| 单词 | vaguely |
| 例句 | She hovered, saying vaguely, 'Yes...’ and 'Well...’, and then went, running down the path towards the car. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z “Getting all weepy won’t help,” says Bastian, and gestures vaguely to the far end of the field, where a line of trees cuts across the weeds. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “Trouble always comes in threes,” she said vaguely. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I follow my mother and Zack out of the chopper, vaguely aware that Dad and Beth have stayed behind. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Fremantle stood grinning vaguely, not quite sure how to take all this. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Others, meanwhile, seemed vaguely appalled, presuming it to mean that as First Lady I’d do nothing but pipe-cleaner craft projects with my kids. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Standing higher than its neighbors, at an altitude of about eight thousand feet, is a wide pillar of rock with a rounded, convoluted top that vaguely resembles the rounded, convoluted top of a human brain. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z There were a few old boats moored on the next pier, one that looked like a coal scow, but nothing even vaguely romantic. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Just when I think she looks even vaguely peaceful, her eyes shock open and she speaks. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Baby Ariana’s arm waved vaguely out of her shawl. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z But though I knew that Julian frequently invited Henry for lunches à deux, I had never before received an invitation to dine alone with him, and I was both flattered and vaguely worried. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I walk slowly across the terrace toward our house, not caring that the rain is soaking me, vaguely wondering why I refused Blanca’s mother’s offer. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Lupin smiled vaguely and placed his tatty old briefcase on the teacher’s desk. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z He was only vaguely aware of the leaves and branches twisting around him, softening and widening to let him lie back. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z The Amity sit on the floor, most with their legs crossed, in knots and clusters that vaguely resemble the tree roots to me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z She was vaguely aware that she was here to get a box of baking soda for the home economics teacher. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Which was vaguely irritating to Humperdinck because, to tell the absolute truth, torture was never all that high on his scale of passions, and he would just as soon have disposed of Westley right then. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “He was vaguely searching for an identifiable field full of specific problems,” Tuve concluded. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z She had a splash of freckles across her nose, and her dark eyes vaguely reminded me of someone famous, but I couldn’t think who. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z I vaguely remember Lara standing in the doorway, the room dark and the outside dark and everything mild and comfortable but sort of spinny, the world pulsing as if from a heavy bass beat. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z The face of the dead man looked vaguely familiar. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “No, I suppose not,” Colonel Cathcart surmised vaguely with the look of somebody seasick. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Again, something vaguely remembered from what Jonathan had once told her. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Instead of putting the map away, I took the letter out, only vaguely aware of the argument Liam and Chubs had gotten into over the best route to Lake Prince. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I smile vaguely in his direction, trying to fake sleepiness. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Alex killed a couple of hours knocking a few balls around on his uncle’s snooker table—and then felt vaguely guilty when Jack caught him at it. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z “Nobody is infallible,” Colonel Cathcart said sharply, and then continued vaguely, with an afterthought: “Nobody is indispensable, either.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z In dazed wonder, I stood in front of the box, holding my face close to the rabbit’s, running my fingers over the slippery glass, vaguely hearing Mamita’s far-off voice saying my name. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Also, it felt vaguely embarrassing—like perhaps there was something wrong with her. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “Because I need to check on something,” she said vaguely, then looked away from me and put a lot of attention into smoothing out her skirt. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The young woman sitting on the stoop out back looked vaguely familiar. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My brother’s friends always started out vaguely good-looking, but all it took was a single week of focused observation before these dudes made me want to barricade myself in my room. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z I remember wondering vaguely if he was in the Army. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I had vaguely heard of the stuff being dug around the county, but had never actually seen any of it before. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z A vaguely familiar voice rises from the stairwell as I paw at the brick. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z At the same time, 1 felt vaguely disappointed to find Christophe no brighter than the rest of us. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d always considered himself the outsider in his family, only vaguely involved with his friends, and except for Guitar, there was no one whose opinion of himself he cared about. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course I knew what they were referring to, but I wasn't even vaguely engaged. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z “Yes, I suppose they do,” said Mrs. Arable, vaguely. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z His dark trousers, with the suspenders crossed over his white-shirted back, gave him a vaguely Amish appearance. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Milkman had to blink twice before their faces returned to the vaguely alarmed blandness he was accustomed to. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z He was vaguely aware of this particular young man, who had built a reputation during basic training as a thoroughly eager warrior, ready to kill and businesslike every bit of the time. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “Well,” said Charlotte, vaguely, “I don’t really know. But I’m working on a plan.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z She pushed him back, finally, and felt vaguely sickened at how her hands sank into his soft chest. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I think I made some sort of noise in the back of my throat, and I vaguely remember my fingers, curled tightly closed, resting on his chest. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He looked down vaguely and saw people waving their arms, shouting. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Daisy looked at Tom frowning and an indefinable expression, at once definitely unfamiliar and vaguely recognizable, as if I had only heard it described in words, passed over Gatsby's face. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z He was filled with something vaguely resembling hope when he walked in and spotted a pretty, brown-haired girl in the third row with an empty seat next to her. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z It sounded vaguely female, but not at all human. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The king had vaguely hinted at some sort of issue with rebels poisoning their food stores, but the details were murky enough to suggest that the truth was buried somewhere else. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z She was only vaguely aware of what was happening as Jerome Paisley grabbed her by the ankle and dragged her away from the safety of the bed. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z It was funny how the buffalo boy’s whole manner changed when he talked about her — his vaguely mocking attitude and tough expression washed away and he lit up like a lantern. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z She points in a direction vaguely to the right. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z At first the overcast was thin, so that the air was vaguely radiant with an even, sourceless sunlight reflected from both clouds and snow, from above and below. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z I vaguely realized that we were headed up the next flight of stairs, but I wasn’t paying much attention to my surroundings. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Like the wraith, Hades was dressed in the habit of a Franciscan monk, which Nico found vaguely disturbing. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “Just want to sleep,” said his father vaguely. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z And I felt, vaguely, wordlessly, that for a child to be marked off for such a life, to be forced to live in fear was a great injustice. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z At least food tastes vaguely like food now, rather than cardboard. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z It is one of those vaguely religious things people say that sometimes creep you out, but now it’s kind of nice. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z She vaguely knew that divorce was an affliction, but she did not regard it as a proper subject, and gave it no thought. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The sheriff shrugged, smiled vaguely, gestured at the nearest mountain peak with his burrito. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I nod, still vaguely aware of the pinching in the same way that I’m vaguely aware that I’m not alone in the room. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z She only suffered a kinsman to kiss her on the cheek and then she secretly wiped it off; Atticus kissed her vaguely wherever he happened to land; Jem kissed her not at all. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z He looked vaguely troubled, as if he were pondering something deeply personal. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z A neatly trimmed mustache connected to a beard that covered only his chin lent him an elegant, vaguely aristocratic air. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She put her hand to her heart and explained vaguely, “Those stairs.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Built of white limestone and pink Aswan granite, the Pharos had a tripartite structure based on a vaguely Pythagorean geometric theme, with a square-sided base, octagonal middle, and circular upper stage. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Master gestured vaguely before he grabbed the car keys from the shelf. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I smiled at him vaguely and went inside. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z He wore a rain hat and dark glasses and what appeared to be several jackets layered on top of one another, which made him look both fat and vaguely transient. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “Maybe beyond those next trees on that hill,” she said, vaguely pointing to some trees in the distance. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z And I smelled something vaguely familiar— something that brought back bad memories. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z I felt vaguely reassured seeing her perform the ritual. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She ran in wearing a threadbare pink towel under her armpits, dripping, vaguely panicked. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Harry was with them; he would, of course, be supporting Bulgaria, and he wondered vaguely why he had a large green shamrock pinned to his chest. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z She nuzzled her head against my shoulder, which felt uncomfortable and vaguely Augustinian. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z “There’s been a lot of tea about lately. They’ve captured India, or something,” she said vaguely. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z There was something vaguely unsettling about the way Rasheed seemed to loom over the woman. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z She made out the wispy outline of something vaguely humanoid, and then her eyes focused long enough to recognize it. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Ugwu was vaguely frightened the first time he saw him because he had always imagined that only evil spirits had grass-colored eyes. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He smelled vaguely of some tropical fruit I couldn’t quite recognize. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Emily gestured vaguely toward a display of fruit by the larder door where there may or may not have been a lemon. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He was vaguely aware for an instant that the planes in his formation were no longer there, and then he was aware of only himself. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Even as children we had a great love for them, they drew us vaguely thither, we played truant the whole day by them and listened to their rustling. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z My father has always vaguely disapproved of Violet’s casual way of calling him by his first name—not to mention her profanity—ever since we became friends. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z “Does he really?” said Mrs. Arable, rather vaguely. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z I’m vaguely aware of Walter helping Camel with his dinner. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z For Bones, I draw a squiggle that turns into a vaguely suggestive porcupine. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “You’re right. Thank you. Once more, unto the breach,” he said before fading away into blue sparks that smelled vaguely of sulfur. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z There was food on the boat and blankets, and he knew where he was going, knew how to sail a boat, knew that he would be met by someone, and yet he was vaguely uneasy. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The plane was empty apart from a couple of bundles that Alex vaguely recognized. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z On the way out, Charlie sees on the kitchen table the long carving knife she cuts roasts with, and he senses vaguely that she wanted to hurt him. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Narcissus frowned, as though he was vaguely aware of a gnat buzzing around his head. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Some of the guys ask me about the game last night, and I answer vaguely, accessing the whole time. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z When girls and men gathered to sit and talk, when the great phonograph played music that throbbed in his stomach and made beautiful and huge pictures form vaguely in his head, Frankie loved it. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He nodded vaguely and walked slowly away, his tall frame somewhat stooped. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z I was vaguely ill at ease all through that long and heavy meal. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z To Mrs. Richardson’s ears, it sounded vaguely apologetic. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “I thought we’d always been at war with Eurasia,” she said vaguely. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Luster lay down in the swing, but Ben went on vaguely and purposelessly. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z A machine I vaguely recognize as a heart monitor. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z He stared vaguely, discontentedly, in the direction of the windows. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z The length of her quietness disturbed him vaguely; it was almost as if she knew she had died and was afraid to find out for a fact that it was true. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z She was vaguely aware of swinging her right fist at Manny’s face as she wrenched her other arm free. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Emenike often left school for weeks, only vaguely saying that he had “gone home,” and he spoke endlessly of people who were “making it” abroad. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z She just nods vaguely and turns on the television. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z I find these references to bad times vaguely threatening, vaguely insulting: I am not the sort of girl who has bad times, I have good times only. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I fed the fire and wondered vaguely if Wil and Sim were worried about my sudden disappearance back at the University. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z A vaguely familiar kid with sunglasses and a smirk on his face is hovering near the cash register. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z He looked vaguely puzzled at first, then slightly taken aback, then, as I glared up at him, he gave a faint, thin smile and mutely handed me a piece of paper. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Dark hair slants steeply across his forehead and is plastered to either side of his head, and there is a disturbing, vaguely supercilious smile set into long, narrow lips. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He looked up from a ledger, his expression vaguely irritated. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Well,” I said, nodding vaguely toward the steps that led us out of the Literal Heart of Jesus. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z He never went to Camp Greyhound and was only vaguely aware that a jail had been installed there. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z His hand waved vaguely toward the far end of the hall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He was vaguely cognizant of the tepid applause and rush of grumbling that met the announcement. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Like the first, they had no necks or bodies and wore helmets that vaguely resembled athletic gear. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “No. There was my uncles and all, and some other men,” she said vaguely, not knowing what the Samoyed hunter had told him. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z There is one picture, a lithoprint of two coy, grisly children in pseudo-peasant costume, vaguely Austrian, using a mushroom for an umbrella. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I vaguely hoped that someone would come up and talk to me. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Then I realize there’s one other person in the world who vaguely knows who I am. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z They had not made any definite plans, but had vaguely thought of going down to Crickhollow together first, and resting there a bit. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z There was a moment of dead silence, while the bishop’s hand strayed vaguely to his pectoral cross and Gawaine’s clenched itself in the bed clothes. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It said that the discovery in the trial “vaguely references” the fact Reggie had gone to the Mission Training Center and then returned. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z It didn't look much like a factory—no towering steel silos or smokestacks billowing carbon monoxide, just a few buildings that vaguely reminded him of airplane hangars. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z “Oh yes,” said Hermione vaguely, but she packed all the books back into her bag just the same. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z There was a lake of perfectly clipped grass and, across the lake, an ivory-tinted building I vaguely recognized as Greco-Roman. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Any time, when you have nothing to do, you have only to ask me, and I will show the rooms in the west wing,” she persisted, making me vaguely uncomfortable, I knew not why. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z But Chief merely gave them a case of red wine as a gift, and said vaguely to Obinze, “Come and see me next week.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z That he often smelled vaguely of chemicals—that in fact the building as a whole often had a medicinal odor—bothered no one. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Leo vaguely knew Clark Gable was an old-timey actor, but he didn’t know much else. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The thought was passing vaguely through her mind, “What would he mink?” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z She hunched forward, and she smelled old, vaguely like formaldehyde. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z After the tournament, Gerald got off the bus feeling vaguely uneasy. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Her skin was warm and smelled vaguely of heather. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The first packet that she passed to Winston had a strange and yet vaguely familiar feeling. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z In a chair on the terrace an old gentleman was sitting and the sight of him was vaguely familiar to Dr. Armstrong. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Ammu recognized vaguely that her thoughts were shot with a delicate, purple tinge of envy. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m sure I don’t know what you are talking about,” Xan answered vaguely. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Tally had never seen so much space painted in such putrid colors, as if the building were designed to make its occupants vaguely nauseated. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z In that brief time, he vaguely remembered opening his eyes and finding himself slung over a guard’s back. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z With his close friends, she often felt vaguely lost. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I only vaguely remembered saying a proper goodbye after that. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z I only vaguely knew the names of the trees around me, and all I knew was due to Charlie pointing them out to me from the cruiser window in earlier days. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z He emerged running, but then he stumbled; he got up and ran again, this time more slowly, circling vaguely to the right. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z “It was a routinized way of trying to learn the cases. Not Joe. He wouldn’t have any of that. But he had that quality which we always vaguely subsumed under ‘thinking like a lawyer.’ Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z I vaguely wonder if I should be preparing for the event in some way, but nothing comes to mind. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z To this day, no riverside table is complete without a bowl of farofa: crunchy, toasted manioc meal, vaguely resembling grated Parmesan cheese, which Amazonians sprinkle on their food with abandon. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Frodo wondered vaguely why the fact that they did not come on up the Hill seemed a great relief. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z There’s something vaguely familiar about the Kensington Palace guest quarters, even though he’s never been here before. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “Personally,” he said, “my great ambition is to count all this”—he waved vaguely at the treasure around him—“and possibly sort it into piles. ‘Know thyself,’ that’s my dictum. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z I can vaguely recall its twin red taillights ahead of us on the dark jungle road, bumping along tediously, and the false starts of an afternoon thundershower. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But my main concern was seeing the trustees and after more than a week of seeing the city and being vaguely encouraged by secretaries, I became impatient. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s only been a day, Isaac,” she said, vaguely condescending. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Amanda Werner and several other beautiful, elegant, conically breasted foreign ladies, from unspecified vaguely defined countries, plus a few bucolic so-called humorists, comprised Buster’s perpetual core of repeats. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z I was asked to contribute something to the magazine, and I said vaguely that I would consider it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z This is why they do seem, after all, vaguely familiar to all of us. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He hadn’t checked the weather and felt vaguely unsettled about that because the Frog didn’t have any radio gear except a cheap little transistor battery-powered receiver that hardly ever worked right. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z They shimmered and rippled, and when I looked closer, I realized that the threads were fragments of stories—actual lines from tales I vaguely remembered—spun into golden silk. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z I vaguely remember it was farther away when they last saw it. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I still kept my head down, vaguely wondering if she were intimidating me or if she really wanted me to repeat my curses. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Chip vaguely remembered hearing about the boy, but he couldn’t place his face. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He gazed down at her, his pale red eyes vaguely curious. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z "They said I was innocent, Otis. They said I was innocent," she replied vaguely. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry saw, with some satisfaction, that his uncle looked vaguely panicky. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z A fellow student whispered to me that Nyathi was a member of the African National Congress, an organization that I had vaguely heard of but knew very little about. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s one that everyone is at least vaguely aware of: the use of jargon, abbreviations, and technical vocabulary. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z She tells me vaguely about her weekend and asks me vaguely about my weekend. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z What we eat is vaguely Thai: chicken, spicy and succulent, a salad of exotic foliage, red leaves, tiny splinters of purple. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He climbed up the roadbank, over the gray rails on the far side, between two dead bodies, one a sergeant, face vaguely familiar, eyes open, very blue. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s all wars,” said the old man vaguely. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Percy muttered vaguely about needing a new quill. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z In the lobby, Alex had asked for John Crawley and was sitting on a leather sofa, vaguely wondering why so few people were going in or out. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Though I only vaguely understood what they were talking about, I’d never been afraid to ask dumb questions. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “Yes, I like roses,” she said vaguely, and then peering closer at me with her dim blue eyes. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z My other half brothers, Buddy, Sonny, and Robert, asked me what being a soldier was like, and I made something up that sounded vaguely heroic. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Ku’oosh continued slowly, in a soft chanting voice, saying, “Maybe you don’t know some of these things,” vaguely acknowledging the distant circumstance of an absent white father. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Hetera smelled vaguely of cinnamon, and at nine years old I found her fascinating without exactly knowing why. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The other, more vaguely imagined, looked something like her mother. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Tapestries clung to the walls, which were supposed to keep the corridors warm, but also made everything smell vaguely of damp silk. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z I spent the next several hours feeling vaguely sick to my stomach. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z In the press car, the corners of Al Ulbrickson’s mouth twitched reluctantly into something vaguely resembling a smile. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I look around at the dozen or so people enjoying themselves in vaguely psychedelic stupors. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z I, myself, felt vaguely like jumping up and shouting “AMEN!” but I figured it might be wise to find out what I would be “Amen”-ing about first. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “I heard a couple of the house servants talking, just saying vaguely that there was trouble. I thought I should find out for sure.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z In 1973, Bill posted an enigmatic letter alluding vaguely to plans for an extended trip and then disappeared without a trace; to this day nobody knows what became of him. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The mare had taken him past the Corderos’ and into the graveyard, and he had seen the mists rising and pooling, coalescing into vaguely human shapes. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z He panted for a long time, then rolled his eyes up, vaguely in my direction. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z She waved vaguely at the dirty old mirror and the damp floor. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z I smile at my reflection, vaguely wishing that the mole near my lip would disappear. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked round vaguely for his glass, picked it up off a table and went over to the side table and helped himself to another whisky and soda. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z I was vaguely aware of a mechanical voice instructing people to congregate in yellow zones. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z She said, vaguely, “I’m sorry, I didn’t, I’m sorry...” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z In the little living room Adam looked vaguely at his sons and went quickly into the bedroom and shut the door. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He stopped looking at it and began to stare at the stem of his Martini glass, looking worried and vaguely, unfairly conspired against. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z He looked black and yet nonblack, calm yet on the edge of turmoil, vaguely dangerous. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z I remember vaguely the “we” from when I first woke up, the two of them a united front for the first time since Abby’s death. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Feeling vaguely angry, Conor got up and went into the kitchen. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z She smiled at him, vaguely aware that her whole body was glowing with a supernatural flare. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z I stood impatiently listening, half listening, vaguely watching, then noticed his work-thickened fingers clutching the shovel. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew him vaguely from school—a junior, maybe. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There was one case out of New York that was vaguely related. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I vaguely felt Ocllo pushing the bowl to my lips, and I finished the rest of the drink. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Powell grunted vaguely, and when Donovan broke the resulting silence, it was to change the subject completely. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z All he saw, or thought he saw, was a lot of dangerous wild animals walking vaguely about. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z The only time I can remember him vaguely touching upon mathematics was when he whisked a square of tissue- paper out of his pocket and waved it around. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z It lasted between six months and a year, he said a bit vaguely. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I could see her vaguely outlined in the moonlight that came through the window. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z And she vaguely remembered the big, soft hug of an elderly woman who pushed her inside a welcoming house. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Some are vaguely familiar from the hallways at Fenway, but most don’t ring a bell for me. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Then he’d dug in his pocket for a stick of Juicy Fruit—first his shirt pockets, next, vaguely irritated, his pants. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He looked vaguely like the little boy in the picture in Gabriel Pérdido’s wallet, which weighed me down as I thought of the distressing news we were bearing. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotions”—his mighty hand gestured vaguely as he sought the proper words. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z They were members of the town’s trash-collecting corps, and as they huffed and bent to lay the box over the hole, they smelled vaguely of pine and rotten fruit. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Girl,” Wilem said in a vaguely accusatory way and turned to me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Far ahead in the murky darkness Matthias could vaguely distinguish a figure leaning out from the wall. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z In some vaguely general fashion, they understood this, regarding the construction of the District of Columbia on the Potomac as a statement of Virginia’s enduring influence over the federal government. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z But she laughs at this suggestion in a way that makes him feel vaguely foolish. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I was a non-man, something that knew vaguely that it was human but felt that it was not. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a bass laugh that sounded vaguely familiar and a voice. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “I read the magazine, but I never read the paper,” I said vaguely, thoroughly rattled. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Taylor had been vaguely aware of the movement, but her mind was too confused to speak. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z I had been vaguely following his career, out of my own interest. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Even if my once enviable role now seemed vaguely second-rate, still I determined to try twice as hard to prove they’d made the right choice. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z And yet a pernicious seed had been planted—a perception of me as disgruntled and vaguely hostile, lacking some expected level of grace. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z But I was no more than vaguely aware of anything like that in my detention-home years. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z His bruises had mostly faded by now, and the swelling in his face had largely subsided, so Mormont looked almost human once again... though only vaguely like himself. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “You’ll be my apprentice,” he vaguely heard his uncle saying as they walked. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z I vaguely remembered Mo showing me a picture of a lamassu in one of his archaeology books. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Inside the room was a chair and a desk and a big apparatus that Luke vaguely recognized as a computer. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z The new ant put down the cadaver vaguely and began dragging the other two in various directions. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z And the fog continued to roll in from the north, dense and cold and occasionally drenched with the strangest imaginable light, in which great forms could be vaguely seen, and mysterious voices heard. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Linda had stirred uneasily, had opened her eyes for a moment, looked vaguely around, and then once more dropped off to sleep. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “I guess we all decide our children’s fates just by making our own life decisions,” I say vaguely. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z At the sound of my voice, she looked vaguely embarrassed. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Except for the one tiny earring signaling his allegiance to some vaguely alternative point of view, George is a perfect straight arrow—crew-cut, hardworking, and hungry for eye contact. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Colin asked, only vaguely annoyed that she knew something he didn't. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z I know the road and vaguely know the address, so I grab four Cokes from the cooler and get into my car before anyone notices I’ve taken the wrong run. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z I avert my gaze from a girl paying at the counter who looks vaguely familiar. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z He gestures vaguely toward the refrigerator, as if he’s said something of any meaning. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Just then Portia appears with a large man who looks vaguely familiar. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Though Adams was vaguely aware of these machinations, he gave them little attention; after all, he never paid much heed to his cabinet anyway. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Right at the end, I saw him raise his hand again vaguely and turn away towards the overhanging roof. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I only vaguely recall my impressions of all this. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z She vaguely wondered what these people did when they found Mademoiselle’s door locked. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z I vaguely understood that to his mind there was just one thing that wasn’t clear in my confession, the fact that I had hesitated before I fired my second shot. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z “Relaxation,” the doctor said vaguely, and Theodora turned with a sullen shrug and stared again into the fire. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z He vaguely remembers telling himself they weren’t going to do things like this. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I sensed vaguely and with a flash of panic that the moment I walked out upon the platform and opened my mouth I'd be someone else. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Watching the white people eat would make my empty stomach churn and I would grow vaguely angry. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Carolina, who was seated in her chair by the op>en rear window, said vaguely, “Cheer up, querido, things could be worse.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She lowered herself to a cushion on the floor, ringed by gift boxes and surrounded by vaguely familiar faces. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Ampleforth marched clumsily out between the guards, his face vaguely perturbed, but uncomprehending. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The paper was of a greenish color, and there was something vaguely familiar about it. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z When she hung up, she mentioned casually to her husband that apparently some sort of police agent had arrived in Milagro for a meeting and she wondered vaguely why, and with whom. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Although both men, one hefty and yet almost cherubic looking, and the other very tall and lanky, seemed vaguely familiar, Linda recognized neither. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He had a neutral, vaguely inquisitive air, and seemed untroubled by this sibling squabble. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He sobbed in desperation and turned, but the thing pursuing him now stood in his path—a colossal being wrapped in shadows, its shape vaguely humanoid, its head almost scraping the ceiling twenty feet above. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “Probably by the river,” Marina said, motioning vaguely in the direction of the water. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Sam waved his arm vaguely: neither he nor any of them knew how far it was to the Sea, past the old towers beyond the western borders of the Shire. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It was sweet, and he wondered vaguely if she would taste sweet... Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I tried to think of something else, but my mind was full of vaguely remembered horror stories of the diseases that ran wild during this time. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe he’s broken his Hand of Glory,” said Ron vaguely, as he attempted to straighten his broomstick’s bent tail twigs. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z By the following year his parents know vaguely about Ruth. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The portrait, in the style of Gainsborough, showed an aristocratic family—parents, two teenage girls and an infant, all thin-lipped, and pale as ghouls—posed before a vaguely Tuscan landscape. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Anything old, and for that matter anything beautiful, was always vaguely suspect. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I spent the whole rest of the night feeling vaguely terrified. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Something about that idea made me vaguely uncomfortable, but I slipped the chain on anyway. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z When it saw Miss Peregrine, it tried to hop away, but the headmistress followed, making a low, vaguely threatening warble in her throat. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “Shoelaces,” he added vaguely, looping the Polaroid cameras strap around his neck. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “I just don’t know any more what’s happened to all you children,” Mrs. Glass said vaguely, without turning around. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Jack checked, vaguely irritated by this irrelevance but too happy to let it worry him. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z She looked around vaguely, put her hand to her mouth and groaned as she looked at me again. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z She told him, “They’ve got my passport,” and he thought this vaguely sinister, almost a hostage holding. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Earth was the solid ground, yet vaguely a personality, too. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt vaguely stunned, as if she had struck me from a blind spot. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “Willing to like something, it’s a strange idea,” she said, now curious about him, vaguely interested in hirii They talked. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z It seemed vaguely familiar, though he did not remember the statue. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Her silky black hair, shot through with fiery red, is woven into thin, intricate braids, and her dainty face is vaguely familiar. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z His solid, thickset body spoke of fights that he had started and won, and the buck-teeth that gaped through his lips made him seem vaguely dangerous. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z One of them, Cadmus, instead of looking vaguely here and there, went very sensibly to Delphi to ask Apollo where she was. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Stunned, he sat there vaguely aware that roaches were fleeing across his hand and over his body. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z My dad shuffled out of his room holding a bag that looked vaguely foreign. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z I vaguely recognize a couple; the rest must have gone to the other middle school. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z He let out something that was vaguely like a chuckle, but it soon transformed into a hacking cough. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “We have some business to discuss,” I say vaguely. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Frodo had not spoken much to him of his errand, and Sam only knew vaguely that the Ring had somehow to be put into the fire. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The result was a face that looked like the wings of a butterfly and bore an expression vaguely old and Chinese. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Between his feet are two glyphs, one resembling a stovepipe hat with a U painted across the front, the other looking vaguely like a smiling pet monster from a Japanese cartoon. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She nodded vaguely, shut her eyes again, spread her legs to let the doctors stitch her up. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I saw him vaguely though his voice came clear. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z If the whole structure were radically shrunk, the uninitiated might perceive a vaguely agricultural purpose; the cages might be thought to contain chickens, or mink. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I vaguely noticed that Mike held the chair out politely for Jessica, and that her face lit up in response. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z She looks vaguely familiar to me, but I can’t place her. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z “It’s an Old Town thing,” said the Lady Mayoress, vaguely. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Even my demigod eyes couldn’t make out its exact form through the ash and fire, but it was vaguely humanoid and so huge it could’ve used the Chrysler Building as a baseball bat. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The voices sounded vaguely human, but that meant nothing. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “Bye, Mrs. Carpenter,” he said as he left, and she waved vaguely as she listened to the other customer. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The next thing I can vaguely recall is living in Fort Bragg, Calif. My brother had been presented a B.B. gun. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Her grandmother waved her hand, vaguely, to brush away the memories like you brush away cobwebs. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Still moaning he sought vaguely about and found a twig and put it in the other bottle. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, darling, you don’t even vaguely remind me of Rhett Butler.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z His cheeks were tinted vaguely pink, as were the tips of his hairy ears, like he was embarrassed by this show of caring. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Years after the war Moxley Sorrel attends a play, notices something vaguely familiar about one of the actors, recognizes Harrison. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I am vaguely aware of tinkling as the mirror disintegrates around us. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The mercenary stared vaguely at Chronicler, but made no attempt to stop him. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Then he waved vaguely toward his desk—a new larger desk than he had had on my last visit. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Jethro spoke hurriedly, almost sure that the words would anger his mother and vaguely realizing that he wanted to anger her a little for spoiling the brightness of the morning by her obvious sadness. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z And it was only after two or three such vaguely overheard conversations that we realized that the story was about Pecola. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus spring wore on again and again and vaguely and more vaguely as these years passed he felt it coming. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Through the film of dirt, I could vaguely make out stacks of boxes and what looked like old props. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I remembered—vaguely—a sensationalized late-night TV special about a cannibalistic serial killer from Milwaukee who’d been apprehended in similarly gruesome circumstances. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z On the wall of this building there was something that vaguely distracted him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z A massive dark shape, vaguely humanoid, now loomed over them, its foot raised as if to crush Percy. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z She's beautiful and large, and though she looks only vaguely familiar, for some reason, I want very badly to hug her. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He admired the two upstairs sliding windows, even as he vaguely supposed he could ask one thing more, one small thing — that Helen might be returned to him. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z She seemed irritated by my question and gestured vaguely toward the hall, asking, “Where else do you think?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z This pleased him vaguely, another example of how similar they were. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He was vaguely familiar: Racking his brains, Harry suddenly realized that this was Elphias Doge, member of the Order of the Phoenix and the writer of Dumbledore’s obituary. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z This guy Koios looked vaguely familiar because he had Artemis’s cold eyes and Apollo’s smile. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It sounded vaguely familiar, but she couldn’t remember another time she’d heard it. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He seemed vaguely puzzled and disappointed; he must be wondering, she thought, whether it had been worth it, just to exterminate two rats. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Ira heard and opened her eyes, gesturing vaguely towards him. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z It might sound vaguely believable coming from someone like Tucker, but from me...There was no way. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z “So, you three have been on the run how long?” asked a new, mellow, and pleasant voice; it was vaguely familiar to Harry, who pictured a round-bellied, cheerful-faced man. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z There was a sound of undergrowth being disturbed—a click of breaking branches, a weighty pushing through low foliage—and then a kind of large, vaguely irritable snuffling noise. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z They looked well crafted and vaguely familiar, but nobody knew of anyone making anything like them. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z There was something vaguely familiar about her, but none of the messengers was entirely certain what it was. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Returning from the funeral, my brother, sisters, and I half expected to find some vaguely familiar Sharon Two standing at the kitchen counter and working the puzzle in TV Guide. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z We listened vaguely to Our Father’s tale of the putative Mercedes truck. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t An Imperial Affliction, but the protagonist, Staff Sergeant Max Mayhem, was vaguely likable despite killing, by my count, no fewer than 118 individuals in 284 pages. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z His body was vaguely like a seal’s—sleek black with flipper hands and feet. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Caesar laughs, and vaguely I realize some of the audience has joined in. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Cluny could vaguely discern a huddled figure tangled in the wreckage. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “Of course it’s only because Tom isn’t home,” said Mrs. Parsons vaguely. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z And now it was there in front of me, there was something vaguely embarrassing about the tape, like it was something I should have grown out of. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The She Elephant’s cook fires always had something vaguely unpleasant about them. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z It sounded vaguely familiar, but he had other things to do than identify the voice. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z But he was vaguely aware of the complicated psychology at work. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Its vaguely human body sank onto its haunches, and it slid its long front arms across the stone floor. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “No, I mean us!' He waves his hands around vaguely. “Our group. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Staring at it dissolved its outlines, but within a few paces it had taken on a vaguely human form. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “No, she lives far away,” the boy said vaguely, “but she knows a lot of things.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Dozens of figures began to appear among the gravestones: bluish, vaguely human shapes. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Another time it had looked vaguely like a caravel. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The girl was typical of the region of Andalusia, with flowing black hair, and eyes that vaguely recalled the Moorish conquerors. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I vaguely heard Anatole making promises to Mother on my behalf: he would get me well, he’d send me when I felt ready to go home. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I suppose, vaguely, I had expected something of the sort. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z We aren’t halfway down the block when I’m vaguely aware of the multicolored flashing lights behind us. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z It seemed vaguely wrong to Ralph, in violation of some code; he felt confronted with a language close to one he knew, yet strange. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Lee looked down die smoky street, saw a man helping another man along die road, saw masses of men moving vaguely through a field, saw flashes of artillery. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She was on her back, staring up at the granite ceiling of a building she did not know, but the mildewy smell was vaguely familiar. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z And I vaguely remember Lara smiling at me from the doorway, the glittering ambiguity of a girl’s smile, which seems to promise an answer to the question but never gives it. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z They were patronized by their married contemporaries, they were vaguely felt sorry for, and were produced to date any stray extra man who happened to be visiting their friends. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z He’s vaguely conscious of his weight shifting to his feet, and then the coolness against his palm from the metal of the door latch. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z Angela and a big dude, his face shadowed but vaguely familiar. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Harry smiled back vaguely, but as he pulled on his scarlet robes his mind was far from Quidditch. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z She wasn’t even vaguely interested in getting married again, but Zeitoun had turned out to be everything she had not believed possible: an honest man, honest to the core, hardworking, reliable, faithful, devoted to family. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Occasionally, when someone noticed a trace of an accent and asked me where I came from, I would reply vaguely, "From the east." The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z There’s something here I recognize as vaguely human, but... Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I said, vaguely aware that I was screaming. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He looked back at me and gestured vaguely with his hands. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Lelia was the last person who would attempt anything even vaguely encyclopedic. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He waves vaguely at one of the waiters and as the clock in the hall begins to chime a low, heavy sound that reverberates throughout the house twelve times, the first course is brought out. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z No one understood his hatred of that dimly known country and its vaguely known people. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Winston halted, stood for several seconds wondering vaguely what to do, then turned round and began to retrace his steps. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z There was a clatter in the bakery and I heard the woman screaming again and the sound of a blow, and I vaguely wondered what was going on. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I recall that you bought a motorcycle, and vaguely remember you had some trouble with it—chased by the police?—crackup? In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The scribe glanced at the sword hanging over the bar and drew a deep breath, his expression becoming vaguely anxious. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Stepped on, though I felt it vaguely, already numb from the burning ants. