abstractedness

• “Both Dessners have been at pains to explain the non-linear abstractedness of the work in recent interviews.”

  The Guardian: The Long Count – review

• “What I do begrudge is the abstractedness from human vulnerability of Bush's so-called warrior intellectuals, who have conceptualized a first strike”

  Facing nuclear war

• “Your abstractedness, child, (affectation of abstractedness, some call it,) savours, let me tell you, of greater particularity, than we aim to carry.”

  Clarissa Harlowe

• “Holding the glass in one hand, he walked around the little apartment, checking everything with a sort of automatic abstractedness.”

  Anything You Can Do ...

• “Martha and insisted on the duty of heavenly abstractedness, how much of his own leisure for spiritual contemplation was due to the Martha-like talents of his hostess.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859

• “Raymond looked at these objects of interest -- and at several others -- with some degree of abstractedness.”

  On the Stairs

• “-- Alonzo was, in some degree, aroused from his abstractedness; -- the manners of the stranger pleased him.”

  Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father

• “But Mrs. Fisher's very abstractedness – and she seemed to be absorbed chiefly in the interesting people she used to know and in their memorial photographs, and quite a good part of the interview was taken up by reminiscent anecdote of Carlyle, Meredith, Matthew Arnold, Tennyson, and a host of others – her very abstractedness was a recommendation.”

  The Enchanted April

• “They entered this state of abstractedness unconsciously.”

  The Silence: What It Is and How To Use It

• “This evening Vautrin had noticed Eugène’s abstractedness, and stayed in the room, though he had seemed to be in a hurry to finish his dinner and go.”

  Paras. 800–899

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