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The phrase "a soft vague" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe something that is both soft and vague, but the combination lacks clarity and proper grammatical structure.
Example: "The artist's painting had a soft vague quality that made it difficult to discern the subject."
Alternatives: "a gentle ambiguity" or "a subtle indistinctness."
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When "Hunky Dory" came out, I took one look at the album cover — a soft, vague picture of the artist looking soft and vague — and anticipated a soft, vague sensibility.
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Mr. Lindh, a 20-year-old Californian, said in a soft vaguely foreign accent that he understood the charges against him.
Another song, "Imagine Me," a willowy ballad held together by a soft, vaguely martial snare, a bright acoustic guitar, and a sweetly repetitive piano riff, pulls a neat psychological trick: instead of telling the customary gospel story of absolute, transformational change, the narrator presents the act of even imagining an uninhibited relationship with God as a kind of breakthrough.
(Dargis) 'The Iron Lady' (PG-13, 1 45) Meryl Streep, an Oscar nominee, plays Margaret Thatcher, in power and in retirement, with brilliant wit and sly sympathy, but the film, directed by Phyllida Lloyd, falls back on biopic clichés and leaves us with a soft and vague picture of a woman who was surely the opposite.
(Dargis) 'The Iron Lady' (PG-13, 1 45) Meryl Streep won an Oscar playing Margaret Thatcher, in power and in retirement, with brilliant wit and sly sympathy, but the film, directed by Phyllida Lloyd, falls back on biopic clichés and leaves us with a soft and vague picture of a woman who was surely the opposite.
(Dargis) 'The Iron Lady' (PG-13, 1 45) Meryl Streep plays Margaret Thatcher, in power and in retirement, with brilliant wit and sly sympathy, but the film, directed by Phyllida Lloyd, falls back on biopic clichés and leaves us with a soft and vague picture of a woman who was surely the opposite.
Her intention is to comment rather than cry, to report back from the "soft vague / border between speech / and silence".
And his comments to the press tended to be soft, vague and self-deprecating -- modes of communication that Mr. Giuliani seldom, if ever, employed in public.
Avoid the soft, vaguely dancey numbers, such as The Smoke and The Feeling: the delightfully sullen groove of Dojo Rising ("Give it to me easy/give it to me hard") is where it's at.
Soft, vaguely Christmassy music plays in the background as Scheer looks up, turns around, and says "Oh hello, didn't see you there" to the camera operator he literally hired, before taking a seat.
In "Crank," the heroine, Kristina, describes her druggie alter-ego, Bree: I suppose she's always been there, vague as a soft copper pulse of moonlight through blossoming seacoast fog.
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