It's to Professor McWorter's credit that he developed the right idea from a vague representation of an obscure intuition. |
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Following a vague lead on a job, Raphael finds himself in a basement sitting across from a man in a wheelchair. |
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This promise is vague in many ways, impossible in its concrete form, and fraudulent in all respects. |
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Laws passed by legislatures are written in general and often vague language. |
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They usually prefer to keep their goals as vague as possible lest it count against them at the next election. |
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We will often give very liberal interpretations to vague or inconsistent claims about ourselves in order to make sense out of the claims. |
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Unfortunately, there is no end in sight, though the roadmap suggests that something vague lies ahead. |
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She packs bag and baggage and leaves with a vague address for a relative in the big city. |
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She was maybe 20 and had vague hopes, somewhere down the line, of becoming an actor. |
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He signed at her, indicating the direction they were walking in with a vague point of his index finger. |
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No, I just couldn't believe that he was sentimental enough to risk his life for the vague chance of a new family member. |
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Under the arch of her eyebrows, her wide brown eyes glowed with their vague hint of secrecy, their quiet incandescence. |
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When I first embarked on the research I was armed with only a very vague strategy and a lot of high hopes. |
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He has used long lenses for most of the photographs to produce a suitably vague background. |
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I have no care plan that I am aware of, when I once asked about it I was given a vague answer about not everyone having one. |
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Yet a vague assent to a vague assertion only yields twice as much vagueness. |
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She and her friends strive to assimilate the vague information provided by their well-meaning but sinister guardians. |
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They have no linguistic relationship to any other language except for a vague similarity to the Athabaskan language. |
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The glossy whiteness, cast with the yellow or red of the darkroom's safelight, begins to stir with a vague smoky shadow. |
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The buttons on lifts, tainted with vague trails of dried-up fluids, never escape her consciousness. |
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So it's vaguely disappointing that I am probably suffering from a disappointingly vague malaise. |
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The hero is on the run for some vague crime against a technocratic society. |
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Local television and radio news had exhausted the few vague details of the crime with countless updates and telecasts. |
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But critics point out that, as in Rio, the texts under discussion are vague and not legally binding. |
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They often asked questions that were too vague or did not lend themselves to keyword searches on the computer databases. |
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He had been intending to call round to see her, but it had been a vague intent, a low priority in his busy life. |
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There was, admittedly, a vague sense of familiarity there, but nothing she could recall right off the bat. |
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Summer now exists only as a vague memory, a time when all was warm and I bathed in lakes and pools and kissed and danced. |
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One can be gripped by a vague feeling of claustrophobia, as if entering an underground tomb. |
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There is always a vague feeling of inertia, a longing to go back to a country they have never seen. |
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I had a vague feeling that we were kind of heading in that direction in our relationship, but I had expected him to say it first. |
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I have a vague feeling that these different kinds and genres of rants will keep coming and going as this post progresses. |
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I had a vague feeling of movement and then pain crashed through me as I hit something really hard. |
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All of these are unfortunately no more than vague calls for perfecting ourselves. |
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In any case, no longer a niche-word filling a semantic gap, the vogue word became a vague word. |
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By evoking scenes from old Hollywood melodramas and thrillers, the images conveyed vague feelings of tension and threat. |
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To some observers in the office she bore only a vague semblance to the miniature Aussie singer. |
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Its very existence is kept menacingly vague except when it is called in to reduce dangerously irrational cities to melted glass. |
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Thinking in terms of the usual to and fro, Joe Duffy's team dredged up a couple of callers willing to feel a vague sympathy for Burke. |
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In conjunction with the twenty-fourth problem, this shows that, even at the time, he had at least a vague idea of metamathematics. |
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Accumulation of fluid may also cause the patient to hear an echo when he speaks and to experience a vague feeling of top-heaviness. |
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She was walking quite fast and her tiny slim body gave a vague shadow in the street lights. |
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He had different points of comparison in mind, ones more stylish and specific than the usual vague appeal to the Shakespearean. |
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While the idea is vague and untested, it may help the chair resolve disputes. |
