The phrase "abstract manner" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a way of thinking or expressing ideas that is not concrete or specific, often focusing on concepts rather than tangible details.
Example: "The artist approached the subject in an abstract manner, emphasizing emotions over realistic representation."
Alternatives: "conceptual way" or "theoretical approach".
We define it here by a universal property and ensure its existence in a rather abstract manner using triangulated categories.
Penalty has been treated in such an abstract manner that it may be transferred to an innocent person.
In the Classical world naturalistic representation had prevailed; at Hagia Sophia the forms are still basically representational, but they are treated in an abstract manner.
Painted two years earlier in an even more dazzling abstract manner, it fared better still, in proportion to its size, at £3 million.
The stripes of her dress and the hairs of the lion's mane are individually traced in a naive but decorative, almost abstract manner.
A PAM is a modular, reusable scheduler that permits one to introduce intra-actor parallelism in a local and abstract manner.
His work until then had been fairly traditional — oil paint on canvas, applied with loose, gestural brushstrokes in the Abstract Expressionist manner.
But no matter how many interviews Raines conducted, Bettelheim withheld meaningful details -- alternately talking about his life in the abstract, distanced manner in which he wrote about it, and delivering canned (and sometimes questionable) anecdotes familiar from earlier biographies.
He painted in his spare time — turgid, heavily impastoed canvases in the Abstract Expressionist manner — until curiosity nudged him into collage... His collages got him accepted at Goldsmiths Collegee...an antiestablishment, antiauthoritarian, and antihierarchical school.
The ?realistic? education that is currently in vogue does not challenge pupils sufficiently to learn to think in an abstract, scientific manner.
The 18-year-old producer, who has already received co-signs from Brainfeeder affiliate Iglooghost and BBC Radio's Mary Anne Hobbs, engorges the stereo field in the session, dripping and twisting murky globs of sound in an abstract, expressive manner.
