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They tore past the minister himself, just coming home from the station; he, being a little less dreamy and abstracted than usual--owing to having had a talk on the train with Miss Cornelia who always wakened him up temporarily--noticed them, and thought he really must speak to Faith about it and tell her that such conduct was not seemly
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After all, there WAS a certain divinity hedging a minister, even a poor, unworldly, abstracted one
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Meredith had not seen them, but he was not walking along in his usual dreamy and abstracted fashion
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The elder observed it attentively, abstracted in his contemplation, as one would look at an object that is known as dangerous
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What significance do small details cover when we have not left time to live! What a beautiful moment the present is! Abstracted in the timelessness of the moment, I did not listen to Leonardo
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He looked abstracted,
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He saw Ambrosius' abstracted look and walked over to where he stood in the doorway
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MSM’s hexavalent sulfur atom is abstracted by living organisms and is primarily used for the biochemical synthesis of
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This passage, this course and destination, animated by the vitalism of the world nested each in each, as sound to eye, touch to scent, is untraced, yet resonant in these visions of the imageless geometrically abstracted to a sense of phenomenal presence as embodied light
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How does one make actual progress in love abstracted or idealistically believed to exist beyond experience?
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That very day at the _table d'hote_ the abstracted lady sat next to me
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'And now the note-book?' I asked; for he had relapsed into immobility, and was watching the socks with abstracted eyes
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Herr Dremmel bestowed a second abstracted kiss somewhere on his mother's head
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Again Frau Dremmel, as she had done that day at Meuk, turned her eyes slowly all over her while she was receiving her son's abstracted kiss; but she said nothing except, to her son, _Guten Tag_, and passively submitted to Ingeborg's shaking both her hands, which were clothed in the black cotton of decent widowhood
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She saw how abstracted he was
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These symbols were then concreted back into segments of metal: money was invented… which was then further abstracted back into pieces of paper
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in China: Nature worship became abstracted and codified into ‘The Dao’… or; ‘The Way Down’, while co-existing with ancestor worship and spirit gods
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It is a schizoid, sick, insane, numb, abstracted form of mental curiosity
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Instead it has abstracted the subconscious emotional fear of death; into a sick, cold, unemotional morgue of preserving dead fossils, dead tissues, dead organs, dead species… Trying to find out why they died… Why they went extinct
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The effect of tool evolution on people is that our values became abstracted
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Once human values became abstracted: actual human values became secondary
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Moreover: its expression has become abstracted and specialized into different niches of aberration which mirrors the split-off, aberrant development of the human psyche within a segmented social structure that has no balanced or universal code on how to raise its children
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Social values became abstracted
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It has successfully turned humans into more dehumanized, abstracted tool-slaves
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The actual living Jesus was abstracted and distorted by this inevitable process cultural abstraction and mythification so much: he has disappeared as a person
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No matter how much the truth is buried or twisted, or poisoned, or corrupted… no matter how abstracted it becomes, no matter how many different ways symbols are whitewashed and changed: the unexplored human subconscious still manages to re-surface the actual truth and tell the truth
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It is the deepest subconscious justification of their existence as rulers and heads of State, heads of capitalism, heads of corporation, heads of abstracted corporate bodies that are no longer flesh and blood bodies: but only exist on paper as pure abstractions
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Once these decapitated heads had been abstracted into small convenient miniature representative skulls
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After killing of Neanderthals: Modern man overpopulated Asia and Europe so densely: that we went back to what we had been doing for 60,000 fucking years before we developed an abstracted form of form of death and killing: killing other human beings
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We have abstracted our own hate, our own scorn, our own disrespect, our own revulsion, our own disgust, and our own fear: in so many ways; it would take ten thousand books to show how we abstractively express our revulsion… our hate, and on how many abstract levels, in how many abstract ways we do it by distancing ourselves from all directness and direct truth and direct experience,
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We have abstracted our own souls
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We have abstracted our awe, our wonder, our love of beauty also… The actual truth is buried under 50,000 years of disassociated, distanced, deflections and lies and denial and ignoring
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These abstracted representations are token symbols of actual decapitations