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There was a vague element of milky coffee to it but if the label had not so informed me I'd have failed to identify the flavour. |
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The editorials in yesterday's major newspapers bewailed the crisis and expressed vague hopes that wiser counsel would prevail. |
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So-called psychics frequently shoehorn events to fit vague statements they made in the past. |
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On reflection, however, I recognized that this difference in readings focused my vague sense of dissatisfaction with the Tridentine rite. |
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Compared with the billions squandered on a vague mission in Iraq, a mission to Mars seems cheap. |
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She put too many vague sentences in the story, which eventually caused our mistranslation. |
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The montages make it clear how far much time has passed since the last scene, but at other times only vague references keep us oriented. |
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Yet his vague unwillingness to discuss specific strategies suggests that these aspirations will merely remain a twinkling in Mr Simpson's eye. |
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Except for a vague similarity in the themes, there is nothing in common to them. |
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Sometimes when I wake up I have a vague fuzzy feeling of having known that truth, but it soon slips away, to be replaced by fear and muddiness. |
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The person who has sat next to me every day for the last 18 months is just a jumble of sketchy features and vague associations. |
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Unfortunately, the information available on this issue has been extremely vague and sketchy. |
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In this latest reply, however, you seem to be shifting the definition a bit to make it more vague and undefined. |
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Maybe it was easier to scare people if the object of fear remained vague and undefined. |
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How vague and indistinct and undefined the ideas of most men are upon the subject! |
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Somewhere musicians were still rehearsing for later, and the vague strains of music allowed him to make such a move without any culpability. |
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Since the Impressionists were themselves an unfixed point, the Wallace Collection's Road to Impressionism is necessarily a vague track. |
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Even tribal affiliations appear unfixed and mutable, as an otherwise minor character, serves to emphasize with his vague background. |
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The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions. |
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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. |
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There are glimpses of at least three pubs and vague recollections of conversations with unidentifiable individuals. |
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He warned voters about parties that simply convey vague messages or chant slogans rather than provide specific viewpoints. |
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Such knowledge as management did possess was vague or unreliable and seldom committed to writing. |
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Professional advisers say successful people are often vague and unspecific when asked what their objectives are. |
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If anything there was sympathy for libraries and their staff, allied to a vague if unstated belief that they deserved better. |
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We throw around concepts, but often our thoughts are vague and unsubstantial. |
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Are they driven by intrepidity, by unsuspectingness, or by some kind of vague hope? |
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Nothing looked the same and a vague air of neglect and disrepair hung over the streets, businesses, and homes. |
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Not only do I not remember them I don't even have a vague idea of what the subject matter was. |
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The gales howled, and for a moment, a vague shape began to materialize from the general direction of the gate. |
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Even so the allegations were so vague they would have been impossible to defend. |
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These people are not interested in submerging their faiths into a vague universal spirituality. |
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I have a vague memory that it took about eight months for him to leave office after Black Wednesday. |
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The question of the intelligentsia, a somewhat vague term to begin with, is not really explored here systematically. |
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I have a very vague recollection of being aware of a coach or something alongside the bus. |
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I sort of had this vague recollection that it was used for munitions, but that was about it. |
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I have vague memories of shuffling up the street to the corner shop in them, only to discover that it was closed. |
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But for now I do feel some vague optimism, and a desire to see if I can make it work properly. |
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I have very vague ideas so basically suggestions are totally appreciated as well as opinions as always. |
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Some of the great land-based empires soon became little more than vague memories. |
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He remained vague over the issue of privatisation which occupied the national press last week. |
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I didn't mean to be purposefully vague about the details of what happened to me. |
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Sorry to be a bit vague but I don't want to mention the domain in question. |
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An FBI statement was vague about specific details, but made it clear that threats had been made. |
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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. |
