How To Use Vague In A Sentence

  • Physical and mental energy return so you turn vague ideas into bold action. The Sun
  • Instead, it has vaguely proposed some form of co-operation or alliance with Pirelli.
  • The terms of the agreement were deliberately vague.
  • It has never been heard of in Spain; and in France, the continuator of de Thou is the only one who has given any credit to these vague and ridiculous suspicions. A Philosophical Dictionary
  • When they start in on showing you a parade of verses so vague that they could mean anything, point out that the word "abortion" does not occur anywhere in that verse and ask them to show you something clearer, a specific reference to abortion or a single use of the word anyplace in the book. AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
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  • All of these are unfortunately no more than vague calls for perfecting ourselves.
  • By the glimmer of light lent me, I can but guess greatness and descry vagueness. The Kempton-Wace Letters
  • Nevertheless, I was determined to be at least vaguely scientific about this review, so I pulled out the omnidirectional microphone I had borrowed from the media unit at work and started making recordings.
  • They wanted us to take out every single word that was even vaguely religious or spiritual.
  • What he is saying may make some sense to pointy heads, but to many it will seem unconvincing and vague. Times, Sunday Times
  • The patient had complained of vague pains and backache.
  • You may talk vaguely about driving a coach – and – six up a good old flight of stairs, or through a bad young Act of Parliament; but I mean to say you might have got a hearse up that staircase, and taken it broadwise, with the splinter – bar towards the wall and the door towards the balustrades: and done it easy. A Christmas Carol
  • The vaguely realistic answer suggested in this popcorn film provides an entertaining alternative to standard superhero movies. Times, Sunday Times
  • Both have been called icons, and although it is a vague designation it is given to very few. Times, Sunday Times
  • Locale: Staging and dressing together constitute locale and their absence will render it "vague" or "vapid" -- though a writer might, of course, pare away the requisite details deliberately, in the same way they might pare away features distinguishing voice. Archive 2009-12-01
  • Did you know that sacking-like scratchy large-weave fabric with vaguely hairy fibres, the stuff they put on display screens and trendy flower arrangements, is called Hessian?
  • So Foster's got this vaguely martyr-like songbird persona she's working, and sometimes the devious witch bit sticks out too, as on ‘Crackerjack Fool’.
  • My memory, for what it's worth, works in a vague, associative way.
  • But it's worth a go just to splat Tony Blur, William Vague and Charles Comedy.
  • The Hand-e-holder is a simple device that consists of two parts: an adhesive disk applied to the back of your iPad, and a strap that looks vaguely like a biking glove and fits snuggly around your hand. Daily Dispatch: Microsoft patents innovative touch keyboard; Leatherbound lets you compare eBook prices
  • I have a vague sense that dramaturgs may be a partial answer to the director capture problem, but I don't know enough about theatre to say.
  • Making vaguely related assertions in response to an argument is not a counter-argument.
  • Ships of our navy have had occasional run-ins with pirates and marauders, but war for us is like the vaguest memory.
  • Maybe crushes are best left as vaguely disquieting feelings that tell us more about who we are than what we think about others. Times, Sunday Times
  • I set her upright, she smoothed her jacket and, not looking to me for even a moment, took her leave of the carriage with the vaguest suggestion of a smile on her face.
  • But the German wardresses remained vaguely aware of her special status and seem to have relaxed in her company.
  • Hugh succeeded in making this remark sound vaguely uncomplimentary. DOUBLE DECEIT
  • Danes long ago used the ashes of hay as a seasoning, so Mr. Redzepi does, too: they smell vaguely of popcorn, and have accessorized both an egg dish and one with king crab.
  • But will the two sides be able to stick to the hazy and vague terms of the agreement?
  • Authorities say when they had last recontacted the pilots, the pilots answers were so vague, they were ordered to take the plane through a series of unnecessary maneuvers to prove it was under their control, not hijacked. CNN Transcript Oct 24, 2009
  • And even if she is right that many readers "don't care" about the matters of technique and style she says critics often "overvalue," does this mean critics should abandon more purely literary standards for the vague and untroubled standards she attributes to her infantilized common readers? Style in Fiction
  • He felt his body roll as the ship careened and vaguely heard the rumble of explosions nearby, but he didn't come to until smoke forced him coughing to his feet.
  • Yes, you have no choice but to marvel at the rather beautiful new $2 billion house of the Ambani family, a vast vertical hamlet for plutocrats with a design that vaguely recalls a snazzy Bang and Olufsen hi-fi stack. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • It was vague, intangible, appeling only to some strange, nameless sixth sense.
