The phrase
"concrete reality" means something that is real, definite, and observable in the world around us. It refers to things that we can see, touch, hear, or experience firsthand.
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Because they can think only
about concrete reality, children can be expected to identify emotionally with people in stories.
Thus to discuss, for example, the mental or physical aspects of an event is not to talk about aspects that are
concrete realities apart from the event.
They're basically agents of change who discover things that need to be made better and they set out to transform their wild dreams and crazy ideas
into concrete realities.
Functionality refers here not to practical utility — though a functional object may well be useful — but to the achievement in
concrete reality of the purposed form.
Some of these schemes will never be more than figments, and even those that
become concrete reality will take some time to be implemented.
The artistic process of each of the five artists in Beyond Painting each began with a traditional rectangular format and each has found his or her own way to create
concrete realities through tactile surfaces.
Such philosophy will be cut off
from concrete reality as observed and invite idealism - unless we perversely treat science as so different from normal human observation as virtually not to come into this category.
Describing a finished or successful painting as possessed of a nice awkwardness, differentiating an atypical abstract painting from a great one, conscious of existing within the cultural context of abstraction, which adds to our understanding of emotion, logic, sensation, and
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In an ongoing experiment with materials and modes of representation, their works move
between concrete reality and the intangible realm of imagination and association.
But it makes just as much sense, or more, to say that precisely because becoming is the
fully concrete reality, becoming is the primary form of «being,» or that each instance of becoming is «a being.»
As Whitehead suggested, if this view of location is taken as a complete and concrete account, it works badly: for, taken in this way, it equates a highly abstract selective construct with a
full concrete reality.
The emphasis upon «growth» connects the New Testament conception of growth in grace with the metaphysical doctrine that the
most concrete reality we know is process.
Innocent idealizations of theological education give way
before concrete realities of the particular theological school whose ethos is the medium in which one now largely lives and whose polity constrains one's life in powerful but often elusive ways.
Titled Apollo and Artemis, the god of sunlight and the goddess of moonlight respectively in Grecian mythology, the interventions open up notions of time beyond the passage of day and night, light and darkness; to imaginaries where myths and mysteries reflect, illuminate and
recreate concrete reality.
The imagery of midnight scenes bathed in the glow of moonlight suggest a particular point of time that demarcates the nebulous zones of night and day, dark and light,
where concrete reality becomes enmeshed within and transformed by myth — themes that emerge in the exhibition.
God knows and loves
only concrete realities, both spiritual and material, in their existent actuality and unto their final purpose in the one plan of creation centred upon Christ.
Over the last 40 years Faith movement has been gradually developing a school of thinkers who share this diagnosis of, and prescription for, the sickness in our culture, and who are also firmly rooted in the busy,
concrete realities of pastoral and familial work.
Our tendency to identify abstractions
with concrete reality is the same tendency that moves the religious to identify their symbols with the symbolized.
This young architect — originally from Denmark, but now with structures all across the globe — describes his discipline as a journey through moments of «immaculate inception,» the process of realizing pure fiction
into concrete reality.
Both liberals and conservatives presupposed a vision of the kingdom of God but differentiated the vision
from concrete realities.
Mitchell - Innes & Nash is pleased to announce Slip, a group exhibition of seven contemporary artists whose work wavers
between concrete reality and immaterial unconscious, creating an intermediate space in which material suggests alternate realities.
Describing a finished or successful painting as possessed of a nice awkwardness, differentiating an atypical abstract painting from a great one, conscious of existing within the cultural context of abstraction, which adds to our understanding of emotion, logic, sensation, and
concrete reality while at the same time existing at a critical distance from them.
Prudence is the mother of all virtues, and encourages one to always be grounded in objectivity and
concrete reality.
The lack of
concrete reality is implicitly admitted by the exclamation marks.
Sentimentality is a skipping of this process in
its concrete reality and an early arrival at a mock state of innocence, which strongly suggests its opposite.
He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total,
concrete reality.
In portraying Rodrigues's struggle to reconcile this idealized vision with
the concrete reality of the Japanese people, Endō and Scorsese wish us to see the universal experience of human weakness.