How To Use Indistinct In A Sentence

In comparison, the original mono track is distorted, indistinct, and terribly tinny, but for preservation's sake, it is nice to see it included here.
Besides, he had, it seems, a weakness in his voice, a perplexed and indistinct utterance and a shortness of breath, which, by breaking and disjointing his sentences much obscured the sense and meaning of what he spoke. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
Everything spread out again: the bridges with their arches opening upon the sheeny water; the Cite, enveloped in shade, above which rose the flavescent towers of Notre-Dame; the great curve of the right bank flooded with sunlight, and ending in the indistinct silhouette of the His Masterpiece
Thallus of very minute inconspicuous and evanescent, brown-black granules; apothecia minute, 0.2 to 0.4 mm. in diameter, adnate, dark brown to black, scattered or clustered, plain with a thin concolorous exciple visible, to convex with the exciple finally covered; hypothecium dark brown; hymenium pale brown; asci clavate; paraphyses coherent-indistinct; spores oblong-ellipsoid, 9 to 15 mic. long and 5 to Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
One of the best things about the better old European opera houses is the division of the lobby spaces into many different rooms, rather than a single huge and indistinctive space. Lobbies

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And now the engineer pulled out the throttle-valve to make up for lost time, and the clatter of the train faded into a distant roar, and its lights began to twinkle into indistinctness.
If I were to ask you to describe your traveling companion I should in all probability learn that his features were very indistinct; he probably wore dark glasses, perhaps also a beard, a heavy coat -- an ulster, most likely -- and no doubt also a scarf wound tightly about his neck and chin. PORNOGRAPHY
If the first film had anything going for it, it was the lead actress, whose roles prior had been indistinctive and forgettable.
The wave-like shapes of the far hills were already indistinct.
For in solitude the blur of safe indistinction becomes sharp and dangerous identity. Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog:
Historian/music critic Greil Marcus coined the term "yarragh" to refer to the indescribable impact of "certain sounds, certain small moments inside a song which can then suggest whole territories, completed stories, indistinct ceremonies, far outside anything that can be literally traced in the compositions that carry them. Michael Sigman: Jeff Beck at 67: Perennial Guitar Hero
And so on the City College campus a vague and indistinctly demarcated intellectual struggle assumed, amazingly, the form of melodrama.
only indistinct notions of what to do
Randolphe muttered some indistinct response; and was again sinking to For - getfuJnesS, when Monta*iba«, with a tran - sient exertion of strength, rudely shook, him, and sternly bade him rise. The confessional of Valombre
Heterogeneous elements, taken from all the religions of the Orient, were combined in the uranography of the ancients, and in the power ascribed to the phantoms that it evoked, vibrates in the indistinct echo of ancient devotions that are often completely unknown to us. [ The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism
She whirled, one hand still on the grit-spalled floor, and saw indistinct figures struggling in a tunnel of spiraling dust. Sun of Suns
Black reefs scatter over the bay, appear indistinctly as the tide waves leap.
It has been three weeks since the indistinct videotape image hit television screens with the impact of, well, a whip.
From a critical view I recognise the utility in Clute's closed definition, the problems of indistinction and overload that emerge when we throw the term fantasy about with little specificity. A Follow Up
The name was taken out of the Psalms for the Fourteenth Day of the Month, and was bestowed on her in obedience to her father's conviction that, where parents were constrained to give their child so indistinctive a surname as Smith, they ought to counterbalance it with a Christian name more original and vivacious. Sydney Smith
Close up examination of the brain revealed improper differentiation, such as an enlarged forebrain, indistinct isthmic constriction at the midbrain-hindbrain boundary (mhb), and a malformed hindbrain ( PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
This would be all well and good if they did not come off as rather generic and indistinctive.
Some filmmakers shine a bright light that blurs the intimate, the indistinct and the fugitive.
He smiled again as he saw me, mumbling something indistinctive.
