Sentences with phrase «in vague ways»

We've reached the stage in Star Wars: The Last Jedi promotions in which the flow of new information has slowed to a trickle, where new additions to the cast tease their roles in vague ways and two seconds of footage is enough to light up Reddit threads.

Canadians may care in a vague way about reducing carbon emissions, but persuading them to let someone mount a newfangled grey box in their homes — one that is likely to lower a house's temperature during the winter — has been tougher.

But, when we talk about America becoming great again — defined, in a vague way, by a greater degree of upward mobility — what decade most often gets referenced?

«They were in a generalized way Lutheran, which meant in some vague way that they thought they were Christian.

It is characteristic of this view that each moment of experience is perceptive not only of the immediate past of the universe, but, in a vague way, of the entire past set of occurrences that have constituted the world process.

From the Zubaz and audio cassette rack sightings to the memory of HBO as a novelty (albeit one that everyone in Lowell can somehow afford), The Fighter sustains its era colorfully and poignantly even while compressing the real timeline in a vague way.

As Publishers Lunch's Michal Cader notes, it's done «in the vaguest way,» i.e. it's less a clarification than a «never mind» to slow the latest industry - wide apache dance.

or only in a vague way.

Alright, so there we have it, my own personal attempt at validating my criticism of the game, of expaining, in a vague way, how and why I felt that the pacing was off.

Now that everything was falling apart around me I finally saw clearly what I'd known in a vague way for years: this wasn't the life I wanted.

If domestic violence has been an issue, there are restraining orders that are or have been in place, there are abuse or neglect allegations present (including emotional abuse of a spouse or children), or the co-parents have had trouble coordinating and reaching decisions without outside assistance, be prepared to explain these situations in factual detail so you can avoid summarizing the situation in a vague way.

Clients» anxiety can be diminished simply by knowing more objectively where they will stand after the divorce rather than just worrying in a vague way about their financial future with no clear plan.

The Competition Bureau only touches on the subject of professionalism when using words like «quality» in the vaguest way possible, as they don't elaborate whatsoever — the absence of elaboration being a symptom of the exercising of power, if not the outright abuse.

Not exact matches

«Retraining» tends to be the vague answer, but a new study from the World Economic Forum and Boston Consulting finds a notable difference in the way top execs and the rank - and - file see the issue:

And while being hit in the head by a can could indeed cause substantial harm, and while the statement posted is vague about the policy changes being considered, no plausible alcohol policy is going to be 100 % effective in preventing yahoos from occasionally throwing things onto the field in malicious ways.

The Power of Employee Social Advocacy [Infographic] The topic of employee advocacy is in no way new to the digital marketing realm, but there's still a somewhat vague understanding of how powerful it can be for your marketing efforts.

According to the «Austrian school», one of the most basic flaws in the QTM and in many other economic theories is the treatment of the economy as an amorphous blob that shifts one way or the other in response to stimuli provided by the government, the central bank, or a vague and unpredictable force called «animal spirits».

The biggest problem with Wallis's blanket denunciations of the world economy and his vague proposals for a «third way» is not that they are out - of - date or leftist but that they hinder the fight against poverty here and abroad in three ways.

Most of the charlatans are too clever to put anything in writing or to speak publicly in any way that is not vague with plausible deniability.

Finally, our vague religiosity faces an insuperable difficulty in that it provides no way by which the precious insights of our religious heritage are to be maintained.

In the same way, Jesus» followers would remember the key action or saying of Jesus but might be vague about where it happened.

The vague and sprawling nature of the phrase «faith and morals» fosters the idea that pope and bishops are equally and univocally competent on matters concerned with faith and morals.This would be particularly the case in a church conceived in a highly centralized and authoritarian way.

With this in mind, I began to search for a new way of translating theopneustos to more accurately reflect this, and since pneustos can be translated as «wind, breath, or spirit» thought of «wind of God» (very similar to what Jesus said in John 3:8), «God - spirited» (which was too vague for me, much like «inspiration»), or even «breath of God» or «God's breath.»

Everything is vague, and there appears to be a certain comfort in keeping it that way.

But this was a dim and vague affair, presumably taken to be a way in which the «spirit» breathed into human life when God shaped the «dust of the earth,» as the legend in Genesis tells the story, would never be utterly destroyed — after all, it had been breathed by God and hence must be indestructible even if largely irrelevant to whatever the future, beyond death, held for men and women.