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Now: robbing and stealing and raiding has been abstracted and legalized
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The baby killer of the fleeing stork has been turned into the baby killer of the fictional story: abstracted into two-dimensional images and dehumanizing human children to the point where they become emotionally and mentally brainwashed before the ages of 4 or 5
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collections of symbols and methods that represent a larger body of abstracted knowledge and its
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abstracted concepts used to represent and model the larger macrocosm of derivative things,
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esoteric and abstracted wisdom
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understand esoteric and abstracted wisdom
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space-time activity, which are further abstracted into philosophical understandings and wisdom about
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space-time patterns in collective thought that are abstracted from the dualistic core of this reality out
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I lie abstracted and hear beautiful tales of things and the reasons
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Sometimes he gazes at the sky, at other times he fixes his eyes on the earth in such an abstracted way that he might be taken for a clothed statue, with its drapery stirred by the wind
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In Bond Street especially, where much of their business lay, her eyes were in constant inquiry; and in whatever shop the party were engaged, her mind was equally abstracted from every thing actually before them, from all that interested and occupied the others
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At first she gave him no glance of recognition; he was invisible to her abstracted gaze
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Because I think that this is the only virtue which remains in the State when the other virtues of temperance and courage and wisdom are abstracted; and, that this is the ultimate cause and condition of the existence of all of them, and while remaining in them is also their preservative; and we were saying that if the three were discovered by us, justice would be the fourth or remaining one
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And she leant her pretty head back against the sill, with a half a yawn and a half a sigh, and lapsed into an aspect of abstracted sadness: neither caring nor knowing whether we remarked her
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As Danglars approached the disappointed lover, he cast on him a look of deep meaning, while Fernand, as he slowly paced behind the happy pair, who seemed, in their own unmixed content, to have entirely forgotten that such a being as himself existed, was pale and abstracted; occasionally, however, a deep flush would overspread his countenance, and a nervous contraction distort his features, while, with an agitated and restless gaze, he would glance in the direction of Marseilles, like one who either anticipated or foresaw some great and important event
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"I little like that smoke, which you may see worming up along the rock above the canoe," interrupted the abstracted scout
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The wary, though seemingly abstracted Uncas, caught a glimpse of the movement, and turning suddenly to the light, their looks met
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"Ay, lad," said the scout in English—a language he was apt to use when a little abstracted in mind; "the same blood runs in your veins, I believe; but time and distance has a little changed its color
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"Who comes there?" cried the sentinel, who was less abstracted, and who saw by the lamplight a shadow approaching his chief
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His imagination had so abstracted him that his name was called twice before he answered
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Commendatore Beninobenone having been extricated from underneath the presidential armchair, it was explained by his legal adviser Avvocato Pagamimi that the various articles secreted in his thirtytwo pockets had been abstracted by him during the affray from the pockets of his junior colleagues in the hope of bringing them to their senses
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Nevertheless, so abstracted was his look, it might be questioned whether Mr
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Holmes had not said one word to me about the tragedy which we had witnessed, but I observed all the morning that he was in his most thoughtfulmood, and he gave me the impression, from his vacant eyes and his abstracted manner, of a man who is striving to recall something to his memory
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Every now and then, by an effort, he would throw off the impression and talk as if the matter were clear, but then his doubts would settle down upon him again, and his knitted brows and abstracted eyes would show that his thoughts had gone back once more to the great dining-room of the Abbey Grange in which this midnight tragedy had been enacted
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Is there a crime to be done, a paper to be abstracted, we will say, a house to be rifled, a
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Abstracted, busy, lost in inward contemplation, he seldom looked at his wife in those later years
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puckered in an abstracted frown
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If he lef t the room for a minute she’d look around uneasily and say ‘Where’s Tom gone?’ and wear the most abstracted expression until she saw him coming in the door
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Angel Clare rises out of the past not altogether as a distinct figure, but as an appreciative voice, a long regard of fixed, abstracted eyes, and a mobility of mouth somewhat too small and delicately lined for a man's, though with an unexpectedly firm close of the lower lip now and then; enough to do away with any inference of indecision
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The differences which distinguished them as individuals were abstracted by this passion, and each was but portion of one organism called sex