Roman empire! how countless the nations which swarm forth, in mingling and indistinct hordes, constantly changing the geographical limits — incessantly confounding the natural boundaries! The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Towards the suture the elytron is raised so as to form a very prominent keel down the back of elytra; the general surface of the elytra is somewhat pustulose, and there are three slightly elevated, longitudinal lines, nearly meeting (but indistinctly) behind on the convex part of each elytron. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2
Thuriot shews himself from some pinnacle, to comfort the multitude becoming suspicious, fremescent: then descends; departs with protest; with warning addressed also to the Invalides, -- on whom, however, it produces but a mixed indistinct impression. The French Revolution
Life here is shrinking, the horizons drawing in, and the backdrop to our small world seems to be fading and becoming indistinct.
Vernacular psychology has it that emotions are irreducibly mysterious, too fuzzy and indistinct to analyse beyond a certain point.
Willard Marriott, founder of a chain of hotels that, like Romney himself, are nice-looking but generally bland and indistinctive. Romney On Dickipedia
I have a hazy, indistinct memory of this morning.
And there is an indistinct murmur which cometh out from among them like the rushing of subterrene water. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. In Two Volumes. Vol. II
The parish boundaries were often indistinct until after the Norman conquest, but there may have been 150 of these by 1066.
Her hair and facial features were indistinct, and the only part of her physiognomy that was vivid were her eyes.
The indistinct noise of the city floated in, the dolorous, snuffling air of an accordeon, the mooing of cows could be heard; somebody's soles were scraping dryly and a ferruled cane rapped resoundingly on the flags of the pavement; lazily and irregularly the wheels of a cabman's victoria, rolling at a pace through Yama, would rumble by, and all these sounds mingled with a beauty and softness in the pensive drowsiness of the evening. Yama: the pit
In the Hand The male's white crown patch, which gives the bird the nickname "baldpate," is impossible to miss, but it can be indistinct until November. Field Guide: Know Your Waterfowl
the photographs were grainy and indistinct
[Words indistinct] preuniversity schools we were building, often to improve existing facilities. Fidel Castro Delivers Speech at Education 93
On the island, I followed indistinct paths through the lime, oak and black alder trees.
We can scarcely think the scene real, so completely do those machicolated towers, the long line of battlements, the massive buttresses, the high-windowed walls, shape out our indistinct ideas of the antique time. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862
It happened otherwise, however; for, after the exchange of a few indistinct words, they were antonished when they heard the noise of the unbolting and unbarring of the gates of the inn, and presently after the footsteps of men upon the stairs; and the landlord entering, with an appearance of clumsy courtesy, prayed those assembled to make room for an honored guest, who came, though late, to add to their numbers. Anne of Geierstein
Thallus light colored, usually thin and smooth, rarely disappearing; apothecia minute to middle-sized, 0.2 to 1 mm. in diameter, adnate scattered or crowded, flat or slightly convex, the disk pruinose, and the exciple persistent; hypothecium lighter or darker brown; hymenium usually pale; paraphyses coherent and becoming indistinct; asci cylindrico-clavate; spores oblong-ellipsoid, 3 to 5 mic. long and 1 to Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
The path from here is very indistinct, and non-existent in places, so great care should be taken after leaving the track.
In addition, there are approximately three million Burakumin “hamlet people”, who are culturally, ethnically, and religiously indistinct from the Japanese—and yet the Japanese consider them a separate group and discriminate against them. ASIAN BUSINESS CUSTOMS & MANNERS
It is also interesting to see that specimens of the latter group invariably show smooth surface and indistinct dorsal furrows.
Just last weekend I approached the Patzcuaro municipal market with great hopes and left there with an empty bag wondering how 400 diferent vendors could make a living selling the same cloned roma tomatoes and other fruits and vegetables indistinctive from each other and equally lacking in taste. Exploring Mexico's Markets
What had once been a razor-edged, crisply focused front sight suddenly turned into a furry, indistinct, gelatin-like blob.
Her steps became feebler, and she strained her eyes to look afar upon the naked road, now indistinct amid the penumbrae of night. Far from the Madding Crowd
The grainy, indistinct images show a familiar scene: an airport security x-ray checkpoint, much like any that you'd find at airports all around the world.
It is known, too, that people often say strange things from confused or indistinct recollections of what has befallen them in a prior state of existence, or from prenotion or intuition of things as yet unknown to others; and although in the sciences we accept nothing as conclusive that is not confirmed by experiment, the vastness or strangeness of the thought, far from attracting ridicule, generally leads to inquiry, experiments, and results. Another World Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah
But he hoped that as he writes more, his voice will become more indistinct.