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Exponents of travel are often vague as to how the benefits are supposed to work. |
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The problem is that talk of the interests of justice is very vague and very general. |
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So I said yes, I would go to his evening class on Wednesday, about which he was so vague and mysterious. |
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The Spectator editor, as is his custom, seemed a little vague as he accosted the former party leader. |
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He has been criticised for being wilfully vague about those policy plans during the campaign. |
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She is characteristically vague on a number of crucial narrative occasions. |
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There's a vague radical unease about the vaingloriousness and opulence of it all. |
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Just as vague and abstract language makes for bad prose, it is also the handmaiden of bad policy and the abettor of buck-passing. |
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Even after months of debate, the statement was vague and perplexingly non-committal on whether war would be justified. |
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Often the formulation is so vague as to practically guarantee non-compliance. |
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Pete was volunteered to do the rigging, and was soon edging his way out on the rather vague ledges. |
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The vague information about a suspicious vehicle did not point to the commission of any criminal offence. |
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Privacy was viewed as a vague enough concept even before notions of emotional damage became incorporated into its meaning. |
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I had vague notions of asking Sir Gregory about the comments that had passed between him and the Earl of Salisbury. |
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Or maybe it's a racy nouvelle vague number, all headscarves and bicycles made for two. |
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I'm a little vague on why tiny little hats and goggles are a requirement for steampunk, but apparently they are. |
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No motive was established for the crime, beyond a vague hankering for the bachelor life. |
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But will the two sides be able to stick to the hazy and vague terms of the agreement? |
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For six days the company has stonewalled customers and the press with vague explanations or, worse, no explanation at all. |
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Patients with concerns or vague complaints who would consider themselves healthy schedule physicals. |
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For all its specificity in certain areas, the painting remains strangely vague in others. |
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There was a vague light from a street light overhanging the rear of the house. |
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He starts strumming his electric guitar in the vague direction of a rhythm. |
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As ever in the heated culture wars, the remarks are coded to send an encouraging signal to conservatives, but remain outwardly vague for others. |
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Not an overly religious woman, Maggie had some vague notion of a grand plan. |
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The sweet sounds of an unplugged guitar and crackling fire mixed with vague cultish lyrics, opiating our young minds with hope and faith. |
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There were vague stories last week about TiVo and chipmakers coming to agreements regarding TiVo ToGo, and it seems that's now bearing fruit. |
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As described on line, the symptoms are as vague and all-encompassing as the advice proffered in newspaper horoscopes. |
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Drake and Emily thought it was lunchtime, based on vague hunches and guessing, but mostly on the fact that they were hungry. |
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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. |
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But how does one avoid falling into a vague religious syncretism made up of different expressions of religion? |
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She was peculiar, different to the girls he had taken vague interest in before. |
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Those of vague faith hold a perfectly reasonable and defensible position in a world of plenty. |
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In the Collins Review it's presented as a vague and ill-defined feel-good motherhood concept. |
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The CIS had no common parliament, president, or citizenship, only a vague pledge to work on collective security. |
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Phalangers, more commonly known as possums and cuscuses, are marsupials but with a vague resemblance to some monkeys. |
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The other thing that sticks in my mind is the vague sense of the overwhelming impossibility of the task. |
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In addition to being too long and too inclusive, the language of the draft constitution is vague and inaccessible. |
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He blamed some failings on vague and inaccurate systems of data collection. |
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Basically, they spend their days farting, chewing grass and staring at passing cars with expressions of vague bewilderment. |
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Most mainstream politics have capitulated to the normalization of a state of indefinite, vague and continuous low-level war. |
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But should so vague and indefinite a threat to peace be sufficient reason for military intervention? |
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Looking at his performances in the past 15 years or so, several seem vague and indistinct. |
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It may prove ineffective if, at appeal, workers expose vague contractual obligations. |
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Our tort system is dominated by vague standards and enforced by dispersed tribunals of inexpert jurors. |
