Sentence examples for oddly vague from inspiring English sources

He puts his finger on a familiar yet oddly vague term of modern film criticism: "mise en scène".

Jebedee (his tutor) had been oddly vague about the introduction: 'Give these people a try, Smiley, they might have you and they pay badly enough to guarantee you decent company.' But Smiley was annoyed and said so.

And the sense of period is oddly vague so that Luke and Katie's fears of four-minute warnings and of sirens from the nearby American base are more redolent of the bomb-haunted sixties than of the present.

Instead, Jack gets an oddly vague text message from a number he doesn't recognize.

The breathless press corps has embraced a cauldron of speculation and doomsday scenarios for an oddly vague FBI announcement.

Jesse Green of New York magazine called the show "oddly vague,"adding that the musical "has a big problem with stylistic monotony.

The book is oddly organized and vague about chronology, with three women as protagonists.

But her past, like that of the narrator of "In the Cut," feels oddly disembodied and vague, and the reader keeps wondering how she ever became a psychiatrist and why she hasn't gained greater insight into her own neuroses and needs.

But too much of the book feels vague — an oddly cool glimpse toward vibrant personalities.

Her nude or lightly dressed figures, alone or joined in vaguely desperate, oddly chaste embraces, are cartoonish and borderline grotesque; but delicately rounded form, unerring touch, and luminous color, augmented by bravura passages of still-life and landscape, charge them with irresistible poetry.

They've overhauled the body pretty significantly (oddly, making it look vaguely like a BlackBerry Storm), but the guts are all there.