Thorax thickly clothed with fawn-coloured hairs; body above, shining ochrey inclined to orange; short tuft at the end of the body; underside lateritious; upper surface of first pair of wings fawn, with a reddish hue, densely covered with hair-like scales, with shorter and somewhat square scales beneath, the scales over the nervures, being reddish; an indistinct line of seven obscure spots still more indistinctly connected by a zigzag reddish line, runs across the wing nearly parallel to its apical margin, and nearer the tip of the wing than the middle. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2
Thallus of very minute inconspicuous and evanescent, brown-black granules; apothecia minute, 0.2 to 0.4 mm. in diameter, adnate, dark brown to black, scattered or clustered, plain with a thin concolorous exciple visible, to convex with the exciple finally covered; hypothecium dark brown; hymenium pale brown; asci clavate; paraphyses coherent-indistinct; spores oblong-ellipsoid, 9 to 15 mic. long and 5 to Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
He speaks so indistinctly that many listeners haven't a clue what he is saying.
Hobbie Elliot had, in the meanwhile, pursued his journey rapidly, harassed by those oppressive and indistinct fears that all was not right, which men usually term a presentiment of misfortune. The Black Dwarf
It crystallises in the 3rd (tetragonal) system, with indistinct cleavage. The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones
But the skyscape that greets me is an indistinct silvery grey and looks almost like backlit cloud. Times, Sunday Times
Statute law hasn't prescribed the indemnification of servant identity in our country owing to unclear identity of civil servant and indistinct relation between judicature and administration.
Late though it was, a dim light from the great East window fell in broad slabs of purple and green shadow across the grey; everything was indistinct; only the white marble of the Reredos was like a figured sheet hanging from wall to wall, and the gilded trumpets of the angels on the choir-screen stood out dimly like spider pattern. The Cathedral
His mind felt as indistinct as the view, his long but fitful sleep leaving him more ragged, with less patience and comprehension. THE LAST RAVEN
Thallus light colored, usually thin and smooth, rarely disappearing; apothecia minute to middle-sized, 0.2 to 1 mm. in diameter, adnate scattered or crowded, flat or slightly convex, the disk pruinose, and the exciple persistent; hypothecium lighter or darker brown; hymenium usually pale; paraphyses coherent and becoming indistinct; asci cylindrico-clavate; spores oblong-ellipsoid, 3 to 5 mic. long and 1 to Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
Grain patterns in the mahogany are too indistinct to establish that boards in the two tables came from the same tree, although such comparisons often prove very useful.
His memory of the incident was somewhat indistinct.
Perhaps in time, if washed by tears, they will become indistinct and a few will disappear altogether.
Perhaps in time, if washed by tears, they will become indistinct and a few will disappear altogether.
fine white thread running, through years and years," and Hans flirts with the possibility that language may not precisely describe the world ( "I was assaulted by the notion, arriving in the form of a terrifying stroke of consciousness, that substance-everything of so called concreteness-was indistinct from its unnameable opposite"). NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
She was bending eagerly over the woman to hear her reply; but drew back, instinctively, as she once again rose, slowly and stiffly, into a sitting posture; then, clutching the coverlid with both hands, muttered some indistinct sounds in her throat, and fell lifeless on the bed. Oliver Twist
Theirs were the most indistinctive signatures in the lot. The Planet Strappers
The rest blends together into an indistinct mass of guitar and vocal shredding.
Interstitial edema results from transudation of fluid through the capillary walls into the interstitium around the vessels which can render normally indistinct vessels distinct.
The shadows reminded me of Gregory and the indistinctive noises around me brought me into some kind of trance.
First we see a blur on a snowy landscape, followed by an indistinct grey shadow hovering beyond the window of the child's bedroom.
Out on the water, an indistinct blob that could only be one of Lithia's sailplaning squid broke the surface and glided low over the oily swell for nearly sixty yards before it hit the waves again. A Case Of Conscience
What sodden indistinction just an hour ago had all but persuaded us not to regret resumes its first divisions: slate from cinder, ash from smoke, warm dapple-gray from moleskin, dove - from Varenna
The law of torts, or civil wrongs, is extensive and its boundaries are indistinct.