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The vague headache began some time during Friday, but, by evening surgery, I felt decidedly feverish and unwell. |
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The final conclusion with respect to the effects of the transition to state-owned trade in the 1930s is vague and inconsistent. |
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Taken together, they impart a kind of tenuous concretion to the vague concept of nationhood. |
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It is full of grand statements and fine sounding but vague promises to assist working people and the poor. |
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The magazine was conspicuously quiet during World War II, publishing only a maddeningly vague piece by architect George Howe. |
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Answers on offer are a bit vague as the show is constantly evolving and the visual arrangement depends on how the VJ interprets the music. |
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It mixes first-order statements about rights and responsibilities with second-order legal arrangements and often vague policy aspirations. |
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Always remember that moving from an interesting but vague idea, to specific and actionable is the difficult part of creation and invention. |
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There was also a lot of vague talk about cooperating more with allies and avoiding international isolation. |
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He would wake up in the morning, lying in a pool of liquid, with only a vague recollection of his prior whereabouts. |
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He covers his tracks well, and he is always very vague about what he does for a living. |
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That member might have some vague and fond memories of being in a cowshed, looking up, and thinking that life is good. |
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He gave only vague answers to questions on the alleged presence of foreign troops in combat areas such as Sulu Island. |
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These words which might be supposed to be vague in meaning in fact perform a very precise formal function. |
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It attempts to formularise the story of Presley into a jolly singalong with some vague lookalikes and leave the audience with a weep at the end. |
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I think this is a vague way of asking if her crazyass brother is still in the picture. |
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In their view, some of the proposed offences were excessively broad or too vague and could criminalise peaceful activities. |
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The lamb curry and vegetable biryani that followed suffered by comparison, seeming just a little vague and hesitant. |
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If you want to do something specific, you do not want to rely on fuzzy and vague license language. |
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Chapter 3, on pre-Christian Egyptian monasticism, along with a paragraph on Sufi mysticism, is too sketchy and vague to be of much help. |
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In places, especially when the subject is art or religion, the language can get vague and gassy, but just plow through these patches. |
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The proposals are also vague on the subject of privately run preschools as opposed to those programs run by the government. |
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Were I lying, then I would simply bestow upon you some vague time in the future, so as to draw things out for pretenses and falsehoods. |
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Mr. Naess was equally vague about details of his prior relationship with the complainant. |
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Her eyes focused through her vague attention, and narrowed on some signs that told her that a train station was drawing near. |
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Depression is a shifting concept with definite but vague historical parameters. |
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The patient also may have profound malaise, severe headaches, myalgias, and vague abdominal pain. |
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The enterprise seems foolhardy, and Stewart does not justify it beyond a vague feeling that he wants adventure. |
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She was vague about the reasons, but she didn't want to advertise the fact I was intelligent. |
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Latter as she sat in the small isolation cell she only had a vague recollection of their conversation. |
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Was all this vague new age waffle disguised as insight still managing to fool people? |
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People think poetry is waffly, loose and vague but actually good poetry is utterly precise, no word is wasted. |
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But even from the vague hints he throws out, I think we may rest assured it will not be the last quack of a lame duck. |
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I wasn't, though I probably just murmured something vague in reply, and I may have given a wan smile. |
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However, now he had returned to England, he had developed generalised muscle aches and pains and a vague malaise. |
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Because the Acmeists broke with exhausted conventions and vague mysticism, Mandelstam is sometimes mistaken for a chilly realist. |
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He was well-spoken when talking about a subject that appealed to him, but when answering questions he was short, vague and trivial. |
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In mid-course, she had some vomiting after bouts of coughing and some of her spells were followed by a vague inspiratory whoop. |
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She holds this fact over Negi's head as a vague threat, though we're fairly sure she won't intentionally do anything with it. |
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On the other hand he had only a vague idea of what constitutes a mathematical proof. |
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I was on my knees as I said these things, kneeling near the end of my bed with my hands joined in a vague approximation of a person praying. |
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It's all a little vague and woolly at present, and nothing much will happen, as far as the consumer is concerned, for a year or two. |
