This view implies that Archimedes was less an engineer trying to manipulate the physical world than a pure mathematician interested only in abstract concepts.

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One suspects their presence is self-congratulatory, a reminder that Buffalo has opened its doors to many innovators, not only the Abstract Expressionist painters with whom the Albright-Knox is closely associated.

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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.

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An example comes from a study (abstract only) led by JRC collaborator P.

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Women who had previously been only distant, abstract notions suddenly had a very real, very vivid, very in-my-face presence.

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Let them see with their own eyes, and not only through aggregated, abstract data.

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The argument for exponential advancement will hold ground only with the help of autonomous, abstract-thinking machines.

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Bonnard never painted from life, only from memory, which explains why his painting feels at once concrete and abstract.

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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.

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