Sentences with phrase «with vague memories»

«I don't see how it's doing society any good to have its members walking around with vague memories of algebraic formulas and geometric diagrams, and clear memories of hating them.»

We won't remember a handful of other players at all, with vague memories of some of the rest.

Between all the talk about a shortage, along with vague memories of its lack of availability last year, I figured why not?

Anyone with the vaguest memory of «The Jungle Book» will remember the characters the boy encounters on the way - the snake Kaa (Scarlett Johansson), the bear Baloo (Bill Murray) and the orangutan King Louie (Christopher Walken).

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That nostalgia is all intertwined with evangelical memory, so that the nostalgia has a vague religious feeling about it.

And then there is that extended British family of children's games from which baseball drew its basic morphology (stoolball, tut - ball, and, of course, rounders); but these are only charming finger - paint renderings of the ideal, vague, and glittering dreams that the infant soul brings with it in its descent from the world above before the oblivion of adulthood purges them from memory; they are as inchoately remote from the real thing as a child's first steps are from ballet.

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.

I also have vague memories of sitting on the living room floor with him when he was 1, begging: «please, pleeeease, sit here and watch Pooh while I eat dinner!

A host of top - gun screenwriters (Steven Zaillian, Robert Towne, David Koepp) tinkered with the script about a botched mission and the crosses and double - crosses that ensue, but the result isn't satisfactory; vague memories of better story lines on the television program come to mind.

Disney Infinity is a wonderful game that mashes together the best of collectables, cherished childhood memories of playing with toys and Minecraft-esque creation into a beautiful package, and then locks it up behind what I found to be an aggravatingly vague system of luck and grinding â $» and what my son found an exciting and rewarding game of chance.

She soon discovers that Ben isn't always on the up and up with her, which makes her not trust him, especially since she has a vague memory of the attack that caused her to lose her memory many years before.

She tries one tactic after another, until she finally connects when a student's vague memory of Horatio Alger stories from U.S. history resonates with her class full of immigrants and children of immigrants.

After she wakes up in a handsome stranger's bed, with nothing but the vague memories of the night they spent together, her life changes tremendously.

This triggers a well acted but painfully vague voice over, often with complaints that you are digging into his memory.

Awakening in a darkened room in a gothic castle, with no recollection of how you came to be there and only the vaguest notion of who you are, you explore the corridors and hallways piecing your memories together by collecting notes and journal entries left in the musty corners of libraries and sinister laboratories.

It actually brought on some vague memories of the Suikoden series too, with certain characters needing you to complete specific objectives or side quests in order for them to become a part of your Kingdom.

The title of the show is a vague memory from a friend of the artist; a phrase that stayed with Margarita Bofiliou for a long time, until she sourced it and found out that it derives from the classic Greek tragedy Perseus by Aeschylus.

Through her work, she plays with the idea of memory and the psychological self, whether it is in «Tired Men,» a series of photographs of iconic sculptures of Cuban historical figures depicted from the back to portrait «prints» created on an inkless dot matrix printer, their images only seen in the vague embossing created by the printer.

These are not vague shimmers, like Rothko's Slow Swirl at the Edge of the Sea, but scarily real encounters with monsters and memories, made real in jagged black lines that stab through swirls of colour.

Her eyes widened as she watched the rock, and her mind lost all sharp thought and became thronged with slowly turning memories, untroubled, meaningless and vague.

It calls up vague memories of a similar sign in Hitchcock's Vertigo, or the Merchant City's associations with the slave trade.

«I begin work with some vague color idea; a memory of a space, a color presence, a color I think I have seen» (B. Marden, quoted in D. Anfam, «Brice Marden», Artforum, January 2007 pp. 242 - 243).

Here are my climate change predictions bases on my own model (which I won't share with anybody because they might either try and take the credit for it or try and find something wrong with it) and on no data at all beyond vague memories of weather I have experienced and what I remember reading.

Chief Magistrate Roberts acquitted the accused relying on an earlier Nova Scotia court judgment: «Unless the witness is able to testify with confidence what characteristics and what «something» has stirred and clarified his memory or recognition, then an identification confined to «that is the man», standing by itself, can not be more than a vague general description and is untrustworthy in any sphere of life where certitude is essential.»

The law is a laggard when it comes to change, but I agree with Borelle, «In five years we'll have vague memories of what a paywall was.»

My lily is home with us now and the years of waiting are a vague memory.