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But the concreteness of being outdoors was another matter—like the difference between the concept of death and being, in fact, dead. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z
The errors, then, lie not in the abstractness or concreteness, not in geometry or physics, but in a calculator who does not know how to make a true accounting. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
During my visit at Granny’s a sense of the two races had been born in me with a sharp concreteness that would never die until I died. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
But Guitar believed it, gave it a crisp concreteness, and what’s more, made it into an act, an important, real, and daring thing to do. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z
I found that concreteness allows for the abstraction to coexist with realism. At home in exile: Vi Khi Nao on her experimental novel 'Fish in Exile' 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z
The lines made by the canvas edges echo my painted horizon line but, in their concreteness, they confirm presence rather than indexing the unknown. Framing the view: six artists reveal how they choose landscapes 2013-02-02T09:01:01Z
“I think, too, we’re celebrating how art gives people the opportunity to find concreteness in their lives.” Hollywood and art world stars turn out to honor Jeff Koons at MOCA (and to dance to John Legend) 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z
Our reviewer, Maud Newton, praised the book, writing, “It’s the concreteness of Wagner’s own search, in all its messy detail and lingering uncertainties, that underscores our interconnectedness.” New in Paperback: ‘King Zeno,’ ‘The Monk of Mokha’ 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z
That sounds abstract, but the movie’s bitter achievement is in its granular, ground-level concreteness. ‘Donbass’ Review: War in Ukraine, the Prequel 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z
In the history of the novel, there’s long been a connection between a kind of concreteness, or aesthetic reticence, and an idea of “manliness.” “The Duty of Literature Is to Fight Fiction” 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z
One of many reasons Raeff’s work is so deeply pleasurable is the gripping concreteness of her characters’ bodies and natures. Review | Anne Raeff’s ‘Only the River’ travels the globe and spans decades to explore one family’s secrets 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z
But with the children taught this stuff, they are by about 10, 12 max, woeful concretenesses and shibboleths. Rewind TV: Our Drugs War; Faith School Menace?; The Great British Bake Off 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z
But in the midst of this concreteness, the thinking grows more abstract. Exhibition Review | Yale Center for British Art: It Took Tools to Build a Revolution 2010-02-26T23:50:00Z
Among the book’s many virtues, I’m told, is its concreteness. What “Gone Girl” Is Really About 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z
“She imagines with a wonderful concreteness. But also, she takes real language and by literal-mindedness turns it into the structure of dream.” Nancy Willard, Prolific Children’s Book Author, Dies at 80 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z
We all value precision in claims as compared to vagueness and concreteness as compared to abstractness. Con science: Experts on why we fall for hoaxes and how to outsmart scammers 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z
The concreteness is partly what’s nudging you in the right direction. Don’t jump into spring cleaning. Take it slow 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z
And you have Clement Greenberg and concreteness in art, and that minimalism is not representational. What artist Paul McCarthy has drawn and learned from Instagram in the pandemic 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z
Every day things are different, but there’s comfort in the concreteness and agility of the process. Opinion | Why Doctors and Nurses Are Anxious and Angry 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z
Steir’s ethos aligns with that of a group of artists who, in postwar Japan, aspired to harness the Gutai, or “concreteness” of the paint itself. At the Hirshhorn, Pat Steir’s ‘waterfall’ paintings move you — literally 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z
The incident gave concreteness to the dim sense of cosmic disfavor beginning to take hold in me. Chasing the Aurora Borealis 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z
We then try to find the solidity and concreteness of the perceived world in that postulated underlying reality. Physics Is Pointing Inexorably to Mind 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z
The magazine was a policy journal grounded in the concreteness of empirical evidence and asked hard questions about Great Society programs. Nathan Glazer, Urban Sociologist and Outspoken Intellectual, Dies at 95 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z
“And plans vary in terms of their degree of realism and concreteness.” Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy? 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z
But it has the virtue of marrying deep, sincere esteem for college athletes to concreteness and clarity. Perspective | Condoleezza Rice thinks college hoops is worth saving. Does NCAA care enough to do it? 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z
Judge Patricia Millett of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia said the regulators’ conclusions lacked “concreteness.” MetLife Again Faces Off With Regulators Over Its Too-Big-to-Fail Status 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z
