People moving about in the night are just vague dark shapes.
In place of the vague, dark magic of the Devil in Ramuz's version, Mr. Blechman's Devil proposes that Vertov get rich by becoming a record industry mogul.
Unfortunately, smalt is not a stable pigment in oil media and the background now has a monochrome, translucent brownish color, interspersed with vague dark passages.
Foley's Michael is a good-guy charmer with a vague dark streak adding complexity.
I felt a vague, dark foreboding for the remainder of the afternoon, until I arrived home to a message from my oldest daughter, Lisa, letting me know that she was safe.
What their works all have in common is a bright, faux-innocent surface and a dark, vaguely sinister underside that more or less obliquely alludes to the post-World War II experience in Japan -- an experience characterized by vast industrialization and commercialization, on one hand, and widespread but underacknowledged stress on the other.
The gallery's slightly elevated show space is blocked off with vaguely familiar dark-stained doors labeled "No Re-entry".
Our hunger for the dark, vaguely depressing, Scandinavian dramas such as Wallander, The Killing, The Bridge and more recently Fortitude, set in Iceland, is seemingly insatiable.
He had the knobby biceps of a man who lifted weights for his health and not for his appearance, and he unself-consciously sported the type of virile, dark, vaguely ethnic mustache that most Southern men either wouldn't or couldn't grow.
In the resulting photographs, her empirical quest ends at a colorful daydream: highlights appear as spectrum, while shadows come through as vague blocks of dark color.
