How to Use abstracted in a Sentence

abstracted

adjective

• She said hello but she seemed a bit abstracted.
• An abstracted face—a little goofy, but also haunting—loomed in front of an orange background.
  — Shayla Love, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2023
• But the show ends with the kicker of a room of small, even tiny, paintings, unfamiliar to me, of an abstracted face.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2017
• Even the abstracted spaces that obscure most of the board fit the overall aesthetic.
  — Charlie Theel, Ars Technica, 14 Dec. 2019
• The abstracted sculptures of Misfits seem at home in the Nasher Sculpture Center’s front gallery.
  — Dallas News, 24 Mar. 2022
• The picture reads like a Surrealist Rorschach test, an abstracted glimpse of a bizarre, private dream.
  — Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 5 June 2018
• Also, the heroine, Cáit (Catherine Clinch), who is nine years old, with ghost-pale features and dark hair down to her waist, has a faintly abstracted air.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2023
• They are made during a specific period of time, and the dynamics of events become a part of the abstracted narrative of the works.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 6 June 2019
• Spiky trumpet lines hint at mariachi, but for the most part Frank favors an abstracted sense of musical locale.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 3 July 2023
• The central piece is an abstracted lion, harkening back to the Lannister sigil.
  — Olivia Martin, Town & Country, 18 May 2019
• Echoes of those years reverberate in four of Kaneko's big, abstracted ceramic heads.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 17 Feb. 2018
• As one scrolls through her river of photos and videos, more than a thousand in all, the hands become alien and abstracted things, creatures that exist independently of the bodies that bear them.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2020
• Lucy is also conducting an affair of her own, living with the gentle, abstracted Bob while sleeping with the jolly and itinerant Laff.
  — Ben Lerner, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2019
• This technique lends the effect of a political cartoon to Dupuy-Spencer’s works, which otherwise would exist too much in the abstracted and uncommitted sphere of fine art qua fine art.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 15 Sep. 2017
• The works are lightly abstracted landscapes, along with a few figure studies, rendered in either watercolor or oil paint.
  — James Tarmy, Bloomberg.com, 21 May 2020
• This is easier said than done, because an abstracted concept of safety is hard to define, and a task-specific definition of safety is hard to scale across tasks.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Sep. 2021
• Rather than simplify by abstraction, Lynch's abstracted vision of creation has no beginning or end, no clear cause and effect.
  — Corey Atad, Esquire, 26 June 2017
• One of Morris’ favorite works, shown at the Brooklyn Museum, embodies this spirit: an abstracted view of a woman’s torso, the curves of her body like peaks and valleys, her vulva covered in a real tuffet of green fur.
  — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 17 May 2023
• His proposal for an abstracted human form with a noose around its neck was initially rejected by parks officials.
  — Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2017
• But their fun house scale — cups, umbrella, and all are each about the size of an ottoman — and slightly abstracted color are enough to put them into a strange virtual territory somewhere between trompe l’oeil and the uncanny valley.
  — Will Heinrich, New York Times, 13 June 2018
• This towering plywood container, decorated in a hypnotic striped pattern of lime and moss green, is clearly a nod to the abstracted phallus of the Hindu Shiva linga.
  — Elaine W. Ng, CNN, 12 May 2017
• The handful of action scenes, for all their mortal dangers, come and go with an expository brevity and an elusive, abstracted physicality to match.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2019
• Her modern, slightly abstracted style, focused more on color and shape than photo-like realism, is considered somewhat of a departure for an official portrait of a first lady.
  — Brittany Martin, Los Angeles Magazine, 12 Feb. 2018
• From afar, their forms and densities crystallize into an abstracted organic pattern.
  — Dallas News, 13 Feb. 2023
• Aerial landscapes may appeal to aesthetes who appreciate the abstracted colors and strong compositions.
  — Doug Bierend, WIRED, 22 Sep. 2014
• The new paintings still employ Bradford’s familiar technique of painting, collaging, scraping and cutting — for abstracted canvases that are worn rather than painted into existence.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, latimes.com, 19 Feb. 2018
• The new format won’t really illuminate how oral arguments go normally because certain rules have been instituted to ensure order in this abstracted courtroom.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 4 May 2020
• New textile works that take the appearance of floating, waterlogged silk by Megumi Shauna Arai exhibit the artist’s graduation from straightforward patchwork into more abstracted territory.
  — Elle Decor Editors, ELLE Decor, 13 June 2023
• After all, what is social media but an abstracted world, facilitated conversations and social performances that have been exfiltrated from a real, existing social context?
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 24 Jan. 2020
• The work of photographer Judy Miranda, whose practice included abstracted portraiture and street photography, appears throughout the exhibition.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, latimes.com, 21 Dec. 2017

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