"vaguely realized" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is usually used to describe something that is only partially understood or not fully comprehended. Example: "As she read the complex instructions, a feeling of confusion and doubt vaguely realized in her mind."
In this sequel that feels like a remake, all prospects for amusement are never even vaguely realized.
The grim and terrifying aspects of the Nazi perversion of German youth the evils of mass dehumanization by which a blind and brutal war machine was built—have been but narrowly suggested and vaguely realized in RKO's "Hitler's Children," which came to the Paramount yesterday.
Again and again there is a frustrating clash in Mr. Wilson's plays, a clash between the intensely mystical -- intensely felt by him but only vaguely realized for us -- and the violent, explicit suffering of parents and children who have hurt one another and of black men struggling with themselves and the white world.
But a close read shows that the verse, with its most resonant phrase, "land vaguely realizing westward," suggests the lurching and darker qualities of Manifest Destiny, and plants doubt about the supposed purity of the American experiment.
Drones have already entered the contemporary poetry dialogue, from Michael Robbin's "To the Drone Vaguely Realizing Eastward," which Yahoo refused to publish on grounds of obscenity, to the contemporary Afghan landays composed by the grieving mothers of drone victims, showcased in this month's issue of Poetry.
"Yeah, it looks like it," he said vaguely, before someone realized it was Ash Wednesday.
The doubles told stories about how brutally they had behaved when given even vague assignments; they realized they were responsible for a number of the more tragic aspects of that sorry era.
The movie is filled with other vague relationships, vague doings — albeit all realized with verve, with purpose, and with some giddily psychedelic imagery.
The potential of X-ray crystallography for determining the structure of molecules and minerals then only known vaguely from chemical and hydrodynamic experiments was realized immediately.
For years, I offered a vague response about realizing it when I started taking writing courses in college.
Another reason, I realized later, was a vague, underlying sense of distrust.
