Nevertheless, there are notably frequent instances of deja vue, in which our recognition of an entirely novel event is a feeling of having lived through it before, a feeling which, though vague, withstands the verbal barrage from the most impressive corps of psychologists.

`` I'm taking them to the cemetery '', said Henrietta, out of a vague feeling of hospitality.

By far, the most common symptoms are vague, non-specific complaints: feeling tired, " brain fog " ( short-term memory problems, difficulty concentrating ) and muscle pain.

It was animated more by a vague feeling of cultural and emotional displacement, dissatisfaction, and yearning, than by a specific purpose or program.

Examples are Shoeburyness (" The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from somebody else's bottom ") and Plymouth (" To relate an amusing story to someone without remembering that it was they who told it to you in the first place ").

Addams, still filled with vague ambition, sank into depression, unsure of her future and feeling useless leading the conventional life expected of a well-to-do young woman.

Some complain of a void and a vague discontent. This arises from an existential vacuum, or feeling of meaninglessness, which is a common phenomenon and is characterised by the subjective state of boredom, apathy, and emptiness.

Thus conscience considered philosophically may be first, and perhaps most commonly, a largely unexamined " gut feeling " or " vague sense of guilt " about what ought to be or should have been done.

The vague feeling I had about the irrational nature of his assumption turned out to be justified in the end.

His first fully twelve-tone work was the Chromatic Study on the Name of Bach for organ ( 1940 ), which nonetheless retains a vague feeling of key.

They reveal a woman devoted to the memory of her husband, an appreciation of his greatness and the vague feeling of an enormous misunderstanding having taken place between them.

A contemporary writer felt that, " at the back of it was a vague feeling that to fight for the British Empire was a form of disloyalty to Ireland.

“ As in thought, so in feeling, a vague communication is no communication at all ," Gabo once remarked.

This “ spook ” was characterised by a feeling of unease and vague glimpses of a grey apparition.

The main change to the unit was to cable operation in 1996 on the facelifted Mondeo, as the rod-based linkage of the original unit attracted criticism for feeling vague and notchy.

En route, Chief Engineer Scott reports a vague feeling that the ship " isn't right " and he orders Engineer Watkins to check equipment in a secluded area.

* Love is a vague word used by unscientific people about a feeling they don't understand.

The information given by Anthony à Wood in his Athenae that Habington returned to England " to escape the importunity of the Jesuits to join their order " rests only on a vague statement made by the ex-Catholic James Wadsworth in his English Spanish Pilgrim.

" Lilly Williams, ( Hank's mother ) says she fed Payne in exchange for Williams ' lessons, but memories of him are otherwise vague.

Putting the pieces of this mosaic together, Rector had the vague outlines of a biography.

" Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell " that their " ambiguous choice " was " dictated by a sort of conscientious scruple at assuming Christian names positively masculine, while we did not like to declare ourselves women, because ... we had a vague impression that authoresses are liable to be looked on with prejudice " Charlotte contributed 20 poems, and Emily and Anne each contributed 21.

In it he pointed out that the efforts of the powers to localize the revolt seemed in danger of failure, that the rebels were still holding their own, and that the Ottoman promises of reform, embodied in various firmans, were no more than vague statements of principle which had never had, and were probably not intended to have, any local application.

A visitor to a party Ribbentrop threw in 1928 recorded that Ribbentrop had no political views beyond a vague admiration for Gustav Stresemann, fear of Communism, and a wish to restore the monarchy.

At this moment he was unfortunately called out by a person on business from Porlock, and detained by him above an hour, and on his return to his room, found, to his no small surprise and mortification, that though he still retained some vague and dim recollection of the general purport of the vision, yet, with the exception of some eight or ten scattered lines and images, all the rest had passed away like the images on the surface of a stream into which a stone had been cast, but, alas!

The passage continues with a famous account of an interruption: " At this moment he was unfortunately called out by a person on business from Porlock, and detained by him above an hour, and on his return to his room, found, to his no small surprise and mortification, that though he still retained some vague and dim recollection of the general purpose of the vision, yet, with the exception of some eight or ten scattered lines and images, all the rest had passed away like the images on the surface of a stream into which a stone has been cast, but, alas!

