Both intensely present and vaguely abstracted, much in the manner of the humanities professor his parents once thought he might become, he often speaks in a manner he terms "highfalutin ." But this doesn't inhibit him from citing a "Brady Bunch" episode as a formative aesthetic experience.
The film is, however, immensely vague, abstract almost.
The clean-up campaign "is a way to get rid of what everyone talks about: these vague, abstract 'vested interests'", he said.
The infelicity of Polybius' Greek (which frequently reproduces the conventional phrases of the Hellenistic chancelleries familiar from contemporary inscriptions) lies in its awkward use of long and cumbersome circumlocutions, vague abstract nouns, and pedantic repetitions.
But the idea of unlived lives has a particular resonance in a country where the horizon of possibility has so frequently been redrawn, and where the landscape is strewn with the ruins of "vague, abstract ideologies" and their failed promises, from decaying socialist monuments to the abandoned resorts and apartment complexes of the free-market real-estate boom.
They're all true -- and not in some vague, abstract philosophical sense, but in the sense that these things happened -- but it's not like reading a court transcript.
The lyrics are vague and abstract.
It still seems so vague and abstract.
This year's big theme was "Facing Risk", a rather vague and abstract topic.
