11.   However captivating, though, the abstract design is ultimately accessory, as in Bartok or Shostakovich, to something bigger, something humanly pressing and direct.

12.   If the figurative quilts are more obviously narrative, even the abstract designs are rife with meaning.

13.   In that other age, the animals trailed from clusters of hedge to the farm pond, drawing their own abstract designs in paths across the fields.

14.   It is an abstract design in cherry red, teal blue, white, gray and yellow that depicts women and a unicorn on the sea.

15.   Liners come in earth and sky tones, in florals, mosaics, geometrics and abstract designs.

16.   Like a repeated abstract design in an oriental carpet, the geometric patterns and repetitive turns of the dervishes carry a symbolic meaning.

17.   Or that jagged abstract design?

18.   The abstract design on stage is full of angles and flexed feet, dancers carried upside down and snapping into positions.

19.   The events are played out in jewellike colors and abstract designs.

20.   The exterior walls are scorched by fire, and so pocked by bullets that it almost seems the holes are part of some planned abstract design.