We are so accustomed to judging a social movement by its ideological coherence that the vagueness at the heart of evangelicalism sounds like a shortcoming.
You wouldn't be surprised to find them in the field of Lost Vagueness at 3am, burning a policeman in a wicker man.
Yet in spite of this tactfulness, this polite vagueness at the heart of the book, she brings to life riveting stories and offers creative interpretations that, taken together, challenge current convention.
A simple man, who had been taught to read and write only when Jamison took him in hand, he was prone to vagueness at the best of times, a trait exacerbated by a fondness for reefer and by the medication he took to counter fits of depression.
By Amy Davidson Sorkin June 21 , 2012There is a vagueness at the heart of the Supreme Court ruling in Federal Communications Commission v. Fox Television et. al., which is odd — not because one expects clarity from the Justices but because the F.C.C. itself lost the case by being too vague.
The sheer length, lack of focus, and scope for manoeuvre in the Chilcot panel's questions were revealed in all their vagueness at the Iraq inquiry today, as a nervous and tense Tony Blair nevertheless managed to remain more or less within his comfort zone.
