Sentences with phrase «people are vague»

A lot of people are vague or general when they write their to - do lists.

If the person is vague or evasive about where they live or other pets they've owned, look out.

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Thinking their son was one of the potential bombers (there are vague facial similarities), some people even started hurling invectives at the family's «Help us find Sunil Tripathi» Facebook page.

The more vague your ad is, the more people will apply, which, I think we can agree is bad for business.

If you give a vague description about the position, you can be sure that there will be many people applying just because they are looking for a job and are not necessarily interested in your particular position.

It's all well and good to tell people they are capable of accomplishing way more than they believe they are, but when the going gets tough, vague reassurances probably aren't going to count for much.

The more vague an understanding the people in your network have of what you do the less likely you are to get on the bid list or receive a hot tip.

Cohen was vague on many of the details behind the one million figure, and said the company did not know statistics like each person's age or gender.

We schedule too many, create agendas that are too vague, invite too many people and let each say too much.

Until now opposition has been based on vague correlations, anecdotal evidence and hunches on the part of people opposed to the pressurized cracking of underground rock formations.

Most people are at least aware of keywords, and title tags, and have at least a vague idea of how it all works together.

CEOs are busy people and therefore unlikely to respond to vague requests or take on the burden of trying to help you.

Regulation is an important tool that allows government agencies to protect their citizens from being cheated by vague brokers who exist only to benefit from the ignorance of the people.

Even people who didn't predict a crash, per se, had a vague sense that something was terribly wrong.

So judges must do that choosing, «not because language is vague but because the Constitution embodies the desire of the American people, like most people, to have things both ways.»

It permits us to dehydrate people to death based on their once having made vague statements about not wanting to live with profound cognitive disability, and it is the ideological basis for denying wanted medical treatment that sustains life.

A politics of reason gave way to a politics of emotion and flirted with the politics of irrationality; the claims of moral reason were displaced by moralism; the notion that all men and women were called to live lives of responsibility was displaced by the notion that some people were, by reason of birth, victims; patriotism became suspect, to be replaced by a vague internationalism; democratic persuasion was displaced by judicial activism.

It all seems very vague, where people can make it mean a particular thing, try to figure out what you are saying, feel guilty that they are doing something wrong by being warm, dry, comfortable in their house, enjoying their family, food.

That love is not some vague feeling or looking after people in our community, important though that is; it is by following Christ's teaching, living out as closely as possible the manner of His perfect loving, that we attain heaven: «He who has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me; and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.»

The hopeful side of the picture is that the number of persons who are disturbed by this state of affairs, because they doubt if a vague and tenuous piety can sustain a civilization, is obviously growing.

We are unsure of the Gospel ourselves and so we slip and slide around it, and the person doesn't get saved because we were so vague, and we feel depressed because of how horrible we did.

This is why I laugh when people like Calvin and others actually have the nerve to teach an iron clad doctrine out of the most deliberately vague chapters in all of the NT.

``... very strong politically correct and left - wing revisionist history attitude or tone that's also Anti-American (especially a vague charge against «U.S. foreign policy»), and strong anti-capitalist elements... blasphemy, implied urinating, vomiting, scatological humor, and comments on breast feeding and sexual parts of people's bodies; light brief violence includes beating on car window and trying to damage car, man comically shoves people off a stage, man burns books; sexual content includes homosexual references, implied adultery with a pregnancy out of wedlock, talk about a priest raping boy in the past, a giant condom balloon placed on church steeple, references to real condoms, implied fornication; upper male nudity, man wears a dress; alcohol use and drunkenness; smoking and marijuana use depicted, including eating marijuana brownies; and, strong miscellaneous immorality includes lying, stealing, revenge, rebellion, dysfunctional family portrayed, father is a pothead and a drinker and lives in a trailer»

I am afraid Jeremy that you are being vague and you are doing something anyone making assertions are not supposed to make and that is painting with a broad brush both groups of people: Christians and conservatives.

It has always seemed to me that when people speak out to say that something is incoherent or vague or whatever, it also demonstrates their unwillingness to engage in something that they haven't already been able to define, pin - down, label, etc., etc..