Carapace smooth, rather convex, and with three keels above; the beak, longly produced, ending in a spine, simple on the side and produced into a keel on each side behind; the central caudal lobe rather narrow, indistinctly divided in half, and like the other lobes flexile at the end, the lateral lobes with Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1
The sections given as_ 227 -- 231 _ "On indistinctness at short distances" have, it is true, only an indirect bearing on the subject; but on the other hand, the following chapters, _ 232 -- 234, _ "On indistinctness at great distances," go fully into the matter, and in chapters_ The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete
This is followed by signs of interstitial edema, Kerley B lines, peribronchial cuffing, and indistinct hila. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
Unlike the distinct representation of a triangle whereby the intellect distinguishes parts and aspects of the triangle from one another, a sensuous representation is clear but indistinct, that is to say, to have a sensuous representation is to perceive something without intellectually distinguishing its parts or aspects. Moses Mendelssohn
We have this misty, murky indistinct reason for being there.
The blurriness of it distorted the man's features, rendered them vaguely indistinct like the image of a ghost. THE EXECUTION
Wings of a somewhat chalky white, the anterior with three rufous dots on the costa before the middle, of which the third is the largest, and near the apex a large brown spot, fulvous towards the costa, clouded with bluish white, connected with the inner margin by four indistinct yellow dots; forehead red; head, thorax, and abdomen, white; palpi red at the apex; feet white first and second pairs spotted with red. Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1
I had lost all consciousness of bodily sensations and thoughts, and awareness, which was initially clear and present at the start of the practice, now became indistinct and blurred.
No. These are the most difficult Olympic Games in which we will participate, not only because we are going to compete in sports -- they will be difficult sports-wise -- but because of the conditions and the country where those Olympic Games are going to be held, under [word indistinct] conditions against our country and our delegation. Cuba: Castro Blames U.S. for Defections
And so on the City College campus a vague and indistinctly demarcated intellectual struggle assumed, amazingly, the form of melodrama.
These energy levels are so numerous as to be indistinct.
Thallus of very minute inconspicuous and evanescent, brown-black granules; apothecia minute, 0.2 to 0.4 mm. in diameter, adnate, dark brown to black, scattered or clustered, plain with a thin concolorous exciple visible, to convex with the exciple finally covered; hypothecium dark brown; hymenium pale brown; asci clavate; paraphyses coherent-indistinct; spores oblong-ellipsoid, 9 to 15 mic. long and 5 to Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
The salmon and scarlet ornaments on the sides, flanks, and axillars are paler than those of her lord, and the scarlet spot shows very indistinctly on her occiput. Our Bird Comrades
The letters on fakes are sometimes indistinct or unevenly spaced.
She heard him mumble something indistinct, and he tried to spit at her, but his aim left a lot to be desired.
As he turned an angle of the building, he heard a sound as of a door gently closed, and saw in the darkness, indistinctly, the figure of a man, which instantly disappeared among the trees of the lawn.
Wherever we went we were followed by a sometimes annoyingly indistinct and sometimes annoyingly disruptive wallpaper of music ranging from the ambient and the classical to the irritating and the banal.
The pad began to curvet as the post horses rattled behind, and the Parson had only an indistinct vision of a human face supplanting these human legs. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851
In effect, the secret of love is that it can only exist in an hallucinatory space where fantasy and reality, past and present, dream and memory, are indistinct.
It may also be noted that indistinct analysis of needs will contribute to problems associated with evaluation.
Is ESDC looking to drop its indistinctive acronym? How Pat Foye Spends His Days, Part Deux: Empire State Development Corp. Mulls Name-Change
Neither would we have achieved the glory we have achieved so many years. [clearing indistinct words from original Tele Rebelde and Cubavision version] We should accomplish this based upon morality, conscience, patriotism, and integrity, because there have always been athletes, they always have, who in recent times have been lured by mercenariness, by commercialism, and by greed. Cuba: Comparison--Castro Blames U.S. for Defections
Thrust a mic to an opera singer's mouth and the voice is rendered flat, tinny, indistinct.
The radio program was indistinct because of the atmospherics.
