Her synthesizer could mimic any instrument and surpass it: rip its sonic profile into naked wave forms and rebuild it on a higher plane of sterilized, abstract purity.

Strictly speaking, neither Halley nor Kelly is a Minimalist, yet both bracket the movement, stylistically and chronologically, in illuminating ways, and both tie its abstract purity to the real world.

They wanted to model America on some abstract purity that had never existed and would never exist.

The formal ingenuity, consummate craftsmanship and wedding of abstract purity and hedonistic sensuality promises a bright future for this artist.

If he could have kissed her in abstract purity he would have done so.

The guards were seen by one reporter as exemplifying "the inevitable violence of any millennial sect hell-bent on abstract purity and infinite happiness".

Her overtly patched-together asymmetrical garments evince some of the historical ironies of Mr. Margiela's work, but they also emphasize line and cut, which gives her garments a relatively abstract purity.

Halleck's dislike of McClellan had an abstract purity.

It is the perfect symbol of "the abstract, nonreferential, self-sustaining purity of the modernist work of art," the sign that can be drafted for any purpose.

It gives this show its determined forward motion, as well as its lapses in abstract purity and taste.