Instead, it is a transpersonal field of mentation that presents itself to us as physicality—with its concreteness, solidity and definiteness—once our personal mental processes interact with it through observation. Physics Is Pointing Inexorably to Mind 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z
Fear of losing the comfort, surety and concreteness provided by your worldview. Sam Brownback’s Kansas is still a nightmare: The state’s latest ultra-conservative war may be its worst yet 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z
The point of Foundations is to lend concreteness to the Legends universe, as it’s depicted for fans on the website and in promotional materials. Behind League of Legends, E-Sports’s Main Attraction 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z
In cases where "less" and "fewer" are both available, such as "Less/fewer than 20 of the students voted", "fewer" is the better choice because it enhances vividness and concreteness. Steven Pinker: 10 'grammar rules' it's OK to break (sometimes) 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z
This research, identifying physical structures that underlie our thinking, has a welcome concreteness. Economic View: The Rationality Debate, Simmering in Stockholm 2014-01-18T15:31:04Z
Coding does not simplify, but rather translates, abstracts, and sequentializes, often giving a false sense of concreteness to concepts that are poorly understood or articulated. Data Science: Buyer Beware 2013-01-08T12:49:11Z
Social value or concreteness of sources of problems. The Psychology of Arithmetic 2012-03-31T02:00:28.817Z
The novelist, the romancer, the poet, the orator, and even the essayist, will always put the breath of reality into his work by an infusion of concreteness, of graphic personification. Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School 2012-03-17T02:01:04.053Z
But perhaps nowhere has the negro found more acceptable subject-matter for his song than in the Scriptures; his songs abound in references to scriptural characters and often portray individuals and scenes with unusual concreteness. Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern Negroes 2012-03-09T03:00:17.743Z
As a mere commercial agent, he knows no country: his field is the world, but the world not in its concreteness and variety, but in the abstract aspect of a money-bag and an exchange. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z
It was the concreteness of his offer that shocked her. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z
In refreshingly sharp contrast to the vagueness and uncertainty which beset the definition of a mental fact are the palpable concreteness and definiteness of knowledge itself. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z
With terrible concreteness Little Brother weights our soul-sense with the horror and tragedy of war. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z
But with all alike, vigor of expression, concreteness and naturalness of mental imagery, and simplicity of language and thought are combined with striking folk-art. Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern Negroes 2012-03-09T03:00:17.743Z
The penal sanctions of positive law have a gross materialism about them corresponding to the definite concreteness of the actions with which positive law deals. Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z
Particular cases and properties supply emphasis and concreteness; general principles convert the particulars into a single system. How We Think 2011-09-16T02:00:18.973Z
Critics have pointed out how much of the effectiveness of the greatest writers, Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, results from their constant definiteness and concreteness. A Foreword to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition 2011-08-20T02:00:13.567Z
So that their synthesis and their complete immanence is the concreteness of educational unity in its opposition to what I have called fragmentary education. The Reform of Education 2011-07-18T02:00:21.207Z
Its prevalence has probably been due partly to the concreteness of its conceptions and partly to a certain analogy which they bear towards the conception of Satan and the fallen angels in Christian theology. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z
Greater concreteness may be given them by comparing the present position of mine-managers with that which they would occupy were effect given to Mr. Justice Sankey's scheme for the nationalization of the Coal Industry. The Acquisitive Society
First it became possible to forget the things in their concreteness, and now they have become mere terms for the relations that had been generalized between them. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude
Yet in our crude yearning for concreteness, for specific idols, we laud him as the father of the inductive philosophy—as if induction weren't an inevitable process in any mind grown beyond primitive concepts. Ewing\\'s Lady
This concrete notion of a spirit which excludes nothing from itself gives concreteness to the Christian conception of physical discipline. The Reform of Education 2011-07-18T02:00:21.207Z
One likes a certain content or concreteness in the thinking process. Letters from a Father to His Son Entering College
He must describe all these to give his narrative verisimilitude and concreteness. The Technique of Fiction Writing
It is fused as perception into concept and carries its immediacy and concreteness of detail into the concrete universal as the complete organization of stimulation and response pass into the flexible habit. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude
Reason was gaining in concreteness and power, and human values were gaining in attractiveness. The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance
