Word: abstractedness
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Sometimes this effect works nicely, especially in a scene where Medea flinches at Jason's touch; the abstracted, impersonal movements of the characters up to this point render this contact all the more frightening. But usually the mechanical, showy movements just make the actors seem stilted and vaguely uncomfortable.
But in all this winding and flanking and circling back, Lincoln never lost sight of his fixed goal. He had to inch toward it or actually back off at times, but he was certain what it was. G.K. Chesterton has best expressed Lincoln's combination of fixed values and shifting...
True, many people have been duped into the belief that Alice in Chains is a band about flower children and peace, given the group's name and song titles and whatnot. A quick glance at the lyric sheet, however, should dispel such misinformed notions. Cantrell's style doesn't just...
A series of cups followed the eggs, through the 1960s and '70s. In a sense the cups were Price's bread-and-butter work -- they were popular, and no California collector's knickknack shelf was complete without one -- and yet they were consistently inventive and spry, displaying a constant buzz...
However, Bechtel adds, "people will know it's a new building. We've abstracted some of the details that you'd find in a Harvard building."