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought it vaguely illuminating that the Negro Griffin’s sweat felt exactly the same to his body as the white Griffin’s. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes one or the other would vaguely remember having heard a whippoorwill call somewhere in the woods, close by, late at night. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Under the dripping cliffs King Pellinore stood stock still, looking vaguely in front of him. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. de Vries waves me vaguely into her apartment but doesn't bother to take her packages, or to thank me for coming out in a monsoon just to bring her some beef. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Her face wasn’t obscured here; she looked vaguely familiar. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z I drifted to the locker room, changing in a trancelike state, only vaguely aware that there were other people surrounding me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “Shad, it’s a day I’ve dreamed about,” he said, and even as he spoke, he vaguely wondered why it was that he should whisper the words. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Even the mystery of the silver doe, which the other two insisted on discussing, seemed less important to Harry now, a vaguely interesting sideshow. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I knew vaguely what a pass was, but not its reality. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She was small and brunette and vaguely mousy. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Jon poured with exaggerated care, vaguely aware that he was drawing out the act. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Winning, he sat up, stared at me vaguely, shook his head, and woke. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Feeling vaguely queasy, I watched him until he reached the next block, then entered my tenement. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I’d graduated from a training bra to one that looked vaguely more womanly, which also thrilled me. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Isa could vaguely hear her family rush out behind her, but it didn’t stop her from pounding a fist on the door. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z She vaguely recalled the incident of the light pole. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She wondered vaguely if what was happening in there was causing him to become so oddly solemn and solitary. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z A vaguely familiar face was leaning over her, and hands were wrapping her in a blanket. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked, to Ishmael, vaguely like an alcoholic scarecrow. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The phone booth was decorated with faded stickers for bands I’d never heard of and brands that sounded only vaguely familiar—relics of rebel kids long since assimilated into adulthood. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z And now I could see the doll only vaguely and drops of moisture were thudding down upon its absorbent paper . Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The atmosphere is somber, vaguely abandoned, as the streets had been. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Another part of her—though she was only vaguely aware of it at the moment—was uneasy, wanted to keep an eye on Mia, as you might keep your eye on a dangerous beast. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She screamed, gripping the handle harder even as she stumbled, vaguely aware that keeping the weapon was her only hope for staying alive. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Glowing white spirits, vaguely human, drifted through the trees. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z It connected itself with other vaguely felt matters that had struck her outside observation and buried themselves in her flesh. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Instead, it was vaguely grassy, but mostly tasted like sugar beet juice. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z She was accompanied by Luna Lovegood, who was patting her vaguely on the back. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Einstein was honored, somewhat vaguely, "for services to theoretical physics." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The system of extended-family clans, of Hearths and Domains, though still vaguely discernible in the Commensal structure, was “nationalized” several hundred years ago in Orgoreyn. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, his name is Kaw. Because of the noise he makes, you see. Something like that,” he added vaguely. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z “Somewhere there,” said Myrtle, pointing vaguely toward the sink in front of her toilet. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Jethro, although he was concerned mostly with the goodness of the food he ate, was vaguely aware of a troubled preoccupation all about him. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Both of us absorbed in our thoughts, we did not understand the shouting we vaguely heard until one of the peons came running after us puffing and angry. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z She vaguely remembered that she used to make a gagging motion at that, but she was too dazed for snarkiness just now. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z He raised his flabby chins vaguely toward me and shrugged his shoulders. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z It reminded her vaguely of her father, and she paused by it, and caught the faint sooty scent of a railway carriage. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It was a hard noise, a vaguely metallic thud, as if someone had dropped a heavy bar of iron. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He waved his hand vaguely in the air before him; but he was in fact now facing southwards, as he came back to Shelob’s tunnel, not west. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Wandering about among his worthless stock, with his long nose and thick spectacles and his bowed shoulders in the velvet jacket, he had always vaguely the air of being a collector rather than a tradesman. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I went ahead spending most evenings at the films, vaguely dreaming that any moment the answer would suddenly hit me. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “I don’t know, exactly. They went to the place where memories once existed before Receivers were created. Someplace out there—” He gestured vaguely with his arm. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z “All I see so far is that from being a rather vaguely known, but still largely obscure metropolitan lawyer, I have now become a world figure. You’re a good publicist.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z I had not hitchhiked in twenty-five years, and it was a vaguely humbling experience. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z I hear him coming toward me in the snow, vaguely alarming, approaching like an arrow in a slowed-down universe, and a shudder runs through me. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z “It takes years to become an Animagus, and then you have to register yourself and everything,” said Hermione vaguely, now squinting down the index of Weird Wizarding Dilemmas and Their Solutions. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z In the evening the murky shape of another coastal city, the cluster of tall buildings vaguely askew. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z That locality was always vaguely disquieting, even in the broad glare of afternoon, and now I turned my head as though I had been warned of something behind. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z A small, white-haired man who seems vaguely familiar is reading a book. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Bigger stood against the wall and looked round vaguely. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Early articles, which had depicted her as “well-dressed,” “striking,” the family “perfect,” had given way to snide and vaguely accusatory ones of the ilk of MOM SEZ: NOT MY KID. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z It didn’t bother my teammates or my coach at all, and to tell the truth, it bothered me only vaguely. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He was vaguely familiar, but I couldn’t place him. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z When Obinze said he needed to get a National Insurance number, and asked, “Guys, how I go take do?” they all shook their heads vaguely. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The man was no longer singing but was whistling a vaguely familiar song. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I nodded vaguely, even though I wasn’t really seeing. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He gestured, vaguely, at my head, even though I hadn’t put on my scarf yet. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The golden warrior’s voice was rich and velvety, with an exotic accent—Middle Eastern, maybe—that seemed vaguely familiar. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z All their previous walks had been less about exercise and more about Aunt Rose asking Ophie endless questions, a gentle inquisition that always left Ophie feeling uncomfortable and vaguely out of sorts. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z There is something about the mere act of him speaking that is vaguely pleasurable even though I wish it weren't. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z He steadfastly would not touch the few beans that O-lan still held in her hand, and it comforted him vaguely to hear her crunching them, one at a time, a long time apart. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The Greeks said vaguely that he came from Thrace, home of a rude, fierce people in the northeast of Greece. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z A Polish count, aged eighteen, devoted himself to the ladies, who pronounced him, ‘a fascinating dear’, and a German Serene Something, having come to supper alone, roamed vaguely about, seeking what he might devour. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z The muscles in her right eye have been weak since she was a child, and every so often the eye drifts to one side, giving her a vaguely cyclopean air. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The room smells vaguely of wood- smoke and sweat, and it is jammed with bleary- eyed people, Africans and Europeans sitting shoulder to shoulder. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Adam sat smiling vaguely at the lamp and tapping his knee with a forefinger until Lee came back. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I vaguely remember a trip to visit Uhmma’s parents, but their faces and the specifics of the visit are blurred and faint in my memory. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Standing in the shadows was a glowing, vaguely human figure outlined in grey flames. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z At the time, I wondered vaguely where the bullet landed. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z They all rested like that, absolutely quiet, drinking more slowly now that their thirsts had been quenched, eyes vaguely fixed on shadow-casting objects downhill. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Okay, even at the time, I was vaguely aware what was behind it. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t want to take off too much,” he said vaguely. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The thought was passing vaguely through her mind, “What would he think?” The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z And the something else was vaguely familiar, and very dangerous. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Goldstein vaguely described his “baby’s” early years, claiming he first concocted this formula in 2004 for some bodybuilder friends who were sick of injectable steroids. A 'miracle' healing gel, a cult-like following, and a fiercely protected empire 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z Two decades of vaguely anti-Doyle sentiment were dissipated in an hour. Falling for Roddy Doyle 2010-05-30T13:37:00Z Here, I use a combination of crisp pancetta and sage, but basil and olives would be lovely if you’re going for something vaguely Provençal. Want to Pamper Your Holiday Guests? Make Gougères 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z There was also a vaguely vintage cast to the clothes that I couldn’t put my finger on. Fashion Review: Michael Kors, Narciso Rodriguez, Oscar de la Renta, Proenza Schouler 2013-09-12T01:09:28Z In the work’s first movement, “Coastline With Figures,” the strings play wavelike, rocking figures as the piano roams through a vaguely pentatonic-sounding melody in octaves that also “spells” the names of friends of Ms. Liu’s. Music Review: Summery Sounds of a New Hall in Rockport, Mass. 2010-06-11T22:45:00Z The costumes, by Gabriel Berry, slide smoothly from period pretty to vaguely contemporary. Theater Review: David Adjmi’s ‘Marie Antoinette’ at Yale Repertory Theater 2012-11-12T17:08:56Z Yet the counterpoint seems to roam all over the place and the harmonic language is vaguely like Hindemith in his Neo-Classical vein. A Jazz Pianist Flips Bach Upside-Down 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z But, thinking she vaguely resembles his wife, Johnny enlists Nelly in a plot to claim her inheritance. What You Should Watch This Weekend: ‘Party Down,’ ‘Preacher’ and ‘Phoenix’ 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Young people’s romantic relationships may be more vaguely defined than they were in the days of chaperones and ritualistic courtship, but that doesn’t mean that movies about those relationships are well served by being vague. Movie Review: ‘Brightest Star,’ a Story About 20-Something Relationships 2014-01-31T01:01:07Z She points, albeit vaguely, to child abuse as a source of Neve’s disturbing abilities. Critic’s Notebook: Horror Films at the Tribeca Film Festival 2013-04-17T22:10:07Z "The Vow" walks viewers through the terms used to describe the various branches of NXIVM's programs, beginning with its Executive Success Programs or ESPs, illustrating their purpose of their vaguely sterile and scientific sound. Beyond sex trafficking and sashes, HBO's chilling NXIVM docuseries "The Vow" proves a cult's power 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z Anyone reading this who watched "Old Yeller" as a child was likely at least vaguely traumatized by its rabies plot. Sarii of “Prey” and the importance of letting the dog live 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z In “Brief Candle in the Dark,” his genial, vaguely remote bearing is a form of the proverbial stiff upper lip. Review: ‘Brief Candle in the Dark,’ by Richard Dawkins, Puts Intellect Over Intimacy 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z He wore yellow Converse sneakers, baggy khakis and the thick-rimmed, vaguely bat-shaped glasses that have been a staple of his appearance for years. Film: Todd Solondz Talks About ?Wartime? 