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
He will here learn to choose the simple word instead of the complex, the short sentence instead of the involved, the concrete illustration instead of the abstract.
From Talks on Talking by Kleiser, Grenville
The cruiser requirements offer a concrete illustration of the application of this thought.
From Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)
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
