At the same time, if we accept the vague datum with which we began, to the effect that, in some sense, there is knowledge of the past, we shall have to find, if we can, such an account of the present occurrence in remembering as will make it not impossible for remembering to give us knowledge of the past.
We sometimes have images that are by no means peculiarly vague, which yet we do not trust--for example, under the influence of fatigue we may see a friend's face vividly and clearly, but horribly distorted.
In this case, as in most others, what may be taken as certain in advance is rather vague. The study of any topic is like the continued observation of an object which is approaching us along a road: what is certain to begin with is the quite vague knowledge that there is SOME object on the road.
Her first words filled Clayton with
vague apprehension.
He told the count of his interview with Sila Andreevich (Kochubey spoke of Arakcheev by that nickname with the same
vague irony Prince Andrew had noticed in the Minister of War's anteroom).
And before the afternoon was done, they had all managed to enjoy the sweet glory of spreading the fact that pretty soon the town would "hear some- thing." All who got this vague hint were cautioned to "be mum and wait."
They began to feel a vague fear that they had been doing wrong to run away; and next they thought of the stolen meat, and then the real torture came.
From the
vague answers to his question how much hay had been cut on the principal meadow, from the hurry of the village elder who had made the division, not asking leave, from the whole tone of the peasant, Levin perceived that there was something wrong in the division of the hay, and made up his mind to drive over himself to look into the matter.
But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily
vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing.
"Why not," it said, "buy the petticoat, find out the name of its owner, and, instead of seeking a
vague Golden Girl, make up your mind doggedly to find and marry her, or, failing that, carry the petticoat with you, as a sort of Cinderella's slipper, try it on any girl you happen to fancy, and marry her it exactly fits?"
Last night within my chamber's gloom some
vague light breath of Spring Came wandering and whispering, and bade my soul take wing.
But, I hear you objecting, why is it that these racial memories are not ours as well, seeing that we have a vague other-personality that falls through space while we sleep?
This other-personality is very vague. About the only memory it has is that of falling.
Lundi, le gouvernement nigerian avait menace de prendre des "mesures decisives" contre l'Afrique du Sud pour repondre a la nouvelle
vague de violences xenophobes a Johannesburg et Pretoria.
Vague demonstrates that the over-accumulation of private debt does a better job than any other variable of explaining and predicting financial crises.
