| 11. | But those are the far-flung implications and legal abstractions.
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| 12. | And there are some simpler patterns much closer to Western abstraction.
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| 13. | They began with figurative images transformed into inward-looking abstractions.
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| 14. | Free speech is an abstraction in the absence of concrete examples.
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| 15. | Figuration and abstraction, for instance, have played dueling banjos.
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| 16. | As singers they are at ease with storytelling and musical abstraction.
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| 17. | Abstraction, considered a distinctly European import, seemed especially suspect.
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| 18. | "I don't study alien abstractions ."
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| 19. | The campaign was no longer an abstraction; it was reality.
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| 20. | Abstractions aside, people feel the country's financial pain.
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