  • these terms were used with a vagueness that suggested little or no thought about what each might convey
  • Not an overly religious woman, Maggie had some vague notion of a grand plan.
  • the scene had the swirling vagueness of a painting by Turner
  • ' He mimicked a vague distraction, waved his fingers elegantly. THE QUEST FOR K
  • Karlin relates the oppressive anti-Semitism his forebears endured in a vague, almost elliptical style with dips into the stream of consciousness.
  • She was singing along to a tune on the radio that sounded vaguely familiar.
  • Compared with the billions squandered on a vague mission in Iraq, a mission to Mars seems cheap.
  • That is true only in the vaguest terms and only when the whole context of how tribal government evolved is properly understood.
  • The term presentiment suggests a sense of foreboding, a vague feeling of danger, an intuitive hunch that something not quite right is about to unfold. ENTANGLED MINDS
  • ‘Me too,’ says Christopher and we rejoin the arrowed path and wander off in vaguely the direction we think we came from earlier.
  • Neat, compact, there was something about her vaguely reminiscent of a seal pup.
  • Fans of the strange film will stick! upon dev otees of robotic dance song duo Daft Punk (who will be making the small arrange of vague appearance) in flocking to the motion picture Dec 2010 opening. Archive 2009-11-01
  • It is full of grand statements and fine sounding but vague promises to assist working people and the poor.
  • From his vaguely defined methodological stance, Snooks criticizes Darwin's use of analogy.
  • No telly, on account of the fact the schedulers have so perfectly blended Christmas morning into the regular day-to-day line-up that there was nothing even vaguely worth watching.
  • I vaguely remembered the name Hypatia from posters my mom had around the Math room of Women In Mathematics, but that was about it. Agora | Mind on Fire
  • Certainly her husband, pushing their trolley, seemed vaguely familiar. Times, Sunday Times
  • The cloying heaviness of snacking on cheese instead of ginger snaps left me feeling dull and vaguely nauseous.
  • But because the threat remains at the level of a vague feeling—what I call a gut reaction—it can ruin everything. Why Men Won’t Commit
  • As you probably know, Herr Sanders is a gentleman of advanced years, inclined to be a little vague.
  • However, equally I don't think one can credibly take a blithely post-modern approach and mutter vaguely about ‘multiple truths’, if basic historical factual assertions have been misstated.
  • What I love most about Jezebel is that I can go there with an unformed opinion yet a vague leaning, read the discussions and come away with a more informed view. Here she comes
  • The child of parents who are themselves eternal children, Harriet is married off to a much older man, Freddie, for whom she has no genuine emotion other than vague gratitude. The Ones That Got Away « Tales from the Reading Room
  • An indictment of Carol for larceny would therefore be properly subject to dismissal as unconstitutionally vague as applied to her case.
  • And most vivid do these scenes and people become when the vague and irrecoverable boy who walks among them carries a rod over his shoulder, and you detect the soft bulginess of wet fish about his clothing, and perhaps the tail of a big one emerging from his pocket. Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness
  • He came back to Carbon County and the North Platte again and again, first to hunt and fish and, finally, when the bison were gone and most of the biggest heads hung on the walls of estates in the British Isles, to vaguely oversee the cattle ranch that became his in 1883. Bird Cloud
  • They were treated as nonentities by the legal and social adjudicators of British later, Australian Tasmania, allowed grudgingly to occupy land on the islands without ever being acknowledged as its owners, and referred to dismissively as “half-castes” or, vaguely, as “the Islanders.” The Song of The Dodo
  • Tired and discontented housewives found their vague sorrows and vaguer longings were only the result of their "unregenerate" state; the lazy country youths felt that the frustration of their small ambitions lay in their not being Trent's Trust, and Other Stories
  • Daniel Abraham has the toughest job to pull off her with the multi-story Jonathan Hive tales, going from smartarse blogger, to vaguely panicked smartarse war correspondent. Superhero Prose Fiction: Wild Cards - 18 Inside Straight
  • The buttons on lifts, tainted with vague trails of dried-up fluids, never escape her consciousness.
