Vaguely Sentence Examples

I vaguely remember him as the resident nerd.

She vaguely recognized the blond boy.

She thought she vaguely remembered seeing the farmer's market before.

Vaguely, she heard someone on the porch and recognized the quick steps.

He was vaguely familiar, his gaze intense.

Vaguely she was aware of someone entering the lobby.

Vaguely she heard Cade close his book and cross the room.

Vaguely, she was aware when Alex lay the book aside and left Jonathan.

She rubbed her lumbar area, vaguely aware of the pain that riding was causing.

She led them into Kris.s room again and slammed the door, vaguely pissed at the Ancient for having the only door that locked in the whole castle.

Dean vaguely remembered the eternity before voices above called his name and rescuers gracefully dropped down next to him.

But the bulk of his work consisted in imparting scientific definiteness to what was already vaguely known, and in demolishing the errors of his predecessors.

I guessed vaguely from my mother's signs and from the hurrying to and fro in the house that something unusual was about to happen, so I went to the door and waited on the steps.

But he modifies his Nominalism so as to approach, though somewhat vaguely, to the position of Aristotle himself.

Vaguely, she was aware of the cool shadow world followed by the warmth of indoors.

I influence others without choosing sides, he said vaguely.

The offer met with no response, Austria having received from the allies vaguely alluring offers that she might arrange matters as she desired in Italy and South Germany.

Thus in the Elohist and in Deuteronomy the date of the festival is only vaguely stated to be in the month of Abib, while in the Holiness Code and in the Priestly History the exact date is given.

In Gregory of Tours this word is still used vaguely, but the sense of it is gradually defined, and finally the name of Austria or Austrasia was given to the easternmost part of the Frankish kingdom.

She fell into the in-between place, only vaguely aware of his panicked

The Greek words for reason are vous and X6yos, both vaguely used.

The term, however, will have to be used still more vaguely, if it is to cover all attribution of personality, will or vitality.

However, portion sizes are vaguely described, and the importance of total calories in relation to a person's body weight is absent.

The heroine is vaguely threatened by spooky happenings in the labyrinthine mansion, but the menace never seems to be resolved.

One arm looped around her and she braced herself against his chest, vaguely realizing that --by not refusing him the day before --he'd taken her response as a blank check.

The appeal is to experience, somewhat vaguely defined, as against all authority, to the book of nature and no other.

Although a bishop was appointed by the pope for the vaguely defined territory of Florida so early as 1528, the oldest Catholic community in what is now the United States dates from 1565, when the Spanish colony of St Augustine was founded.

But very little came of the revival of learning which Charles is supposed to have encouraged; and the empire he restored was accepted by the medieval intellect in a crudely theological and vaguely mystical spirit.

To determine the validity of these claims, which had been complicated by transfers and subdivisions, and to fix their boundaries, which were often very vaguely described, proved a very formidable undertaking; and the slow process of confirmation greatly retarded the development of the Territory.

That Zeno and Cleanthes crudely compared this presentation to the impression which a seal bears upon wax, with protuberances and indentations, while Chrysippus more prudently determined it vaguely as an occult modification or " mode " of mind, is an interesting but not intrinsically important detail But the mind is no mere passive recipient of impressions from without, in the view of the Stoics.

It has been frequently asserted that the image of a calf is kept in a niche, and traces of phallic and gynaecocratic worship have been vaguely suspected; but there is no authentic information in support of either statement.

Or the theology which religion contains is in Theology a state of solution - vaguely defined and suffused and with emotion; important practically, but intellectu- Religion.

As regards moral sentiments generally, the view suggested by Mill is more definitely given by the chief living representative of the associationist school, Alexander Bain; by whom the distinctive characteristics of conscience are traced to " education under government or authority," though prudence, disinterested sympathy and other emotions combine to swell the mass of feeling vaguely denoted by the term moral.

The practical distinction in modern society is necessarily one of degree, and both "individualism" and "socialism" are very vaguely used, and generally as terms of reproach by opponents.

Jule Transported himself to the Black God's compound, vaguely aware of Xander's presence.

Hope you don't mind " At least he sounded vaguely apologetic.

I vaguely remembered being in the kitchen, making a casserole.

But second track ' Easy Path ' lays down Seafood's real plan of action; vaguely folky melodies which suddenly go bang!

