concrete illustration

Example Sentences

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Solid argument, clear method, and indisputable facts are necessary for the first purpose; vivid imagination, concrete illustration, and animated feeling are necessary for the second.

From Model Speeches for Practise by Kleiser, Grenville

As a concrete illustration of the above statement, I want to point to a young man, intelligent, enterprising, industrious, and a graduate of the best known agricultural college poultry course in the country.

From The Dollar Hen by Hastings, Milo M. (Milo Milton)

A concrete illustration of the impracticability of scientific forestry under existing conditions is afforded by the experimental forest in Franklin County established under an act of 1898.

From Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 by United States. National Conservation Congress

The abstract truth gets the concrete illustration; the concrete illustration finds its proper foundation in a series of abstract inquiries.

From On Liberty by Mill, John Stuart

He will here learn to choose the simple word instead of the complex, the short sentence instead of the involved, the concrete illustration instead of the abstract.

From Talks on Talking by Kleiser, Grenville