Sentence examples for abstract saying from inspiring English sources

When asked if he ordered people to dope, he goes oddly abstract, saying "There was never a direct order – that never happened".

When asked whether he had used drugs, he turned florid and abstract, saying: "I'm a believer in any method of mind expansion whether facilitated by meditation, religious experience or drug use.

The letter quotes from Gallagher's abstract, saying the project "is intended to engage the medical, public health, criminal justice, policy, legal and advocacy communities by uniting diverse disciplines around a common issue".

12 Results of the sensitivity analyses should be concisely reported in a paper's abstract, saying, for example, whether the significance of the main analysis was maintained in all sensitivity analyses or was changed in a limited or large number of sensitivity analyses.

Lines are an abstract saying to describe an ordinary event.

"Adolescent thinking tends to be more concrete than abstract," said Dr. Birnbaum of the New York program.

"We all know how to do it in the abstract," said Bill Carrick, a Democratic consultant.

"The moment you meet someone, ideas stop being abstract," says Ferguson.

"None of this is abstract," said Jaume Reus, communications director for the Fundació, who walked me through the studio, trying to explain when I looked dubious.

"This painting represents a world he loved, one that falls between the figurative into the abstract," said Conor Jordan, deputy chairman of Christie's Impressionist and modern art department.

"Turn everything into an abstract," said Richard Nolthenius, an astronomer from Santa Cruz, Calif., as he studied a pile of rusty metal parts.