Sentence examples for like a vague from inspiring English sources
It sounded like a vague approach to the Presidency, Rovere wrote, but it wasn't.
Clearly, this is a predicament all choreographers face; here, it feels like a vague premise masking Mr. Vidich's incessant drive to push boundaries.
Or the suffocating feeling of being stuck on a filthy bus, with ashtrays spilling over with gum and cigarette butts, the air-conditioning "more like a vague gesture toward the abstract idea of air-conditioning" than the real thing.
"Culture" is a word activists like to deploy nowadays — there's "rape culture" to condemn or a "culture of respect" to strive for — and sometimes it can sound like a vague or lazy way to invoke how power or discrimination work.
The parties angered many Indonesians by pressing hard on several symbolic religious issues, like a vague "antipornography" law that could be used to ban everything from displays of partial nudity to yoga.
But Valerie E. Caproni, the F.B.I. general counsel, said that the data showed that agents had been able to dispose of about 96 percent of the low-grade reasons they might have had for suspecting someone of wrongdoing, like a vague tip or some other ambiguous lead, using "low intrusion techniques" rather than by opening a potentially more invasive preliminary investigation.
The last four years evaporated like a vaguely disturbing erotic dream.
"I like to be touched," Elizabeth tells her, in what sounds like a vaguely sinister pronouncement.
"Under the Sun" is to some degree a love story — albeit one that reads like a vaguely sinister love-hate story.
He's often wonderful when illuminating some visual detail — like an old house in Provincetown that has been souped up with "chocolatey-plum varnish" so "the whole thing gleams like a vaguely dangerous piece of pastry".
But more important, Mr. Rodriguez seems unsure what his film is really about, making the moral of the story -- "dream an unselfish dream" -- feel more like a vaguely judgmental homily than a satisfying conclusion.