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Labour has been vague and woolly with regard to the treaty settlement process up until now. |
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However in those days people had only a vague concept of place outside their known world. |
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She had a vague feeling that if she heard what he had to say, she would end up feeling even worse than she already was. |
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But Carruth manages a rare alchemy by combining an intricate plot and technology that's both specific and vague enough to seem plausible. |
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None of Arrino's vague references or allusions had prepared me for what she was saying. |
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I think the practical element of his take on remarkableness makes this far more useful than the vague pronouncements of a self-proclaimed guru. |
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From my vague remembrances of her, the role of Snow White seemed, at least physically fitting for her. |
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Howie, you're a little bit younger than I am, but you may have a vague remembrance of this. |
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An indictment of Carol for larceny would therefore be properly subject to dismissal as unconstitutionally vague as applied to her case. |
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Almost two years of apprehension, vague dread, and sheer frustration may be what ultimately gets the ball rolling again. |
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She's already larked about in her undies for a camera, and she's also made vague allusions to wanting to dress up provocatively for the series. |
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Specific events become only abstractions, so many rather vague repetitions of the same kind of incident. |
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I have fairly good ideas for two of my research papers, and a vague idea for the third. |
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The cause of the attack has been kept vague so far, there were early reports of a U.S. military accident involving a stealth bomber, but nobody's believing that for long. |
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At first, the idea was vague and formless, a brilliant abstraction about the surface area of a sphere, which is three times larger than the surface area of a flat chip. |
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The instructions she left were vague and difficult to follow. |
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The judges determined that the law was too vague to be fairly enforced. |
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I had the vague impression that they were withholding information. |
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I asked in a vague way if they had this book by a writer called Antony Beevor and published by John Murray. |
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Shame lingers rather longer, mainly as your mother can be left behind at home when you head back up to Dublin, but the vague cloudy memories of your behavior, sadly, cannot. |
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But the reporting, based on the same vague words, carelessly checked and sourced, remains unchanged. |
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An accusation of witchcraft is vague enough to serve as a kind of catchall for discontent. |
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As he stared, the shimmer resolved into a vague outline of a man. |
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Everything else is a miasma of vague promises and guarantees. |
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It would assume that anyone who says they don't own a car at all is lying and it would harass them continually with aggressive letters and vague threats. |
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The channel at best is purely vague and bereft of any creative leanings. |
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He's suave and smiles well but has a vague oiliness about him. |
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Promoters and ravers who attended the community consultations say there was too little information available and the city is being too vague about the whole issue. |
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He too seemed unfamiliar with the area, had only a vague appreciation of cardinal points and experienced audible confusion with the concept of left and right. |
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At the edge of the woods, a few birds had started to call out and flutter between the trees, vague shapes moving through the mist beyond the half-open bathroom window. |
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And the very fact that it is somewhat vague adds to its ominousness. |
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The idea of rebirth was hazy and vague in my mind at this time. |
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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. |
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Scotland remains vague and ill-defined in the US consciousness. |
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The more detail that is demanded the better, because it will concentrate the minds of a group of people who tend to be hopelessly vague and woolly. |
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They remain rather vague about how they will achieve these aspirations. |
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It is a classic example of a series in which there was a vague idea of a trilogy, but that never really came together until after the success of the first film. |
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Following his vague directions, they reached their destination. |
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Her evidence is vague in this regard, but the details will be worked out after the home is sold and the proceeds to be held in trust are dealt with. |
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I know they are talking about open relays, but is it vague enough to also mean remailers, anonymous mailers and disposable email services are now illegal. |
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But Horrigan says the site weeds out red flags like vague or unlisted addresses. |
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Alec Nevala-Lee says the result is vague and unoriginal, yet somehow still comforting. |
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No, he favors a vague and ill-defined form of collective ownership that the workers will figure out as they bumble and stumble along towards bankruptcy. |
