Indistinct

Usage examples of vague.

Then all the satisfaction she had derived from what she had heard Madame Bourdieu say departed, and she went off furious and ashamed, as if soiled and threatened by all the vague abominations which she had for some time felt around her, without knowing, however, whence came the little chill which made her shudder as with dread.

I fear I will dissolve in light, grow addled and vague, like Czerny, or foolishly evangelical like Ristelli.

He checked the indexes and methodically began reading everything he could find about agnosia and amaurosis, with the uncomfortable impression of being an intruder in a field beyond his competence, the mysterious terrain of neurosurgery, about which he only had the vaguest notion.

The best authorities seem to think that though Confucianism is in one sense agnosticism, it does not directly contradict the old theism, precisely because it has become a rather vague theism.

Feeling a vague desire again, she put her hand between her legs, aimlessly, still walking.

The alchemist looked suitably vague, and seemed reluctant to discuss it.

During the night the amado fell out of the worn-out grooves with a crash, knocking down the shoji, which fell on me, and rousing Ito, who rushed into my room half-asleep, with a vague vision of bloodthirsty Ainos in his mind.

He was pulled out of bed and into empty space, and for a moment he heard a rhythmic roaring and saw the twilight amorphousness of the vague abysses seething around him.

The voices were squeaky and vague and loud, using a gabbling argot of transposed syllables and made-up words I could not follow much of it.

Little more was left when Constantine ascended the throne, than a vague and imperfect tradition, that the Patricians had once been the first of the Romans.

The despatch is so vague that there is no means here of ascertaining whether or not the execution of sentence of one or more of them may not already have been ordered.

Saxon said, with vague asperity, resenting conditions she was just beginning to grasp.

He gazes balefully at the mess, waving his hands in vague curves like a sculptor seeing a shape in a rough block of marble.

About the same time, the restorer of Britain and Africa, on a vague suspicion that his name and services were superior to the rank of a subject, was ignominiously beheaded at Carthage.

Its leadership was inexperienced, and its ideology was too vague to have any immediate relevance to the deep-seated problems besetting Iraq in the early 1960s.