But we know what the reaction will be to some crisis or abstract thing.

Ideals are abstract things that you can't touch or see.

You get a nice abstract thing floating on the wall.

A relationship in which instances of both entities represent the same real or abstract thing.

But their clarity was of a scientific order; that is to say, concerned with abstract things.

By contrast, instances, or members, of such an abstract thing might exist in many different places and times.

"They took the most abstract thing you can imagine and figured out a way to make people identify with it."

Just the satisfaction of achievement, the accomplishment, the abstract thing Itself.

A woman doctor had been an abstract thing before, repugnant but distant.

Sponge was an abstract thing to her, and she'd almost forgotten about their problem.