Sentence examples for vague lists from inspiring English sources

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And in "Appetite," a senescent doctor, who was a control freak in his younger days, is reduced in his dotage to sputtering obscenities at his wife, who likes to torture him by reading aloud recipes filled with just the sorts of vague lists of ingredients and directions that most grate against his love of precision.

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Discussion of the premium is invariably followed by a vague list of possible interventions ranging from one-to-one tuition or a longer school day to paying for better teachers or cultural activities.

Last month, the Christian Democrats Movement, a socially conservative opposition party, introduced a series of constitutional amendments that would explicitly prohibit both same-sex marriage and "propaganda of homosexuality and indecency," and enforce a vague list of "moral criteria," to which public officials must adhere.

In 1972, towards the end of his career, glowering at the world through smoked glasses under a Texan ten-gallon hat, the man whom some consider to be the "father of the nouvelle vague" listed the collaborators for whom he still felt gratitude after 25 years in the business.

A British official said Saturday that Libya appeared to want three types of benefits: a vague list of items to help assure its defense, a lifting of the European Union's arms embargo and a lifting of restrictions on Libyan students studying abroad.

In a study under review for publication, Dr. Bylund found that patients who persistently asked for a specific treatment or test, based on Internet research, were more likely to get it than patients who came in with a vague list of symptoms, or who were more deferential to the doctor.

The motion they voted on was a vague list of "necessary measures" and "requests for assistance", with "specifically airstrikes" at the very bottom – as if someone had shouted it out of the front door as they were starting the car: "Oooh!

A statute that Atlanta passed in June to get the city to 100percentt clean electricity by 2035 is vague, listing nuclear as a source of clean energy but vowing to get all its power from renewables.

While ACA repeal/replace plans currently remain "a vague list of not-always-coherent ideas" (as Dean Clancy, former senior budget official in the George W. Bush administration, recently wrote), they all share one big idea.

And then because of a tragic mix of surging hormones, a vague listing and an address within a reasonable drive, Marshall would knock at her son's door Easter morning, ready to take justice into his own hands.

This assertion is based primarily on three factors: the kinder and meeker portrayal of the Natives, which reduces the grandeur of the play's American heroes, the more vague listing of the setting as "North America" rather than specifically "Virginia," and the lack of implications about America's great destiny that was evident in Barker's version.

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