2010-07-16T23:34:00Z Any time a show tries something vaguely avant-garde, there’s a good chance that there is an antecedent involving David Letterman. David Letterman Leaves His Successors a Rich Comedic Bequest 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z She can't strut past any vaguely reflective surface without compulsively pouting and checking her hair. Charlie Brooker's 10 years of watching Big Brother 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z Ms. Tsangari lived there as a child for a few years, and this industrial ghost town, eerily uniform and now underpopulated, provides a vivid, vaguely science fiction setting. Athina Rachel Tsangari Directs ?Attenberg? 2012-03-02T19:13:03Z You can't vaguely design an alcove that people sit and read in. Maggie's cancer care centre, Newcastle – review 2013-05-18T23:05:22Z Soon enough, my kitchen started to smell vaguely like chocolate, and I thought, "Okay, I'm doing something right." Bitter cacao nibs and bleeding hands: My 10-day chocolate-making nightmare 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z There is something vaguely grim about harvesting heat from gym rats pumping away on treadmills. Harnessing an Unusual Kind of Natural Energy: Dancers’ Body Heat 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z My fingers working underwater, loosening the thin tissue that separates crimson chambers, make vaguely aquarium-like sounds; the occasional seed plops like a fish surfacing. Perspective | To escape the winter blues, try seeing red — pomegranate red 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z I soon received a friend request from a woman who looked vaguely like the man I married. My husband, the woman: The private anguish of having a spouse in transition 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z But in this case, actual journalists appear to have fueled the engines of fantasy by tweeting vaguely about a possible Post story — one they couldn’t actually describe nor seemed to know much about. Everyone knew there was a Redskins story — but what was it? That’s when the rumors took over. 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z I don't find it clever or anything but … well … at least people find it vaguely entertaining. The Cribs' Ryan Jarman: 'This is the only job I can do ... McDonald's wouldn't employ me' 2013-02-27T09:28:23Z Or maybe the screams in the toilet are some sort of vaguely unsanitary metaphor. Review: ‘The Feast’ Plumbs the Depths of a Troubling Toilet 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z He plays himself, but it turns out he has an undercover identity as Jean-Claude Van Johnson, a vaguely defined contractor who does black-ops work. Jill Soloway of ‘Transparent’ Aims to Challenge With ‘I Love Dick’ on Amazon 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z It’s billed as an “eco friendly,” “Bluetooth compatible,” “foldable,” and “enjoyable” piece of equipment; it looks vaguely like a compass used to draw circles in geometry class. Ray J Is Trying to Create The 'Tesla of Electric Bikes' 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z From the aggressive displays of machismo at little league baseball games to the vaguely menacing etiquette of PTA meetings, the freakishness of suburban life far transcends the freakishness of ... well, freaks like you and me. "Neighbors From Hell": The perversion of the suburbs, unleashed! 2010-05-29T23:01:00Z Unfortunately, our office stereo is so lame that "full volume" meant "vaguely audible to the people on adjacent desks". What was your minute of mayhem? 2010-04-22T11:45:00Z I used to vaguely know a couple of them and I told them I wrote a song for them. Love Story: A Q&A with Singer-Songwriter Robyn Hitchcock 2013-03-05T20:02:08Z The biggest offense in the tamer paratrooper remake, though, is a skimpy, vaguely bikini-like outfit crafted of straps that Melcher flaunts while imitating a Lady Gaga outfit made of nothing but crime-scene tape. Army blesses Lady Gaga war-zone lip-sync 2010-05-04T04:05:00Z Several of her pieces, including “Green Point” and “One Girl’s Story,” are built around melodies that vaguely evoke British and American folk songs, and a hint of Debussy wafted briefly through “Takeda,” a lullaby. Music Review: Going Out on a Limb With a Koto and an Oud 2010-12-23T20:57:25Z I'd spotted the illusion earlier and had been vaguely planning some stunt to fool my family. Tim Dowling's guide to long-term love 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z George Mason University’s Center for the Arts offered a vaguely unsatisfying program on Saturday: a German orchestra, led by a Frenchman, interpreting music by a Spaniard or based on Spanish legends. Munich Symphony Orchestra tries too hard not to drown out guitarists 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z Bennie will reappear in the final chapter, after several reversals of personal fortunes, to produce an outdoor concert in a vaguely post-apocalyptic downtown Manhattan. Facebook: The Novel 2010-06-05T01:58:00Z He gave his theory of things the name “harmolodics”—a concept that most of his listeners and even many of his collaborators could only vaguely describe or apprehend. Ornette Coleman and a Joyful Funeral 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z I only vaguely knew about her myself to begin with. Five great published diaries 2012-07-16T11:00:00Z Rodrigo’s song bears little resemblance to Swift’s, and the vaguely shared melody seems to exist merely to invite comparisons between the two. Review | Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Sour’ is a world-beating breakup album on a jagged little path to greatness 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z There may be something vaguely admirable in the way Scalia, who also told the audience that the Constitution “isn’t a living document … It’s dead, dead, dead, dead,” sticks so consistently with his textualism. Scalia’s still obsessed with sodomy 2012-12-11T16:19:00Z I even vaguely remember that one of the three outfielding DiMaggio brothers was a perpetrator. Perspective | Why you shouldn’t go toe-to-toe with a sports columnist 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z Look closely at Behn’s wide, jampacked red room, vaguely like a dorm, and you’ll see scattered relics of the 1960s — a psychedelic Doors poster, for example. Review | Having it all as the first female playwright in ‘Or,’ 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z Poorly sorted and only vaguely cataloged, the Prize Papers, as they became known, have now begun revealing lost treasures. Long-Lost Letters Bring Word, at Last 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z My current rule of thumb, when confronted with an enhanced face, is that if I find myself vaguely wondering whether there was work, the alteration was well done. Mirror: The Case for Laugh Lines 2011-05-26T22:16:54Z He is ardent and adept on this topic, but vaguely tiresome too. Books of The Times: ‘All Men Are Liars,’ a Novel by Alberto Manguel 2012-06-21T21:51:49Z The couple died when discretion was admirable, before it became quaint and then vaguely obsolete. Perspective | JFK Jr. and Carolyn showed us the right way to be famous for being famous 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z My hair seemed vaguely easier to straighten, but the whole process still took about three hours. Skin Deep: Hair-Straightening Treatments to Use at Home 2012-02-28T23:59:40Z The setting is contemporary — but vaguely so, stylized, almost abstract. Review: The Met Opera’s Next ‘Ring’ Will Be a Sea Change 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z What’s unsettling is which people in this saga of capitalism we see portrayed, which people the play helps us to imagine clearly and which people we are asked to imagine vaguely or not at all. Review: In ‘The Lehman Trilogy,’ a Vivid Tale of Profit and Pain 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z “Am I in a cult?” she wonders vaguely in the opening pages. Review | ‘The Very Nice Box’ is a very funny office satire 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z Schumer said that she paid Kopp thousands of dollars to paint a stuffed animal that vaguely resembled a panda bear — as one does. Watch Amy Schumer and Jimmy Fallon Play 'Explain This Photo' 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z At best he probably recollects the gist of what was said, then uses his artistic skills and knowledge of the people involved to create a scene that sharpens what he only vaguely recalls. Review | A tale of a family bound by food — and hunger 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z After a few bars of a vaguely bluesy tune, he reveals that he’s been taking lessons. Can the Hair Cuttery become millennials’ go-to salon? This 75-year-old thinks so. 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z She sang “Since You Put Me Down,” which made me excited and vaguely alarmed—I’d figured it would be the showstopper, the finale, and we were probably only halfway through. Listen to Margo Price 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z The two men meet for a drink afterwards and, each thinking the other's gay, vaguely flirt with one another. Arrested Development recap: season four, episodes 11-15 2013-05-28T13:32:01Z You really only need to dip into Coronation Street once a week to keep vaguely up to speed. Coronation Street ? review 2011-03-19T07:00:00Z Men are portrayed as hapless virgins, and some leave women “intrigued but vaguely unsatisfied.” Roxane Gay’s powerful new story collection, ‘Difficult Women’ 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z We’d eat it bare, while it was somehow still vaguely warm despite the 10-minute walk home, standing around the kitchen counter. The saucy tomato bread I’ve thought about every day for 16 years 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z They could also have got rid of Jacqueline for much the same reason, but instead chose Tracy, one of the two vaguely stable women on show. TV review: Jewish Mum of the Year; Fresh Meat; Nurse Jackie 2012-10-09T22:09:01Z It is not dissimilar to Cam's big society – the vaguely formulated idea that communities would be enhanced by more volunteering and genteel social responsibility. Edmund Burke: Philosopher, Politician, Prophet by Jesse Norman – review 2013-05-19T09:00:02Z Before the show begins, video screens display vaguely disturbing imagery. Review: ‘Take Care,’ With Audience Participation for All 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z In any other situation, that would be reassuring, but at a kink party, it’s vaguely accusatory. My “50 Shades” sex party 2012-06-17T01:00:00Z During a spongy, vaguely psychedelic rendition of “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” he shouted, “I love it!” — and just as an animated combat scene unfolding on the video screen behind him turned bloody. Review | Blasting songs of death and destruction, a Metallica concert somehow feels like pure joy 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z Motorized rickshaws called tuk-tuks speed past mosques and Hindu temples, giving Suriname a vaguely Asian feel. Latin America 2011 : Suriname, South America?s Hidden Treasure 2011-09-16T18:55:00Z She’s been upstate, so I am missing out on being adjacent to her go-for-broke painting while we blast vaguely satanic metal drone music. From Geoffrey Chadsey, a Visual Diary of the Last Days of Summer 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z Early on Matt explains to Andrew, CliffsNotes style, Schopenhauer’s concept of will, vaguely paving the way for the actions and themes to come. Movie Review: Dane DeHaan in ?Chronicle,? Directed by Josh Trank 2012-02-03T00:02:16Z Her “I’s” are less authoritative than exploratory, arranged for rhythm and for that vaguely keyed-up sensation she calls “the shimmer.” Joan Didion Revisits the Past Once More 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z “You’re going to spend a bucket of money, and it feels vaguely negligent to let it sit there. It comprises such a big piece of the puzzle.” Smithsonian’s $2 billion plan for area around Castle meets more resistance 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z There’s something vaguely feeble about this cautious approach to what is ostensibly an unapologetic gore fest. ‘Sisu’ Review: Sweat Wicking 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z She also portrays an aspiring politician called Ma Piper, who appears in the third act, rallying her “geese” to her vaguely populist revolutionary cause. In ‘The Killer,’ Ionesco’s Everyman Seeks a Source of Evil 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z “We know it when we see it,” Ms. Kleinhans said a bit vaguely, then gestured toward an Edinburgh Fringe brochure: “Three-quarters of this we know right away is not anything we want.” Connoisseurs in the Theatrical Import Business 2011-08-02T22:02:35Z The trouble is that everything that happens seems vaguely secondhand: an assemblage of well-worn clichés from Hollywood biopics. Chaplin on Broadway: High-Wire Act 2012-09-12T12:00:34Z Although the film takes place in upstate New York in a vaguely 1960s period, the accents sound like the work of actors playing lawman dress-up after too many viewings of “Bonnie and Clyde.” Review: In ‘The Escape of Prisoner 614,’ Tone Escapes as Well 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Fan boards were full of complaints when, on “One Life to Live,” Victor apparently came back from the dead, and the other characters seemed only vaguely surprised. Critic’s Notebook: ‘All My Children’ and ‘One Life to Live,’ on Hulu and iTunes 2013-05-03T21:37:46Z The whisky literally sizzles on the bar, and some grizzled and vaguely familiar faces from the days when Westerns were essentially more nourishing stare at him from the tables. Back to the Future day: live! Enjoy 21 October 2015 around the world 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z A slow, moody piano line was punctuated by a soft, ominous drumbeat that turned by the end of the mournful piece into a vaguely martial rat-a-tat. Review: Tectonics Festival New York Takes Wing at a Church Setting 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z But he doesn’t give them much to do; Moore mostly smiles and acts mysterious; Dockery, forced to wear a vaguely Star Trek-y uniform, looks frightened and follows orders. ‘Non-Stop’ a nonstarter 2014-02-26T22:59:39Z They came from a wealthy New York family and like many vaguely unwell Easterners, had been told to head to the dry Southwest for their health. 