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Also he has almost an insistence on breaching realism and lapsing into his own vague allegory.
While the principal characters have decided to take a stand against British domination, most are a bit vague in their feelings and haven't judged exactly how far they are willing to go.
I think this was the first time Mark Mothersbaugh(of Devo) didn't do the music, and it kinda shows, it all sounded like Anderson's ipod left to shuffle (i almost thought this was gonna be a theme of the film, but it was just a passing in-joke), the music highlighted where emotion was happening on screen, but didn't really give me any sense of "what emotions" we were supposed to be experiencing(save for the i-pod scene already mentioned), it all just felt kinda vague like someone left the radio on in the other room.
It is very vague and amateurish.
This movie bears only a vague resemblence to the novel, which is a classic, but this movie was a travesty.
(Why they are supposedly doing it is kind of vague) In strolls the mysterious Prof. Leonide (Bela Lugosi) and his mute, deaf midget friend (Angelo Rossitto) for no real reason.
An economy’s productivity, or output per capita, is a function of capital stock, labor (the number of workers and how educated they are), and an admittedly vague residual known as “total factor productivity,” which refers to how capital and labor are organized.
I (and many others) have the annoying habit of replying to vague messages with a clarifying question, kicking the can down the road.
And adhering to basic norms of decency – facts can be massaged, but not manufactured, and promises must be plausible, if vague – can lose them.
Left unchallenged, pundits routinely use vague language, such as “unemployment will remain high for years” or “Trump’s support will slide.”
The problem with genocide, as a legal concept, is that it is vague.
But trying him for genocide, even though it will be hard to prove that he ever intended to exterminate Bosnian Muslims as a group, just because they were Muslims, will further muddy the term’s already vague definition.
And the vague slogans that its leaders are currently offering will likely be viewed as hollow promises.
And, though the circumstances and the “legal” environment are very different – there is a UN resolution for the Libya intervention, and a vague declaration of support by the Arab League – Sarkozy’s stance reminds some of George W. Bush’s enthusiasm for war.
But this “system integrity” idea is somewhat vague and difficult to test.
His proposals are too numerous and vague to judge, and they do not account for the state of debate at the national level, where skepticism is on the rise.
This is the fundamental problem of the méthode Macron: his policy pronouncements – vague to the point of not being implementable – somehow lack the courage of his European convictions.
Apart from one recommendation – to create a government compensation program for Third World nationals harmed by trials intended to benefit First World subjects – US Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, chaired by Dr. Amy Gutmann, the president of the University of Pennsylvania, did not get much beyond vague notions of community engagement and transparency.
Their vague wording allows them to be applied in a selective and arbitrary manner, and press-freedom advocates that seek to challenge the status quo are coming under increased scrutiny.
So far, financial crisis still seems a rather more vague threat: people are afraid of inflation, stagnation, unemployment, and loss of assets and status.
With vague justifications, the government can now make street demonstrations virtually impossible.
The first difficulty is that, although Sharon evidently intends to go through with his military withdrawal from Gaza, he is vague about what he wants to achieve in future negotiations.
Europe’s Non-Rhetorical ValuesWARSAW – The debate about Europe’s future is burdened by misleading and emotionally charged rhetoric, with vague talk of “more Europe” hampering productive discussion about European countries’ real problems.
In fact, although the US extols the virtues of its partnership with Japan, successive American presidents have been vague about the details.
They suggested only some vague notions of state intervention on behalf of the poor and needy.
In the case of Johnny Hallyday, it is perhaps not too farfetched to believe that this man of sphinx-like mystery is now, like Baudelaire, “a block of granite surrounded by vague fear” whose “fierce nature sings only to the rays of the setting sun.”
The wording was vague in two key respects.
But the hard part is yet to come: turning the agreement’s vague political commitments into concrete action to mitigate global warming.
This approach has produced an incoherent economic strategy and vague, sluggishly implemented policy targets.
Kohl (as well as Bill Clinton) were wary of rapid implementation, preferring the vague "Partnership for Peace".
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