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

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

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

Let me bring these abstract terms down to earth.

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

"Home is an abstract term that doesn't mean what it seems," he said.

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.

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

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