All 5 Uses of
abstract
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Main Street
- Did they rise from these housewifely personalities to a larger world of abstractions and affairs?†
Chpt 4
- Nat Hicks, Ella Stowbody, and Dave Dyer were abstracted, fingers and lips slightly moving.†
Chpt 6 *
- His step on the stairs; his quiet moving about the frigid room while he dressed; his abstracted and meaningless cough.†
Chpt 15
- She hurried to Uncle Whittier's store for a package of corn-flakes, she abstractedly listened to Uncle Whittier's denunciation of Martin Mahoney for asserting that the wind last Tuesday had been south and not southwest, she came back along streets that held no surprises nor the startling faces of strangers.†
Chpt 20 *
- When he was not affectionately coercing people into buying things they did not need, he stood at the back of the store, glowing, abstracted, feeling masculine as he recalled the tempestuous surprises of love revealed by Vida.†
Chpt 21
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