Sentence examples for vague quality from inspiring English sources

Fourth, intelligence is a vague quality with many aspects, and people undoubtedly tend to value those forms of intelligence that they themselves possess.

He has shown flashes of anger in the ring and other behavior that his critics say lack a grand champion's "dignity," a vague quality that sometimes seems to mean simply that he is not Japanese enough.

In the 1920s, as high-achieving Jews began to compete with WASP prep schoolers, Ivy League schools started asking about family background and sought vague qualities like "character," "vigor," "manliness" and "leadership" to cap Jewish enrollment.

Medical accessories also figure in several sculptures made with found objects, all with a vague, gnomic quality.

What is it about the movies that can lend them such an eerie (if vague) predictive quality?

Its cascading form and pale coloring are pleasing, which allows the vague narrative quality of her work to come to the fore.

After many interviews with him, I feel that I only almost know him, and that what I write about him will have the vague, vaporous quality that our most indelible dreams take on when we put them into words.

I'd read the last sentence in a bookstore, and was enticed by its vague, dreamlike quality.

Perhaps she appropriated it from a black boyfriend; the pose has a vaguely postcoital quality.

It has row upon row of metal cabinets and exudes the vaguely creepy quality of a modern mausoleum.

There's a vaguely metaphysical quality to this approach: the sportswriter Robert Lipsyte calls it "the tao of Bill".