Where once I had been vaguely counting up – every book another brick in the foundation of my… something-or-other – now I was going the other way, and every book was just the physical manifestation of a hundred missed opportunities.
Disabled people will be the most disappointed – there is no plan to reinstate the Independent Living Fund, and the changes made to the Work Capability Assessment are too vague to count for anything.
In place of the vaguely amorous Count Dracula is a fiend who arises directly from the sexual frustrations of Henry Jekyll (Fredric March), a flawed man with good intentions, whose motivations and plight are etched in deeply psychologized terms.
Officials have spoken of intelligence they received about planned gatherings in the same manner they have talked about monitoring reporters — vaguely, seemingly counting on the uncertainty to be more intimidating.
This was originally put forward by Fine (1975) as a theory for dealing with de dicto indeterminacy, the idea being that a statement involving vague expressions should count as true (false) if and only it is true (false) on every "precisification" of those expressions.
"The spending cuts are far too vague to be counted on for significant savings and, even if they were more specific, I can't see how they would come close to offsetting the level of tax cuts he recommends.
(Unless you count the vague assurance that he would "protect and strengthen" the program).
We saw American commanders expressing doubts about a war plan that the Pentagon insisted was going splendidly while being vague about the body count.
Clemens also filed a motion Friday in which he asked the court to dismiss the case because the charges against him are too vague and — because each count contains several allegations of lying — a jury could convict him even if jurors disagreed on some of the facts.
And I hope you caught me when I said "one of the best". I said "one of the best" so we can feel better about ourselves, so we can bask in a little easy distinction, however vague and unverifiable, and count ourselves among the elite, whoever they might be, and enjoy a perceived leg up on the perceived competition.