  • = -- The term phyllomania has been vaguely applied both to the production of an unwonted number of leaves and to their development in unusual situations. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
  • Another problem I foresee is that a user will have to click hundreds of times just to get their top 20 list into a vaguely acceptable state. FlickChart Makes Movie Ranking Fun | Lifehacker Australia
  • By contrast, the ranks of subjects whom Andy represented, like himself, occluded and determinedly not smiling, is equally revealing, as if to conjure not so much by passive aggression as by vaguely sexualized sullenness, even vacancy, the dominant mood of international fame in the 1970s and early to mid-1980s. Archive 2009-01-01
  • Why should the House pass the bill with vague hopes of it being improved later, if this obvious avenue is available? Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Herding Cats
  • About the tricky song ‘makes me wanna die’ which is ruined by a vague hip hop beat.
  • I find her a bit vague and she reminds me strongly of the goth girls who used to run stalls in Kensington Market a few years back.
  • And so on the City College campus a vague and indistinctly demarcated intellectual struggle assumed, amazingly, the form of melodrama.
  • He thought vaguely what a good moral the contrast would have pointed to the sixteenthly of one of his great ancestor's sermons; then he fell to wondering if the old gentleman's theology would have stood the strain of an experience like this. Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes
  • There was something magical about those vague voices talking about the night. Times, Sunday Times
  • The New York University sociologist Dalton Conley has written of a “network nation,” in which applications like Facebook and MySpace create “crosscutting social groups” and new, flexible identities that only vaguely overlap with racial identities. The End of White America?
  • We were astonished that my wife's mother and my sister-in-law were very vague in their memories of what to do in the first six months," Gabrieli says. Babies can cause 'momnesia'
  • You're being deliberately vague.
  • Such knowledge as management did possess was vague or unreliable and seldom committed to writing.
  • It is also, rather vaguely, thought of as a revolutionary activity.
  • The idea so vague and ill-formed it might just vanish like smoke in a breeze. Antonio Garcia-Martinez: Pseudorandomness, Or How I Got Into Y Combinator and Had a Child With a Woman I Barely Knew, Almost Simultaneously
  • The distorted semblances of the trees on the other side were vaguely visible through it, mocking him cruelly in the emptiness.
  • But was that gossamer-like illusion, lying upon the far horizon, the magic of nicotian, or the vague presence of distant heights? Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader
  • [455] For the early divisions of verse and prose story were all Topsies, and simply "growed"; although the smaller romances of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, and the larger of the latter date, were undoubtedly influenced by the Greek, it was more a case of general imitation than specific endeavour; the Sensibility school was very limited and chiefly attended to tricks of manner; and the "Romantic vague" was never vaguer than in the vast and rather formless, though magnificent and delightful, novel-work started by Nodier, Mérimée, A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
  • After laying down discrete patches of dark umber in grid formations, Briggs dragged an unloaded brush through the pigment, leaving behind episodic squiggles that vaguely resemble Chinese characters.
  • After fifteen more attacks, that hope had dwindled to a vague, undefined optimism.
  • Looking at them, you really do think of twirling lariats, and here the vaguely bordello colors, along with a kind of supercharged motion, suggest a semi-frantic, but also humorous, licentiousness.
  • And in Strut, two vicious-looking dogs occupy a vague terrain in which a pair of skulls suggest a boneyard where the dogs have eaten their fill.
  • The vaguely realistic answer suggested in this popcorn film provides an entertaining alternative to standard superhero movies. Times, Sunday Times
  • For some reason, writer-director George Daugherty chose to remove Peter and the Wolf from its Russian origins and recast it in a vaguely Swiss, northern European setting.
  • Looking to be good people and hoping in some vague way to fulfill themselves, its upper-middle-class couple adopts, not a child, but an elderly man and wife formerly ensconced in a nursing facility.
  • Shaftesbury's formulation of sentimentality as either a manifestation of latitudinarianism or deism, both vaguely secularized systems of advancing self-sufficient virtue as the means by which manners dominated and controlled behavior in the public realm. Talking About Virtue: Paisiello's 'Nina,' Paër's 'Agnese,' and the Sentimental Ethos
  • Always remember that moving from an interesting but vague idea, to specific and actionable is the difficult part of creation and invention.
  • Beyond the general principle of utility, therefore, we have to consider the 'organon' constructed by him to give effect to a general principle too vague to be applied in detail. The English Utilitarians, Volume I.
  • I vaguely remember, you thin lips stuck on my forehead carefully,as if the whole world becomes quiet.
  • Agreement may be achievable only by formulas so vague as to invite later disavowal or disagreement.
  • In complex computer games the documentation usually gives only vague pointers.