The words were slurred and indistinct, but after listening to a verse repeated several times, Will made out the words and knew he was right about it being a song.
I still had all my indistinctive cuts, and the pulsating throb on my arm, beautiful quivering under the pressure of the gauze, wasn't helping much.
Her head was raised, and in the indistinctness I caught that sweet look of hers which besought me, and which I answered without knowing to what question. The Kempton-Wace Letters
If they fell by long and aged decay, yet wrapt up in the bundle of time, they fall into indistinction, and make but one blot with infants. Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
You all know that in places where trees are cut down and burned, a [word indistinct] grows that was known during the war as [word indistinct]. Cuba: Fidel Castro Address on ANAP Anniversary
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He kept mumbling indistinctly to himself… I couldn't understand most of it.
Aggressive linguistic subversiveness, which used to be his hallmark, has dwindled into charm; sheer amazement has become indistinct bemusement.
The mothy, gormless, indistinct sunrise of salvation world-the Other Land-I couldn't get it, I couldn't focus. WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
It may also be noted that indistinct analysis of needs will contribute to problems associated with evaluation.
The element being used to flesh out this film to its original version is hampered by a fuzzy, indistinct print that has color and contrast issues.
The field in front of her swam and became fuzzy and indistinct.
He began to fear that all this intricacy in his brain would drive him mad; and that his thoughts already lost coherence as the footprints did, and were pieced on to one another, with the same trackless involutions, and varieties of indistinct shapes. Dombey and Son
His indistinct speech made it impossible to understand him.
Meanwhile, people visiting the South Bank on a rainy day sink up to their ankles in puddles and steam through an indistinct symphony.
‘Birth Of An Object’ sounds out a manual poetry of machinic stanzas, marking the persistence of the industrial age in forgotten shop floors still grinding out indistinct objects, a sort of industrial threnody.
But it was an indistinct blur of grey through the doorway of the Archives building.
At the broad landing at the top the altar was about waist-high, and now for the first time they made out that at the back there was a big sitting figure, whose breast seemed to be covered with a kind of rayed shield; but everything was indistinct in the flickering light, and the figure was absolutely clothed in dust. Old Gold The Cruise of the "Jason" Brig
Comedian, tragedian and heartthrob, his distinction lies in the very indistinction of his career.
Accuse us of wanting to communize women, but you bourgeoisie see women as an instrument of production [words indistinct] and, not satisfied with prostituting the daughters and wives of the workers, the derive pleasure from reusing each other. [applause] What accusations! MEETS CONCEPCTION STUDENTS
What sodden indistinction just an hour ago had all but persuaded us not to regret resumes its first divisions: slate from cinder, ash from smoke, warm dapple-gray from moleskin, dove - from Varenna
It was all a bit indistinct, but I could make out definite phrases.
Thallus light colored, usually thin and smooth, rarely disappearing; apothecia minute to middle-sized, 0.2 to 1 mm. in diameter, adnate scattered or crowded, flat or slightly convex, the disk pruinose, and the exciple persistent; hypothecium lighter or darker brown; hymenium usually pale; paraphyses coherent and becoming indistinct; asci cylindrico-clavate; spores oblong-ellipsoid, 3 to 5 mic. long and 1 to Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
Everything about the sound transfer is weak, muddy and very indistinct.
Netherland recognizes the tenuous nature of a self, that "fine white thread running, through years and years," and Hans flirts with the possibility that language may not precisely describe the world ( "I was assaulted by the notion, arriving in the form of a terrifying stroke of consciousness, that substance — everything of so called concreteness — was indistinct from its unnameable opposite"). Part 2: Netherland, Lyrical Realism, and the flip flops of Zadie Smith
To Indians the word progress meant the passage of the soul through aeons of reincarnation towards a blissful absorption into the inconceivable void of indistinctive existence, as when at last a jar is broken and the space inside it returns to space. Essays in Rebellion
This switch can, in part, be accounted for by the marked fall in sea level noted above, whereby normally stratified conditions are likely to become more indistinct.