And because they do refer to it, the teaching of them should be spiritualised, moralised, humanised; it ought to acquire the concreteness of philosophy, and therefore never ignore the exigencies of art and of religion. The Reform of Education 2011-07-18T02:00:21.207Z
We are too apt to forget that it is experience and not objects, which is the vital factor in concreteness. Primary Handwork
In describing minor characters, the chief necessity is to give each person as much as possible of the definition and concreteness of life. The Technique of Fiction Writing
The difference is not one of kind, but of concreteness, application, and individuality. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude
They are already more than half anthropomorphic; they only lack the concreteness, the lucid shape and the detailed personal history of the Olympians. Five Stages of Greek Religion
The habitual concreteness of his style shows the clearness of his perceptions. Flowers of Freethought (First Series)
Its principal use is to give the setting to the story, to give concreteness to the characters, and to accent the mood of the story. English: Composition and Literature
The general aim in describing persons is to give maximum concreteness to the whole story, and seeming definition will sometimes serve as well as actual definition. The Technique of Fiction Writing
Both art and religion, we have seen, possess an immediacy and concreteness which philosophy lacks. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude
Mark the scarceness of abstract terms, the concreteness of the figures:— Curséd the wight that trusteth in man Making flesh his stay! Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922
Just because he is so quick to feel the emotional value of life he is an artist; and much of his power as an artist derives from the concreteness of his emotion. The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life
The evidence of the concreteness, and wholeness and self-awareness of the Individual Intelligence, functioning in and through, and separable from the physical body, was complete. The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology
If a story is to have the concreteness, definition, and vivacity of life, the descriptive quality must permeate the whole, both as to the persons and their environment. The Technique of Fiction Writing
To attain such predictions, however, the world need not be grasped in its full concreteness. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude
As the interpretation is in the realm of the sensibilities, so do I aim not directly at concreteness. The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1
The great charm of biography for both young and old is in its perfect concreteness. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes
One secure advantage he possesses in the concreteness of his subject-matter. Four Americans Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman
The other necessity, to describe setting to give the story verisimilitude and concreteness, is not so easy to state or to meet. The Technique of Fiction Writing
Poetry strives after concreteness and vividness of expression. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism
The drifting apart of husband and wife through the husband’s “failin’” is set forth with unexampled concreteness, and yet there is no introduction of horror. The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891
The elasticity, the concreteness, of your temperament fertilised the too-brooding introspectiveness of my own. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance
Well, that thing has assumed, all of a sudden, a concreteness as welcome as it is unexpected. Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic
If a character is made to stutter, he will gain in actuality and concreteness for a reader. The Technique of Fiction Writing
The absolute world, the all-real-and-all-good, is boldly construed in terms of the historical process itself, with all its concreteness and immediacy. The Moral Economy
Its idealism, its call to sacrifice, the concreteness of the tasks which it undertakes and of the gains which it achieves, have attracted alike the fine spirits and the practical abilities of our generation. Christianity and Progress
This "something" which is the substratum of the soul and the thing which gives unity and concreteness to the soul is the thinnest and remotest attenuation of the world of sense-impression. The Complex Vision
When Man developed language, it gave his thoughts more concreteness and permitted a freer and more clearly conceived type of thinking. Islands of Space
But the minor characters are shadowy enough at best, and any verbal definition that can be given them will lend concreteness to the story. The Technique of Fiction Writing
The end in view will, I trust, be considered sufficient justification for the degree of personal reference which this occasions; since greater concreteness and reality attach to definite descriptions such as this. The Story of the Mind
Under his touch the symphony, that most rigid and abstract and venerable of forms, was actually displaying some of the novel's narrative and analytical power, its literalness and concreteness of detail. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers
We no longer worship groves and fountains, nor Madonnas and saints, and our Art accordingly can no longer have the fervency, since its objects have not the concreteness, that belonged to former times. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864
Downrightness and sententiousness are prime qualities; brevity, concreteness, spontaneity—in fact, all forms of genuine expression—help make literature. The Last Harvest
If his hand falter, tangibility and concreteness in the matter of the story will not save it, will not make it seem real to a reader. The Technique of Fiction Writing