  • Since he was vaguely right, I now feel honor-bound to apologize to my buddy, here on a weblog that I'm certain he'll never see.
  • It's vague, but I remember really liking it, but in "canticle", the story traverses many eras, and, deals with the theme ultimately of global violence. Where did the film THE BOOK OF ELI come from?
  • Things are moving ahead."— I found that statement vague and unclear.
  • Instead, as foreign governments challenge them with vague "monopolization" claims, the U.S. government appears to be mute. Gary Shapiro: A Holiday Wish List That No One Should Fulfill
  • Is there not something vaguely ironic about this? Times, Sunday Times
  • The term successful, unfortunately, is a bit of a-- a bit of a vague term. CNN Transcript Dec 14, 2006
  • Our 'playpen' consisted of the odd comic strip, the novelisations, some vaguely surreal annuals, those Viewmaster slides, a Gareth Hunt doll and some stories that literally unfolded on chocolate wrappers. Behind the Sofa - The Collaborative Doctor Who Blog
  • a vague uneasiness
  • When I first embarked on the research I was armed with only a very vague strategy and a lot of high hopes.
  • His work at this time was vaguely Surrealist, with forms resembling primitive hieroglyphs painted in a heavy impasto.
  • He was vague, however, about just what U.S. forces might actually do.
  • The vagueness of the selectmen's assessment of whether or not to continue with the present workhouse or build another one closer to the center of town might indicate that the house had infrequent or sporadic use as a workhouse.
  • See, in order to get my fine, straight hair to even vaguely do the bouffant standing-up thing, Tony had had to go at me with hairdryer and tongs and more hairspray than you might see at the average Miss World contest.
  • The dilemmas arise in the gray area where the national consensus is itself vague or contradictory.
  • The media were not the only ones indulging in vaguely pointless activities. Times, Sunday Times
  • The “river” itself was more like a sludge channel, and trees hugged at its banks, choking it at impossible angles on either side, looking vaguely as though two armies were facing off with spindly and florid pikes, unsure who would make the first move over the brown, oily runnel between them. Excerpt from De Imitatio Calembouri
  • Gradually vague notions of a career in journalism were forming in my head.
  • So, the case has completely collapsed, and Kay is left with nothing but vague and unproved insinuations even in the small matters to which he continues to cling for whatever odd reason.
  • Like young Washington, Mr. Bhaer ` couldn't tell a lie ', so he gave the somewhat vague reply that he believed they did some - times, in a tone that made Mr. March put down his clothesbrush, glance at Jo's retiring face, and then sink into his chair, look - ing as if the ` precocious chick' had put an idea into his head that was both sweet and sour. Little Women
  • Curious though it sounds, from that vaguely trivial dispute grew a feud that has lasted to this day. Times, Sunday Times
  • I had a vague recollection of saying something of that sort, but to think that a patient was being helped by some throwaway remark of mine was quite humbling.
  • We love it when dull generic thrillers get given vaguely technological titles to try and make them sound more interesting and get it wrong.
  • I have come a long way from my days of getting jiggy for my "crackberry" as a colleague used to refer to hand-held electronic devices; nonetheless, I feel a vague uneasiness when far from the ability to reach out and touch civilization. Meg Pier: Silence of Spain's Tabernas Desert
  • In order to avoid charges of heresy (the Inquisition were always sniffing around him), Nostradamus wrote in a deliberately vague and obscure manner.
  • Readers familiar with English history will find a vague parallel to the suppression of the monasteries.
  • As a classification, it is vague and ahistorical.
  • I do have a vague memory of meeting her many years ago.
  • Both have, however, one common ground on which they become indistinguishable, -- that region of the supernatural which is most primitive and most vague; and the closest relation between the savage and the civilized fancy may be found in the fears which we call childish, -- of darkness, shadows, and things dreamed. Two Years in the French West Indies
  • As an excuse, it manages to be simultaneously vague, slightly pompous and entirely meaningless. Times, Sunday Times
  • The alien's head was round and massive with bulblike structures protruding from its forehead, and it lacked anything even vaguely resembling a neck. Addicts
  • We bless and we curse effetely all the livelong day, vaguely cognizant of some long lost momentousness, too jejune in our materialism to believe in anything. WORLDMag.com
  • I was vaguely conscious that I was being watched.
  • They remain rather vague about how they will achieve these aspirations.
  • Good weight of fruit and a vaguely rough tannins lead to an unsurprising warm alcoholic finish.
