Word: abstract
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...real life. “My friends and I made sex jokes all the time,” she says, “but it was never directed in a ‘let me do this to you’ kind of way. It was always very abstract. Playing online was the first time I made that sort of innuendo with a take-me-seriously attitude...
...soul,” (another example would be Freud’s “id,” “ego,” and “superego,”) can serve quite a useful purpose in treating psychopathology—for they provide an abstract and working, if crude and incomplete, model of what we cannot yet understand in any other fashion...
...theme is specific and political. Not many vague expressions of the inner soul occur here; all of these artists address the concrete issue of social injustice and spotlight the marginalized and the oppressed in lieu of the self. But the messages conveyed by the works, many of which are abstract or digitally altered, are not immediately apparent or easily delineated...
...eating popcorn and watching Must-See TV with a resident tutor these days is progress, and much personal interaction students have with their tutors and professors does not depend on abstract institutional calculations regarding undergraduate emotional health. It depends on how loudly people ask for what they want. “Most of you come to Harvard because you have some idealistic notion of what Harvard should be. It needs to be worth all the sacrifices that you and your parents make,” Gomes says. “You, today’s generation, push the questions about...
...literary standpoint, The Anatomy of Racial Inequality is a forceful, well-argued and innovative scrutiny of the problem of racial inequality within the United States which engages and challenges readers in spite of, or perhaps even because of its highly academic approach. Loury’s unique style blends abstract philosophical discourse with the terminology of the social sciences. He writes logically and eloquently, rarely succumbing to the pitfalls of technical jargon, and knows when a colloquialism or concrete example will bring his point home. The one significant weakness in The Anatomy of Racial Inequality is the distance that...