Ms. LaFrance, 32, has short, messy hair, a slight accent and a penchant for speaking abstractly.

They just fit a blueprint that, abstractly speaking, was pure perfection.

Doubtless he noticed, for he added in haste: "I speak abstractly about such things, these days.

Chapter Twelve: Odoard speaks generally and abstractly about plans for building settlements, and about the roles of discipline and creative freedom in the arts.

Speaking abstractly, computer logic is generally 'etched' or 'hard-coded' onto a chip and cannot be changed after the chip has finished being manufactured.

Emerson abstractly speaks to everyone; metaphorically creating common ground.

Abstractly speaking, this means that R together with the p-norm is a Banach space.

The defense lawyer offered a few theories for the discrepancy, including language barriers, but the judge said, "You're speaking abstractly."

"Abstractly speaking, of course not," said the Brutogas.

And though he speaks abstractly about nature, the real world - all that is palpable and good - is an absolute fetish for him.