'Ladies of the Canyons' tells the story of extraordinary women who blossomed in the Southwest 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z But it is the fourth nominee, performance artist Spartacus Chetwynd, who chose her artistic name in part because it sounds odd and vaguely annoying, who is perhaps the most unconventional. ArtsBeat: A Turner Prize Shortlist Without a Painter 2012-05-01T19:09:29Z The best thing about Mr. Pierce’s way of resolving this situation is that he has one: These stories never drift vaguely off into the ether. ‘Hall of Small Mammals,’ Short Stories by Thomas Pierce 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Julie struggles to write a screenplay about her mother while they spend time at a vaguely haunted hotel. Winter Movies 2022: Here’s What’s Coming Soon to Streaming and Theaters 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z DelGuidice is barrel-chested and still vaguely baby-faced beneath a skull cap and beard, with a quick smile and arms laced with tattoos. Friends reunite to give Doug Stegmeyer's last music project a push 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z Bob Shambles incants vaguely, as if summoning the answer from magical vapours. Extract: Skippy Dies by Paul Murray 2010-08-06T08:56:00Z They were sites of benign accumulation, with a vaguely regal, devotional aura. America’s Big Museums on the Hot Seat 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z "What do you do?" somebody asks the main character, a vaguely ominous young man with a toothpick dangling from his lips like a forgotten cigarette. A stylish, ultraviolent 'Drive' with Ryan Gosling 2011-09-15T20:53:04Z If all this sounds vaguely familiar, it’s because Phillips’s storyline brings to mind that of Abbi on Comedy Central’s “Broad City.” How a member of the cleaning staff became the most sought-after SoulCycle instructor 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z It’s vaguely diverting to stare at Alita’s face, at least at first, to ponder its shape, texture and pale color, and the way that her brow furrows when she’s being emphatic. ‘Alita: Battle Angel’ Review: Do Female Cyborgs Dream of Breasts? 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z All of this material is vaguely interesting, but the author fails to explain how it supports his argument that “To Kill a Mockingbird” matters. Lots of People Love ‘To Kill a Mockingbird.’ Roxane Gay Isn’t One of Them. 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z He gave them costumes to wear: early on, white blouses and vaguely antique tunics; later, colorful, embroidered blouses from Greece, North Africa or central Europe — all places he had never been. Review | A 19th-century painting that rivals the Mona Lisa 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Well, like every job for me, my agent phoned and said, “there's this movie” and she explained very vaguely what it was about, and it didn't sound that enticing. Kelly Macdonald talks to Salon about stepping into a starring role with “Puzzle” 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z So when I spotted a man and woman smoking on a sidewalk in Islington on Wednesday afternoon, I thought vaguely, “Oh, yeah, I know you.” ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Familiar Faces and Themes All Over the World 2011-07-21T19:00:11Z “How is this vaguely about our Dear Lord?” Perspective | Gene Weingarten: The theme of these poems may make you cringe 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z When East Germany went modernist itself, in the late 1950s, it placed great significance on its ability to mass produce light, synthetic, vaguely futuristic goods, with the ubiquitous Trabant a source of state pride. When is an East German plastic eggcup a piece of communist nostalgia? 2012-07-09T15:17:32Z Comfy because they’re made with homey materials — frosty-green and pink curtain fabric, or a poofy, translucent coat stuffed with so many dried flowers it looks and vaguely smells like an oversized, wearable sachet of potpourri. Gallery Walk: Postcards from a trip through Pioneer Square’s galleries and graffiti 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z His comedy is the off-the-cuff, vaguely nerdy kind, a grownup–but not too grownup–version of improvisational horsing around in the parental basement. Andy Samberg Puts the Pale Pop In Popstar, 4Real 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z I vaguely knew that “hare lips” were associated with inbreeding – and, by extension, were common in remote rural communities – and I’d read JM Coetzee’s Life & Times of Michael K, whose protagonist has a cleft. The day we learned our son had a cleft lip 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z Laszlo is convinced, like a proud and vaguely absent parent, that the child must be a genius, an artist. The best child on TV is on "What We Do in the Shadows" 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z Yet Katharine gets crucified at the end of the movie, dumped, fired and defeated in a way that Weaver admits she finds vaguely shocking. Sigourney Weaver: 'I’m asked to play awful people all the time' 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z Their relationships are observed gently, even vaguely, but are nevertheless recognizable because they accord with tradition, like blurry photographs of people you know. Krassimira Stoyanova in ‘Der Rosenkavalier’ at Salzburg 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z With some 3,000 words, the text vaguely evokes the French region of Provence — its landscape, food, and customs — in the form of a conversation between four cities: Aix, Arles, Avignon and Les Baux. A Singer for Whom Words Always Came First 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z Perhaps that is what the end of all our lives will feel like: something switched off before its time and not allowed to reach a vaguely imagined, satisfying "end". The 10 best films of 2012, No 3 – Amour 2012-12-12T11:48:13Z She also alluded vaguely to “things that happen to you” at about age 40, and “they go on from there.” ‘Wendy Williams Show’ ending, new Sherri Shepherd show ahead 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z I understand he’s playing a journalist that you’re vaguely interested in? Sutton Foster and ‘Younger’ Embrace a Changed World 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z A shadowy government entity exercising questionable powers in the name of a vaguely defined goal? Television Review: ‘Spies of Mississippi,’ About Segregation’s Defenders 2014-02-09T21:31:13Z Her vaguely German-accented line readings and dagger stares are often very funny. The Best Performances of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z The set is a collection of vertical canes, constantly moved into new configurations, there are few props, and the costumes are a mix of western and vaguely oriental. A Magic Flute ? review 2011-03-24T12:15:30Z “When I signed a contract to do Daredevil,” he said, “I vaguely remember my agent saying, ‘Eventually they’re going to do the other three shows. Defenders assemble! The kickass superheroes with no friends and a SuperDonald baddie 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z He recorded seeing piles of "vaguely human" corpses of workers who died each day. Soldier, 92, breaks silence over Auschwitz heroics 2011-03-31T13:00:39Z “People will play games when they vaguely know each other, to get to know one another.” What We Learn from One of the World’s Oldest Board Games 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z That image will be shown alongside “Le Repos,” a 1932 painting that Mr. Richardson said vaguely depicts Khokhlova as an abstracted but venomous creature, with sharp teeth, a red mouth, her legs evocatively splayed. ‘Picasso & the Camera,’ John Richardson’s Latest Show 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z A week earlier at the National Theater, I had found myself watching two other exceptionally bleak young playwrights and vaguely thinking, “Oh, they’ll grow out of it.” Theater: In London, Young Playwrights, Including O?Neill 2010-07-30T22:49:00Z In “Brother, Sister,” the smoky tones are applied to a buccaneering, vaguely predatory image of exotic adventure in uncharted waters. Ed Ruscha and 'Fifty Shades of Grey' 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z On Saturday, they bring to New York “Love Heals All Wounds,” a vaguely narrative work that touches on police brutality and champions empathy and inclusion. 5 Dance Performances to See in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Available in numerous variants, the design's key feature is a lone heroic figure, usually wielding a sword or staff, and looking vaguely magical/mysterious/dangerous. What's the story behind genre fiction's covers? 2011-01-19T09:00:02Z Manhattan as Susan Superstar, a vaguely autobiographical version of herself, and died, essentially burned out from drugs and alcohol, at the age of 28. “Plimpton!” doc tells tale of literary heavyweight 2013-05-28T20:05:00Z The surface of Eden’s vase, instead of being smoothly contoured as its 18th-century prototype would be, is an amalgam of jagged disconnections vaguely conforming to an overall vase shape. Pushing limits: Bellevue Arts Museum’s ‘Atoms + Bytes’ combines digital, traditional 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z The story goes that only a few years ago, he was at the end of his tether — alone, broke and vaguely suicidal; worse, his manager was saying he’d become unbookable. Riff: Stand-Up Comedy Without the Stand-Up. Or the Comedy. 2012-02-03T22:00:07Z Other sellers and buyers call out to him, vaguely outlined in the creeping light of dawn. Loving Elvis tender and true 2011-01-05T18:24:46Z She stares directly at the viewer, with the kind of classical intensity that made me vaguely afraid of portraits as a child. How Radical Can a Portrait Be? 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z We might be vaguely aware that there was once a show called “Girls” or a young woman named Lena Dunham. Perspective | So long to ‘The Big Bang Theory,’ which was smart about being dumb about being smart 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z The sublime Uberlin sounds a bit like Drive; magisterial opener Discoverer vaguely echoes Disturbance at the Heron House – and so on. REM: Collapse Into Now ? review 2011-03-03T23:40:01Z Long, vaguely philosophical conversations unfold in front of a stationary camera. Movie Review: Miguel Gomes’s ‘Tabu’ 2012-12-25T22:44:18Z The “Real Beauty” campaign is almost a parody of itself at this point — the emo string quartet, the wise, vaguely sinister “expert,” the soft lighting that’s straight out of a Real Simple photo shoot. Stop posting that Dove ad: “Real beauty” campaign is not feminist 2013-04-18T15:10:00Z I'm sure in Cougar Town production meetings they truly believed they'd created something vaguely feminist and empowering. Screen burn 2010-03-27T00:09:00Z This fact makes you vaguely dread Mr. Sullivan’s inevitable hiring by The New Yorker as a staff writer. Books of The Times: ?Pulphead,? by John Jeremiah Sullivan ? Review 2011-10-27T22:16:57Z In fact, there’s something vaguely heroic about sheer indifference shown here towards “kerbside appeal” and the “wow factor”. Terrible estate agents’ photographs: excrement, horses and toilets in the kitchen 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z I heard an alarm wailing in the corridor outside our room and I thought, vaguely, that there must be an emergency on this floor. ‘I can’t forget the horror of my son’s birth’ | Leah McLaren 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z I felt vaguely guilty that I was earning so much more then the average working man. The Graduate 2011-06-24T07:35:03Z The stars are played by actors who look only vaguely like the real thing. ArtsBeat: Bruce Lee, Tupac Shakur and Kurt Cobain Walk Into a Bar… 2014-03-26T15:00:19Z She’s also vaguely uneasy about her feckless husband, Miles, who’s standing in an infinity pool with a topless girl on his shoulders. Review | ‘When Life Gives You Lululemons’ is a delicious sequel to ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z I am also vaguely wondering if she will be the last person to see me alive. Taking a stand: when stand-up comedy turns ugly 2013-06-09T06:07:02Z The images vaguely suggest an urban narrative, but, as in Chris Marker’s films, the drama lies in the long, ruminative wait. Art in Review: HILARY LLOYD 2011-08-04T22:00:07Z Kimmel’s political jokes were softballs—a way to acknowledge and release tension without saying anything, or to congratulate the audience for being vaguely self-aware. The Awkward Politics of the Oscars 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z "The food here is actually pretty good," she said, gesturing vaguely at the verdant salad bar. Was the cheeseburger actually invented in Louisville, Kentucky? 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Important too is Byrne’s vaguely folksy if entirely self-conscious presence, and how this once and future art-school kid continues to vibe more like Mister Rogers than a veteran rock star. ‘David Byrne’s American Utopia’ Review: Opening a Wide, Wonderful World 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z Dave Cochran, the diminutive bassist, continues to look vaguely bored as he fingers out earthquake riffs. Roy Harper: 'I'm not very communicative' 2013-07-17T16:49:47Z And Ellicott City does bring to mind, vaguely, a Mediterranean cliff town whose shopkeepers hang their wares outside on the narrow sidewalks to tempt customers to stop in. Destination Design: Ellicott City When I left the store, I noticed a lady who looked vaguely familiar next to my truck. I also left my kid in the car: Mothers share stories of their own public shamings 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z I find them pompous, vacuous, and vaguely enraging. The Disquieting Power of Wilhelm Furtwängler, Hitler’s Court Conductor 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z As a bonus, small seem elegant and vaguely European, especially when left unfrosted and served with a dollop of whipped cream. This simple baking hack will help you get the most out of every cake you make 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z Oddly enough, many of the people he passes seem vaguely familiar. Review | Is it a memoir? Is it a novel? A shadowy writer toys with our expectations 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z While the memorial is national in scope and ambition, it resolutely focuses on American counties, insisting on local culpability while other memorials speak vaguely of national guilt or crime. Review | A powerful memorial in Montgomery remembers the victims of lynching 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z While my favorite was a foam that smelled vaguely of incense, the homemade version of vinegar and water performed extremely well. How Low Can You Go (Sofa-wise)? 