Sentence examples for less definite from inspiring English sources

These days he has grown less definite.

The name of the hero is less definite.

Judith's subsequent miracles are more equivocal than the snow: less definite, less controlled.

Ms. Lee's court-appointed lawyer, David A. Smith, also was less definite about Ms. Lee's wishes than he had been.

As his tour started, Mr Bouchard was saying that nothing is less definite than a vote this autumn.

The small team of international observers co-ordinated by the United Nations has been less definite in its conclusions.

Saying something can also be viewed from three different perspectives: (i) as a phonetic act: uttering certain noises; (ii) as a phatic act: uttering words "belonging to and as belonging to, a certain vocabulary, conforming to and as conforming to a certain grammar"; and (iii) as a rhetic act: uttering words "with a certain more-or-less definite sense and reference" (Austin 1962a, 95).

A hiring manager in a discovery position works with less-definite deadlines and timetables than the person who runs the department charged with, for example, scaling up a biomolecule.

But according to reports from those in the room, the President reiterated only that it was "my intention" to honour the agreement a phrase which seems less than definite.

The TB diagnosis was less often definite for TBM patients, 46 (46.0%), compared with 244 (65.8%) and 358 (59.6%) in the TBP and TBEP groups, P = 0.0037, and in 38 (38.0%) patients Mtb was documented in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) by microscopy (24), PCR (7), and/or culture (17).

In "Kennedy's Wars" (Oxford, 2000), the historian and strategist Lawrence Freedman maintains that despite anecdotal evidence of a desire for a withdrawal from Vietnam after the 1964 elections, it was "less of a definite decision than a working assumption, based on a hope for stability rather than an expectation of chaos".