Word: abstraction
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Koethe also discussed his abstract style of poetry, explaining that he strives to write poems "on the verge of making sense, yet still elusive in meaning...
...love has always been a tough concept to define. It falls into that tricky set of words like "art" and "truth" that are useful for abstract conversation but unsettling when it comes to concrete application...
...will have a direct and knowable impact on others, such as volunteering through Philips Brooks House or any other of the myriad of opportunities that exist for community service on this campus. All these forms of helping others are infinitely more effective and important than any actions based upon abstract ideas of justice can be. What's more, by keeping the fulfillment of social obligations at the individual level, those who disagree with the "progressive" agenda can help others as they please and not have another's morality thrust upon them. I am sure Redmond would not want any conservatives...
...real world and yet have missed out on so many of the topics, theories and names that I should know. Humanities concentrators are closer to receiving a true liberal arts education, yet even they complain that they are leaving with no information to use in the real world--just abstract theories...
...next hundred years of the outcasts' collective memory as the Disallowing. "Afterwards," Morrison writes, "the people were no longer nine families and some more. They became a tight band of wayfarers bound by the enormity of what had happened to them. Their horror of whites was convulsive but abstract. They saved the clarity of their hatred for the men who had insulted them in ways too confounding for language: first by excluding them, then by offering them staples to exist in that very exclusion...