All 7 Uses of
abstract
in
Franny and Zooey
- She was looking over his charcoal flannel shoulder at some abstraction across the dining room.†
Chpt 1.1
- She was still looking abstractedly ahead of her, past his shoulder, and seemed scarcely aware of his presence.†
Chpt 1.2 *
- He stared abstractedly for a minute or two at the tiled wall beyond the foot of the tub, then glanced at his cigarette on the soapcatch, picked it off, and took a couple of test drags on it, but it had gone out.†
Chpt 2.2
- Mrs. Glass looked over, abstractedly, at the blue bathmat, across the tiled floor.†
Chpt 2.2
- As she took in the lines and planes of his uncommonly spare unclothed back, her gaze gradually de-abstracted.†
Chpt 2.2
- He stood abstracted for a moment, then became aimlessly mobile.†
Chpt 2.3 *
- Zooey was now gazing abstractedly at an old root-beer stain on the ceiling plaster, which he himself had made nineteen or twenty years earlier, with a water pistol.†
Chpt 2.3
Definitions:
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(abstract as in: abstract thought) of a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
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(abstract as in: read the abstract) a summary; or to summarize -- especially academic writing