Sentences with phrase «with vague notions»

In education policy conversations, words like «equity» and «civil rights» are often used in an abstract sense, paired with vague notions of failing schools.

What is valuable in all this is that the author is neither a theologian with vague notions about science, nor a scientist with woolly ideas about the divine.

I had approached our drama teacher, Daniel Shindler, with a vague notion of what I wanted assemblies to be: in the round (in circles) and participative.

The novel began with a vague notion that I wanted to write a story about two sisters.

Many of the fastest rising costs — such as pension contributions — are automatically deducted from our paycheques, so most of us are left with a vague notion that we should have more money to spend than we do, but no clue as why we're short every month.

Not exact matches

Too often impatient entrepreneurs leave salaried positions with only a vague notion of their business goals.

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.

Yes, some churches have a vague notion of wanting to get those they consider on the margins «saved», but seldom know how to deal with the issues these people face.

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.

This morning, after I realized a yawning void on the bread end, I threw the pizza plans for the evening out the window and decided to use my last yeast block in favor of a proper breakfast including... well, I wasn't exactly sure on what to do with it but had a vague notion of a sweet yeast roll or similar in mind.

Katherine Bradley, the president of the CityBridge Foundation, offered me valuable direction and counsel when I had only the vaguest notion of what this project could be, and she continued to provide me with important insights and suggestions throughout the time I spent working on it.

So far our attempts to talk with Noah about the baby in Mama's belly have gone completely over his head — he might retain the vague notion that there's a baby in there for a few minutes, but it's not sinking in at all.

I had this vague, naive notion that if we could genetically improve plants with the new tools of molecular biology, we would find a way to make biotechnology relevant to agriculture.

As the moderator in my panel finally understood after an hour of discussion, the only vague notions of God that may be compatible with science ensure that God is essentially irrelevant to both our understanding of nature and our actions based on it.

I had a vague notion of thinking I should handle the situation with presence, and maybe even compassion.

The Cleanse» embarks on an allegorical journey with only the vaguest notion of a destination.

This notion, partly true and conveniently vague, derives largely from oversimplifications of what are still probably the best - known writings on Bresson in English: Susan Sontag's 1964 essay on his «spiritual style» and Paul Schrader's grouping of Bresson with Dreyer and Ozu in his 1972 book on «transcendental style,» which respectively predate the second half and the last third of Bresson's career.

Paul's BibliOdyssey began with what he describes as the «vague notion» to find interesting but obscure book illustrations.

Like many other North Carolinians I spoke to, with the exception of the attorney Kelley, Quigley seems to have only a vague notion of how for - profit charters make money.

I've been toying with the plot for Book 4 (featuring Migs, Rafe Prewitt's brother from A Wicked Love) for quite a while now, but had only the vaguest notion what should happen in Book 3.

If you're like me, with boxes and boxes of photos, souvenirs and mementos and some vague notion of creatively organizing them «someday,» Scrapbook Tips and Techniques can propel you into action.

She also hears arguments asserting that the adolescent has only the «vaguest notion» of what could happen to him if he does not receive blood, with the reasoning being that the information would be too distressing for an already seriously ill boy.

If you're hoarding points with only a vague notion that you'll take a dream trip in a year or two, using your points to pay down debt might be a no - brainer.

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.

Well, it's a survival game, to be sure, with tech to be upgraded and some vague notion of reaching the universe's centre - point.

Dark Souls and its predecessor reminded me quite a bit of Link's Adventure, a game where you're supposed to use a spell (appropriately named «spell»)-- which normally turns weaker enemies into slime — in a very specific spot in one of the towns to make a building arise from underground, with only the vaguest notion of a clue to tip you off.

The ability to approach each new project with just a vague notion of what it will be.

Some commentators recycle vague notions about Australia being a wide brown land with long distances to transport goods and people and that this means that our greenhouse gas emissions must be higher than other, more compact countries.

We put an offer on the site that was accepted and paid a deposit within days, with only a vague notion of what to do next.

We can entertain vague notions of such (control engineers actual build some, but with operational amplifiers as a power source and hard output limiters to provide net stability), but nature does not produce any.

When I volunteered, I had a vague notion that I would simply raise all that money with a direct mail campaign.