Meanings of abstract manner in English

Everything's on the up-and-up, I'm just going about it in an... abstract manner.

I have already spoken of his abstract manner at such times.

And in this abstract manner he came to the last photograph.

It is taken in a perfectly abstract manner, not as rest from ordinary work, but as rest absolutely.

This lean, tall, tired man, with his abstract manner, his perfunctory courtesies, his nervous, clever hands, loomed in oddly heroic proportions in Harriet's life.

She had quickly observed his depressed, abstracted manner, but misinterpreted the causes.

Stephen placed his hand to his forehead in an abstracted manner.

He took it up and examined it with an abstracted manner.

He asked her one or two questions, which she answered in an abstracted manner.

His dreamy, poetic face, his distant, abstracted manner, proved as fascinating as his music.

To clinch things, he slouched away, waving me in an abstracted manner to the towpath.

Her bosom heaved, and she placed her hand to her forehead in an abstracted manner.

She offered Linda endless advice in an abstracted manner:

There seemed to be something on his mind, for he spoke in an abstracted manner.

His kind, abstracted manner put her at her ease.

Eleanor nodded in a grave, almost abstracted manner.