Sentences with phrase «nebulous concept of»

If you don't know their agenda, you're shooting in the dark or relying on some nebulous concept of charisma.

I've been amazed at how quickly the NGOs have become climate campaigners, how the outcome is no longer about CO2 reductions but simply wealth transfer to the developing nations and how this nebulous concept of climate justice has been created.

People love to talk about the nebulous concept of capturing some long lost childlike sense of wonder though the magic of cinema — «Doctor Strange» is one of the only movies I've watched as an adult that really accomplishes that.

These include the problem of public communication, where the public is likely to be more understanding of inflation than the more nebulous concept of nominal growth, as well as the problem that nominal income is often subject to sizeable revision by the statistical agency.

Instead it is about the more nebulous concept of equal pay for work of equal «value», between ostensible mainly female jobs or mainly male jobs.

Not exact matches

The point of this exercise, Brown stresses, is to be take a big, nebulous concept like trust and break it down into more easily actionable components.

Much of the credit goes to comedian John Oliver, who set the Internet on fire last year by explaining the nebulous concept in easy - to - understand terms on his show Last Week Tonight.

But the concept of dignitary harm is nebulous enough to count against any conscience claim — even while a spurious link to the (systematically very different) harms of Jim Crow makes it weighty enough to defeat any claim it is weighed against.

The concept of «god» is nebulous at best, which is one of the reasons it can't be disproved (other than the obvious).

How can such a nebulous concept be linked to the Christ event of the Christian kerygma?

The two statements are contradictory, but I don't think they're mutually exclusive, because the concept of «rights» is a bit nebulous.

This concept of «critical mass» is understandably nebulous.

«This means that traditional descriptions of the electronic structure of actinide elements are often of a qualitative nature — but this is precisely the area where quantitative models are needed because our understanding of core chemical concepts become increasingly nebulous at the foot of the periodic table.»

There is ultimately something a bit soft and nebulous about Arrival: for all the forehead - furrowing concepts it entertains, it can't actually, as a big - budget Hollywood movie, sell us big ideas without packing them in the cotton floss of meaningful intimate experience, which was also the case with Interstellar and even Gravity (one movie where the protagonist could easily have done without a heart - wrenching back story).

GR: Okay, now, when we're talking about wellbeing this is often seen as a bit of nebulous term, but what we've tried to do is make the concept of wellbeing as concrete as possible.

But I also think that novels being taken seriously is kind of a nebulous concept.

And while some of their remarks about the game are the standard development «talk» regarding creativity and other nebulous concepts, some seem to be about features that were once planned for the game yet scrapped.

His poetry thus emerges from an abstract space akin to that of Dash and Jensen, transforming and transmitting nebulous ideas and concepts through personal experience and philosophies.

Even though this vision consists of a nebulous collection of words that, on their own, are theoretical concepts and linguistic connectors to a wider dialogue on art and its shared values, the lack of a more precisely crafted statement also presents the discursive slippages in which the collaborative team of curators can operate more fluidly as they seek to represent the varied cultures and identities of the Southeast Asian nations.

Never mind that «nature» and «harmony» are, at best, entirely nebulous, if not mystical concepts, this is environmentalism's Bill of Rights or Magna Carta, only it leaves us humans with very little.

Decisions about every aspect of partner compensation from how to award points to who gets to see the final breakdown have an impact on another, more nebulous concept that law firm leaders love to talk about: culture.

As a consequence «harm», for the purposes of satisfying the threshold criteria in care proceedings, is statutorily diluted to «ill - treatment», which can include such nebulous concepts as witnessing the «emotional or financial abuse of another».

As a number of legal ethics scholars have observed, the concept of lawyer independence and what it requires tends to be nebulous.

Pricing and release windows for the mods, let alone the conceptual ones, are still nebulous, but Motorola's unveiling of theme seems to suggest that support for the modular accessories is high, and it'll likely introduce more concepts down the line.

That's because the concept of a «smart home» is relatively new, and the term itself is fairly nebulous.

School systems that want to prepare students for the future should help them achieve mastery of complex math, science and literacy instead of putting resources into promoting nebulous concepts.