concrete illustration
Example Sentences
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Solid argument, clear method, and indisputable facts are necessary for the first purpose; vivid imagination, concrete illustration, and animated feeling are necessary for the second.
From Model Speeches for Practise by Kleiser, Grenville
If she needed a concrete illustration she could point to the Tyrolese.
From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) by Sloane, William Milligan
The camp soon had a concrete illustration of the opinion the roughs held of themselves.
From Gold by White, Stewart Edward
A concrete illustration of the impracticability of scientific forestry under existing conditions is afforded by the experimental forest in Franklin County established under an act of 1898.
From Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 by United States. National Conservation Congress
The abstract truth gets the concrete illustration; the concrete illustration finds its proper foundation in a series of abstract inquiries.
From On Liberty by Mill, John Stuart
