Raymond looked at these objects of interest -- and at several others -- with some degree of abstractedness. From Wordnik.com. [On the Stairs] Reference
Holding the glass in one hand, he walked around the little apartment, checking everything with a sort of automatic abstractedness. From Wordnik.com. [Anything You Can Do ...] Reference
What I do begrudge is the abstractedness from human vulnerability of Bush's so-called warrior intellectuals, who have conceptualized a first strike. From Wordnik.com. [Facing nuclear war] Reference
Your abstractedness, child, (affectation of abstractedness, some call it,) savours, let me tell you, of greater particularity, than we aim to carry. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
They entered this state of abstractedness unconsciously. From Wordnik.com. [The Silence: What It Is and How To Use It] Reference
With her curious abstractedness she forgot me again immediately. From Wordnik.com. [England, My England] Reference
He was lingering in a smiling abstractedness on his fancy, when. From Wordnik.com. [Bertram Cope's Year] Reference
He talked about it, but in snatches, with intervals of abstractedness. From Wordnik.com. [Born in Exile] Reference
Tennyson, and a host of others -- her very abstractedness was a recommendation. From Wordnik.com. [The Enchanted April] Reference
"What would fill it worthily?" the lady asked, with a kind of dreary abstractedness. From Wordnik.com. [Nobody] Reference
Anthony had fallen against the roots of a banking elm, and surveyed the scene with philosophic abstractedness. From Wordnik.com. [Rhoda Fleming — Complete] Reference
All this was but acting up to the idea Mr. Roubiliac had formed of the abstractedness and eccentricity of genius. From Wordnik.com. [Art in England Notes and Studies] Reference
Wideswarth's pocket, while his eye denoted an abstractedness, as though all the intelligence it ever wore had been abstracted from it. From Wordnik.com. [Knitting-work] Reference
Both ladies noticed in him an abstractedness of look, often when conversing, as of a man in calculation; they put it down to an ambitious mind. From Wordnik.com. [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference
Here, volunteers tapped into areas of the brain such as the right inferior temporal gyrus, which decodes metaphorical meaning and abstractedness. From Wordnik.com. [dailyindia.com News Feed] Reference
'The abstractedness of the relation, on the other hand, brings to consciousness no less strongly the foreignness of the Idea to natural phenomena. From Wordnik.com. [More Trivia] Reference
This evening Vautrin had noticed Eugènes abstractedness, and stayed in the room, though he had seemed to be in a hurry to finish his dinner and go. From Wordnik.com. [Paras. 800899] Reference
Ve lithophytic glochidium on depot, and one of the decimalization ethanal out in the silicon at a big oppression of ethnically bootlicking abstractedness bags. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
Mean while I cannot forbear concluding, from the very abstractedness and difficulty of the first supposition, that 'tis an improper subject for the fancy to work upon. From Wordnik.com. [A treatise of human nature] Reference
Mean while I cannot forbear concluding, from the very abstractedness and difficulty of the first supposition, that it is an improper subject for the fancy to work upon. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise of Human Nature] Reference
I told him that the contents of the letter would explain my errand; but he had, meantime, relapsed into abstractedness, and winked, and warmed his hands, for at least, five minutes. From Wordnik.com. [Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War] Reference
Ashamed to give any sign of satisfaction, and oppressed by the feeling that he owed her gratitude, Peak stood gazing towards the windows with an air of half-indifferent abstractedness. From Wordnik.com. [Born in Exile] Reference
Demonstrations may be difficult to be comprehended, because of abstractedness of the subject; but can never have such difficulties as will weaken their authority, when once they are comprehended. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise of Human Nature] Reference
She had that passiveness which, we believe, is exclusively a feminine virtue (if virtue it may be called), and she acquiesced silently and patiently in her unhappy fate, though there was a certain abstractedness in her manner. From Wordnik.com. [A New England tale, and Miscellanies] Reference
She had that passiveness which, we believe, is exclusively a feminine virtue, (if virtue it may be called,) and she acquiesced silently and patiently in her unhappy fate, though there was a certain abstractedness in her manner. From Wordnik.com. [A New-england Tale, Or, Sketches of New-england Character and Manners] Reference
I have an animation background, and I don't like working with storyboards and formulated plots, but rather with moods and atmospheres - I'm very interested in abstraction and abstractedness as a way of reflecting upon the taken-for-granted. From Wordnik.com. [Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE] Reference
But Mrs. Fisher's very abstractedness -- and she seemed to be absorbed chiefly in the interesting people she used to know and in their memorial photographs, and quite a good part of the interview was taken up by reminiscent anecdote of Carlyle, Meredith, Matthew Arnold. From Wordnik.com. [The Enchanted April] Reference
A single syllable she said, and this was evident from the wild but affecting abstractedness of her manner. From Wordnik.com. [The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One] Reference
Vautrin had noticed Eugene’s abstractedness, and stayed in the room, though he had seemed to be in a hurry to finish his dinner and go. From Wordnik.com. [Father Goriot] Reference
I must shake off the thoughts of her: "and with that amiable determination he commenced whistling a popular air to delude himself, while he turned to his companion, who had in the meantime stopped in his walk to watch his abstractedness. From Wordnik.com. [Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter] Reference
It is worthy of remark that although in Scripture war is spoken of as a calamity, the occupation of a soldier is nowhere condemned, but is rather commended on account of its disciplinary effect and abstractedness from the affairs of life (see 2 Tim. ii. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on the Scriptural Doctrine of Immortality] Reference
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