abstract terms

Thus thinking, even in abstract terms, had a positive value.

This is a question that cannot really be answered in abstract terms.

There seemed to be few, if any, abstract terms, or little use of figurative language.

Let me bring these abstract terms down to earth.

Our economy and society are too dynamic to be confined in such abstract terms.

Taking the first question first, an answer can at least be given in abstract terms.

With a poem, she said, "You're thinking in abstract terms and trying to get a rhythm."

It is easy for us in this House to talk about human rights in quite abstract terms.

In abstract terms, it has been shown by mathematicians to make perfect sense.

I think because 'overwhelming joy' describes the experience in abstract terms.

Abstract terms not predictable one of another, and why.

If somebody speaks about processes in very general and abstract terms only, that's a red flag.

But they can also be seen as part of the formal design that governs the entire work on abstract terms.

The research shows that pre-school children are capable of thinking in abstract terms.

Then, inspired by Wagner's own drawings, he began to see the stage space in abstract terms.

The mind should be concerned with particular and concrete things themselves, not with abstract terms.

"I speak only in abstract terms," said the Surgeon.

As children grow older, they conceptualize the self in less concrete and more abstract terms.

So, he changed the problem to abstract terms.

Architects work in abstract terms, while engineers work more with models of nature.

It is in the nature of the law, however, to be couched in abstract terms.

Mostly she'd talked of it in abstract terms: a place of sand and terror.

Whether one accepts that analysis or not, the symphony holds up admirably on abstract terms.

Paul seldom thought of Garrett Wright in anything but abstract terms.

We've managed to program translators, but we're nowhere near understanding abstract terms yet."