Sensibility is a vague word, covering an area of meaning rather than any precise talent, quality, or skill.

as being " too vague ; some passages are too clever for their own good, and their meaning is not clear.

* vague, meaning they cannot be quantitatively measured, and whether they are adequately provided or not is difficult to judge

Some modern scholars use the term Stammaim ( from the Hebrew Stam, meaning " closed ", " vague " or " unattributed ") for the authors of unattributed statements in the Gemara.

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.

Formulation of the judge's announcement into formal logic is made difficult by the vague meaning of the word " surprise ".

The meaning of this term is intentionally kept vague at first, but it soon becomes clear that " buying a ticket " means to be shot dead by soldiers riding in half-tracks along the roadside.

Other than the vague aim of " ever closer union " in the 1983 Solemn Declaration on European Union, the Union ( meaning its member governments ) has no current policy to create either a federation or a confederation.

The title has a very vague meaning in Russian, is not grammatically correct and can be roughly translated as " The Muttering-Not-That-Bad Show ", but sounds similar to Russian translation of the famous " The Benny Hill Show " ( in Russian — " Шоу Бенни Хилла ", " Shou Benni Hilla ") with a negation added to every part of the name.

In many of his essays and letters Orwell criticised words with formally precise definitions being used badly and the vague slide in meaning for many of these words.

Several vague incarnations of evil in the Old Testament were given the translation draco in Jerome's Vulgate, to undergo changes in meaning and become broad embodiments of evil.

In an absolute context, the word " integrity " conveys no meaning between people with differing definitions of absolute morality, and becomes nothing more than a vague assertion of perceived political correctness or popularity, similar to using terms such as " good " or " ethical " in a moralistic context.

The sorites paradox ( from sōreitēs, meaning " heaped up ") is a paradox that arises from vague predicates.

Defender of the Faith thus has a more vague meaning in the Canadian title, alluding only to the monarch's belief in a higher power.

A precising definition is intended to make a vague word more precise so that the word's meaning is not left to the interpretation of the reader or listener.

The word guo can be interpret as state or tribe, which depend on different cases, some of the problem including, perhaps vague in meaning, taking for example the Samhan which mentioned in the Records of Three Kingdoms consisted of seventy eight guo, where guo here could have been translated differently.

At the beginning of the game, the teams were shown six categories, whose titles gave vague clues to their possible meaning ( for instance, " I'm All Wet " might pertain to things found in the water ).

The exact meaning of unfair advantage or harm caused in business competition may be vague or in dispute, in particular if different competitors promote different interpretations which suit their own interests.

CEOP and particularly its Chief Executive, Jim Gamble, were accused of using vague terms which do not have a recognised meaning within either child protection or law enforcement when they defended the operation.

" Distinct society " refers to the uniqueness of the province of Quebec within Canada, although here the meaning of " unique " is vague and controversial.

The meaning of the term Orphism was elusive when it first appeared and remains to some extent vague.

Altough the meaning is somewhat vague, it may be used as a reply to a question, or just a statement by itself.

In our own times, meditation and contemplation are used as synonyms: both the terms have lost their precise connotation and have become vague in meaning.

Dryosaurus ( ; meaning ' oak lizard ', Greek δρυο / dryo meaning ' oak ' and σαυρος / sauros meaning ' lizard '; the name is from the vague oak-leaf shape of its cheek teeth ) is a genus of an ornithopod dinosaur that lived in the Late Jurassic period.

A glimpse of three of four vague figures, at the most.

He looked at the lined face with vague interest ; ;

Even at this short distance they were only vague shapes, setting up the machine gun on a small knoll so that it could fire above the heads of the rest of the patrol.

Where the microscope under visible light may show only vague shadows or nothing at all, ultraviolet illumination and subsequent translation into a color TV picture reveal a wealth of detail.

It is generally contrasted with vagueness, in that specific and distinct interpretations are permitted ( although some may not be immediately apparent ), whereas with information that is vague it is difficult to form any interpretation at the desired level of specificity.

' I cannot find, or at this moment learn, beyond vague conjecture where the French Fleet are gone to.

Abstracting yet again, constructions are often " naturally related " – a vague notion, at first sight.

" 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.

Determining the presence of both parts of this definition is not always straightforward, as hypoglycemic symptoms and effects are vague and can be produced by other conditions ; people with recurrently low glucose levels can lose their threshold symptoms so that severe neuroglycopenic impairment can occur without much warning, and many measurement methods ( especially glucose meters ) are imprecise at low levels.

But if it " remained a central value in education " it was " rather vague and intentionally blurred " at the practical level.

Some restaurants might use the suffix-zen ( 膳 ) as a classier though dated synonym to the more familiar, since the latter basically is a term for a combo meal served at a, akin to a diner .. Teishoku means a meal of fixed menu, a dinner à prix fixe served at or, which is somewhat vague ( shokudō can mean a diner type restaurant or a corporate lunch hall ); but e. g. defines it as fare served at, etc., a diner-like establishment.

The current state of the French production line is also vague at the moment, due to poor sales of supplements.

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.

With an imposing force he returned to the Roman Forum, and at the foot of the Capitoline Hill encountered Galba, who, alarmed by rather vague rumors of treachery, was making his way through a dense crowd of wandering citizens towards the barracks of the guard.

Similarly, the " Who Controls Our Children " campaign in Pennsylvania claimed that an OBE reform effort was part of a federal program that was " stressing values over academic content, and holding students accountable for goals that are so vague and fuzzy they can't be assessed at all.

Pseudoscience is often characterized by the use of vague, exaggerated or unprovable claims, an over-reliance on confirmation rather than rigorous attempts at refutation, a lack of openness to evaluation by other experts, and a general absence of systematic processes to rationally develop theories.

In the typical case where there is a finding of nonjusticiability due to the political question doctrine, the issue presented before the Court is usually so specific that the constitution gives all power to one of the coordinate political branches, or at the opposite end of the spectrum, the issue presented is so vague that the constitution does not even consider it.

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.

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 ).

His campaign was centered on vague promises of a " productive revolution " and a " salariazo " ( jargon for big salary increases ), aimed at the working class, the traditional constituents of the Peronist Party.

Ménière's disease had been recognized as early as 1860s, but it was still relatively vague and broad at the time.