"And we didn't see that kind of concreteness from President Obama.". From Wordnik.com. [John Feffer: Carbon Disarmament] Reference
Notice how the second sentence has to bring some kind of concreteness to the initially vague and intuitively silly opening statement. From Wordnik.com. [Strange Affinities: A Partial Return to Wordsworthian Poetics After Modernism] Reference
The media attach an unwarranted "concreteness" to sample estimates out of proportion to their real status, probably out of sheer ignorance. From Wordnik.com. [Review of Gene Epstein, Econospinning] Reference
It has a kind of concreteness to is that a Latin language doesn't have. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews] Reference
A longing for concreteness has befogged our fantasy. From Wordnik.com. [The Theory of the Theatre] Reference
This mistakenly attributes concreteness to the abstraction. From Wordnik.com. [Herman Daly Festschrift~ Making Money] Reference
The whole tendency of modern prose is away from concreteness. From Wordnik.com. [Politics and the English Language] Reference
It's the old Babylon/Zion metaphor, just taken to concreteness. From Wordnik.com. [readersguide Diary Entry] Reference
Now go back to Obama's speech and you'll find the same "concreteness.". From Wordnik.com. [Election Central Morning Roundup] Reference
In the concreteness of the scene, he's allowed to be an ordinary man again. From Wordnik.com. [Erik Lundegaard: Willie Mays and the Decline of the American Civilization] Reference
Cultural evolutionists have no set of phenomena of comparable concreteness. From Wordnik.com. [The Wars Over Evolution] Reference
He has a woman's subtlety of insight, a child's concreteness of imagination. From Wordnik.com. [The Theory of the Theatre] Reference
The very existence of a measure invites the fallacy of misplaced concreteness. From Wordnik.com. [An Introduction to Ecological Economics~ Chapter 3] Reference
Their distinctive feature is in their remarkable concreteness and practical good sense. From Wordnik.com. [Inaugural lecture at the association of Commonwealth Universities/Mandela-Rhodes Foundation and the African Leadership Award] Reference
Only worse: How do you make concrete something characterized by its lack of concreteness?. From Wordnik.com. [Brian Kahin: The Expanding Twilight Zone of Abstract Uncertainty] Reference
In fact, magic is distinguished from mysticism by its very concreteness and practicality. From Wordnik.com. [Even Cowgirls Get The Blues]
This description, when it occurs, should be characterized mainly by aptness and concreteness. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Fairy Tales] Reference
They agreed they're not -- it's not appropriate in this meeting to get into that concreteness. From Wordnik.com. [Briefing By Winston Lord And Bob Suettinger Nyc] Reference
In the history of science misplaced concreteness may have all sorts of different manifestations. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
He was taken with the concreteness and individuality of language phenomena, and hence with history. From Wordnik.com. [LINGUISTICS] Reference
The concreteness of detail just alluded to is characteristic only of the second and third chapters. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference
Thus, like its predecessors, environmental economics falls into the fallacy of misplaced concreteness. From Wordnik.com. [Neoclassical, institutional, and marxist approaches to the environment-economic relationship] Reference
Our goal is to keep the stories in our resumes alive and full of energy, concreteness and personality. From Wordnik.com. [Liz Ryan: Give Your Resume Bullets a Shake-Up] Reference
Find an argument, not in this book, in which the concreteness of the language adds to the persuasive power. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of Arguments] Reference
Are we not in danger of falling into what many philosophers of science call the fallacy of misplaced concreteness?. From Wordnik.com. [Archbishop's Holy Week Lecture: Faith & Science] Reference
Moving finally to object foundationalism, such an assumption can be analyzed in terms of priority plus concreteness. From Wordnik.com. [Monism] Reference
The theory above is the pinnacle of misplaced concreteness in neoclassical economics with respect to the environment. From Wordnik.com. [Neoclassical, institutional, and marxist approaches to the environment-economic relationship] Reference
While one of his mantras is that politics must be "concrete," concreteness is precisely what his speeches so often lack. From Wordnik.com. [The Left's Berlusconi] Reference
In other words, in the eyes of Zen, these methods lack consideration for the concreteness and immediacy of lived experience. From Wordnik.com. [Japanese Zen Buddhist Philosophy] Reference
All of the equations are employed to reach conclusions with a concreteness and precision that would otherwise be impossible. From Wordnik.com. [Genes & Culture] Reference
In striving for clearness and interest a reporter must remember that one of his greatest assets is concreteness of expression. From Wordnik.com. [Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing] 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
For concreteness, consider a differential equation system, such as dx dt = Fx for a set of variables x = x1, x2, ¦, xn. From Wordnik.com. [Chaos] Reference
His power in exposition; e.g., the number and concreteness of details, the power of selection, emphasis, and bringing out the essentials. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
Taoism, he had to claim, was not so mystical as had been believed, but merely another expression of Chinese practicality and concreteness. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
In that concreteness one can hope for intensities and attachments much less bound to the illusory project of constructing individual egos. From Wordnik.com. [Strange Affinities: A Partial Return to Wordsworthian Poetics After Modernism] Reference
For Hegel, Buddhist nothingness is a false, reified concreteness, a concreteness with, as we have seen, a soft, feminine, abject underbelly. From Wordnik.com. [Hegel on Buddhism] Reference
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