concreteness

"And we didn't see that kind of concreteness from President Obama."

John Feffer: Carbon Disarmament 2009

The media attach an unwarranted "concreteness" to sample estimates out of proportion to their real status, probably out of sheer ignorance.

Review of Gene Epstein, Econospinning 2008

Notice how the second sentence has to bring some kind of concreteness to the initially vague and intuitively silly opening statement.

Strange Affinities: A Partial Return to Wordsworthian Poetics After Modernism 2003

"fine white thread running, through years and years," and Hans flirts with the possibility that language may not precisely describe the world ( "I was assaulted by the notion, arriving in the form of a terrifying stroke of consciousness, that substance-everything of so called concreteness-was indistinct from its unnameable opposite").

NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2009

It has a kind of concreteness to is that a Latin language doesn't have.

OpEdNews 2010

Sydney Chaffee continued, "I've gotten closer to achieving a balance between two extremes in my own intentions -- the extreme concreteness of many 9th graders' first intentions and the extreme flimsiness of the overly poetic, grand intentions of my first few years which were hard for me to know if I was actually doing."

Meg Campbell: What's Your Intention This School Year? Meg Campbell 2011

Sydney Chaffee continued, "I've gotten closer to achieving a balance between two extremes in my own intentions -- the extreme concreteness of many 9th graders' first intentions and the extreme flimsiness of the overly poetic, grand intentions of my first few years which were hard for me to know if I was actually doing."

Meg Campbell: What's Your Intention This School Year? Meg Campbell 2011

Sydney Chaffee continued, "I've gotten closer to achieving a balance between two extremes in my own intentions -- the extreme concreteness of many 9th graders' first intentions and the extreme flimsiness of the overly poetic, grand intentions of my first few years which were hard for me to know if I was actually doing."

Meg Campbell: What's Your Intention This School Year? Meg Campbell 2011

The cosmic symbol of the rising sun expresses the universality of God above all particular places and yet maintains the concreteness of divine revelation.

Ignatius Insight Article on Restoring Ad Orientem 2009

Sydney Chaffee continued, "I've gotten closer to achieving a balance between two extremes in my own intentions -- the extreme concreteness of many 9th graders' first intentions and the extreme flimsiness of the overly poetic, grand intentions of my first few years which were hard for me to know if I was actually doing."

Meg Campbell: What's Your Intention This School Year? Meg Campbell 2011