Instead, like any revolutionary creed, it is abstract, hard-edged, and indifferent to experience and existing conditions.
At the same time Mr Shibulal has promoted a long-term strategy for the firm entitled "Infosys 3.0" that is so abstract and hard to understand that it resembles a 19th-century German philosophical tract, not a business plan.So it is a step forward that blunt talk is now the order of the day.
These conversations, held in barbershops and living rooms, and on the sets of overheated television shows, are usually underpinned by the assumption that, after we correct for the height and athleticism that are, for the most part, prerequisites for an N.B.A. job, individual fates are carved out by more abstract variables: hard work, strong will, the ability to rise to the occasion.
Indeed, TRIZ only gives way or guidelines to explore in order to find an inventive solution, which are often too abstract and hard to traduce into an inventive concept.
"If we continue with the notion that data is some magical thing and so abstract and hard to understand we are going to end up in a huge mess.
I don't mean something remote or rare or abstract or hard to reach or recognize.
The terms in which we debate civil liberties -- "unauthorized surveillance," "harsh interrogation," "indefinite detention" -- are often abstract and hard to grasp.
The scientific research Ellerbroek and his colleagues do can be quite abstract and hard to understand "for layman like myself," says Mills.
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Minor changes: a) The last sentence of the abstract is hard to understand, and should be rewritten in plainer English.
And yet the symbol meant to guide Americans' eating choices has long been the food pyramid, one that has grown more abstract and harder to understand over the years even as the nutritional guidelines have improved.
