The Counting Crows sounded best when conjuring up a vague, wistful mixture of nostalgia and regret.
Spanish television programming, to this gringo's view, is a vaguely nightmarish mixture of low-concept variety shows, Mexican films from the 80s, and Spanish-language news segments.
Service was vague and distant.
Quite apart from the unseemly pandering to the prejudices of a weak and narrow activist base, the mixture of vague values and small solutions that politicians conventionally offer for our nation's pressing problems will feel desperately inadequate.
Consider a statement that has a mixture of vague and precise conjuncts: 'Ned is old and bald and has an even number of hairs'.
Any criticism of Léna, whose professed desire is for some vaguely undefined "freedom," is countered with a mixture of furious denial and self-reproach.
And I remember it with a strange mixture of slight discomfort, vague shame and a hard-to-define sense that it set me on the road to somewhere.
Based on his state of the union address, his current tack is a mixture of avoidance and vague allusion.
Keep Belfast festive I watched '71, Yann Demange's thriller about a British soldier stranded in the streets of Troubles-era Belfast, with a mixture of lockjaw tension and vague recognition.
The ideology of the new generation, comprising a mixture of ethnic identities, is alarmingly vague.