The Beni Sakhr with us had so camped; and, as we crossed the monotonous downs they pointed first to one indistinctive hollow with hearth and straight gutter-trenches and then to another saying, There was my tent and there lay Hamdan el Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Thallus of very minute inconspicuous and evanescent, brown-black granules; apothecia minute, 0.2 to 0.4 mm. in diameter, adnate, dark brown to black, scattered or clustered, plain with a thin concolorous exciple visible, to convex with the exciple finally covered; hypothecium dark brown; hymenium pale brown; asci clavate; paraphyses coherent-indistinct; spores oblong-ellipsoid, 9 to 15 mic. long and 5 to Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
We have this misty, murky indistinct reason for being there.
Maw Moss; and, fading into blue indistinctness in the south, the wild heath-clad Peeblesshire hills. Lay Morals
It has indistinct cleavage and an uneven fracture and is sectile.
Cynllwyd, hoary-headed, she seemed to say; but here, as well as with respect to her first answer, I speak under correction, for her Welsh was what my old friends, the Spaniards, would call muy cerrado, that is, close or indistinct. Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
Most of the movie takes place in dark, seedy bars, and for the most part the black level is dark and shadows are well defined, while in other scenes the darker areas appear reddish and indistinct.
Antennæ ferruginous, third joint short, conical, arista bare; pectus slightly covered with cinereous tomentum; legs testaceous, with a few very indistinct blackish marks; fore femora black, testaceous towards the base; fore tibiæ black; fore tarsi snow-white, black at the base; hind tarsi whitish; wings greyish, with two almost obsolete brownish bands; discal transverse vein parted by less than its length from the border and by about four times its length from the præbrachial transverse. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
Jake on the other hand, sat at the very front, a couple of his own cronies on either side of him, all three of them talking in indistinctive low whispers.
In the exhibition Rubens is represented by two designs for decorative structures and an indistinct muddy sketch of an autumnal sunset.
The subterranean portion of the plant is a compound structure consisting of a large, more or less cylindrical rootstock, indistinctly marked with a number of horizontal nodose rings, and with a coarse central core: from this root stock 6-10 irregularly spindle-shaped secondary tubers arise as off-shoots. Chapter 8
It builds on the primal unity of all things and observes unity's endless reverberations as it emerges from indistinction. William C. Chittick, Ph.D.: The Innate Beauty Of Human Nature
Much of the time, leading edge scientific research is indistinct and hazy.
A good open problem thus has some intrigue, has some surprise, and should tantalize the reader; the solution should appear to be just over the horizon, rather than indistinctly fading away.
By night, strange, murky, shady, characters emerge from the indistinct, nebulous corners.
Her clothing was shapeless and indistinct, a dark covering that did little more than drape over her shoulders.
But besides the complicated character of the general subject, as it presents itself to the minds of children -- that is, the intricacy to them of the question when there must be a strict correspondence between the words spoken and an actual reality, and when they may rightly represent mere images or fancies of the mind -- there is another great difficulty in their way, one that is very little considered and often, indeed, not at all understood by parents -- and that is, that in the earliest years the distinction between realities and mere fancies of the mind is very indistinctly drawn. Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young Or, the Principles on Which a Firm Parental Authority May Be Established and Maintained, Without Violence or Anger, and the Right Development of the Moral and Mental Capacities Be Promoted by Met
It was not the usual indistinct crackle of a far-off transmission, but a crystal-clear whistle as if someone was on her boat.
they heard indistinct noises of people talking
There was little to admire in the opening exchanges, the game was a shapeless mass, undefined and indistinct.
It is separated from the hemispheres by the sulcus valleculæ, across which it is connected to the biventral lobule by an indistinct gray band, analogous to the furrowed band already described. IX. Neurology. 4a. The Hind-brain or Rhombencephalon
Carey wants to have it both ways: it is because literature can "communicate" more effectively and it can also remain "indistinct" in the manner common to all the arts that it is ultimately the most valuable of the arts. The State of Criticism
Turn right here and follow the very indistinct path through heather keeping the boggy babbling brook immediately to your right.
Unlike the Upper Amazon Basin where the boundary between the várzea and terra firme is relatively indistinct, on the central Amazon floodplain the ecological difference between these forest types is dramatic because of distinct soil quality, forest structure, and floristics of non-flooded versus flooded land. Monte Alegre varzea
The large, cold stars were indistinct in the night, indeterminate, like the encamped army of shacks and hovels on the outskirts of Peshawar. THE LAST RAVEN
The field in front of her swam and became fuzzy and indistinct.