  • All is as unsubstantial, as vague and shadowy, as Coleridge's "image of a rock," or Bishop Berkeley's "ghost of a departed quantity," as he once defined a fluxion. Life: Its True Genesis
  • If we give up our vague, devastating quest, I suspect the Iraqis will have a lot of suddenly frantic help from the chaos-sponsors and bystanders in their neighborhood, the countries which have been so deeply delighted at the ongoing spectacle of America's ignorant blunder, at the unhoped-for crippling of America, at the astonishing waste of American lives and resources. Frank Dwyer: Better Numbers
  • Democratic leaders under election pressure tend to respond with vague promises of action.
  • Colleagues at work have been either very impressed (women, young people and the vaguely queeny boy in IT) or derisory (most of the men).
  • That music is a product of civilisation is manifest; for though savages have their dance-chants, these are of a kind scarcely to be dignified by the title musical: at most, they supply but the vaguest rudiment of music, properly so called. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library
  • Following his vague directions, they reached their destination.
  • These days I rarely phone a friend and often feel vaguely affronted if they ring me. Times, Sunday Times
  • Kin yew say “vague” and “overbroad,” boys and girls? The Volokh Conspiracy » Diane Wood on the Second Amendment
  • Vague promises of unspecified future salvation just don't cut it in today's market.
  • The alternative has serious problems of its own, replacing faux precision with admitted vagueness and subjectivity.
  • There were many good memories, but I have a lot of vagueness over the years.
  • This sceptical dogma of "evasiveness" is generally found in alliance with some vague modern "religion" whose chief object is to strip the world of the dignity of its real tragedy and endow it with the indignity of some pretended assurance. The Complex Vision
  • It started in a vague dream of getting off the ski-lift gondola at a mountain ski lodge, and stepping out on the metal grate.
  • Most, to be honest, follow the shamrock pint head stamp and the grassed worldcup beermat into the bin, but this morning's arrival actually looks vaguely interesting and possibly fun. Strange advertising thingies in the post...
  • Since the Impressionists were themselves an unfixed point, the Wallace Collection's Road to Impressionism is necessarily a vague track.
  • He was vaguely aware of footsteps behind him.
  • They look vaguely similar to the sharks of Jaws infamy, huge midriffs tapering to a point at snout and tail.
  • But the term "garagiste" has become established in the same way that "nouvelle cuisine" and "nouvelle vague" did. The First Taste of 2009
  • The governor gave only a vague outline of his tax plan.
  • Instead of grounding its characters in a convincing world, the film shrouds them in a vague, New Age, woo-woo spirituality.
  • The channel at best is purely vague and bereft of any creative leanings.
  • The antithesis he relied upon is between at the one extreme, vague ideas, pipedreams and perhaps a little more specifically, a concrete ‘wish list’ and, at the other, a working embodiment for a proposal.
  • Dorothea by this time had looked deep into the ungauged reservoir of Mr. Casaubon's mind, seeing reflected there in vague labyrinthine extension every quality she herself brought; had opened much of her own experience to him, and had understood from him the scope of his great work, also of attractively labyrinthine extent. Middlemarch
  • Through the fog we saw the vague outline of a ship.
  • As the robber was talking, a vaguely humanoid figure leaped from the rooftop of the adjacent building and crept into the bank.
  • People recognise the name and have a vague idea who he is, but in Australia he is huge, having hosted his own TV series, released best-selling albums and performed countless sell-out tours.
  • It's startling, difficult and rewarding: sometimes knotty with reference and allusion, sometimes woolly and vague.
  • The name Bolden was vaguely familiar, but he couldn’t place it. The Kennedy Detail
  • An FBI statement was vague about specific details, but made it clear that threats had been made.
  • A large colour photograph from his shack dweller series has been bleached of its content, the sitter a vague outline, a ghostly presence leached from the scene.
  • She was walking quite fast and her tiny slim body gave a vague shadow in the street lights.
  • Beyond Mr Jefferson's high black hat, through those tangled dew-drops of flame, Mr Goosevort saw golden hair glide softly through the oasis of bodies gathered vaguely round the stage, Mr Umberto and Mrs. Jefferson laughed again together, and Mr Howle's mournful ululation could be heard adrift a lake of rabble... golden hair turning away and fluttering into the shadow of a winding stairway. Mr Goosevort
  • Please don't comment on a thread that is only vaguely related to the subject you want to talk about, however; I'm usually a stickler for keeping threads on-topic and you run the risk of your comment being deleted.