But it is distinguished from this prolific progeny not only by a finer and firmer imagination, a truer poetic richness, but by a moderation, a concreteness, a grip, which are certainly all its own. An Introduction to the Study of Browning
We may assume, for convenience and for concreteness, that the lesson is division of fractions. The Vitalized School
Perhaps because he expresses with such concreteness, such definiteness and vigor a motive so purely an abstraction. French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture
The concreteness of the antique, the form and meaning existing only for each other, is gone; the union is occasional only, and needs to be certified and kept up afresh on every new occasion. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864
The whole philosophy of this phase of technique rests on the necessity that every line of a story be given as much as possible of the concreteness and vivacity of life. The Technique of Fiction Writing
For concision, picturesqueness and concreteness, this narrative is not excelled in all literature. The Bible Period by Period A Manual for the Study of the Bible by Periods
I have in mind the great gain in concreteness of the physician's work with mind and the resulting contribution of psychiatry to a better knowledge of human life and its problems. A Psychiatric Milestone Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921
Where poetry falls short in the comparison with other arts, is in the quality of form-giving, in the quality of sensuous concreteness. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series
Speaking in terms in which concreteness verges upon grossness, it may be said that the brain, in so far as its function is concerned, depends upon the stomach. Tragic Sense Of Life
Either matter is a mere symbol, devised to give concreteness to a spiritual fact. The Technique of Fiction Writing
But pantheism was at most a tendency, which the stubborn concreteness of his mind held effectually in check; a point, one might say, upon which his thinking converges, but which it never even proximately attains. Robert Browning
They shed a light on the concreteness, directness, and simplicity of the workings of the statesmen's minds when engaged in transacting international business. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference
His writings, an inexhaustible mine of practical remarks and precious observations, reveal dominant in him the state idea, no longer abstract but in the full historical concreteness of the national unity of Italy. Readings on Fascism and National Socialism Selected by members of the department of philosophy, University of Colorado
This description, when it occurs, should be characterized mainly by aptness and concreteness. A Study of Fairy Tales
He has a woman's subtlety of insight, a child's concreteness of imagination. The Theory of the Theatre
But it was only late in life that this acute plasticity and concreteness of his sensibility found its natural outlet. Robert Browning
Here Swinburne's eloquence gives concreteness to the picture. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4
Find an argument, not in this book, in which the concreteness of the language adds to the persuasive power. The Making of Arguments
Since the discovery of Evolution as the method of the Life Force the religion of metaphysical Vitalism has been gaining the definiteness and concreteness needed to make it assimilable by the educated critical man. Back to Methuselah
A longing for concreteness has befogged our fantasy. The Theory of the Theatre
I have exaggerated somewhat the concreteness of our subsidiary or rather non-syntactical relational concepts In order that the essential facts might come out in bold relief. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech
Are there still to be found, often in humble walks of life, earnest Christians who have similar deep spiritual experiences and describe them with the same vivid imagery and concreteness? The Making of a Nation The Beginnings of Israel's History
A rough test for concreteness is your vocabulary: if your words are mostly Anglo-Saxon you will usually be talking about concrete things; if it is Latinate and polysyllabic it is probably abstract and general. The Making of Arguments
In his Phenomenology a variety of interpretations of the world and of the meaning and destiny of life are scrutinized as to their adequacy and concreteness. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes
It is the intense concreteness of Fechner, his fertility of detail, which fills me with an admiration which I should like to make this audience share. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy
The concreteness of experience is infinite, the resources of the richest language are strictly limited. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech
What it meant ethically or aesthetically faded before the gorgeous concreteness of her pink-and-white feet, the clean perfectness of her body, and the baby mouth that was like the material symbol of a kiss. The Beautiful and Damned
Miss Talcott was too young to distinguish the intermediate tints of the moral spectrum; and her judgments were further simplified by a peculiar concreteness of mind. The Greater Inclination
This view of philosophy, because it deals with the universe in its fulness and variety, alone can make claim to real concreteness. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes
Reality, life, experience, concreteness, immediacy, use what word you will, exceeds our logic, overflows and surrounds it. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy
The insistence on the concreteness of the relational concepts is clearly stronger than the destructive power of the most sweeping and persistent drifts that we know of in the history and prehistory of our language. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech
