dreamy abstraction
Example Sentences
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The figures are absorbed in their own thoughts; they stand isolated apart, as though the painter wishes to intensify the mood of dreamy abstraction.
From Giorgione by Cook, Herbert
As the white outbuildings and irregular outlines of the "Summit House" began to be visible, Jeff felt a singular return of his former dreamy abstraction.
From Jeff Briggs's Love Story by Harte, Bret
He was a rawboned Slav with a pale face, high cheek bones, and large brown eyes, holding within their somber depths an expression of thoughtful, dreamy abstraction.
From Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street by Street, Julian
He lay back upon his couch with a dreamy abstraction in his gaze.
From French and English A Story of the Struggle in America by Everett-Green, Evelyn
He was lying almost at full length in the chair, his eyes fixed in dreamy abstraction upon the ceiling.
From The Little Nugget by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
