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The stark beauty of Samuel Beckett’s absurdist classic, part music hall romp, part abstract painting, was awakened in a production starring two gifted comics who didn’t overplay their slapstick hands, Rainn Wilson and Aasif Mandvi.

Numerous painters in the first half of the 20th century pondered the question of sonic abstraction as a guide to making unprecedented art, proposing a wide variety of abstract rhythms of shape and color.

Instead climate change is frequently depicted in the abstract, as an extremely complicated scientific process, and this causes many readers to feel remote from the consequences.

In the abstract, it's easy to recite mindless clichés about the "woke mob" and feminists who go "too far."

Senior figures say they want to learn what they see as the lessons from the recent American presidential election - talking to voters in concrete, relatable terms and not in abstract international comparisons.