But Sandler, ducking his head and issuing such indeterminate sounds of dismay as "Awww" and "Arrrgh," seems less a mensch taking responsibility for his family than a sheep looking for a pen.
His bunkmate, Ludo, whose indeterminate European language sounds mostly Welsh, must use his hacking skills to bail him out.
We immediately took to the word because "glissade," said with just a hint of indeterminate European accent, sounded more respectable than "sliding on our backsides down the face of a snowy mountainside with our snowshoes splayed out in front of us and our poles dragging ingloriously behind".
Then, emerging from beyond the frequency at which human biology can detect sound, an indeterminate buzzing, perhaps of an insect, a rhythmic crunching, and a rustling like the uncurling of forest foliage.
Of course, in recent years the music industry has changed in a way that gives those ideas a contemporary relevance: we live in an age where dance events are slathered in corporate branding, recorded music's monetary value appears to have collapsed, the real new pop idols are YouTube stars of indeterminate talent and the hollow, DayGlo sound of EDM has swept the US.
In music, noise is variously described as unpitched, indeterminate, uncontrolled, loud, unmusical, or unwanted sound.
Nearly every sound in these tracks has amorphous parameters: an indeterminate pitch, a gradual attack and decay, the sensation of being heard from a distance, or perhaps underwater.
On examination he was apyrexial, blood pressure 135/69 mmHg, an indeterminate jugular venous pressure (due to numerous previous central venous dialysis catheters), normal heart and chest sounds.
On the sound stage, dozens of amply bearded crew members frantically prep cameras and lug vast bundles of cables of indeterminate purpose, politely declining to tell me I'm in the way, which I invariably am.
It becomes indeterminate".