If refusal to face squarely the fact of death is found so widely in these days, so also is loss of belief in a continuation of human existence, beyond death, in what used to be called the «after - life» It is indeed true that among conventionally - minded church - people and many others there is a vague feeling that when the body dies the «soul» goes on.

My only real point is that «inspired» seems to be too vague of a word and is full of theological baggage which differs from person to person.

It seems like the people in the pews have the power to define what is Christlike, and their spiritual leaders are only supposed to talk in vague platitudes — or address sins that everyone can agree on like abortion or pornography.

The exaltation of Moses» faith is to be sought in other directions, specifically that the God whom he taught was good (vague as the term must remain) and that in establishing close relations with the Hebrew people he made certain high demands upon their conduct.

The few biblical ideas which may have circulated among the common people were so vague and often contradictory that they can not be the basis for the precision, extensiveness, unity, and vigor of the material in the Qur» an.

Third, the idea of consciousness includes that of unity, implying, in some rather vague sense, the fusion of the totality of the impressions, thoughts and feelings, which make up a person's conscious being, into a single whole.

Coaching each person in these two communications skills — and others — is very important; so is teaching them to restate vague or generalized needs in terms of specific behaviors they want from each other.

If only the people who in our age go gadding about with vague talk about the congregational idea were to read the New Testament, they would perhaps get other ideas into their heads.

Often one's desperation is so quiet that even the person himself is aware of Only a vague, nameless restlessness.

Preachers and theologians (especially Protestants) pride themselves on avoiding body - soul dualism, but pious talk at funerals is usually of the departed person surviving as a vague, benign spirit or as a thought in the memories of others.

One of the consequences of this very general and very vague — albeit very true — description of religious life is the inability to specify what exactly marks religious life apart from a very radical following of Jesus Christ in the world as a lay person.

Traditional theism is declining even more rapidly, and is being replaced by agnosticism or by a use of the word «God» that is both vague and variable from person to person.

I suppose if there were scores of verses the issue would be more cut and dry, but when there are only a couple verses dealing with an issue, people are more likely to fight over it, especially when the verses are a little vague...

Spirituality is way too vague a term and often ends up anywhere a person «feels» they ought go.

In another sense, it is a vague longing for a religious «fix» — what Marx liked to call «the opiate of the people.»

Love is not a vague principle; it is the communion of persons.

They might be a bit vague on which people they want to help with this, but they do a good job defining what they mean by «disciple.»

Too many people today are bored at mass because they are celebrating a transcendence that is vague and too quickly transformed into categories immanent and psychological.

«Liberty» is as close as we get to an ethical norm, and that term is deeply ambiguous, depending on whether it is, in John Winthrop's words, freedom to do the just and the good (Christian freedom) or freedom to do what you list (the freedom of natural man).10 While American civil religion remained extremely vague with respect to particular values and virtues, the public theology that fleshed it out and made it convincing to ordinary people used it with more explicitly Christian, particularly Protestant, values.

The certainty with which the faith of many neighbors (including many Christian neighbors) was thus disposed — by some of the very people championing dialogue — pressed the discussion beyond vague notions of «respect» for varying forms of faith toward a search for the appropriate criteria for such judgments.

The name they chose for their group was, J. R. R. Tolkien self - effacingly recalls, «a pleasantly ingenious pun... suggesting people with vague or half - formed intimations and ideas plus those who dabble in ink.»

I applaud people who have chosen that path and stick to it, and I must say I find it intensely tedious to listen to those cynical «vegan - bashers» who think they are amusing as they snark away at vegans without having any idea why they are even doing so, other than being threatened by something they don't understand, or by some vague aversion they have to any spiritual - sounding practice or «liberal - hippie - sounding» philosophy.

Failures moan that successful people get their breaks not through their own efforts but through some vague notion of dumb «luck» When we were humiliated 6 - 0 by Chelsea, they played during the weekdays but we didn't.

«So many people I spoke to were so vague,» he says.»

The quote itself, vague and open to interpretation, points to a bigger story but not the one some people are desperate to hear».