I ANSWERED abstractedly,
unresponsively, too deep in the warm promise of the present to think of what would happen in three or four or even one year's time.
However, during the seizure onlookers may note the person staring
unresponsively or blinking or rolling his eyes.
The second frame of reference entailed the Air Force's finding a more flexible mechanism for commanding and controlling its forces than the mechanical air tasking order (ATO) process that mindlessly (some say
unresponsively) serviced an infinite target list with a finite set of resources.