Mr. Maneri, a violinist from Boston whose net of colleagues has spread to New York, is an abstract player.
And Skip Bayless, the co-host of "First Take," ESPN2's flagship show, is known for his ability to formulate and deliver a strong opinion on just about any topic, the more abstract (this player's attitude; that team's heart) the better.
What that material reveals is the quality of the listening among the players, an abstract ideal made nearly tangible.
Two classes of models are compared: (a) ones in which evidentiary decisions are accounted for explicitly, and (b) ones in which the players make abstract declarations of their types.
Simple distinctions can be made regarding the genre used, the presence of simulated weapons or abstract rules, and whether players create their own characters or have them assigned by gamemasters.
A collaboration betweenexperimental music legend John Cale and speculative architect Liam Young, Loop 60hz: City of Drones charts "the story of a lost drone drifting through an abstract cityscape," in which, "players pilot a virtual craft to explore an infinite urban landscape".
Parity games are abstract infinite-duration two-player games, widely studied in computer science.
rRootage is a shoot 'em up viewed from a top-down perspective, composed solely of boss battles against large abstract spacecraft attacking the player with intricate barrages of projectiles.
Pleasant, that is, in the abstract — but not for the players, coaches, or referees on the pitch, or for fans who might catch a plastic rattle in the back of the head.
The men, each about the size of a large cigar, are made of cast iron or hard plastic & on a well-designed machine they suggest the figure of a soccer player, in an abstract sort of way.
