There had been serious complications with a couple of labor unions (including Teamsters of the gun-toting variety), memorable night shoots (of the freezing-asses-off variety), the usual on-location romances and hotel-room trashings, and an amusing vagueness about whether the end product would be a noirish mystery or perhaps an inadvertently surreal comedy.
And, as these issues become part of the business relationship, the vagueness about whether and how to manage them is able to evaporate in the objective, results-oriented atmosphere of a business review.
The vagueness about, and lack of interest in, USIC from all their employees stretches credibility somewhat, especially considering the astronomical expenses surely involved in such an interplanetary colonisation.
His vagueness about how or even whether he would seek to re-energize the faltering economy reflected debates in the White House, Congress and the Federal Reserve about acting quickly or waiting for a clearer picture to emerge from the post-attack chaos.
Never much given to reminiscence, he managed to preserve a good deal of vagueness about his early life, whether in Clarksdale, Mississippi, where he was born into a family of 11 children, or in Memphis and Cincinnati, where he spent periods in his teens.
And in fact, a vagueness about how much we worked, whether that work was financially mandatory, voluntary or somewhere in between, became the lingua franca of my conversations with other mothers when my son was small.
Foreigners in Brazil would be well advised to give much more weight to any signs of ambivalence, whether in body language or a vagueness about details, than to seemingly positive words.
There is a vagueness about liberty – a lack of understanding about our civil rights, whether they are protected, and how new legislation changes them.
The Nets maintained a purposeful vagueness about the injury.
Remember, in the debates, his deliberate, even misleading vagueness about his own policies on prescription drugs or fiscal matters, and his very careful side-stepping on whether he would try, as president, to reverse the Roe v Wade ruling that legalised abortion, a subject that deeply divides the Republican Party.In many ways, this vagueness makes Mr Bush wildly unprepared to be president.
But Ms. Quinn's candor about her personal life is as notable as her vagueness about politics.
