Sentence examples for indistinct notion from inspiring English sources

"Men have an indistinct notion that if they keep up this activity of joint stocks and spades long enough all will at length ride somewhere, in next to no time, and for nothing; but though a crowd rushes to the depot, and the conductor shouts 'All aboard!' when the smoke is blown away and the vapor condensed, it will be perceived that a few are riding, but the rest are run over".

In the notes beneath the 1991 dateline the first indistinct notions of the book begin to emerge from the mist.

He has an indistinct, meager notion in his head that he thinks might work for a short poem: a few unconnected words or an ordinary phrase that he's suddenly realized is quite weird.

He has an indistinct, meagre notion in his head that he thinks might work for a short poem: a few unconnected words detritus of his day or an ordinary phrase that he's suddenly realized is quite weird ("cut the mustard," for instance what does it mean to cut mustard, and why is it only ever used in the negative?).

Families were large and intermarried so that the boundaries between the categories of relative, dependent, and friend were indistinct, recalling an older notion of family as the circle of dependents.

You know that feeling, where everything is a bit indistinct?

Note, the emergent self adheres to the identification of the self, albeit with indistinct characteristics or borders; the absent self, however, abdicates the identity question altogether by substituting a notion of embedded perception for a knowing agent surveying the world.

Any lettering was indistinct.

He sounds fuzzy, indistinct.

Her husband is indistinct.

There is also a disquieting notion inherent in this approach to identity — that if anyone can indeed be "black," then we all are, that Morrison and Coltrane and Chisholm and Malcolm are both unhyphenated Americans and indistinct.