Sentence examples for vague force from inspiring English sources

Velocity is made out to be some vague force that drives the rate that money goes around, and it's not that at all.

The problems come when she tries to explain how some vague force called "society" or "culture" shaped her sexuality, or, in "The Beauty Myth," made her want to be cute, or, in "Misconceptions," forced her to have a C-section.

But, with railroads and the telegraph and the second industrial revolution, there was the dawning realization that, in addition to whatever was going on locally, there was also this other thing, a vague force, the national economy, that seemed to make life better or worse for everyone, everywhere, in irregular cycles.

I came in on the Holy Spirit, this vague force for benevolence.

Recent legislation has made legal the president's right to detain a person indefinitely on suspicion of affiliation with terrorist organizations or "associated forces," a broad, vague power that can be abused without meaningful oversight from the courts or Congress (the law is currently being blocked by a federal judge).

By which I mean: They don't tell a linear story or even have much of a plot; they focus on characters who are often unlikable or vague; they force the viewer to figure out what is going on.

What's being presented as a thrilling turn of the tables could also been seen as a spiteful chance to get back at a vaguely identified force that makes some people feel pushed to the outside of the culture.

That vague "associated forces" language was used by the Obama administration to justify tremendous military incursions to fight the self-declared Islamic State in Syria and Iraq as well as Shabab in Somalia.

It is said that we deny responsibility for our actions when we attribute their cause to: vague impersonal forces ("I had to"); our condition, diagnosis, personal or psychological history; the actions of others; the dictates of authority; group pressure; institutional policy, rules, and regulations; gender roles, social roles, or age roles; or uncontrollable impulses.

Set over a thousand years after some vague cataclysm forced the last remnants of mankind to seek shelter on a far-off alien world, the film has a routine space voyage beset by a wayward storm of asteroids, which in turn leaves legendary General Cypher Raige (Smith) and his son Kitai (Jaden Smith) stranded on the quarantined, hostile remains of their once-planet.

When Woody shows up at Lyndon's farmhouse one weekend, the brothers' percolating rancor unleashes vaguely supernatural forces.