In an abstract published in 2007 in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, a company-funded, 10-person study found the Clarisonic was "significantly more effective" in removing makeup than using soap and fingers.
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And I know that sometimes all this squabbling in Washington seems very abstract, and in the abstract, people like the idea, there must be some spending we can cut, there must be some waste out there.
We are making this America's national mission: improving our schools not in unrealistic ways, not in abstract ways, not in pie-in-the-sky ways -- in concrete ways we are putting our resources behind the kinds of reforms that are going to make a difference.
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He lived long enough to see the blossoming of abstract expressionism in the early fifties but never paid attention.
At least he has understood that art is more demonstrative, even exhibitionist, than it was during the heyday of abstract expressionism in the 1950s.
The set, by the team of the front-row guest Rem Koolhaas, gave the first clue: a space like an industrial street, with the effect of oil spills, heavy metal pillars and abstract cars in pastel pink colors.
Claiming that the EU is too often seen as an "abstract end in itself" and detached from economic reality, he outlined his vision for a more "outward looking", "flexible" and "diverse" union which puts advancing its citizens living standards above all else.
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It was even felt by artists who, like Pierre Bonnard and Fairfield Porter, never produced an abstract painting in their lives, but were nonetheless influenced by the way in which practitioners of abstraction created what Mr. Diebenkorn called "invented landscapes, " nonobjective images that evoked the world of tangible reality while steering clear of literal representation.
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You can actually get away with a lot of weirdness in abstract ideas, if you are ordinary enough in manners and style.
But now an exhibition at London's Tate Modern aims to demonstrate that she was an important figure in the history of modernism perhaps the first abstract modern artist in Lebanon and even the Arab world.
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Flavin dabbled in Abstract Expressionism himself before turning to Minimalism and, ultimately, his signature fluorescent motif in the 1960s.
While indisputable in the abstract, this proposition is highly debatable in the context of the former Soviet bloc today.
Using elements from past ventures, like vocals steeped in reverb and abstract song structures, Portner has homed in on a specific ambiance with which his band has only flirted.
Nobody will believe that she was reflecting in abstract philosophical terms on the century's history.
The danger with a book like this is that it ends up lost in abstract discussion of difficult subjects.
This view implies that Archimedes was less an engineer trying to manipulate the physical world than a pure mathematician interested only in abstract concepts.
The jagged break with the High Modernist creed of Abstract Expressionism is in some instances easier to see in this sideshow than in the main rooms.
Superior mental faculties, such as language and the ability to engage in abstract problem solving, are the sort of explanations that are currently all the rage.
Much fuss and hullabaloo has been made over Ezra Klein lately who has, apparently, stepped outside of some abstract journalistic standards in order to play the part as activist.
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The inside of this sleek Lindsay Newman design looks more like the lobby of the W Hotel than the usual oak-paneled clubhouse: The ceiling soars overhead and abstract paintings hang in minimalist rooms.
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Its exuberantly curved and canted abstract shapes covered in softly gleaming sheets of silvery titanium are anchored to the earth by warm beige Spanish limestone, their shimmering surfaces changing color magically with the light and weather.
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Interestingly, the prosecutor and magistrate today both raised, in abstract terms, the possibility of the charges against Oscar Pistorius being reduced from murder to culpable homicide - something which could mean a fine or suspended sentence rather than a long jail term.
While the plein-air paintings of the Impressionists and post-Impressionists seem studied in comparison with the informality of these watercolors, we search the Sargents for evidence that their creator was aware of the developments in abstract art during the first decades of the 20th century.
When Wilde wrote that all excess as well as all renunciation brings its punishment, he evidently had in mind the contrast between Basil, who can conceive of his love for Dorian only in abstract terms, and Dorian, who is so intent on embracing the physical that he loses his mind.
In America, where voters are terrifically rude about Congress in the abstract, individual congressmen and senators still enjoy considerable fawning and swan about in cars with special number plates.
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It may sound okay in the abstract, but it doesn't sound okay around the kitchen table in the homes of those families who would be affected by the job cuts, by the furloughs and the layoff notices that will come if the sequester kicks in.
These figures of speech can be quite useful in taking complicated or abstract concepts and making them more understandable in tangible, visual ways.
You gave me no figures in your question so I'll answer in the abstract.
Like many civilians, for me the military and military life exist in the abstract.
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