In actual fact, cruising round the streets of a cold, sunny Stockholm afternoon, the Cadillac XLR looks vaguely futuristic in design.

They're kind of filed away in my brain alongside Placebo, whiny miserabilist indie tripe with vaguely Goth leanings.

Even the name is vaguely onomatopoeic and sounds somehow indecent.

In Greece the idea of a fundamental unity behind the plurality of phenomena was present, though vaguely, in the minds of the early physicists (see Ionian School), but the first thinker who focussed the problem clearly was Xenophanes.

Republic Commando - a vaguely tactical first-person shooter - is one such expansion of that Universe.

If you are even vaguely familiar with the Chinese language, you know that it is comprised of characters, and these characters literally number into the thousands.

Each pattern vaguely resembles a topographic map or oil slick.

Felice vaguely wondered if he was an actor who put on shows about the inn's heyday in the roaring twenties.

As with a lot of the Miss Sixty line, the Jaiden has a look that vaguely recalls the 1970s, mixing retro style with modern flair.

Some vaguely sane part of her mind protested that it was a cowardly thing to do, but panic had the upper hand.

He vaguely anticipates the modern idea of the world as a survival of the fittest when he says that many races may have lived and died out, and that those which still exist have been protected either by craft, courage or speed.

At the proper age young More was sent to Oxford, where he is said vaguely to have had Colet, Grocyn and Linacre for his tutors.

It is a matter of experience that cotton yarns which when spun contain only a small percentage of moisture will absorb up to about 8% when they are exposed to what may be rather vaguely described as natural conditions.

This mountain-system was only vaguely known, in fact its existence throughout its length was only suspected, until Sven Hedin, during his journeys in 1906-1908, crossed it at several points.

Butler, however, retained, in spite of his destructive theory of knowledge, confidence in the rational proofs for the existence of God, and certainly maintains what may be vaguely described as an a priori view of conscience.

His historic fame came from the Christian Schoolmen, whom he almost initiated into the system of Aristotle, and who, but vaguely discerning the expositors who preceded, admired in his commentaries the accumulated results of two centuries of labours.

Not only were they dismayed by the novelty of the sophistical teaching, but also they vaguely perceived that it was subversive of authority, of the authority of the parent over the child as well as of the authority of the state over the citizen.

Their objective was not so much India as Japan (Cipangu), of which they only knew vaguely as a land of spices and silks, British and which they hoped to reach by sailing westward.

The actual site of the battle, however, is about half a mile from the little town of Angri, and its memory is still vaguely preserved by the name Pozzo dei Goti (well of the Goths).

The southern part of the Great Basin region is vaguely designated the Colorado desert.

This journey practically removed from the map the doubtful Keenan Land (reported vaguely in the 'seventies of last century), while soundings taken during the drift of the " Karluk " and other journeys of the expedition show a narrow continental shelf, and reduce the probability of land existing in the western part of the Beaufort Sea.

This in fact is a frequent fate of a " High God " in polytheistic systems; he is vaguely praised and reverenced, but lower divine powers are nearer to the people's love or fear.

Of greater special spirits of Nature we find something vaguely mentioned.

But the sanctions of this law were vaguely and, for the most part, feebly imagined; its principles were essentially unwritten, and thus referred not to the external will of an Almighty Being who claimed unquestioning submission, but rather to the reason that gods and men shared, by the exercise of which alone they could be adequately known and defined.

He does not with Price object to its being called the " moral sense," provided we understand by 1 It is to be observed that whereas Price and Stewart (after Butler) identify the object of self-love with happiness or pleasure, Reid conceives this " good " more vaguely as including perfection and happiness; though he sometimes uses " good " and happiness as convertible terms, and seems practically to have the latter in view in all that he says of self-love.

It is thus vaguely called an alterative, since the patient recovers under its use.

Gordon's instructions, based largely on his own suggestions, were not wholly consistent; they contemplated vaguely the establishment of some form of stable government on the surrender of Egyptian authority, and among the documents with which he was furnished was a firman creating him governorgeneral of the Sudan.

The dispute has now lost its interest, for physicists have learned to distinguish accurately the two quantities which are vaguely included under the expression amount of force, and consequently have been able to show in what each party was correct and in what it was in error.

Vaguely, she recalled human-Deidre sat with Andre in the penthouse.

She vaguely remembered it from her tour of the castle and was relieved to see several small groups congregated around all but one of the five fireplaces in the room.