His declarations during the campaign were vague regarding the tariff and unfavorable to the United States Bank and to nullification, but he had already somewhat placated the South by denying the right of Congress to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia without the consent of the slave states.

Mitchell had vague aspirations of a career in psychiatry, but her future was derailed by an event that killed over fifty million people worldwide, the 1918 flu pandemic.

The two snipers at ground level had been given vague instructions to shoot when the other snipers began shooting, and were basically left to fend for themselves.

While this was initially a somewhat vague formulation, by the 1930s many Surrealists had strongly identified themselves with communism.

George Tenet, then-Director of the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ), later described intelligence reports of his meeting with Al Qaeda as “ frustratingly vague .” He, however, told the FIA intelligence officials in very clear terms that he had nothing to do with the Al-Qaeda or any other terrorist organization and he was only working on humanitarian issues like food, health and education.

Scientific readers were already aware of arguments that species changed through processes that were subject to laws of nature, but the transmutational ideas of Lamarck and the vague " law of development " of Vestiges had not found scientific favour.

In Walton v. Arizona,, the Court found that the phrase " especially heinous, cruel, or depraved " was not vague in a murder case, because the state supreme court had expounded on its meaning.

In the court's view, the instructions were far too vague to allow a jury to find obstruction of justice had really occurred.

Hildebrand, now Pope Gregory VII, tried yet to save him ; he summoned him once more to Rome ( 1078 ), and undertook to silence his enemies by getting him to assent to a vague formula, something like the one which he had signed at Tours.

The role was somewhat vague, and had no legislative, executory or judicial powers attached to it.

I did apprehend this in a vague sort of way but since I thought that all religious beliefs were without foundation, I used the word the way I myself thought about it, not as most of the world does, and simply applied it to a grand hypothesis that, however plausible, had little direct experimental support.

Langford claimed that he and Stevenson climbed Grand Teton, but were vague as to whether they had made it to the summit.

the fact that it had been handed down in the name of some vague notion called the French ( or German, or Chinese ) people – all of it seemed to detract from the seriousness of the decision ".

However, Burke's Peerage had listed the sisters as dead, apparently because their mother, Fenella ( the Queen Mother's sister-in-law ), " was ' extremely vague ' when it came to filling in forms and might not have completed the paperwork for the family entry correctly ".

Justinian hoped that this would contribute to a reunion between the Chalcedonians and monophysites in the eastern provinces of the Empire ; various attempts at reconciliation between the monophysite and orthodox parties were made by many emperors over the four centuries following the Council of Ephesus, none of them succeeding, and some, attempts at reconciliation, such as this — the condemnation of the Three Chapters — causing further schisms and heresies to arise in the process, such as the aforementioned schism of the Three Chapters, and the heresies of monoenergism and monotheletism — the propositions, respectively, that Christ had only one function, operation, or energy ( purposefully formulated in an equivocal and vague manner, and promulgated between 610 and 622 by the Emperor Heraclius under the advisement of Patriarch Sergius I of Constantinople ) and that Christ only had one will ( promulgated in 638 by the same ).

It is lighted by a row of lights as far as you can see, which shed a veiled light, like sepulchral lamps ; the atmosphere is foggy ; you go along considerable stretches without meeting a soul ; the walls sweat like those of an aqueduct ; the floor moves under your feet like the deck of a vessel ; the steps and voices of the people coming the other way give forth a cavernous sound, and are heard before you see the people, and they at a distance seem like great shadows ; there is, in short, a sort of something mysterious, which without alarming causes in your heart a vague sense of disquiet.

When Rob Zombie wrote House of 1000 Corpses, he had a " vague idea for a story " about the brother of the sheriff that the Firefly clan killed coming back for revenge.

In 2007 the House of Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology, after describing him as vague and evasive in answering questions, said " we have serious reservations as to whether Sir John is the right person to guide the MRC Executive through the coming period of change ".