abstract space
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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One of her motifs was the theme of the current show: figures falling or flying through abstract space, which is often painted with expressionistic jags and bright swaths of color.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2020
“These were more emblems than descriptions: bold, rather clunky equine silhouettes embedded in flat, abstract space with the totemic air of cave paintings,” critic Robert Hughes wrote years later in Time magazine.
From Washington Post ● May 23, 2020
In the early scenes especially, the story seems to take place in a timeless, almost abstract space, like the films Ingmar Bergman shot with only a handful of actors on the Swedish island of Fårö.
From Slate ● Dec. 2, 2019
“Cyberspace” could describe the abstract space in which the conversations of people using Internet are happening.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 26, 2013
O—The last vowel sound symbolizes abstract space, the spirit assumes once more the garment of primordial matter; it is the Nirvana of eastern philosophy.
From AE in the Irish Theosophist by George William Russell
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