My guess is that Ono and James probably only have an ill-defined sense that if they were not members of their particular social categories, things would have been different.
Aung San Suu Kyi, who had inherited from her father a powerful if ill-defined sense of political destiny, was persuaded to join the opposition by activists keen to harness the power of her family name.
Like the economist John Maynard Keynes, Jung wondered whether modern individuals are trying to atone for an ill-defined sense of moral failure: we are no longer sure what makes something valuable, bar an arbitrary designation of financial worth, and this transforms the humdrum need for money into a kind of worship of money.
These young people of Singular age have such ill-defined senses of self that they operate in survival mode and rarely if ever have the opportunity to "live to work" instead of "work to live". To them, marriage is largely irrelevant and "dynamic relationship with self" is like mumbo-jumbo from outer space.
This distinguishes between quality of life (QoL) in its more general sense (an ill-defined term, with most definitions emphasising components of happiness and satisfaction with life) and QoL as appropriate for the requirements of clinical medicine and clinical trials (Fayers and Machin, 2000).
Can't you just follow some sort of itinerary, at least?" Hovering in his background, in his past, is an ill-defined series of missteps, the reader senses, that seem to stem from a long romance that has grown cold and, possibly, unsalvageable.
All the same, a certain ill-defined disgrace hung over his efforts, a sense of failure and waste, and, of course, loneliness.
There are arguments about a "sense of true beauty"; ill-defined and volatile relationships between friends and lovers; questions of how to handle solitude and encourage self-cultivation — all that, and dumplings.
On the side of those who lived in New York, you can share a sense of trauma both layered and ill-defined.
She is making a case — that the Defense Department sent servicemen and women to Iraq on an ill-defined, ill-equipped mission, without a plan, or any clear sense of who the enemy was, and then, when they got out, abandoned them, with the result that they are all maimed in one way or another.
"It's easiest to define somebody when they're ill-defined, and John Kerry's ill-defined".
