On the other side of the river, on the other side of the Boży Stok, on the other side of the Warta – that's where this vague, dangerous world stretched out.
I had only a vague first-world notion of "deforestation" and this being bad.
A vaguely formulated World Trade Center was installed in that empty space.
Alejandro Amenábar's film enters the vaguely Victorian world of English fright fiction.
And yet international art can be just as terrible: the film with so many international co-producers that it becomes an unwatchable mulch, the vaguely "one world" impulses of some world music and fusion.
The year is 1945, but the house and its inhabitants -- a strict, high-strung mother, her two children and three servants dressed in funereal black -- belong to the timeless, vaguely Victorian world of classic English fright fiction.
But it can also mean something larger and more important, like, vaguely, "the world" ("I thought I'd really been around and seen the deal") or "life" ("Then you'll know what it is with this deal," Brown sings on "Covenant". "Then you'll feel what it is that I feel").
A vaguely medieval world populated by dwarfs, elves, trolls; an evil lord out to enslave the good creatures; and, almost always, a weird magic thing that will let him do it, if the hero doesn't find or destroy it first — that is the Tolkien formula.
Taken with its painstaking detail — a nice metaphor for this precisely wrought, vaguely 1940s world — he buys the model, though his purchase is challenged by a mustachioed American detective, Barnaby Joe Starrr), and a meddler of ominous provenance, Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine Daniel Craigg), whose name is a reminder that Tintin's inaugural comic pitted him against the Bolsheviks.
