This enigmatic composition makes us ask if this is an abstract landscape or a nonrepresentational composition suggesting a landscape.
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It is easy to stand in Washington, whether you're a congressman on Capitol Hill, or a reporter here, or an administration official, and suggest that this is all abstract.
This is not something I read in a briefing book. (Laughter.) This is not some abstract idea for us.
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This is not an abstract, philosophical, academic point, but a strategic purpose of great practical significance.
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If this logic is too abstract, or opens up a discomfiting door, then the default should be that government minds its business at any level.
And of course, the upshot of all this is anything but abstract: doctors are left ignorant about the drugs they are prescribing, and which will make their patients sick or get well, or even live or die.
This is not an abstract exercise.
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This is a bit of an abstract example but the importance of diversifying skill points is not to be understated.
Much of this is fascinating in the abstract.
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On the most abstract level this is because liquidity earns real rents, those rents are distilled by a perfectly competitive market and ultimately accrue to the owners of the irreproducible factors of production.
While indisputable in the abstract, this proposition is highly debatable in the context of the former Soviet bloc today.
This is a change from the more abstract arguments he used last year: how a health care overhaul would bend the cost curve and help the federal budget.
The danger with a book like this is that it ends up lost in abstract discussion of difficult subjects.
"The institutional injury they allege is wholly abstract and widely dispersed and their attempt to litigate this dispute at this time and in this form is contrary to historical experience, " Rehnquist wrote.
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.
What caught my eye this month is "The Sisters" (below), a hypnotically luminous 1991-93 abstract work by Brice Marden, one of America's leading artists and the subject of a new book, "Brice Marden: Phaidon Focus" (Phaidon).
The insights that were shared at this event will help address the gap that is created when the science of climate change is based on abstract data and separated from local and cultural considerations.
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