We're all so used to working in a purely abstract realm that it seems almost bizarre to go out into the real world and physically do something.

Steven Holl has translated that flow into design: a work place that evokes the floating, abstract realm in which his client operates.

He saw the woman's world as one of human values, feelings, and personal relationships, while men dealt in the abstract realm of laws, legal rights, and duties.

Space was, for those shamans, an abstract realm of activity.

What he didn't say was that each piece kept circling back to the blues after moving into more abstract realms.

Nicomachus also describes how natural numbers and basic mathematical ideas are eternal and unchanging, and in an abstract realm.

It's in its own realm: abstract, desolate and utterly compelling.

With that in mind, we can use a very different framework for the three-particle Universe-a strange, abstract realm called Triangle Land.

The traditional debate has focused on whether an abstract (immaterial, intelligible) realm of numbers has existed in addition to the physical (sensible, concrete) world.

Upon rising to this level, an actor effaces herself as such and joins the abstract realm of eternal return.