I like Animal Collective, but I cannot stand the visual "abstractness" in their videos. From Wordnik.com. [Weekend Weirdness: Animal Collective’s ODDSAC Premieres in NYC; Chuck Norris Does Actionfest; Actor David Sherrill on The Wraith (and a Sequel?); Melvins Versus The Shining; Stussy’s J. Dilla Documentary | /Film] Reference
I want the "abstractness" of the figure to reflect the fragility of the human condition. From Wordnik.com. [Sedona, Arizona, Events, News and Press] Reference
"abstractness," of science, it also accounts for its wide and free range of fruitful novel applications in practice. From Wordnik.com. [Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education] Reference
The abstractness of the tiny drawing was beautiful. From Wordnik.com. [Katherine Dunn: The Final Sketch of a Life] Reference
Blub falls right in the middle of the abstractness continuum. From Wordnik.com. [Beating the Averages] Reference
Blob Falls right in the middle of the abstractness continuum. From Wordnik.com. [Posthuman Blues] Reference
Her response repudiates all this abstractness for this prosaic passage. From Wordnik.com. [Strange Affinities: A Partial Return to Wordsworthian Poetics After Modernism] Reference
As long as this abstractness is fully recognized, this concept can be quite useful. From Wordnik.com. [Herman Daly Festschrift~ Making Money] Reference
The comparative abstractness of Mr. Chomet's vision allows the mind to wander freely. From Wordnik.com. [Bah, Humbug! Bad Santa Renews Xmas Spirit] Reference
So at least one sort of mind-dependence would appear to be compatible with abstractness. From Wordnik.com. [Abstract Objects] Reference
Some of the paradigms of abstractness are non-spatiotemporal in a straightforward sense. From Wordnik.com. [Abstract Objects] Reference
Hopefully this communicates the issue well, I apologize for its philosophical abstractness. From Wordnik.com. [Medium Rare] Reference
Whether we say that two things are similar or not is a matter of abstractness of description. From Wordnik.com. [The Identity Theory of Mind] Reference
It is hard to believe that it is simply their primitive abstractness that makes the difference. From Wordnik.com. [Abstract Objects] Reference
Still an amazing painter, still has a brilliant life in his paintings and an abstractness to it. From Wordnik.com. [Andrew Wyeth: Absence and Presence] Reference
This has dangers - left libertarians constantly excoriate vulgars for their ahistoricity and abstractness. From Wordnik.com. [Women and the Invisible Fist] Reference
Took away some of the abstractness if I'm remembering it correctly, but the warm colors add something good. From Wordnik.com. [new and Redux] Reference
I keep walking, gathering pages, smile at pictures, and look for abstractness in words I only pretend to use. From Wordnik.com. [rainandfire Diary Entry] Reference
Heavy stuff, to be sure, but the clunky dialogue and the abstractness of it all diminishes an otherwise fine idea. From Wordnik.com. [REVIEW: Fast Forward 1 edited by Lou Anders] Reference
Maybe you love learning how businesses work, but you're brought down by the abstractness of what you do or the lousy hours. From Wordnik.com. [What To Do When You Hate Your Job] Reference
Goldman (1992), by contrast, emphasizes the detachment from the world of practical affairs implied by music's abstractness. From Wordnik.com. [The Philosophy of Music] Reference
He complained that “abstractness, generality and mathematical elegance have in some measure become ends in themselves.”. From Wordnik.com. [Economic Principals] Reference
But unless we know what makes for abstractness and concreteness, we cannot know what (if anything) hangs on the classification. From Wordnik.com. [Abstract Objects] Reference
Russell argues that the abstractness of modern physics makes it difficult to see how there could be perceptual evidence for physics. From Wordnik.com. [Neutral Monism] Reference
To take this example out of its abstractness (if that is a word?) and give it a concrete foundation, consider this realistic example. From Wordnik.com. [McCain: Obama Has Nothing In Common With Hamas -- But The Voters Think It Should Be An Issue, Anyway] Reference
At the same time they also look intensely at the outer, factual world, as Lowell rejects the abstractness of History and The Dolphin. From Wordnik.com. [Lowell Criticism] Reference
The core of identity is there, and, although in its bald abstractness it is not enough to live by, it is vastly significant, nevertheless. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
And it is only such a supplementation that obscures their abstractness. From Wordnik.com. [The Approach to Philosophy] Reference
A similar though less radical abstractness appertains to natural science. From Wordnik.com. [The Approach to Philosophy] Reference
Of such abstractness and one-sidedness I accuse most of the critics of my own account. From Wordnik.com. [Meaning of Truth] Reference
The one weakness that Enterprise 2.0 faces is the abstractness of its return on investment. From Wordnik.com. [ReadWriteWeb] Reference
The circumstance that makes the appreciation of cost often unaesthetic is the abstractness of that quality. From Wordnik.com. [The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory] Reference
He will think it a less fault than the tameness and abstractness, which are the besetting sins of deliberate composition. From Wordnik.com. [Hints on Extemporaneous Preaching] Reference
We shall see that the very abstractness of Vision is, in itself, a contributing factor to the overall recognition of what Mind is. From Wordnik.com. [Science Blog - Science news straight from the source] Reference
These common features (and the abstractness of the design) enable easy extensibility as new database and language features are introduced. From Wordnik.com. [SQLblog.com - The SQL Server blog spot on the web] Reference
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