Sentence examples for vague generalizations from inspiring English sources

"Aggregate mortality trends are vague generalizations," Gelman wrote in March, with a co-author, Jonathan Auerbach.

So she tends to speak in vague generalizations, or in jokes.

The main technique Mr. Edward discusses in his book is simply an ability to speak in vague generalizations about common hardships.

To the extent opponents give reasons beyond vague generalizations about the government's taking over medical care or "death panels" or socialized medicine, many of their statements are false.

As a teacher of individuals and chamber groups he has had the gift of avoiding vague generalizations and empty rhetoric and addressing the problems of learning acutely and specifically.

Judge Batts rejected that argument, writing, "The Court finds such contentions to be post-hoc rationalizations employed through vague generalizations about the alleged naivety of the original, rather than reasonably perceivable parody".

"Go see this museum," or, "you have to try the food," can be incredibly vague and generalizations of the overall experience.

Thus a tendency toward abstract language and vague or hedged generalizations.

If the author uses vague or sweeping generalizations without any information to back them up (example: "Madness was despised in Elizabethan times"), or if the arguments are completely one-sided without acknowledging other opinions and viewpoints, it's probably not a good research source.

Inspired by such weighty titles as The Tipping Point, Blink and Outliers, Cory Bortnicker and Brett Molé have built a "generator" of 25 Gladwellian book covers like the above Blank, Yoga: How Hot Trends Make People Buy Books, Vague: The Power of Generalizations To Impress The Bored and (my personal favorite) Monster Cocks: The Last Book You'd Think I'd Write.

But if the best we can do—like a number of late 19th century German scholars is characterize China as a land of ewigen Stillstand we are surely better off with no generalizations whatsoever; making vague or erroneous generalizations tend to stereotypes, and there are already a superfluity of these for China, from Charlie Chan to Fu Manchu.