relationship between diabetes and changing diet; received advice that was sporadic, generic (did not address the individual's life), and vague (abstractions not anchored in perception, e.g., portion size); and generated, as a result, a variety of common sense procedures for controlling blood glucose levels (e.g., drinking water, skipping meals).

It's easy to turn Disneyland into a vague, goofy abstraction when you're in Paris.