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And if that sounds rather vague and amateurish, I'm sure it is. |
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Agreeing with a set of vague and ambiguous statements makes you dogmatic? |
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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. |
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But I think that people who have challenged it sometimes are kind of vague in their reasons for the challenge. |
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She said she had a only a vague idea who the couple were when she was booked. |
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The creaky sound of the blocks rubbing together and the icy, stale air that surrounded the seaside still remain a vague childhood memory in my head. |
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Someone might reply that my explanation is vague and approximate. |
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The kitchen was quiet save for the vague hiss of the pilot light in the stove, Beckett's soft snores and the ticking of the old clock on the wall. |
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With these vague and imponderable concerns behind us, we may return to the main line of our story refreshed and unburdened of all such feckless speculation. |
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And this produces a more active version of intertextuality, where there's a kind of force and reciprocation between a place and a text, rather than just a vague evocation. |
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Oh well, entering the Masters Games was only a vague idea anyway. |
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For those whose memories of geography lessons begin and end with vague notions about ox-bow lakes and limestone pavements, this may be hard to believe. |
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Rather, the most slippery problem disclosed is how vague the entire world of non-traditional medicine has proven to be. |
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The best democracies emerged after long periods of gradually-increased and revised organization, not vague anarchy which keeps the starving unfed and the weak oppressed. |
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You have to rely on senses and a vague idea about what a fish eating a worm feels like through the line, and what it looks like as the nibble bends the tip of your rod. |
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We believe that this statement is very vague and it's sourceless and believe it is inconsistent with the judgment made by the special representative. |
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In the image the distance remains vague and unformed, in contrast to the foreground where a new town has sprung into existence, impelled into life by the railroad. |
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In recent years the craft has attained a vague sense of semi-respectability, and that damnable respectability brought with it new rules against drinking. |
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Critics charge that the rules and regulations concerning the creation or expansion of subsidized daycares are too vague and too mired in bureaucracy. |
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Greenspan cultivated an oracular air, his utterances vague and technocratic yet hinting at shamanistic powers. |
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My own mother was as naive a little innocent as any who had ever lived, had nothing more than a vague idea as to what the more persistent of her pursuers wanted. |
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The woman was very vague to the point of being uninterested. |
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You have a vague sensation of a vague sensation, and you know that while this is a minor botheration, you will feel immensely relieved when it's concluded. |
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The hardening of an idea into a plan for a novel is a vague process and hard to describe. |
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It was a little bit of Balmain, a smidge of Balenciaga, a few vague references to Yohji Yamamoto and Rick Owens. |
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At the moment, as reprsented by this thread, it seems to me a confused muddle of mixed intentions, vague accusations, misunderstandings and so on. |
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What Sayre admired was not some vague nobility that she found among the London exiles, but their unshrinking and ongoing commitment to radical goals. |
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The brevity and baldness of the message filled me with vague concern. |
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You could call this navel-gazing, or you could agree that national identity is a vague and powerful thing, and deserves the odd moment of contemplation. |
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But, instead of standing there using vague generalities, it would be interesting if you would tell us what these old marrowless truths are, that we are nourished on. |
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Many symptoms of acute leukaemia are vague and non-specific. |
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Nouvelle vague of the 1960s was conceived in a similar spirit by French cineasts who realized that the Hollywood studios had turned the movie into a product to be consumed. |
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Here are my personal favorite film noirs in some sort of vague order. |
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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. |
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But, most importantly, remember that a vague sense of nausea with an. uncomfortable fullness in your neck and throat may be your only warning of an impending heart attack. |
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At the end of it all, though, there is a vague feeling of disquiet. |
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I paste my walls with maps, drawings, lines of poetry, and sketch out a vague structure. |
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I nodded at the vague words I captured from her answer as I headed towards the door, only halting when I realised that she had replied in the negative. |
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Steam and smoke emanated from the different ports and hoses that came loose, filling the small area around it with a somewhat vague but visible mist. |
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I don't miss the little street urchins who offered to mind the car for 50p, leaving you with a vague threat that they'd do your car in if you didn't pay up. |
