Sentences with phrase «vagueness seems»

PJM's vagueness seems to contrast with rules adopted by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission this winter.

This vagueness seems indispensable.

Not exact matches

The disdain for mystery implied in these two intimately connected standards of exploration has dramatically negative implications for how we regard the natural world in a scientific age.2 Even though initially the quest for clarity and simplicity seems innocent enough, unless carefully contained it can become a weapon of power wielded ruthlessly to hack away the rich undergrowth of vagueness that goes along with any cherishing of mystery.

Thus, although the notion of imagination is extremely vague, it is not on that account any less respectable than a good many other fundamental philosophical notions whose usefulness seems to be directly proportional to their degree of vagueness.

Overwhelmingly, the term «natural» seems to inspire the greatest confidence among consumers, despite the vagueness of the actual claim.

Maybe it is to a certain extent, but I these intense periods of vagueness became more than that, and seemed to come and go with glutenings.

Despite the numerous attacks on Obama and the record of his administration, Romney's political offerings to America still seem vague and confused How do we account for the vagueness?

It is interesting that Ed Miliband is the fourth weakness - not, it seems, as potent as Labour's vulnerabilities on the deficit and their general vagueness.

But The Gifted supplies some additional reasons anyway, with customary vagueness about how it fits into a greater continuity: The X-Men as the public knows them have «disappeared,» and it's (intentionally) difficult to tell whether this is an early step in the process that leads to the mutant - light world of Logan, the mutant - annihilating alternate timeline of Days Of Future Past, or just a contemporary version of the periodic X-Men recessions that seem to plague the earlier incarnations of the team (Days Of Future Past and Apocalypse have both Xavier's school and his injustice - fighting squadron expanding and receding as needed — part of that infinite - origins deal the X-Men movies traffic in).

And so what seems conspicuously «indistinct» about In the Mood for Love — the pervasive sense of simplicity that governs the drama, from the convenience of its setup to the vagueness of what proceeds from it — becomes, in retrospect, a sophisticated expression of the fundamentally abstract quality of memory and reflection, not so much a paean to past love as to past love remembered in the present.

As it is now apparent, the grounds for much of this opposition and subsequent criticism of TEKS — its vagueness, subjectivity, lack of specificity of objective knowledge, overlap from grade to grade, and lack of sufficient rigor — seem to have been borne out by our experience in student achievement in the ensuing ten years of its use.

On the opposite wall, Ellen Phelan's Autumn Bay, 2003, investigates a similar duality, but her painting, shrouded in a nocturnal mist, seems more like a reminiscence whose shadows derive from the vagueness of memory.

This can be code for, «I don't know what the hell this is about, so I'll tell you what it looks like», yet Hoyland himself seemed to encourage this kind of formalistic vagueness of response: «paintings are not to be reasoned with, they are not to be understood,» he wrote tersely in the catalogue to his retrospective at the Serpentine in 1979.

A certain material vagueness in pigmented paper pulp thus seems ideal for Stockholder, who has always enjoyed the erasure of distinctions: between gross matter and art, composition and formlessness, narrative and abstraction, sculpture and painting... «Having arrived at the Mill with digital prints of objects she photographed in her years and studio (bright plastic bowls and containers, a drinking bottle, some gaudy cakes that had seen better times) along with real objects (fabric swatches, the floor mat) she proceeded to collage and emboss them in stretches of pigmented paper pulp, working in collaboration with Paul Wong.

When taking into account all these kinds of factors, sometimes patterns emerge from cancer registry data that are invisible in the vagueness of the big picture; and sometimes patterns that seem significant on face value disappear.

You seem to be content to pick out vagueness in the presentation of the AGW case, and to be fair there is certainly some present in the aforementioned documentary, however, can you defend your position — either with a hypothesis or with some facts?

Leaving aside the apparent neglect of conduction, and the vagueness of the phrase «in an average sense», the proposition seems to me fallacious, at least for the point at issue.

Also, if the tenant seems vague about the move - in date, it may signify more «vagueness» (which could translate as «irresponsibility») in the future when it comes to important things like move - out dates and rent due dates.

Given the absurd vagueness of this rule, one can only conclude that due process rights are not held in very high regard at UBC; nor is freedom of speech, it would seem, considering the UBC Statement on Respectful Environment for Students, Faculty and Staff purports to proscribe such things as «gossip».

Many people think vagueness on a resume makes it seem like they did more than they actually did.

If you have ever dealt with a person within your professional (or personal) sphere who doesn't value communicating clearly and seems to be a master of vagueness, then you understand how frustrating it can be to accomplish anything when they are involved.