All 5 Uses of
abstract
in
Anna Karenina
- Let us try to look upon the labor force not as an abstract force, but as the Russian peasant with his instincts, and we shall arrange our system of culture in accordance with that.†
Part 3
- And since no difference is less easily overcome than the difference of opinion about semi-abstract questions, they never agreed in any opinion, and had long, indeed, been accustomed to jeer without anger, each at the other's incorrigible aberrations.†
Part 4
- The government obviously is guided by abstract considerations, and remains indifferent to the influence its measures may exercise.†
Part 4 *
- Abstractly, theoretically, she did not merely justify, she positively approved of Anna's conduct.†
Part 6 *
- As a general principle, abstractly, Dolly approved of Anna's action; but to see the man for whose sake her action had been taken was disagreeable to her.†
Part 6
Definitions:
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(abstract as in: abstract thought) of a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
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(abstract as in: read the abstract) a summary; or to summarize -- especially academic writing