Vaguely she was aware of a vehicle door shutting outside and the front door opening, but it wasn't a conscious thought until Katie and Alex were walking down the hall.

It also has the occasional vaguely amusing caption " Mild steel.

Both women are smart and well spoken but each seems vaguely dissatisfied with their life.

His dark muted scenes seem vaguely familiar, distant, like haunting memories.

You see a stone plaza, in a landscape vaguely reminiscent of Big Sur.

I like coffee and tea but I don't want a drink that vaguely resembles both.

An epic, extravagant - and perhaps vaguely sinister - turning point in the genre.

They're kind of filed away in my brain alongside Placebo, whiny miserabilist indie tripe with vaguely goth leanings.

They were pretty painless, just uncomfortable, but I was slightly suspicious as I had felt vaguely uncomfortable all day.

The grandiose project was at once vaguely outlined in three formal documents, to the intense satisfaction of both parties, and on both sides there was much rejoicing at the conclusion of such an auspicious alliance; but the diplomatic honeymoon was not of long duration.

It was considered permissible to speculate somewhat vaguely on the subject of the utility of this or that startling variety of structure; but few attempts, though some of great importance, were made systematically to explain by observation and experiment the adaptation of organic structures to particular purposes in the case of the lower animals and plants.

Of the twenty thousand sales he has made in his career, he probably remembers a few hundred distinctly and a few thousand vaguely.

She could recollect only vaguely the staff nurse saying to her that a patient was to be discharged who should not be.

I like coffee and tea but I do n't want a drink that vaguely resembles both.

The shabby way things ended with Jen rubbed off on Pitt like nicotine on the walls of a pub, leaving him vaguely grubby.

He was vaguely aware of how sticky his hands were as he pushed himself down the steep saw-toothed roof.

Just a few shades of gray would have helped make, for instance, Dance 's smug elitist snob even vaguely human !

If you're in the market for a fashion forward or vaguely Asian vibe in your bed design, it'll work for that too.

They are designed in a tropical print that has a vaguely 1970s look to it, with a white waistband and two metal snap buttons.

The slight crescent shape of the bag is vaguely reminiscent of a hobo, yet is less dramatically arched.

The site shows a vaguely comprehensible graphic "case study" in which the line sort of goes "up," which is usually translated as good - but what it actually measures, much less what company it represents, is hard to figure out.

Both Price and Priestley were what would now vaguely be called " Unitarians," though they occupied respectively the extreme right and the extreme left position of that school.

Conditionally the Union promised assistance to Frederick, but he wasted several months and vaguely hoped that the English king would help him out of his embarrassments.

At the same time he heard vaguely of the existence of a large island to the north of it - probably derived from the fact of the Orkneys and Shetlands being really found in that position - to which he gave the name of Thule.

Louis Napoleon could feel vaguely the state of public opinion in France, the longing for glory from which it suffered, and the deep-rooted discord between the nation and the king, Louis Philippe, who though sprung from the national revolution against the treaties of 1815, was yet a partisan of peace at any price.

Powell, one of the editors of the Corpus poeticism septentrionale (the best work on the subject), " cannot date earlier " in their present form " than the 9th century," and may be vaguely placed between A.D.

Similarly, John XXII., in his bull Sancta Romana et Universalis Ecclesia (28th of December 1317), condemns vaguely those "profanae multitudinis viri commonly called Fraticelli, or Brethren of the Poor Life, or Bizocchi, or Beguines, or by all manner of other names."

I'm not certain about it tho, but she did have an accent that sounded vaguely eastern European.

The leathered lips resulted in vaguely defined broad impulses being delivered to the air column in the pipe, such impulses containing fewer harmonics.

A vaguely humanoid form presented itself on the other side of a thin hedge that had been grown on that side of the path.

Find someone with vision, and new ideas instead of just rehashing various old elements into something that looks vaguely new.

Even the schlock horror backdrop of bloodstains made me vaguely uneasy.

The human and civil philosophic law of the third period is assuredly very different in form from the primitive law; but in substance it is merely the abstract, scientific and philosophic manifestation of the same sentiment of justice and the same principles which were vaguely felt in primitive times.

Between modern materialism and hylozoism proper there is, however, the distinction that the ancients, however vaguely, conceived the elemental matter as being in some sense animate if not actually conscious and conative.

We can imagine though perhaps only vaguely, the way in which light, temperature, moisture, contact, &c., can affect it.

