Sentence examples for vague background from inspiring English sources

Robinson's forbearance, his courage, the price he paid — all that was part of the grown-up world, a vague background to the thrill I felt when he rattled opposing pitchers with the challenge of his quickness on the basepaths.

Adapting Graeme Aitken's novel, the writer and director, Stewart Main, convincingly depicts an emotionally immature world where mothers are only a vague background presence, and fathers show up just to yell at the television or deliver black eyes.

Also as expected, cells transfected only with the d2eGFP reporter plasmid were in general negative for expression of the reporter protein, although a vague background of d2eGFP expression could be detected (data not shown) indicative of limited leakiness of the UAS-TK promoter.

Alarming Americans with vague backgrounds recur from story to story, men who are certainly perpetrating evil in our names.

So images of Jesus, the Virgin, various saints and the occasional devil are shadowed by vague visual background clutter, like the collective unconscious seeping through more official story lines.

Mr. Wiesel objected, and Ms. Margolin wrote him out of the play, replacing him with a character of vaguely similar background.

He addressed religious leaders, alcoholism, homelessness, political speeches, suicide, fashion, and other topics, unlike in his other strips, which had fantasy or seemingly vague, timeless backgrounds.

Mr. Levin is intentionally vague about his background.

Twentysomething when she arrived on the job from the Princeton University library in 1906, Greene was as vague about her background as she was about her dates.

Jim stood in the background vaguely staring.

But that seems like hairsplitting in the face of an album that's idiosyncratic, varied, beautifully nuanced and compelling in a field filled with music that fades vaguely into the background.