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So going back to your opening remark, if people are willing to share this information with me, then I will do something with it, but all I get are very vague feelings. |
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It calls for tough and focussed decisions and no soft and vague measures. |
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But too many of them are vague ballads, and too many are gospely, horn-section, jump-blues kitsch. |
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Chris thought of the speech pathologist, Jennifer, with pique and vague groinal stirrings. |
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It is Boxing Day in a football ground, and all we can do is sprawl over the plastic, hurling instructions and vague encouragement. |
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Eusebius is vague about when and where these events took place, but it enters his narrative before the war against Maxentius begins. |
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The Confessio is generally vague about the details of his work in Ireland, though giving some specific instances. |
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It espouses the Arabian theory of mercury and sulphur forming the other metals, with vague allusions to transmutation. |
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For many critics, Macbeth's motivations in the first act appear vague and insufficient. |
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Even the Stalker Grike has resurfaced, with vague memories of Hester flickering through his brain. |
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Because of these vague symptoms, fibromyalgia is often either misdiagnosed or unrecognised, he said. |
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One is the assessment of the vascularity of masses and the other is the identification of vague breast masses using power Doppler vocal fremitus. |
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She said it all in a vague way, that it was a hazing incident gone awry. |
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That human consciousness is a function of the physical brain and not some comfortably vague etherealism is hopeful to Pinker. |
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Artfully vague words are the most trancy of all words. What we say and how we say it are our two powers for hypnotizing. |
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Many of the vague and refractory cases of neck and shoulder pain and of migraine may be due to cervical disc disease. |
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This initially proved difficult, and the King's speech opening Parliament was vague on what was to be done to neutralise the Lords' veto. |
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However, written sources are vague about Norse rituals, and many are invisible to us now even with the assistance of archaeology. |
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The Kievans seem to have had a very vague notion about the existence of the khaganate. |
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Eventually, these vague spirits assumed human forms and entered the local mythology as gods. |
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The Court unanimously concluded that the lack of prior notice rendered the FCC's standards impermissibly vague in these instances. |
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While this was initially a somewhat vague formulation, by the 1930s many Surrealists had strongly identified themselves with communism. |
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However, commissive acts are not promises and rather vague things that may be called espousals. |
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The Romans had a vague and contradictory geographical knowledge about Arabia Felix or Yemen. |
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Most strike the same ominously breathless tone, and all reach the same vague nonconclusions. |
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Elizabeth's vacillation and deliberately vague instructions gave her plausible deniability, to attempt to avoid the direct stain of Mary's blood. |
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On 18 July, Bowie indicated that future music would be forthcoming, though he was vague about details. |
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George, delegating the work to untrained assistants, drew up specifications and estimates that were vague or inaccurate and difficult to place. |
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The transient, vague and almost hologram-like paintings create a very strong sense of a certain feeling of tactility. |
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There is nothing vague about this passage unless one wants it to be obscure for deconstructionist purposes. |
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We think we get a kind of vague apprehension of what London means from the top of a 'bus better than anywhere else. |
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Lesser lawyers who were vague in oral argument faced a barrage of sarcasm or, if he agreed with them, constant chiding to do better. |
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He has cited the influence of the nouvelle vague and the films of Andy Warhol. |
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More generally, any term of tax law has a vague penumbra, and is a potential source of tax avoidance. |
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Squamoid morules consisting of vague spindle cell whorls without keratinization are characteristic features but are not always present. |
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The science fiction part is the vague superficial type you would expect in a popular space opera. |
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The younger ones, particularly Emily and Anne, admitted to retaining only vague images of their mother, especially of her suffering in her sickbed. |
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It's too vague and so it doesn't tell broadcasters in advance, in a way they can truly understand, what's permissible and what isn't,'' Berman said. |
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Anselm stuck firmly to the letter of the papal decree, despite Henry's attempts to persuade him to give way in return for a vague assurance of a future royal compromise. |
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The calipers might be Brembo, but judging by the spongy pedal feel and vague biting point, the rest of the system, seems to come right off a 1976 Chrysler New Yorker. |
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Serious concerns have been raised about 18C's effect on freedom of expression. In this book, the authors argue that s 18C is too broad and too vague to be constitutional. |
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