Milnwood, placed on the table an immense charger of broth, thickened with oatmeal and colewort, in which ocean of liquid was indistinctly discovered, by close observers, two or three short ribs of lean mutton sailing to and fro. Old Mortality
How vague and indistinct and undefined the ideas of most men are upon the subject!
I believe that this is because their view of society is as indistinct as the view of the street below from the lofty heights of a high-rise building.
The revolution limits itself to replying because it prefers to sin on the side of generosity, it prefers to sin on the side of magnanimity to prove to those senseless peoples how mistaken they are and to give them time, also, to change their path and to give them time to reflect, because on that road they will gain nothing more than the absolute antiparty (few words indistinct). CONCLUDING SESSION OF ADMINISTRATORS OF INRA
Unlike a short - length skirt, the openings of chipau expose a woman's legs indistinctly when she walks.
The songs, and the performances, were as indistinct and interchangeable as Ant and Dec.
The indistinct boundaries between these dolomite rhombs and the calcite suggests that the latter has been partially dolomitized.
But what most riveted my attention was an indistinct animate _something_ enveloped in a red flag, rolled up in a heap on the frouziest and most forbidding old sofa it had ever been my lot to behold. A Girl Among the Anarchists
Looking at his performances in the past 15 years or so, several seem vague and indistinct.
an indistinct memory
From this point to the summit the path is indistinct in places.
His indistinct speech made it impossible to understand him.
In the low, close room were the hemp was hatcheled, the dust arising from the hatches of twenty men hard at work was sometimes so dense that the windows appeared but indistinctly. Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground Railroad; Being a Brief History of the Labors of a Lifetime in Behalf of the Slave, with the Stories of Numerous Fugitives, Who Gained Their Freedom Through His Instrumentality, and Ma
This is a modulating, indistinct musical ambience that arrives and departs through unperceived apertures in the space-time fabric and boast passages so quiet and still as to blur the line between something and nothing.
Sometimes they are dull white with brick-red spots openly disposed in form of a rude ring at the larger end; at other times the spots are rufescent claret, with duller indistinct ones appearing through the shell; others are of a deep carneous hue, clouded and coarsely blotched with deep rufescent claret; while again some are faint carneous with large irregular blotches of rufous clay with duller ones beneath the shell. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
[Castro] They mean a lot of things, 100,000 times what they could mean [word indistinct]. Cuba: Castro Speaks at Pioneers' Palace Reopening
If some desperate countries do it and announce it as a right, as something fair, not only because they cannot pay since not being able to pay is part of the reason for not paying, and also because it is not fair to pay under the criminal payment terms demanded [applause], then they will impose a blockade against us -- surely they will [words indistinct] they impose a blockade and yet play along with the liberation movement. 4TH FELAP CONGRESS
Through the thin wall he could hear the low mumble of Navarro's voice, but the words were indistinct. MAMBO
There are no owners for this property but the nation, an indeterminate, invisible personage; no barrier other than so many seals exists between the spoils and the despoilers, that is to say, so many strips of paper held fast by two ill-applied and indistinct stamps. The French Revolution - Volume 3
It is with this spirit that we want you to struggle, all of you, in these Olympic Games that will be so difficult, which will take place in the heart of the Empire that [word indistinct] us, in the heart of the monster. Cuba: Castro Blames U.S. for Defections
Our four specimens have a superciliary line that is indistinct and the black mask of each extends somewhat posterior to the auricular region. Birds from Coahuila, Mexico
At that time the schools in the field came about [words indistinct] secondary and preuniversity schools, but there were no teachers. Fidel Castro Delivers Speech at Education 93
Her face was indistinct in the twilight, but if its expression corresponded with the inflection of her voice, her nostrils were inflated and her lips were curled in disparagement. With the Procession
Say what you want about any of the other Bonds now but I believe we can already begin to see what I think will be roundly accepted within twenty years: That Brosnan was the most indistinctive, insufferably boring Bond ever. cinebeats says; December 3, 2007 @ 12:28 pm Last of the Secret Agents? (1966)
All the police have to go on is a grainy, indistinct video clip.