As Pascal pointed out long ago, if this wild guess is wrong, I have lost nothing; but if the truth in some way resembles this vague intimation, something is gained.

My memory will inevitably fail me here in many ways, and so let me apologize in advance for being vague and doubtless inaccurate.

Since the Greeks (as indeed most of the ancient world though often in vague and undefined ways) were accustomed to think of death in terms of the survival of an immaterial soul, the Jewish emphasis on the resurrection of the fleshly body seemed not only unnecessary, but unspiritual and even repellent.

There is no need to shrug and assume that current government - funded schemes of sex education or vague imitations of them are the only way forward: Catholic schools are popular and highly - regarded by the public in general in Britain and in a stand - off between them and officialdom the latter might find it had fewer allies than it imagines.

They seem to be an integral part of the American «way of life» — a vague phrase, but one which does signify something to the feelings of Americans even if hard to analyze in terms and propositions.

Believers give thanks for and take joy in what God has done for us through Christ; they are called to love not in some vague and general way, but to love God and their neighbor.

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I can only go by what you have written here which seemed to me to be a very vague and unfair indictment on victims who did not communicate in the way you think they should.

That is obvious in a broad and vague way when we consider some of the various ways in which we speak of trying (and often failing) to understand: We speak of hoping to understand the instruction manual that accompanies a new word processor and of trying to understand a novel like James Joyce's Ulysses; though both are printed texts, what it is to understand one is quite different from what it is to understand the other.

5lndeed, I believe Whitehead had his own case in mind when he told Lucien Price that a man does not exhaust his creativity by continual expression but rather he «brings vague ideas into precision by putting them into speech or writing; and by expression he develops his ideas and finds his way to new ones» (DOW 264).

Revelation is not a vague and empty stab at the future, but a way of interpreting reality grounded in actual events in our lives and those of our ancestors in faith.

But, for one thing, their ideas were Christian only in a quite vague and general way (so with Overton of Walwyn).

For the most part, his replies are vague, insulting, juvenile, lack content, and do not warrant a thoughtful response, but just in case some passer by doesn't see him for what he is, I will take the time and usually answer just about every burp he directs my way... and besides, it entertains me from time to time.

And indeed, it was in the vague, groping efforts of Whitehead in Concept of Nature, Science and the Modern World, and Religion in the Making, that Wieman found such exciting prospects for a whole new way to get at the problem of God through the joint efforts of science and religion.

The presentation of the cleric's obligations is made in a very vague way; the text of the Code is far more specific.

When details are vague, our minds may have ways of filling in the blanks with false ideas (However, the likelihood of constructing an entire memory of abuse ex nihilo is rather rare.

Thus in 1829 John Henry Newman — still at that stage an Anglican — affirmed that Christians become entitled to the gift of the Holy Spirit «by belonging to the body of his Church; and we belong to his Church by being baptised into it».24 And more than a century later, Michael Ramsay, Archbishop of Canterbury in the 1960s — whose meeting with Paul VI in the 1960s was a central moment in the ecumenical movement of that era — took a generally Catholic approach to baptism, if expressed in a somewhat vague, «Anglican» way: «The life of a Christian is a continual response to the fact of his baptism; he continually learns that he has died and risen with Christ, and that his life is a part of the life of the one family.»

But he too has known that something vital has been missing and, in a vague sort of way, has wished that it weren't.

Somehow that fried chicken dish inspired me (in a very vague sort of way) with the idea for these biscuits.

Clearly you are letting your love of this vague term get in your way.

The butterfly effect Uh, I guess the Cubs would have won the World Series or something in some vague, cherry - picked way, but did you see those stats?

Obviously, «big games» is a painfully vague term, as is «strong teams,» so by way of explanation, we're basically talking any game in which Arsenal might not be favourites, or might not be strong favourites, and any team that's in with a shout of either winning the Champions League or ending up in the Premier League's top four.

When Claypool sought an immediate vote as a way to «reform a corrupt system,» Stroger countered by raising vague allegations about when Claypool ran the Chicago Park District in the 1990s.

As your baby gets older, he will be able to learn to communicate his wants and needs with you in various ways through eye contact, murmuring vague noises and beaming.

The speeches of Romney and Obama mirrored each other in another way: they were both surprisingly vague when it came to specific policy proposals.