  • There are two common senses of this: (1) opposition to the spread of knowledge-a policy of withholding knowledge from the general public; and (2) a style (as in literature or art) characterized by deliberate vagueness or abstruseness. 'Daily Voting News' For August 08, 2008
  • On the other hand he had only a vague idea of what constitutes a mathematical proof.
  • Political culture is a vague abstract concept that has been subject to various definitions.
  • It is important that the idea the logo communicates is vague and inexact, for we should not be given the opportunity to compare the registers of product and logo too closely.
  • He mauled the delicate sticks with his melon-sized hands, eventually plucking out two that were vaguely gold col - ored. Stalling
  • [Roderick Chisholm, Boundaries as Dependent Particulars (1984: 88)] “The reason why it's vague where the outback begins is not that there's this thing, the outback, with imprecise borders; rather there are many things, with different borders, and nobody has been fool enough to try to enforce a choice of one of them as the official referent of the word ˜outback™.” Boundary
  • • Northern Ontario: Premier Dalton McGuinty made a vague pledge on Tuesday that the budget would introduce relief for hard-hit northern residents and businesses over and above the help being earmarked for the Ring of Fire, a massive deposit of chromite, which is used in the manufacture of stainless steel, that the government hopes will spark another Gold Rush in the north. Thestar.com - Home Page
  • She waved vaguely in the direction of the house.
  • One can be gripped by a vague feeling of claustrophobia, as if entering an underground tomb.
  • He looked at her vaguely and then he focussed his gaze once more on the picture. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
  • You have a vague idea where you're heading. Times, Sunday Times
  • Speakers, dance companies, musical groups, lecturers, and vaguely edifying entertainments made the rounds; it was hugely successful.
  • Each week teams would have to carry out vaguely ludicrous tasks under the tuition of Glenn Reynolds.
  • Briefly pubbed with the team after work to celebrate the bank holiday, and made vague arrangements for lunch at Masala Zone on Wednesday to celebrate completing five years on PCW.
  • At the end of it all, though, there is a vague feeling of disquiet.
  • Now the law is becoming vague and impressionistic.
  • a vague and fuzzy idea of the world of finance
  • The federal labour law is vague on the subject of domestic workers, where no contract is signed, no taxes paid and social security and health insurance paid by the employer are voluntary.
  • They are also vaguely contemptuous of his beady-eyed negotiations regarding fees and wardrobe allowances.
  • If anything there was sympathy for libraries and their staff, allied to a vague if unstated belief that they deserved better.
  • Following a vague lead on a job, Raphael finds himself in a basement sitting across from a man in a wheelchair.
  • I have a very vague recollection of being aware of a coach or something alongside the bus.
  • Millard has little to back up his 'frightener' apart from some vague reference to some patients he woke up only for them, presumably, to have to go through the whole process again later. Latest news breaking news current news UK news world news celebrity news politics news
  • Bush was in inexperienced and unqualified candidate in 2000 who could only speak with slogans and vague promises. Republicans compare Obama to failed policies
  • But he is vague about how to enforce this; essentially he would trust the industry to regulate itself.
  • The letter was deliberately couched in very vague terms.
  • Usually the doodle turns into a four-legged creature with a vague resemblance to an elephant. TOY SHOP
  • He was also vaguely aware that if she had been a more brilliant woman she would have been a more exacting one, and less easily impressed. Emily Fox-Seton
  • These _vague_ articles, intended for a more vague performance, are the things which have damned our reputation in India. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12)
  • Similarly instead of the poppies, we had red vaguely heartshaped symbols with the Nigerian flag and a bleeding heart in the middle. Poppy brouhaha, farewell to Rummy, no to IBB, missing Gukira& looking for a new mobile network
  • She was drifting, drifting… her thoughts becoming foggy and vague
  • fumigated" right now -- though he's vague on the details of just how we do that. AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
  • It's a vague enough notion, that something unauthorized was then loaded under cover of the dark.
  • Garbanzo beans, Marcona almonds and golden raisins, along with cumin in the sausage, turned the dish vaguely Moroccan.
  • The hero is on the run for some vague crime against a technocratic society.
  • Any definition of qualitative research would be elusive, vague, and imprecise.
  • Angola, which is about twice the size of Texas, may be a nation with a vaguely familiar ring to many Americans.
  • The nature of fuzziness is its unsharp referential boundary, it is the essence that acts as the major criterion in distinguishing fuzziness from generality, ambiguity, and vagueness.

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