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We all value precision in claims as compared to vagueness and concreteness as compared to abstractness.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2023
The concreteness is partly what’s nudging you in the right direction.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2023
And you have Clement Greenberg and concreteness in art, and that minimalism is not representational.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2020
In the history of the novel, there’s long been a connection between a kind of concreteness, or aesthetic reticence, and an idea of “manliness.”
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 11, 2018
But the concreteness of being outdoors was another matter—like the difference between the concept of death and being, in fact, dead.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
