concrete illustration
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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 Grenville Kleiser
The cruiser requirements offer a concrete illustration of the application of this thought.
From Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
As a concrete illustration of the above statement, I want to point to a young man, intelligent, enterprising, industrious, and a graduate of the best known agricultural college poultry course in the country.
From The Dollar Hen by Milo M. (Milo Milton) Hastings
Landers saw further: not a single man, but a type; the concrete illustration of a vague ideal he had long known.
From A Breath of Prairie and other stories by J. N. Marchand
The theoretical weakness of an arrested offensive received a practical and concrete illustration to a degree that war had scarcely ever known.
From Some Principles of Maritime Strategy by Julian S. (Julian Stafford) Corbett
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