abstraction *

In her view, the war is almost an abstraction for most people.

What though if we wanted to make a further move of abstraction?

He was, however, not much given to abstraction at the moment.

Before long, however, it would turn from an abstraction into an issue.

Well, every nation is an abstraction if you stop to think about it.

The project was something of an abstraction as he had no site in mind.

But these are abstractions to those of us in the water.

I am talking about it as something physical but also an abstraction.

I am living, for the present, in a world of words and abstractions.

Just the thought of such an abstraction filled him with power.

The main difference is in the level of abstraction being considered.

Had he lived so long it was simply an abstraction?

The working of that particular law remains an abstraction for you.

What this meant was no abstraction to anyone who had actually been in the country.

"In a sense I had to work my way through abstraction," he said.

The point of this show is his path to abstraction.

He will begin to work just almost entirely with abstraction.

And there are, like, higher level abstractions as we go.

He was brought out of his abstraction with a shock.

At the end of his life he withdrew into abstraction.

That's an abstraction, but ultimately the system had the same problem.

As for the biggest political campaign in the country, it seems far away, almost an abstraction.

The whole thing was an abstraction, hardly worth thinking about.

But these laws are nothing more than abstractions from experience.

The best image of the city's diversity is not an abstraction.