This adds helpful context to what might otherwise be a somewhat abstract journey.

Motorola prefers a somewhat abstract four-square icon, with the upper-left icon filled in.

Analogies and metaphors help, by linking a complex, somewhat abstract idea to a simpler, more tangible one.

The somewhat abstract aerial images highlight the extent of their contributions-andthe exploitation so integral to the region's growth.

Permit me, however, to give more force and clearness to these somewhat abstract considerations by an illustration or two.

A peculiar gleam shot over Mr. Gryce's somewhat abstracted countenance.

Mannering walked in somewhat abstracted fashion to the corner of the street, and signalled for a hansom.

The opportunity presented itself at dusk, as Mr. Gunn, somewhat abstracted, stood apart at the drawing-room window.

Thus interested, he was not aware that his own expression had grown somewhat abstracted, impersonal and cold.

The genial, if somewhat abstracted, motherliness of her welcome had been, indeed, his sheet anchor throughout the evening.

He seemed to be thinking of other things, and answered in a somewhat abstracted tone, "Ask her."

"Mornin', Martha," he said, with a somewhat abstracted nod at his sister-in-law.