Both are temperamentally gifted with strong feelings yet also given to highly abstract reflections — both, sensitive products of nature yet refined products of thought at the same time.
We could observe that often more abstract reflections tend to highlight crisis factors, emphasising the split between traditional models of public space, or even of industrial modernity models, and the current postmodern forms.
The free-wheeling exchange ranged from experiences with different rhythm traditions overseas to abstract reflections on the spiritual hold playing drums has on their lives.
Yet the concepts invoked are often abstract, requiring reflection and explanation.
The Backslider was born out of lived theological prejudice and unease, then philosophical and personal puzzlement that abstract philosophical reflection alone failed to make intelligible.
Thank goodness, then, that the gospels do not end by giv ing us abstract doctrinal reflections to explain the resurrection.
His sugared melodies belie all sorts of abstract frets, reflections and hilariously bitchy insults (one to the entire population of Berlin).
Adopting a jazz singer's prerogative, she turns standards ("Where or When," "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye," "Love Letters") expressing familiar romantic sentiments into semi-abstract, personal reflections whose meanings may not necessarily coincide with — and may even contradict — the words as written.
But that has been accompanied by "new weaknesses in higher-order cognitive processes," including "abstract vocabulary, mindfulness, reflection, inductive problem solving, critical thinking, and imagination". We're becoming, in a word, shallower.
