abstract
Example Sentences
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Mo Costello’s abstract photographs focus on the minutiae of everyday things like Aaron Siskind did, but more than three decades after that artist’s death these images feel uninspired.
Together, the roof and the tower give the chapel a beguiling silhouette that can suggest anything from a giant pictograph to an abstract sculpture.
The instantly recognizable musical style has remained, over the years, consistently abstract and refreshing.
From Los Angeles Times
The perils of a nuclear disaster seem relatively abstract compared to the very tangible horrors of an earthquake and tsunami.
Traveler’s Rachel was supposed to be some abstract figure, some girl who was probably perfectly nice and missed out on the most wonderful boy in all existence.
From Literature
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