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Then he was apologizing, but it was a man’s apology, meaning she wasn’t sure he even realized what he’d done wrong—he still seemed so abstracted, so far away
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At first she gave him no glance of recognition: he was invisible to her abstracted gaze
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It was nearly eight o'clock in the evening when the cart, which we left on the road, entered the porte-cochere of the Hotel de la Poste in Arras; the man whom we have been following up to this moment alighted from it, responded with an abstracted air to the attentions of the people of the inn, sent back the extra horse, and with his own hands led the little white horse to the stable; then he opened the door of a billiard-room which was situated on the ground floor, sat down there, and leaned his elbows on a table; he had taken fourteen hours for the journey which he had counted on making in six; he did himself the justice to acknowledge that it was not his fault, but at bottom, he was not sorry
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At the one end of the hall, the one where he was, were judges, with abstracted air, in threadbare robes, who were gnawing their nails or closing their eyelids; at the other end, a ragged crowd; lawyers in all sorts of attitudes; soldiers with hard but honest faces; ancient, spotted woodwork, a dirty ceiling, tables covered with serge that was yellow rather than green; doors blackened by handmarks; tap-room lamps which emitted more smoke than light, suspended from nails in the wainscot; on the tables candles in brass candlesticks; darkness, ugliness, sadness; and from all this there was disengaged an austere and august impression, for one there felt that grand human thing which is called the law, and that grand divine thing which is called justice
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‘That should do it,’ said Hollis, abstracted and quiet
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This done, he moved with slow step and abstracted air towards a door in the wall bordering the orchard
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But besides his frequent absences, there was another barrier to friendship with him: he seemed of a reserved, an abstracted, and even of a brooding nature
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This was said with a careless, abstracted indifference, which showed that my solicitude was, at least in his opinion, wholly superfluous
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John Horner, a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady’s jewel-case
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, abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle
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As to Holmes, I observed that he sat frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his hand when I mentioned it
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Holmes had not said one word to me about the tragedy which we had witnessed, but I observed all the morning that he was in his most thoughtful mood, and he gave me the impression, from his vacant eyes and his abstracted manner, of a man who is striving to recall something to his memory
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Every now and then, by an effort, he would throw off the impression, and talk as if the matter were clear, but then his doubts would settle down upon him again, and his knitted brows and abstracted eyes would show that his thoughts had gone back once more to the great dining-room of the Abbey Grange, in which this midnight tragedy had been enacted
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" Just at that time they had abstracted her fianc6 from her, and had carried him off under guardianship to Tsarskoe ; and they had even put her under supervision, too
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And when, sickly and depraved from the unhealthy work, from drink and lewdness, foolish and capricious, he aimlessly prowled around the city, as in a dream, entered some shed and abstracted a few worthless mats, then, instead of destroying the causes that led this boy into his present condition, we intend to mend matters by punishing him!
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Suddenly he remembered that the purse and the things he had abstracted from the old woman's chest, were still in his pockets! He had never thought of taking them out and hiding them! indeed, it had never crossed his mind that they were in his pockets while examining his clothes! Was it possible? In a second he emptied all out on to the table in a heap
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The bright metal handle of Alec's pocket-knife pleased Maharaj, and it was always the first thing he abstracted from the pocket and the last he returned, but the bits of string and the ball of wax he worried over
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The Philadelphia Lamb took down from its new position on the Boston Lamb’s wall the cherished Whistler of the Brookline Lamb, and presented it to her; the Boston Lamb begged her acceptance of the quaint little Cloisonné cup which she admired as she drank from it, and which was the property of the Philadelphia member; the Albany Lamb, on the plea that everything of value had already been abstracted from him to make the Boston Lamb’s room pretty for her, offered her himself, and was in no way cast down when she declined him on the ground that he was too decorative to be truly useful
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She rose grimly from her seat and went to the further corner of the room, whence she abstracted a yardstick and stood before the fire-board
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If the latent heat in a gaseous compound be suddenly abstracted, as in explosion, its escape is attended with the emission of light and sensible heat, when the volatilized particles held in solution being no longer able to maintain the state of gas, suffer approximation in a due proportion to the quantity of caloric they have lost
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I have abstracted myself from all the sympathies these are calculated to inspire; because, notwithstanding that I feel the utmost confidence in the integrity of intention of the leading characters in this political drama, I cannot forget that they derive their power from a giddy, inconstant multitude; who, unless in the instance under consideration they form an exception to all general rules and experience, will act inconsistently and absurdly