I vaguely recall that you could not replicate the experiment to a successful outcome.

Strangely, no matter how much I built it up, I couldn't achieve anything brighter than a vaguely pink tint.

If you've seen the movie The Lord of the Rings, the Mount Potts Heli Park will look vaguely familiar.

He's only vaguely cited her career as one of the downfalls to their marriage.

The more modern Vista class ships are subtly brighter and vaguely resemble other lines' megaships while retaining their classic elegance.

Again, this isn't a "micro" bikini per se, but it is something smaller for larger ladies, while also having a vaguely retro look.

Those vaguely familiar with the story of The Nutcracker may be surprised to learn that it is not actually a dance performed by the Nutcracker as he leads the toy soldiers to victory over the Mouse King.

Her hair and skin are golden brown, and she has a vaguely animalistic look on her face.

It vaguely recalls the top of the famous dress worn by Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch.

She vaguely recognized the other three and knelt beside the statue of Rhyn, who was no older than Toby had been the day before.

They had vaguely remembered Jeffrey Byrne from his repeat trips, but Byrne hadn't made much of an impression on anyone.

Theological writers were not in the least prepared to question the worth of the marvellous descriptions of creatures that were current in the schools on the faith of authorities vaguely known as "the history of animals," "the naturalists," and "the naturalist" in the singular number (Ouo-coMyos).

Sieyes now sketched its outlines in vaguely republican forms; thereupon Bonaparte freely altered them and gave them strongly personal touches.

The term appears to have been unknown to the ancients, by whom everything south of Egypt was vaguely called Ethiopia, the land of the dark races.

He was also appointed marshal of "Romanie" - a term very vaguely used, but apparently signifying the mainland of the Balkan Peninsula, while his nephew and namesake, afterwards prince of Achaia, took a great part in the Latin conquest of Peloponnesus.

He had already made himself known by critical studies on the history of the middle ages, of which the most important was his Geschichte des ersten Kreuzzuges (Dusseldorf, 1841; new ed., Leipzig, 1881), a work which, besides its merit as a valuable piece of historical investigation, according to the critical methods which he had learnt from Ranke, was also of some significance as a protest against the vaguely enthusiastic attitude towards the middle ages encouraged by the Romantic school.

Among all races in a certain grade of development such associations are vaguely felt to be dangerous and to impair vitality.

The term has also been applied to the Italian humanists of the Renaissance, and in modern times, somewhat vaguely, to thinkers who have based their speculations on the Platonic metaphysics or on Plotinus, and incorporated with it a tendency towards a mystical explanation of ultimate phenomena.

The same story is given in a note in Wilberforce's Correspondence, the scene being somewhat vaguely laid in "Scotland."

With August Wilhelm Schlegel and his gifted wife Caroline, herself the embodiment of the Romantic spirit, Schelling's relations were of the most intimate kind, and a marriage between Schelling and Caroline's young daughter, Auguste Bohmer, was vaguely contemplated by both.

The years from 1848 to 1858 were alluded to subsequently as "the veiled period " of her life, and she spoke vaguely of a seven years' sojourn in " Little and Great Tibet," or preferably of a " Himalayan retreat."

In effect, therefore, Mayow - who also gives a remarkably correct anatomical description of the mechanism of respiration - preceded Priestley and Lavoisier by a century in recognizing the existence of oxygen, under the guise of his spiritus nitro-aereus, as a separate entity distinct from the general mass of the air; he perceived the part it plays in combustion and in increasing the weight of the calces of metals as compared with metals themselves; and, rejecting the common notions of his time that the use of breathing is to cool the heart, or assist the passage of the blood from the right to the left side of the heart, or merely to agitate it, he saw in inspiration a mechanism for introducing oxygen into the body, where it is consumed for the production of heat and muscular activity, and even vaguely conceived of expiration as an excretory process.

The Romantic movement helped, with its idealization of a past but vaguely realized and imperfectly understood, and Chateaubriand heralded in the Catholic reaction with his Genie du Christianisme (1801) a brilliant if superficial attack on the encyclopaedists and their neo-Paganism, and a glorification of the Christian Church as supreme not only in the regions of faith and morals, but also in those of intellect and art.

Just a few shades of gray would have helped make, for instance, Dance's smug elitist snob even vaguely human!

