You have to be able to deal with me without thinking about me on a physical level.
The empire's leaders had to think on a high strategic level.
"I think on a very basic level, students, even those who don't call themselves liberals, are interested because it's going to affect their student loans."
"But so far I think on an official level we're not ready, because events in Czechoslovakia itself are developing."
Don't think of it on such a personal level.
He thinks only on a primitive level now; he's no longer capable of more than basic notions.
He didn't really want to think about the implications of his orders; thinking on such an esoteric level would do him no good whatsoever.
This country used to think on a very different level.
We used to think on a global level.
"It had very sincere do-gooders that thought about the city on a level not usually seen."