The subject of "Sitting in Her Easy Chair" has a indistinct face and a clawlike hand.
Hidden in the painting is an indistinct face -- perhaps the mumbling speaker, perhaps the confused listener -- and a series of letterlike shapes that could be trying to form themselves into words.
The critic Natasha Wallace has speculated that Venus's indistinct face may be the key to the underlying meaning of the painting, in that "it is not intended as a specific female nude, nor even as a portrayal of Venus, but as an image of self-absorbed beauty".
With their pale, hairy, apelike bodies, indistinct faces, glowing red-gray eyes, and — especially — breathy little chucklings, the Morlocks are creepy, and the climactic moment when they close in upon the Time Traveller, their soft, palpal hands reaching out as if to assess just what sort of eating he might provide, remains nightmarish after many rereadings.
Descriptions arrive in indecisive pairs ("an indolent and hedonistic soul", "an air of self-containment and enclosure"), and physical appearances remain strangely indistinct: a face might be "slightly florid", "almost elegant", or "somewhat drawn".
If you believe women and minorities face indistinct challenges not faced by white men, society should cut them a break, so to speak, in whatever tangible ways it can.
And the tinting of the glasses darkens images that are already shadowy and dim, turning colors drab and faces indistinct.
And at 83, Mrs. Astor's only child found himself handcuffed, fingerprinted (though "modern fingerprinting machines are not calibrated for aging digits, which leave indistinct markings") and facing an 18-count indictment regarding alleged mismanagement of his mother's assets.
A floor piece, dated 1990-2003, is composed of a low steel trough, into which melted candle wax was poured; there, the wax hardened around the bases of nine tiny sculptures, in unfired clay, of indistinct figures and faces that are reminiscent of the sorts of prehistoric totem that archeologists, in despair, assign to "ceremonial use".
His face is indistinct and he wears a baseball cap with a University of Texas Longhorns logo.
"My career picked up," he says, his face motionless, his voice indistinct, yet somehow able to radiate happy mischief.
