From earliest adolescence, Ms. Corrie, who wanted to be a poet, had a voice that was unusually and emphatically her own, and a precocious gift for concrete metaphors that give form to nebulous feelings.
As Karen Fogg, the EU's ambassador in Turkey, points out, it was inevitable that Turks would lose some of their rosy but nebulous feelings about joining the EU as soon as they learned the precise and often painful preconditions for membership.
That feeling is nebulous, hard to describe because it's what isn't there.
If your feelings for Math are nebulous or ill-defined, you may want to use a looser format with fewer rules.
To those who study such arcana, it is an article of faith that you cannot hope to win a general election without securing the hearts, minds, gut feelings, and wallets of Middle England — that nebulous but sacred zone which, with its touch of Tolkien, refers to the millions of citizens who have acquired the hobbit-y habits of moderation, and who, having done O.K., would like to do better still.
Many young men are taught to keep their feelings hidden below the surface to achieve the nebulous status of becoming a man.
I get the feeling that they are trying to change the subject to more nebulous things, things like family disadvantage, not income.
It's a big part of the reason why I prefer the unfashionable idea of religion, with all its practices and public liturgies, to that nebulous language of spirituality that prioritises the inner life and the idea of feeling.
I think an emotional link like this is nebulous enough that it pulls the elements together (Hart, his mother, his feelings about himself and her, and how he expresses himself) without making the connections precisely literal.
"Meaning" is probably an even more nebulous concept than boredom is; one nice definition describes it as "something that gives us a feeling that's not easy to translate into thought".
