Later in the season, the same biographer attempts to turn Underwood's head to The Stanley Parable, an experimental installation that toys with abstract notions of free will.
This has the effect of making the figurative drawing more abstract, paradoxically, neutralising the shock effect of the splayed limbs, the proffered genitalia, the immediate sexual context of artist and model.
Politicians have cottoned on to this in the abstract, but they are more reluctant to be drawn on where these houses should be.
In a foreword to the report, titled The Third Wave of Globalisation and published by the Institute for Public and Policy Research, Mandelson writes: "People simply do not want to live in a world that puts abstract economic efficiency or "liquidity" in financial markets above their personal sense of economic security for themselves and their families.
The more abstract "I (Heart) New York" slogan was created in the 1970s, in conjunction with a family-friendly tourism campaign.
Since then, his versatility and the unforced elegance of his manner – he is notably good in abstract work by the American choreographer George Balanchine – have ensured a steady stream of demanding roles.
We are bombarded on a daily basis with sweeping extrapolations about the abstract "consumer": their attitudes towards climate change, their expectations of brands and businesses and their purchasing intentions.
Quill's map gives Walter a different perspective on his world: not only a bird's-eye view, but an abstract representation of something previously unmediated by anything other than his own senses.
Fans of SICP will have noticed the easiest way to solve this problem is to abstract it.
Abstract a few more functions and it's trivial to take this simple idea and apply it to whatever JSON structure you feel like.
One looks like an abstract painting, and reminds me of a Josef Albers Homage to the Square.
