Also suggesting the author (who spent many years teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Platt is a vaguely content but uncommitted academician on the humanities faculty of "a large technological institute located along the Charles River in Cambridge, Mass".
Scholarly research isn't vague and content neutral, though, because it always has a subject and a context.
Research showed that tourists expect an educational component on marine wildlife tours, but it remains somewhat vague what content tour participants expect.
In the spirit of Anne Brigman, whose early 20th-century Pictorialist photographs celebrate the female nude in romantic outdoor settings, Jane Martin uses soft focus, atmospheric lighting effects and technical sleight of hand to create figure studies with implicit but deliberately vague narrative content.
While much of our public discourse has the vague, improvisational content of bullshit, bullshit's habitat of ephemeral, fleeting, off-the-record space is shrinking.
The recent 'road map' presented to the HDP by the government, rather vague in content, sets a deadline for disarmament for February next year, and mentions only partial, not general, amnesty.
The Master's programme was considered vague in content and difficult to grasp.
Meaning obviously changes if vague conceptual content is precisified, but further divergence is frequently sanctioned, just as explication counsels.
Moreover, evil-minded individuals could distort the use of this broader sense of the word to claim medical benefits and secondary gains based on this "happy combination of a vague descriptive content and a negative emotional connotation" [ 27].
Some pseudo-code is vague and content-less and does little more than restate the problem description, and thus is not worth any points.
