My 4-year-old daughter loves Disney princesses in the same way many other little girls her age do, her interest in them both startlingly specific -- knowing their ball gowns down to the neckline, for instance -- and glaringly vague (grasping none of the cultural significance of Tiana's New Orleans roots in The Princess and The Frog).
Occasionally his attention wandered, but his sometimes vague grasp of moment-to-moment details was nothing new.
Factor in the babysitter's vague grasp of time, and the odds are stacked against you arriving on time for that reservation.
Having worked in IT for the past 12 years I am often disappointed that some of my younger colleagues have only a vague grasp of Maths and Logic.
The answer on the evidence of the past few years is – anybody with a pencil, paper and a vague grasp of their native language.
As an Australian, he had only a vague grasp of the way the D.N.C. operated, which made deciphering the political significance of the e-mails difficult.
But even now, with such a vague grasp of what's truly going on in the third game, I'm already hooked.
So here I am, then: well into middle age, far too knackered to be much use as a hooligan, with a still-vague grasp of the players and management of Leicester City, yet in the grip of a terrifying fanatic fever.
Displaying plenty of excitement but only a vague grasp of population figures, Mayor Henry Ivanoff of this tiny fishing village on the Bering Sea said, "That means that over 225 million people will be standing in line behind him, including the president of the United States and the vice president, including the governors and lieutenant governors of all the 50 states, including Michael Jordan".
Instead we find only a vague grasp on "data" — tightly coupled with a telling political stiffness for "doing things differently".
