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The subject matter "The Garden" brings forward is interesting, but too abstract and definitely not compelling (let alone exciting) enough to keep you on the edge of your seat.
"Abstract art" for Bach's Toccata?
It's abstract intellectualism combined with sex and drug use surely won't appeal to conservative film watchers.
An abstract strategy game which is played on a Go board, with Go stones.
As he runs around the huge, empty mansion screaming "MEADOWS" in vain, the startling abstract backgrounds, filled with angular shapes of vivid colours, move around behind him reflecting his encroaching madness to incredible effect.
Gladys Cooper is excellent in the lead role; delivering a performance that is both abstract, yet believable at the same time.
But what I most liked about the film was how it dealt with abstract issues as "justice."
Let's just say I didn't like the way she broke out in abstract dance where ever she went.
You have to pay attention and give it some thought, like modern symphonic music or abstract painting, but doing so might just reward you with a strong appreciation.
I understood most of the story line (not much of a line, but more of a time traveling scribble), and was able to follow most of the abstract and interpret it for what it was, but this movie just did NOT do it for me.
Many strange and abstract objects give birth to the letters of the alphabet.
However, "Swimming Pool" is much more abstract, and its ending leaves you wanting to watch the whole thing over immediately with an entirely different perspective on the action.
Instead it remains too abstract, and subsequently clumsy.
It was a dark tale of guilt and need for salvation...a noir and i think the director got it the 'T', specially in the song 'Tera Hi Karam'; which is full of shadows and 'blackness' which reflects the inner turmoil of the character 'John' and seems to follow him everywhere!I mean his closed are black and white (quite abstract and not as simple as it seems).
The attitude towards the women is like that of teen males who hate women because the sexiest women aren't available to them, and because a woman's sexuality is totally abstract to them.
This cannot be answered in the abstract, because every situation is different.
The public no longer thinks of the European project as some utopian endeavor, an abstract attempt to forge an ever-closer union.
Piketty is very good at bringing these abstract relations to life by hanging real numbers on them and tracing their evolution over history.
But, it might be said, the abstract ethical idea that all humans are entitled to equal consideration cannot govern the way we look at the duties of a political leader.
The ICTY has overseen the development of a phenomenal body of jurisprudence that brings life to the abstract precepts of international law.
It is also true, however, that such training does not provide an adequate foundation for addressing the more abstract, but profoundly important, questions that ultimately must guide global policy and decision-making.
But Obama, Cameron, and other Western leaders now have nine million reasons to reconsider their approach – one reason for each Polish woman of reproductive age, for whom the lack of effective constitutional checks and balances is no longer an abstract political problem.
For years, the debate around environmental action in the United States and Europe was characterized by a focus on abstract principles and by political infighting.
But, as the economist Edwin R. A. Seligman put it in 1889, “Economics is a social science, i.e., it is an ethical and therefore an historical science….It is not a natural science, and therefore not an exact or purely abstract science.”
And Germany does not represent just an abstract hope; the country is welcoming more migrants than any of its European counterparts, with Chancellor Angela Merkel having announced that the country will take at least 800,000 asylum-seekers this year.
Then, with recognition of the abstract schemas dictating how genes are expressed, biology climbed even closer to mathematics.
The French Republican model enshrines the laudable abstract principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity.
In essence, the form of government we seek within Germany and across Europe is built on a sense of moral discourse and moral decision-making rather than on the supposedly eternal truth of some abstract political concept.
(Indeed, the name of the political process by which the EU was to be constructed, “neo-functionalism,” was every bit as abstract and cumbersome as “two-state condominialism.”)
This leads to a second problem with the prevailing paradigm, which is that it puts abstract economic indicators before actual people.
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