As Sarah Easley, a co-owner of Kirna Zabête, puts it: "Nebulous fashion equals nebulous convictions equals nebulous origin/home.
The 1970s have always been a nebulous time for style, particularly interior design.
They wanted me to tell you what it's like for a plebe to penetrate the inner sanctum of style, that nebulous (but, without a doubt, fahhhhhbulous) place where a group of tastemakers--who I can only assume look like those futuristic elders who wear Star Trek glasses and play air guitar in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure--decide that jumpsuits and derby hats need to make a comeback.
"It's a nebulous pursuit that way.
The ECB also supplied a nebulous governing theme: The Ages and Styles of Europe.
Though officially banned from politics on the nebulous charge of trying to impose Saudi-style religious rule, he still pulls the strings: Mr Kutan is plainly his man.
He assiduously cultivated art critics, including, besides the spoilsport Baudelaire, the enthusiastically disposed Champfleury (Jules-Antoine-Félix Husson), who promoted a movement that Courbet had helped to initiate in the years leading up to the revolution of 1848: Realism, the second of the big-name modern styles, after Romanticism, and the most nebulous.
Perhaps it is good news, then, that there is scant evidence in the panel's report of his infamous "golden thread", a nebulous idea which seeks to imply that western styles of democratic government and openness are a foundation of growth and poverty reduction.
This is a nebulous category that includes many wines made in a style called ripasso, in which the fermenting juice is soaked in the leftover skins from pressed Amarone grapes.
Turner may have complained that "Atmosphere is my style, indistinctness my fault" but, for example, the nebulous late canvases that so mystified and sometimes outraged his contemporaries, were not just experimental washes of sky, water and land but paintings that were not yet paintings and which often became the basis for fully formed works.
