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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Jazz was formerly a crude term for indulging in an action which in polite society is referred to, if at all, only with such vague Latin terms as intercourse and cohabitation.
When do these three days expire?" "That's what pisses me off. I don't know. He was annoyingly vague." "The nerve. Threatening you and not being precise about it.
So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.
It frequently happens that I begin a novel with just a visual image of something, a vague sense of people in three dimensional space.
When I started, they told me I only needed 3 chords and the truth... It turned out I could manage with 2 and some vague ideas.
You can never get rich, or start the creative power into action, by sending out unformed longings and vague desires.
SHOEBURYNESS (abs.n.) The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from somebody else's bottom.
Many early-stage entrepreneurs make one simple mistake: Describing this 'big picture' in vague concepts and words.
She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origins.
At Harvard, where students tend to respond to real-world celebrities with the vague sense that they could do a better job themselves, the recipe for celebrity is complex.
No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. Life and death to him are haunted grounds, filled with goblin forms of vague and shadowy dread.
A thrush, because I'd been wrong, Burst rightly into song In a world not vague, not lonely, Not governed by me only.
My parents and I - I'm an only child - are not particularly religious, but I was christened and raised in that vague and characteristically Canadian form of Protestantism known as the United Church.
The only guaranteed way to make something not very funny is to make it vague.
My dad was a very violent, frightening and dangerous guy. Next to him, I was this vague kind of kid who walked around, as I still do, gathering impressions.
I'm interested in Buddhism. Of all the organized religions, that to me is the only one that makes even vague sense. I just don't have the discipline for that kind of practice.
After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or vivid cameo.
We don't understand why we're here, no one's giving us an answer, religion is vague, your parents can't help because they're just people, and it's all terrible, and there's no meaning to anything.
It's one of the biggest problems with the system now. Vague regulations leave the system open to abuse.
It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden flowers.
We have found other terms far less vague than the old ones to designate the same complaints. It's a great advance linguistically.
I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it.
Even in my despair, I knew in a vague way that the Bible held hope for me in its pages. I just didn't know where to begin.
The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.
I'm a little vague on the details but aren't doughnuts just the most marvellous thing to ever come out of organised religion?
I didn't actually realise what apartheid meant. I'm probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation, like on the beaches and buses.
"There is no greater gift to an insecure leader that quite matches a vague enemy who can be used to whip up fear and hatred among the population."
I think what happens with a lot of writing and art is that specificity ends up being relatable while universality becomes vague.
As a viewed myself in a fragment of looking-glass..., I was so impressed with a sense of vague awe at my appearance ... that I was seized with a violent tremour.
...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
I had a vague memory of being that ridiculous at one time. Let he who hath never worn parachute pants cast the first stone.
In his 1930 book, Dirac took for granted that measurements could be made, but was very vague about what was actually involved.
Sundays are terrible because it is clear that there is no one in charge of the world. And this knowledge leave you drifting around, grappling with unfulfilled expectations and vague yearnings.
I'm a vague, conjunctured personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.
Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.
Problems are often stated in vague terms... because it is quite uncertain what the problems really are.
He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
For years I lived rather medicated and muted - I did not possess language to describe my vague feelings of unhappiness, to politicize it, to attempt to transcend it.
I wanted the Peace Corps to be something very vague and unorganized, and to a large extent it was. It did not run smoothly. The consequence was that we were left alone.
Autumn clouds, vague and obscure; The evening, lonely and chill. I felt the dampness on my garments, But saw no spot, and heard no sound of rain.
She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague “she” of all the poetry books.
She frowned at him. "That sounds vaguely like a threat." "It's not vague and it's not a threat. It's clearly blackmail.
Love is hurt with jar and fret;
Love is made a vague regret.
The fish is swift, small-needing, vague yet clear, A cold, sweet, silver life, wrapped in round waves.
Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.
Despite its maddeningly vague, inarticulate form, anxiety is almost always trying to tell you something useful and apposite.
Was I in a nativity play? I think I was an angel; I was a very blonde child, so I tended to get typecast. I have a vague memory of wearing wings.
The recollection of how, when and where it all happened became vague as the lingering strains hung in the rafters of the studio. I wanted to shout back at it, Maybe I didn't write you, but I found you.
As a consequence of these hesitations and of the vague character of such innovations, the Commission on Human Rights itself had doubts from the beginning about its role and its functions in general.
Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.
When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I'm about to do.
I am not a great planner, so I have just a vague idea. And then I start to find out what kind of book I actually want to write.
Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.
Ger-mans love the ambiguous word, verbal assonances as ends in themselves,vague concepts. Anglosaxons are more clear.
We live in a vague world. And it gets vaguer all the time. In this environment, the power of the specific, measurable and useful promise made and kept is difficult to overstate.
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
Large numbers have been punished on the basis of a broad and vague definition of terrorism and a worryingly low threshold of evidence.
A lot of people don't know what they want, you know, or they're just kind of vague about it.
Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.
What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find ourselves therein, -- form given to what was vague, what slumbered stirred to life.