I felt vaguely that they could not be good even if they wished to, because no one seemed willing to help them or to give them a fair chance.

The gazettes from which the old prince first heard of the defeat at Austerlitz stated, as usual very briefly and vaguely, that after brilliant engagements the Russians had had to retreat and had made their withdrawal in perfect order.

In answer to Rostov's inquiry where he was going, he answered vaguely and crossly that he had some business.

She had heard vaguely that there was such a thing as "landlord's corn" which was sometimes given to the peasants.

Then the count embraced Mavra Kuzminichna and Vasilich, who were to remain in Moscow, and while they caught at his hand and kissed his shoulder he patted their backs lightly with some vaguely affectionate and comforting words.

Then during the first day spent in inaction and solitude (he tried several times to fix his attention on the masonic manuscripts, but was unable to do so) the idea that had previously occurred to him of the cabalistic significance of his name in connection with Bonaparte's more than once vaguely presented itself.

However, historians have discovered that an ancient Japanese purification ceremony from A.D. 900 also included the use of a paper figure that vaguely resembled a child's paper doll.

This Swedish indie queen is starting to make waves in the US for her vaguely Regina Spektor like vocals, her charming lyrics, and her lovely little piano based ditties.

From the time of Hippocrates onwards the malarial or periodical fevers have engaged the attention of innumerable observers, who have suggested various theories of causation, and have sometimes anticipated - vaguely, indeed, but with surprising accuracy - the results of modern research; but the true nature of the disease remained in doubt until the closing years of the 19th century.

Christians being released, in important particulars, from conformity to the Old Testament polity as a whole, a real difficulty attended the settlement of the limits and the immediate authority of the remainder, known vaguely as the moral law.

A chief merit of Ray is to have limited the term " species " and to have assigned to Ray it the significance which it bore till the Darwinian era, whereas previously it was loosely and vaguely applied.

The latter portion was not much known to the Hebrews, but was vaguely feared as a power in the early days of the monarchy, though not in the later pre-Captivity period.

With the growth of scientific geography they came to be located somewhat less vaguely, and indeed their name was employed as the equivalent of the Assyrian and Hebrew Cush, the Kesh or Ekosh of the Hieroglyphics (first found in Stele of Senwosri I.), i.e.

In the epic of Firdousi Khazar is the representative name for all the northern foes of Persia, and legendary invasions long before the Christian era are vaguely attributed to them.

His knowledge of anatomy, physiology and pathology was necessarily defective, the respect in which the dead body was held by the Greeks precluding him from practising dissection; thus we find him writing of the tissues without distinguishing between the various textures of the body, confusing arteries, veins and nerves, and speaking vaguely of the muscles as " flesh."

In 1727 the territory, with vaguely defined limits, was formed into a province and named Tejas, or Texas, after the tribe or the confederacy of Tejas Indians.

The only religious movement that can be regarded as even rather vaguely the outcome of humanism is the Socinian.

Before the World War he was the possessor of a fortune which was vaguely estimated at several millions of pounds.

The name Busiris in this legend may have been caught up merely at random by the early Greeks, or they may have vaguely connected their legend with the Egyptian myth of the slaying of Osiris (as king of Egypt) by his mighty brother Seth, who was in certain aspects a patron of foreigners.

Instead of sixteen hundred rubles he had a long column of figures scored against him, which he had reckoned up to ten thousand, but that now, as he vaguely supposed, must have risen to fifteen thousand.

He suddenly felt sorry for her and was vaguely conscious that he might be the cause of the sadness her face expressed.

It has been the habit of biologists to use the terms variation, selection, elimination, correlation and so forth, vaguely; the new school, which has been strongly reinforced from the side of physical science, insists on quantitative measurements of the terms. When the anatomist says that one race is characterized by long heads, another by round heads, the biometricist demands numbers and percentages.

The former belongs to the north-west, the others to the centre of India, and all three may be dated vaguely in the first or second centuries A.D.

None, however, was of equal im- b ortance with the first, and their details are given vaguely by t.

Events which greatly affected the physical condition of the human race, or were of a nature to make a deep impression on the minds of the rude inhabitants of the earth, might be vaguely transmitted through several ages by traditional narrative; but intervals of time, expressed by abstract numbers, and these constantly varying besides, would soon escape the memory.

After vaguely looking at it a long time, "Il n'y a que moi qui pouvais concevoir la tete de Leonidas," he whispered, and died.