In this department they mold all the ca parts that the harrows use, such as spacers, bushings, braces, (word indistinct), and so on. CASTRO ADDRESSES STEELWORKERS IN HAVANA
He was silent on the train at first, divided between watching the wife with the child going to sleep in her arms and looking out of the window at the tilled fields and green unforested hills vague and indistinct in the driving drizzle that had set in. THE SEA FARMER
Fore wings with three blackish, indistinct, slightly diffuse, zigzag lines, which are slightly bordered hindward with pale yellow; orbicular mark white, punctiform; exterior border slightly angular, hardly oblique, and slightly truncated on the fore half, extremely oblique and with two slight excavations on the hind half; fringe partly white. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
The cells were described as having scant, indistinct cytoplasm with finely dispersed chromatin, reminiscent of lymphoblasts.
Wings of a somewhat chalky white, the anterior with three rufous dots on the costa before the middle, of which the third is the largest, and near the apex a large brown spot, fulvous towards the costa, clouded with bluish white, connected with the inner margin by four indistinct yellow dots; forehead red; head, thorax, and abdomen, white; palpi red at the apex; feet white first and second pairs spotted with red. Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1
There were three main classes of ceorl, although the dividing line between the classes was indistinct.
How vague and indistinct and undefined the ideas of most men are upon the subject!
Head of the female black, shining; thorax with two brown bands which are paler and indistinct hindward; abdomen with a broad black band on each segment; tarsi blackish towards the tips; wings nearly limpid, yellowish along the costa, veins exteriorly with very broad brownish borders, stigma blackish brown. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
Corallum beautifully stellular, formed by 30-35 slightly spirally-curving or regular radiating lamellae, which meet in a central point or overlap on a latitudinal axial line, and are divided by rectangular or outwardly convex and upwardly oblique dissepiments, which become, occasionally, indistinct or obsolete near the centre, thus not assuming the usual characteristic of Cyathophyllum, but rather one of Strombodes. Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845
But it was thin, like an old-time wireframe, and its edges were fuzzy and indistinct.
Contemporary subjects were not in themselves taboo, but Manet's moody treatment, his indistinct outlines and background - in short, his unacademic approach - offended the public eye.
To my left, as I came up higher, I began to see the sea, and had a clear view of Newhaven, though the horizon was more or less indistinct.
Time, also, makes greater demands on our [word indistinct]. Cuba: Castro Speaks at Santa Clara Rally
In his large-scale drawings, body organs morph into metallic configurations with colorful, yet indistinct protuberances.
Christians were independently alined. [word indistinct] Many of them joined our movement, and we christened many farmers in their clothes up in the MEETS CONCEPCTION STUDENTS
(unialiter unum, a combination suggested by Proclus; Eckhart speaks of the luter pur clar Ein or indistinctum, the undifferentiated). Meister Eckhart
Masai manyatta, very tiny, with indistinct crawling red and brown blotches that meant cattle and sheep. African Camp Fires
Round the headland a pair of towers safeguard a river mouth curling into a distant and indistinct sea.
When around our country, the imperialists are training mercenaries and organizing vandalic attacks, in the most unpunished manner, as in the case of (few words indistinct), when the imperialists threaten to intervene in any country of Latin America or of the world, we are not living under normal conditions. PURSC CENTRAL COMMITT PRESENTATION
The path is indistinct at first but beyond a gatepost it becomes a track running downhill to another stone post.
The poems of Goeckingk contain allusions [30] to Sterne, to be sure partly indistinctive and insignificant, which, however, tend in the main to a ridicule of the Yorick cult and place their author ultimately among the satirical opponents of sentimentalism. Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century
When she blushed it gradually became more indistinct, and finally vanished amid the triumphant rush of blood that bathed the whole cheek with its brilliant glow.
Thallus light colored, usually thin and smooth, rarely disappearing; apothecia minute to middle-sized, 0.2 to 1 mm. in diameter, adnate scattered or crowded, flat or slightly convex, the disk pruinose, and the exciple persistent; hypothecium lighter or darker brown; hymenium usually pale; paraphyses coherent and becoming indistinct; asci cylindrico-clavate; spores oblong-ellipsoid, 3 to 5 mic. long and 1 to Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V

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