Sinclair Lewis in Main Street describes concretely the routine of town life with its outward monotony and its inner zest.
Humanism sees that the only conformity we ever have to deal with concretely is that between our subjects and our predicates, using these words in a very broad sense.
With the first of these lines of study, the concretely scientific, our philosophical outlook will not fail to widen; with the second, the practical, our ethical insight will not fail to deepen also.
Tommy had never before thought of profit-sharing as concretely as this, but he was convinced that his position was not only right, but unanswerable.
He did not think concretely of any one thing, but he felt that he was enveloped by a life that does not die.
If we are to speak more concretely of this distinction (in fundamentals it remains the same), we must take the self-existence of the individual soul in its higher aspects as the Ego of consciousness and as intelligent mind.
The fact alone remains that it is one of the truest bits of history in the Old Testament, and this not because it is a leaf from the diary of Adam and Eve, but because it concretely and faithfully portrays universal human experience.
The supremely significant fact is that the noble ideal of Israel's earliest teachers was thus vividly and concretely embodied in the portrait of him whom the Hebrews regarded with pride and adoration as the founder of their race.
These illustrations, whether Jesus intended them for the moment to enlighten or to confound, served always to set forth concretely some truth concerning the relation of men to God, or concerning his kingdom and their relation to it.
A suggestion of evil that takes no hold concretely of the heart is no temptation, nor is the resistance of it any victory.
Whoever is concretely loyal, that is, whoever wholly gives himself to some cause that binds many human souls in one superhuman unity, is just in so far serving the cause not only of all mankind, but of all the rational spiritual world.
These judgments imply an incomplete situation,--concretely and specifically incomplete; they express a need.
In Berkeley's limitation of the term idea to what is presented objectively in sense, or represented concretely in imagination.
Berkeley hardly distinguishes uncontingent mathematical relations, to which the sensible ideas or phenomena in which the relations are concretely manifested must conform.
Such facts as these bring home concretely to the average workingman his stake in good government.
This brings us to a point where we can define moreconcretely the plain civic responsibility of democracy in an industrial district.
The remainder of them are used both concretely and figuratively.
Its lessons are conveyed concretely and not abstractly; and its characters are not mere lay figures, but living poetical conceptions.
The parable of Dives and Lazarus illustrates concretely this view of the case, which is still further corroborated by the account, given in both the first and the third gospels, of the young man who came to seek everlasting life.
Concretely now there were the Mosquito Islands off the coast of Honduras which England claimed to own, but Douglas thought without any right.
For the first time the presence of the negro in the state, the complications that it created, were forced upon me concretely and with impressive effect.
In the higher sense a wider point of view as regards the Idea thus signifies its concretely blending into one the preceding principles, which contain only single one-sided moments of the Idea.
This really indicates a deeper knowledge of the philosophical Idea which is known concretely in itself, so that the more abstract principles are contained in the deeper form of the Idea.
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As a matter of fact it had never been her intention to accept him, but now that she was able concretely to visualize her Lochinvar of the future, Mr. Whey's lack of qualifications became the more apparent.
Never, not even in that last interview, had his hardness seemed so concretely apparent as now.
III The dynamic force of habit taken in connection with the continuity of habits with one another explains the unity of character and conduct, or speaking more concretely of motive and act, will and deed.
In reality the more we concretely dwell upon the common fact of fulfilment, the more we realize the difference in the kinds of selves fulfilled.
Is such a conception inherently more difficult than the view that all ramifications and developments of human interest are concretely predetermined and implicit a priori?
But assuredly experience as it concretelytakes place bears out the statements.
This book aims to teach the simpler principles of sociology concretely and inductively.
Much more might be said in the way of concretely illustrating these statements, but the purpose of this text precludes anything but the briefest and most elementary statement of these theoretical facts.
In this text we shall make particular use of the family, as the simplest and, in many ways, the most typical of all the forms of human association, to illustrate concretely the laws and principles of social development.
Sexual vice is undoubtedly a prolific cause of poverty, although it is very hard to trace concretely in the study of specific cases.
What heconcretely has before his mind, as he reasons, is some supposed objective instance of knowing, as he conceives it to go on in some other person, or recalls it from his own past.
In part, it is this, that truth, concretely considered, is an attribute of our beliefs, and that these are attitudes that follow satisfactions.
Without such intermediating portions of concretely real experience the pragmatist sees no materials out of which the adaptive relation called truth can be built up.
The tendencies must exist in some shape anyhow, but their fruits are truth, falsity, or irrelevancy, according to what they concretely turn out to be.
But I respectfully implore those who reject my doctrine because they can make nothing of my stumbling language, to tell us in their own name--und zwar very concretely and articulately!
But if there is no reason extant in the universe why they should be doubted, the beliefs are true in the only sense in which anything can be true anyhow: they are practically and concretely true, namely.
For this reason, then, we are justified in saying that our personality is particular when we consider it abstractly, but that concretely it realises itself as a universal and therefore also as a national personality.
They are the human person, not the persons; for we have already concluded that only in an abstract sense is it possible to speak of many persons; concretely there is but one universal Person which is not multiplicable.
I did not think concretely of the stage nor of acting; what I had news of, was a country of large impulses and satisfying movement.
These spheres are in fact fragments of humanity itself, projections of its sense of wonder, its goodness, and its evil, in extreme abstraction though concretely felt.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "concretely" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
