They are overcoming the limitations of the abstract system of phonetic language and returning to the concreteness of seeing the image.
I would go so far as to say that we not only visualize everything, but also listen to sounds of everything, experience their smell, touch, and taste, and recreate the abstract in the concreteness of our perceptions.
First of all, what is gained through the abstraction of the words is almost entirely lost through the concreteness of the image.
The concreteness of pictorial representation, along with the encoded elements (what is the experience behind a letter?
The concreteness of the visual makes images inappropriate for describing other images.
He has a woman's subtlety of insight, a child's concreteness of imagination.
A longing for concreteness has befogged our fantasy.
We shall often be simpler in using abstract and technical terms than in using concrete and familiar terms which by their very concreteness and familiarity call up images and feelings foreign to our immediate purpose.
The poet indicates only that amount of concreteness which is necessary for the clearness of the picture,---only the height and firmness of the tower and the brightness of the sun in eclipse.
It is the intenseconcreteness of Fechner, his fertility of detail, which fills me with an admiration which I should like to make this audience share.
The real way of rescue from the abstract consequences of one name is not to fly to an opposite name, equally abstract, but rather to correct the first name by qualifying adjectives that restore some concreteness to the case.
There is a concreteness of emotional content in some musical compositions--an arousal of terror and longing and despair and joy--infinitely richer than any abstract forms of feeling.
The second cause for the concreteness of the musical experience I take to be certain emotions and feelings which are aroused by association, not with the rhythmic elements of music alone, but with the tone-color, intensity, and melody also.
There is, however, a third common method of comical representation which neither exaggerates nor abstracts, but preserves the concreteness of the finest art--we may call it the method of contrast.
A rough test for concreteness is your vocabulary: if your words are mostly Anglo-Saxon you will usually be talking about concrete things; if it is Latinate and polysyllabic it is probably abstract and general.
Find an argument, not in this book, in which the concreteness of the language adds to the persuasive power.
He turns towardsconcreteness and adequacy, towards facts, towards action, and towards power.
I hope that as these lectures go on, the concreteness and closeness to facts of the pragmatism which they advocate may be what approves itself to you as its most satisfactory peculiarity.
To give greater concreteness to the presentation, maps, diagrams, and pictures, as commonly found in standard historical works, have been used to an extent not before employed in writings on the history of education.
The idea of each color had originally entireconcreteness given to it by an object possessing the color; as some of the unmodified names, such as orange and violet, show us.
These words are too strong; the present and future results here differ too little in concreteness and ideality to make the words fully applicable.
It occurs to a particular person in a particular situation to express and convey a meaning which has never in its full concreteness occurred before.
It may be, however, that concreteness as radical as ours is not so obvious.
The necessities of social intercourse convey to adults a like concreteness upon such terms as taxes, elections, wages, the law, and so on.
In such cases we may be sure that the principle of concreteness has not been sufficiently observed.
The 'direct methodists' of the more extreme type interpret concreteness in a curious way, and identify it with the non-translation principle and with the principle of the exclusion of the mother-tongue as a vehicular language.
In short, observe the principle of concretenessby using examples, many examples, cumulative examples, real examples, and examples embodying the personal interest.
The following precepts may serve as concrete examples of the way we can carry the principles of concreteness into practice: (1) Let the example precede or even replace the rule.
Concreteness will be the chief determining factor in the choice of the early vocabularies; it will tend to make us give a preference to words and compounds lending themselves to 'direct' work.
In the example relating to the expression of anterior duration the concreteness consists very largely in pointing out the difference of usage in the two languages.
But the principle of concreteness goes beyond this; it does not merely state that examples of every rule should be given, it specifies various degrees and various kinds of concreteness.
Under his touch the symphony, that most rigid and abstract and venerable of forms, was actually displaying some of the novel's narrative and analytical power, its literalness and concreteness of detail.
Its prevalence has probably been due partly to the concreteness of its conceptions and partly to a certain analogy which they bear towards the conception of Satan and the fallen angels in Christian theology.
There is a tendency for certain attributes to maintain their concreteness (qualitativeness) in things, and for others to suggest the connection of things with other things, and so to emphasize a more abstract aspect of experience.
Both art and religion, we have seen, possess an immediacy and concreteness which philosophy lacks.
It is fused as perception into concept and carries its immediacy and concreteness of detail into the concrete universal as the complete organization of stimulation and response pass into the flexible habit.
As a mere commercial agent, he knows no country: his field is the world, but the world not in its concreteness and variety, but in the abstract aspect of a money-bag and an exchange.
However true this is, the defect of these terms is their utter abstractness: if stuck to in this abstract form, they are principles which either prevent the rise of the concreteness of the state, i.
This character appeared to be an extremely valuable form of individualisation of the spiritual life, a form in which that life attains to concreteness and greater definiteness and penetration.
So that their synthesis and their complete immanence is the concreteness of educational unity in its opposition to what I have called fragmentary education.
And because they do refer to it, the teaching of them should be spiritualised, moralised, humanised; it ought to acquire the concreteness of philosophy, and therefore never ignore the exigencies of art and of religion.
This concrete notion of a spirit which excludes nothing from itself givesconcreteness to the Christian conception of physical discipline.
If there be one quality beloved above others by the inhabitants of this island, it is concreteness; and I suppose there never was a poet in the world who used less concreteness of speech than Mr. Swinburne.
Either matter is a mere symbol, devised to give concreteness to a spiritual fact.
If a character is made to stutter, he will gain in actuality and concreteness for a reader.
But the minor characters are shadowy enough at best, and any verbal definition that can be given them will lend concreteness to the story.
The general aim in describing persons is to give maximum concreteness to the whole story, and seeming definition will sometimes serve as well as actual definition.
The second fact for the writer of fiction to note is that the sort of characterization which consists in giving the people of a story the vivacity and concreteness of real men and women is superficial but extremely important.
If his hand falter, tangibility and concreteness in the matter of the story will not save it, will not make it seem real to a reader.
In describing minor characters, the chief necessity is to give each person as much as possible of the definition and concreteness of life.
It is about human beings, and, however novel and interesting the plot, unless they are given some of the vivacity and concreteness of real men and women the fiction will be devoid of the breath of life.
The whole philosophy of this phase of technique rests on the necessity that every line of a story be given as much as possible of the concreteness and vivacity of life.
The matter of the story of everyday life is essentially tangible and concrete, and its writer can invest it with tangibility and concreteness in a degree higher than is attainable by the writer who deals with fantasies and dreams.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "concreteness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