To give greater concreteness to the presentation, maps, diagrams, and pictures, as commonly found in standard historical works, have been used to an extent not before employed in writings on the history of education. The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization
There is nothing more hideous than the awful concreteness of this show,—the naked helplessness of the prisoner, his horrible, cringing, overdone humility, the coarse kicking and cuffing of the deputy sheriffs. Castilian Days
The nature of concreteness belonging to both the content and the representation of art, is precisely the point in which both can coincide and correspond to each other. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes
Free reference is made to this tag in the company's letters and it gives a certain concreteness to the guarantee feature. Business Correspondence
The nuance expressed by quickly is too close to that of quick, their circles of concreteness are too nearly the same, for the two words to feel comfortable together. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech
His power in exposition; e.g., the number and concreteness of details, the power of selection, emphasis, and bringing out the essentials. A History of English Literature
The concreteness of detail just alluded to is characteristic only of the second and third chapters. Introduction to the Old Testament
Select passages that show his special clearness, concreteness, also his rhetorical and argumentative power. Halleck's New English Literature
The poet indicates only that amount of concreteness which is necessary for the clearness of the picture,—-only the height and firmness of the tower and the brightness of the sun in eclipse. The Principles of Success in Literature
Here again, as with abstraction and concreteness, you should learn to express yourself by either method. The Century Vocabulary Builder
There is a concreteness of emotional content in some musical compositions—an arousal of terror and longing and despair and joy—infinitely richer than any abstract forms of feeling. The Principles of Aesthetics
The scenes and the people have all the concreteness and detail of actuality, although I never forget that I am observing my own hallucinations. Without Prejudice
Abundant and vivid use of metaphors serves to render his concreteness more varied and impressive. Halleck's New English Literature
We shall often be simpler in using abstract and technical terms than in using concrete and familiar terms which by their very concreteness and familiarity call up images and feelings foreign to our immediate purpose. The Principles of Success in Literature
The logical relation stands to the psychological relation between idea and object only as saltatory abstractness stands to ambulatory concreteness. Meaning of Truth
There is, however, a third common method of comical representation which neither exaggerates nor abstracts, but preserves the concreteness of the finest art—we may call it the method of contrast. The Principles of Aesthetics
He turns towards concreteness and adequacy, towards facts, towards action, and towards power. Pragmatism
And there flashed before her with ridiculous concreteness the thought: 'I've got three hundred a year of my own!' The Country House
Signs still preserved the concreteness of the event that triggered their constitution. The Civilization of Illiteracy
It begins with concreteness, and returns and ends with it. Meaning of Truth
The right to believe in things for the truth of which complete objective proof is yet lacking is defended by those who apprehend certain human situations in their concreteness. Meaning of Truth
The pragmatist clings to facts and concreteness, observes truth at its work in particular cases, and generalizes. Pragmatism
Science uses abstraction as an instrument for reaching concreteness; philosophy follows the inverse path. The Civilization of Illiteracy
Chinese ideographic writing, which unifies the many dialects used in spoken Chinese, preserves concreteness, and as such preserves tradition as an established way of relating to the world. The Civilization of Illiteracy
The entire quarrel of the intellectualist with him is over his concreteness, intellectualism contending that the vaguer and more abstract account is here the more profound. Meaning of Truth
The concreteness of the visual makes images inappropriate for describing other images. The Civilization of Illiteracy
Your typical ultra- abstractionist fairly shudders at concreteness: other things equal, he positively prefers the pale and spectral. Pragmatism
Readers of ideographic texts have the advantage of the concreteness of the representation. The Civilization of Illiteracy
First of all, what is gained through the abstraction of the words is almost entirely lost through the concreteness of the image. The Civilization of Illiteracy
It may be, however, that concreteness as radical as ours is not so obvious. Meaning of Truth
They are overcoming the limitations of the abstract system of phonetic language and returning to the concreteness of seeing the image. The Civilization of Illiteracy
I hope that as these lectures go on, the concreteness and closeness to facts of the pragmatism which they advocate may be what approves itself to you as its most satisfactory peculiarity. Pragmatism
The world of avatars, dynamic graphic representations of a person in the virtual universe of networks, is one of concreteness. The Civilization of Illiteracy
The wedge-shaped letters of Sumerian cuneiform, the sacred engraved notations of Egyptian hieroglyphics, the Chinese ideograms, the Hebrew, Greek, and Roman alphabets-all have in common the need to overcome concreteness. The Civilization of Illiteracy
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