The works on paper at the Modern naturally concentrate the attention elsewhere: on the play of form, seemingly abstract, actually rooted in the everyday.

"Eclipse" begins in a seemingly abstract manner, then gradually builds emotional tension.

Seemingly abstract drawings or green, red and orange sum up each month's transactions.

A seemingly abstract pattern of symbols on the strap is actually an iPod remote control, built into the washable fabric.

In other words, designers of future nanomachines may end up using such seemingly abstract things as virtual particles to make their creations move.

Smith, adept at math and science, uses a computer to determine the placement of the tiny forms that pattern his seemingly abstract paintings.

I think it's more like prose-poetry sometimes, hypertext, concentrated meaning in a seemingly abstract construction.

From these varied sources, Masson arrived at a formal vocabulary that was seemingly abstract but endlessly suggestive.

This seemingly abstract point has had powerful practical consequences for the environmental movement, the anthropologists insist.

Though seemingly abstract, this imagery is in fact cartographic.