How To Use Concreteness In A Sentence
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The cosmic symbol of the rising sun expresses the universality of God above all particular places and yet maintains the concreteness of divine revelation.
Ignatius Insight Article on Restoring Ad Orientem
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Sydney Chaffee continued, "I've gotten closer to achieving a balance between two extremes in my own intentions -- the extreme concreteness of many 9th graders' first intentions and the extreme flimsiness of the overly poetic, grand intentions of my first few years which were hard for me to know if I was actually doing.
Meg Campbell: What's Your Intention This School Year?
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Importantly, for Robert, in contradistinction to Kant, civil society cannot supplement this abstraction with the relative concreteness and historicity of traditions contractually entered into and upheld.
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And we didn't see that kind of concreteness from President Obama.
John Feffer: Carbon Disarmament
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The substance was getting there (though it still needs a lot of work), but it was missing vigor, concreteness, punch.
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What he found was a hybrid and rather unsystematic cluster of useful ideas; what he did was give them concreteness and actuality, a local habitation and a name.
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Now by concreteness of contents it is meant that we must know the objects of consciousness as intrinsically determinate and as the unity of distinct characteristics.
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There is, however, a second realism in Auerbach, the French nineteenth-century realism, which he defines as depicting contemporary reality, immersed in the dynamic concreteness of the stream of history.
REALISM IN LITERATURE
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They possess the concreteness of imaginative, spiritual experience rather than the concreteness of quotidian reality.
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fine white thread running, through years and years," and Hans flirts with the possibility that language may not precisely describe the world ( "I was assaulted by the notion, arriving in the form of a terrifying stroke of consciousness, that substance-everything of so called concreteness-was indistinct from its unnameable opposite").
NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
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Opting for an unusually loose, appositional syntax which strings together phrases or clauses that come at a phenomenon from different angles, he manages to give a sensuous concreteness to abstract concepts.
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Sydney Chaffee continued, "I've gotten closer to achieving a balance between two extremes in my own intentions -- the extreme concreteness of many 9th graders' first intentions and the extreme flimsiness of the overly poetic, grand intentions of my first few years which were hard for me to know if I was actually doing.
Meg Campbell: What's Your Intention This School Year?
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It is the height of hypocrisy for him to complain that Darwinism lacks causal specificity when his own theory lacks any specificity, including one atom of historical concreteness.
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The study of basic theory on economic crime has undergone a process from emptiness to substance, from macro to concreteness, from scatter to system.
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To the Romantic sensibility such a [dualist] universe could not be endured, and the central enterprise common to many post-Kantian German philosophers and poets, as well as to Coleridge and Wordsworth, was to join together the ‘subject 'and ‘object' that modern intellection had put asunder, and thus to revivify a dead nature, restore its concreteness, significance, and human values, and re-domiciliate man in a world which had become alien to him.
Byron and Romantic Occidentalism
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With his usual lack of concreteness, however, he neglects to point out that the most important present challenge to this country comes from the danger of terrorism itself and the priorities it imposes on us.
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Notice how the second sentence has to bring some kind of concreteness to the initially vague and intuitively silly opening statement.
Strange Affinities: A Partial Return to Wordsworthian Poetics After Modernism
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Netherland recognizes the tenuous nature of a self, that "fine white thread running, through years and years," and Hans flirts with the possibility that language may not precisely describe the world ( "I was assaulted by the notion, arriving in the form of a terrifying stroke of consciousness, that substance — everything of so called concreteness — was indistinct from its unnameable opposite").
Part 2: Netherland, Lyrical Realism, and the flip flops of Zadie Smith
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The students seem drawn to its clarity and concreteness, and there is no shortage of casuistic questions concerning its intricacies.
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This study is intended to provide a considerable measure of objectivity and concreteness to the quest for quality in translation as , well as some clues for translation quality assessment.
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But I expect some degree of veracity, of concreteness from renderings; they inform and set my expectation of the experience and presence of the architecture.
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Decisions regarding trade-offs between the concreteness of learning experiences and time constraints have to be made continually by the instructor .
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It has a kind of concreteness to is that a Latin language doesn't have.
OpEdNews
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The cinema, as a representational medium, achieves its force through the act of discovering and revealing reality in its concreteness and materiality.
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With his usual lack of concreteness, however, he neglects to point out that the most important present challenge to this country comes from the danger of terrorism itself and the priorities it imposes on us.
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Particularly animating is the locust simile, with its vivid specificity — “underground,” “seventeen-year” — and its concreteness (unique in this argument about abstractions).
A Close Read
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In a more complete statement: “The difference between art and science is not that between feeling and fact, intuition and inference, delight and deliberation, synthesis and analysis, sensation and cerebration, concreteness and abstraction, passion and action, mediacy and immediacy, or truth and beauty, but rather a difference in domination of certain specific characteristics of symbols”
Goodman's Aesthetics
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Photography by reifying memories invests them with the concreteness they do not necessarily need.
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The media attach an unwarranted "concreteness" to sample estimates out of proportion to their real status, probably out of sheer ignorance.
Review of Gene Epstein, Econospinning
