English vocabulary examples in context: abstraction
Vocabulary in context: abstraction -- Example 1.
Hence the cogitation and abstraction you found me in, and reason enough, what you have heard from me.
Vocabulary in context: abstraction -- Example 2.
Geniuses in the impenetrable depths of abstraction and pure speculation, situated, so to speak, above all dogmas, propose their ideas to God.
Vocabulary in context: abstraction -- Example 3.
A priori, insurrection is repugnant to them, in the first place, because it often results in a catastrophe, in the second place, because it always has an abstraction as its point of departure.
Vocabulary in context: abstraction -- Example 4.
He recognised that all the period of Odette's life which had elapsed before she first met him, a period of which he had never sought to form any picture in his mind, was not the featureless abstraction which he could vaguely see, but had consisted of so many definite, dated years, each crowded with concrete incidents.
Vocabulary in context: abstraction -- Example 5.
In the inexpressible abstraction in which thought lives unlighted by the sun, Dea perceived this mysterious lineament of virtue.
Vocabulary in context: abstraction -- Example 6.
Gwynplaine, in spite of his abstraction, listened.
Vocabulary in context: abstraction -- Example 7.
It was with pain Miss Vernon noted his clouded brow, and look of abstraction; but hardly one word of recognition had passed, before the deep voices of the Styrians silenced all.
Vocabulary in context: abstraction -- Example 8.
She saw his abstraction, and knew not the cause; and her timid heart beat quicker than was its wont, as undefined images of coming evil and sorrow, chased each other through her excited fancy.
Vocabulary in context: abstraction -- Example 9.
Princess Mary roused him from his abstraction by drawing his attention to her nephew who had entered the roo
Vocabulary in context: abstraction -- Example 10.
Nicholas glanced at her and, wishing to appear not to notice her abstraction, made some remark to Mademoiselle Bourienne and then again looked at the princess.
Vocabulary in context: abstraction -- Example 11.
Instead of the former divinely appointed aims of the Jewish, Greek, or Roman nations, which ancient historians regarded as representing the progress of humanity, modern history has postulated its own aims- the welfare of the French, German, or English people, or, in its highest abstraction, the welfare and civilization of humanity in general, by which is usually meant that of the peoples occupying a small northwesterly portion of a large continent.
Vocabulary in context: abstraction -- Example 12.
Met by this difficulty historians of that class devise some most obscure, impalpable, and general abstraction which can cover all conceivable occurrences, and declare this abstraction to be the aim of humanity's movement.
Vocabulary in context: abstraction -- Example 13.
Postulating some generalization as the goal of the movement of humanity, the historians study the men of whom the greatest number of monuments have remained: kings, ministers, generals, authors, reformers, popes, and journalists, to the extent to which in their opinion these persons have promoted or hindered that abstraction.
