Sentence examples for vague old from inspiring English sources

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Even the Porter at Macbeth's gate, usually played as a boisterous low comedy turn, here comes across (in John Christopher Jones's performance) as a vague old man squinting through the fog of a hangover.

The more vague old policy that restricted "competing" apps better covered this enforcement, since Vine and Twitter are certainly apps that compete in the user-generated content-sharing space.

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Ecotowns were one of the vaguely old Labour things suggested in the dying days of Gordon Brown's Labour government.

McDermott greeted our friends and then shook our hands with a vaguely old-fashioned solemnity.

The company, appropriately based in Phoenix, did manage to build one sedan prototype with an aluminum frame, all-wheel drive, a V-12 engine, a vaguely old-fashioned grille and modern styling elsewhere.

"Slacks" I don't mind; the word seems vaguely old-fashioned and Enid Blytony to me – referring to the sort of garment Aunt Fanny would have worn, but which I certainly don't.

Having the heroes of the British empire in Trafalgar Square is one thing... .. Abstract though it may appear, a vaguely old-fashioned yet somehow unplaceable group of interconnected, airy glass forms, Schütte acknowledges that Model for a Hotel is figurative after all.

The very occasional cross-pollination of characters and objects just seems gimmicky and clunky, while the theme is so tenuous and vague (the old Buddhist idea of "the interconnectedness of all things") that it could be said to run through every story ever written about anyone at any time.

However, multiple North Korea experts labeled the document, which merely said North Korea would work toward denuclearization, as "vague" and "old news".

North Korea experts, however, called the agreement "vague" and "old news" — and pointed out that it falls short of goals the U.S. outlined prior to the Singapore summit.

The ensemble of about 100 triple-hung tracing-paper works resembles a chorus of leering, vaguely Michelangelesque Old Testament prophets, although they also slant toward political cartoons.

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