To the present generation, Kennan has receded into a vague past as has their parents' struggle to bring forth a new international order amid the awesome, unprecedented power of nuclear weapons.
When Rainer Werner Fassbinder adapted a novel by Jean Genet for the 1982 film "Querelle"—it would be his last film, made in a daring new style a French period piece in the vague past, Moreau was one of its stars.
While some canon characters have vague pasts that can be manipulated, a frequent and recognized (although not compulsory) trait of a Mary Sue is to be related in some way to a canon, especially one who has a strongly established past already.
Positioned toward the left half of the frame, he stands somewhat awkwardly on the lawn, looking vaguely past the right shoulder of the photographer.
Our sheet of directions into the unknown is delightfully vague: "Go past the gate with the blanket on it...". it says.
Throughout "Miss Sadie Thompson" — a bowdlerized, oddly cheerful version of Somerset Maugham's once notorious story, with the title character transformed from a prostitute into an "entertainer" with a vague, shady past — Hayworth seems agonizingly aware of her impending obsolescence.
Yet it is Maggie, sexy and glamorous in her strapless 60's gown, whose cynicism about marriage can send a chill of recognition through the audience today, while the contemporary, ordinary couples in "We Don't Live Here Anymore" -- two college teachers and their wives, who crisscross spouses in affairs -- exist in such a vague recent past that they might as well live in outer space.
He spoke vaguely about past drug and alcohol abuse, and about serving some prison time for an assault conviction.
The intricate story, based on a novel by Louis Cha, takes place in a vaguely mythical past and nests plots within plots, all of which lead back to the hermit-like killer Ouyang Feng (Leslie Cheung), who left home to seek glory.
The intricate story, based on a novel by Louis Cha, takes place in a vaguely mythical past and nests plots within plots, all of which lead back to the hermitlike killer Ouyang Feng Leslie Cheungg), who left home to seek glory.
Based on a novel by Christian Gailly, "Wild Grass" follows Georges Palet (André Dussollier), an aging ex-con with a vaguely violent past who lives as a househusband in a luxurious suburb of Paris with his seemingly younger wife (Anne Consigny).
