The world depicted isn't nature exactly - precise forms are hard to make out - but some abstracted, rarefied, artificial version of it shaped by a visionary eye.

Mr. Carax transfers the story to a highly abstracted version of contemporary France.

This twentieth-century abstracted version of medieval verticality is one of New York's most evocative skyscrapers, unsurpassed since it was completed in 1934.

Some consist of "realistic" renderings of tiger pelts, while closely related rugs show more abstracted versions of tiger stripes.

Pieces of granite forming a thin, abstracted version of a classical column have been attached to an inner shaft.

Instead of using abstracted versions of traditional forms, Czech architects turned to a more patriotically assertive style.

When he saw me, he ended the call abruptly and his smile turned into an abstracted version of the Mona Lisa's.

Often the body, a frequent reference in those same paintings, is evoked, but now we seem to be inside an abstracted version of it.

This early device was known at the time as a polygraph (an abstracted version of the pantograph) and bears little resemblance to today's autopens in design or operation.

This base is detailed in a classical manner, with heavy rustication, an elaborate cornice, quoins rising up the corners and abstracted versions of pilasters above.