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z “Oh my goodness!” he says vaguely as we settle in, and there is something about Dano’s politeness and thoughtfulness that makes one want to ring to congratulate his mother. Paul Dano on acting, love and embarrassing parents: 'They have way too many pictures of me' 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z A honey-glazed pork chop was vaguely sweet and not too dry. Lakeside Bistro draws South End diners with its Vietnamese inspired cuisine 2010-03-18T20:53:00Z Within a few months, she was making vaguely anthropomorphic forms from multiple wrapped clusters connected with networks of red, green, yellow and purple fabric. Judith Scott’s Enigmatic Sculptures at the Brooklyn Museum 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z He selected avocado-green shag carpet—it also lines the ceiling—and furniture that hews to a vaguely Polynesian theme. Going to Graceland 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z Ms. Vitale has rotated the frogs vertically, so that they look vaguely anthropomorphic, or like totems. Artworks Along the High Line 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Bob — it might not be his real name — is chaste, and his motives are pure, though, in his past, he might have done some of the usual vaguely alluded-to “terrible things.” Denzel Washington Exacts Vengeance in ‘The Equalizer’ 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z I would address the attic and the greenhouse at some vaguely distant future date. Review | All the books in my 300 boxes sparked joy. The lockdown made me rethink why I was keeping them. 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z A bland heckle, but for a couple of vaguely seditious seconds it wobbles the cosy carapace. TV highlights 10/02/2012 2012-02-09T20:00:04Z “I Stole Your Dad” — the meaning of that rather odd title takes a while to emerge — is vaguely styled as Mr. Hodgman’s attempt to muddle through a middle-years crisis. Theater Review: John Hodgman Steps Out of ‘The Daily Show’ 2014-01-15T00:01:14Z Ms. Green moves from actor to actor, moment to moment smoothly, sometimes with vaguely sinister lighting, camerawork and music. Review: ‘Casting JonBenet’ Revisits a 1996 Murder 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z So it doesn’t take more than for me to act vaguely human for them to realize that I’m a regular person and how messed up it is. Doxxing victim: “This isn’t about porn, this is about humiliation” 2014-03-02T01:00:00Z I vaguely remember my mother peering between my legs, then putting her finger in to feel for the baby’s crown and, when she could barely touch it, shouting at the nurse. “I should have had the drugs”: The pregnancy that made me fear cars, carrots, forest fires and David Bowie 2014-04-15T22:59:00Z It is, by turns, hysterical, profane, unsanitary, obnoxious and vaguely disquieting. Divine Excess on Avenue C 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z For those only vaguely familiar, Gretchen is the Plastic who keeps trying to make “fetch” happen. Finding New Meaning in ‘Mean Girls’ 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z Like the woman’s increasingly upsetting visions, these time warps seem related to the eerie, vaguely human-shaped standing stone that looms over the island, a memorial to a past seafaring tragedy. ‘Enys Men’ Review: Island of the Lost 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z Hang on, don't I vaguely remember him being on Top of the Pops? Andrew WK: meet the US's new cultural ambassador to Bahrain 2012-11-26T20:00:05Z In the tiny gaps between ninja nappy-wrapping and sprinting out on emergency Persil runs to the shops, I was vaguely aware of the arrival of a cultural phenomenon. ‘I must have watched it 50 times’: a Frozen dad prepares for the sequel 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z As far as she knows, the show’s something like “Avatar: The Last Airbender,” with various vaguely medieval tribes vying for power. Don’t watch ‘Game of Thrones’? Mondays at the office can get pretty annoying. 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z “Here Comes Trouble” is talky and vaguely ill composed, but Mr. Moore is in touch with the American demotic. Books of The Times: ?Here Comes Trouble? by Michael Moore - Book Review 2011-09-13T12:00:00Z There’s a mysterious, vaguely ominous ritual that the passengers whisper about but clearly won’t be revealed until the end of the play. Theater Review: ‘Port Out, Starboard Home,’ by Sheila Callaghan, at La MaMa 2012-11-18T22:11:15Z Obama rescued himself from the vaguely sentimental by anchoring his hope in his own life story, and the multicultural and multicolored character of the United States. Barack Obama reclaimed patriotism for the left: How his 2004 DNC speech made a hopeful, inclusive America a core liberal value 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z And one of the reasons I appeared vaguely intelligent around that time is because I'd take him out to dinner and listen to what he had to say. How I got Malcolm McLaren to stand for mayor of London 2010-04-09T09:13:00Z I also vaguely remember a scene where the corpses of animals were shown discarded around Provincetown, where "Red Tide" was set. In "American Horror Story: NYC" Ryan Murphy is out here murdering gay men again 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z If the show’s other allovers are vaguely floral, “Diagonal” is tectonic. Review | In the galleries: The Washington colorists and the CIA 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z He would respond vaguely that there must be “some Jewish somewhere.” Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z The compositions — machine gun-toting soldiers stacked like sardines, children throwing grenades — are vaguely classical, like social realist tableaus as conceived by a Hellenistic artisan. Hidden Gems of Europe 2012-10-12T20:14:25Z He spoke vaguely about doing other movies and television shows but for now is a "free agent," he said near the end of the show, "free to explore the playground of my imagination." Charlie Sheen brings rambling road show to a close in Everett 2011-05-04T20:05:06Z An aura of vaguely topical importance is as vital to a superhero-franchise movie as a merchandising deal. Review: In ‘Captain America: Civil War,’ Super-Bro Against Super-Bro 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z At best “Beate” is a curious artifact that vaguely nods at the history of Italian fashion manufacturing, the country’s Catholic heritage, and the human consequences of rampant privatization. ‘Beate’ Review: Bad Habits 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z By the 1990s, these worries seemed kind of quaint — the stuff of vaguely remembered church sermons about materialism, of old Life magazine articles about mass society and suburban alienation. Ad absurdum and the conquest of cool: Canned flattery for corporate America 2013-12-22T12:00:00Z And of course, we cannot forget the starving African children, that vaguely racist placeholder for the sentiment that the world is troubled. The power of communal grief: Mourning Mandela and beyond 2013-12-06T16:45:00Z One of the few vaguely sane speeches we will hear this week. The D.N.C. on TV: Don’t Go, Michelle! 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z But seeing it live and with disembodied, vaguely aquatic sonic effects was weird and cool, the audio/visual sequences hanging in air still charged by the most recent Tyler Swan drum freakout. Truckasauras rocks hard, salutes the '90s at Barboza 2012-06-29T18:19:13Z So many people were happy to complain vaguely about “the media,” without really caring about the news, or following it with much interest. Polls show Americans distrust the media. But talk to them, and it’s a very different story. 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Second, with the proliferation of natural wines, rustic is too imprecise, referring vaguely to flaws without specifying the nature of the problem. Finding the Right Words for the Red Wines of Languedoc 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Somebody's always watching her, too — vaguely threatening paparazzi populate the sidewalk in front of her mansion — and the two find a connection, helped along by Mitchel's weakness for damaged, vulnerable women. Shadowy 'London Boulevard' echoes earlier films 2011-11-22T00:55:04Z On Tuesday, Joyce Carol Oates, the American author whose Twitter feed is an jewel box of absurdist, vaguely offensive half-thoughts, showed her stripes as a true conservationist. Joyce Carol Oates’ epic Twitter fail: She thinks Jurassic Park photo is real, aches for poached dinosaurs 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z In Orléans, booksellers and shoppers had only vaguely heard of the program, but they supported the idea. From Behind Bars, Inmates Award France’s Latest Book Prize 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z With a low fog hanging just above the loquat trees, Norfolk pine and lush ferns, the property seemed vaguely mystical, like a scene from Tolkien. Woody Harrelson, Rogue Number One 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z The result was vaguely Japanese in spirit and big in shape, with more architecture than decoration, which was not a bad idea. Fashion Review: At Givenchy, Sweet Tranquility 2012-10-01T18:52:38Z Da Corte’s is vaguely imprinted with the satanic flames that rise from Bald Mountain in the Disney animated movie “Fantasia.” Alex Da Corte set Pop aflame at Art + Practice 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Argo presents this context imaginatively, though fleetingly and perhaps too vaguely. Argo – Ben Affleck's gripping CIA thriller sends reality into a tailspin 2013-02-22T09:00:02Z Maybe I vaguely remember being handed something, saying they were filming and I might end up on the telly; but no, I was probably cut in the edit. TV review: The Railway: Keeping Britain on Track 2013-02-13T07:00:09Z “I’m from a place called Hope,” Mr. Spacey said as he feigned Mr. Clinton’s Arkansas accent, which sounded vaguely like Underwood, who is from South Carolina. Kevin Spacey, Star of ‘House of Cards’ and a Bromance With Bill Clinton 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z "This experience has scared me straight," he said, in a slightly nasal tone that sounds vaguely like Liberace. Scott Thorson: the lover Liberace remade in his own image 2013-05-25T23:04:01Z The Vapors was the perfect epitome of midcentury Hot Springs: steamy, sumptuous, flashy, vaguely illicit and supremely indulgent. Cavorting in Hot Springs, Ark., During Its Sin-Soaked Heyday 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z I vaguely remember some of this from college but it's so much more fascinating when you're a bit older. Fontainebleau: A Forgotten Treasure 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z On the skiffs, entranced by my surroundings, I only vaguely tuned in when the guides provided information on the various species of birds, which included vultures, parakeets and macaws. Personal Journeys : Pink Dolphins and Sunsets Along the Amazon 2014-04-11T18:08:34Z “I remember very vaguely when I was young, we would go drive really far so my mom would sing in a community chorus concert,” Wu said in an interview. Boston’s Mayor Trades City Hall for Symphony Hall 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z Johnny’s Cafe, opened in 1922, greets diners with a vaguely intimidating, elaborately wrought set of metal front doors. In Omaha, a Progressive Approach to Free Time 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z The only thing that vaguely resembled one was a stone tunnel into a forest. Your phone can't save you now: On Buddhism, technology and the alleged supremacy of the mind 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z The intimacy between the Alvisas is confrontational and just vaguely spectral, framed as it is by unassuming domestic spaces—many of the photos were taken in the photographer’s apartment, in Boston. The Double Vision of Alicia Rodriguez Alvisa 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z Or has the music biz come to the verdict that for UK guitar bands to be vaguely interesting there must be a whiff of the exotic? Man Like Me, Peace, Depeche Mode: this week's new tracks 2013-03-18T06:00:00Z The dancers are vaguely distressed and aggressively protective, on guard against something just offstage. Review: Summation Dance, in a Kaleidoscope Repeatedly Snapping Into Focus 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z Without giving it away, the series concludes in a vaguely upbeat manner that doesn’t quite track with the show’s earlier and more delightful mean streak. Review | There’s a twist in ‘Russian Doll’ that keeps it from becoming ‘Groundhog Day’ for hipsters 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z Moore voiced her terrier mix in response, saying in his vaguely European accent that he wished he could meet her dog. The voices we make when we pretend our dogs can talk There’s also an old George Will column framed on the wall, with the vaguely Etonian headline “Hail to Thee, Old Strand.” The Art of Summer: The Words We Live By 2011-08-03T12:00:05Z The format was the fairly standard: four authors and a chairperson chat about something vaguely to do with the event title. Writing for love. And money 2013-03-05T12:56:55Z He was sternly self-critical and readily admitted there was "a vaguely bogus atmosphere" in his early poems. Poem of the week: Elegy by Sidney Keyes 2013-07-15T11:42:00Z Nguyen, astonishingly, manages to wring something vaguely like a happy ending from this tragic story. ‘War Witch’: Odyssey of a child-soldier 2013-03-14T20:56:32Z Pay close attention: Developments that seem irrelevant or vaguely implausible in the first half of the novel are blazingly revelatory in the second. ‘Fates and Furies’ review: A masterful tale of marriage and secrets 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z A small but heavily landscaped piazza sits between some vaguely symbolic public art and some new, but already worn-looking buildings. A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain by Owen Hatherley 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z At Redling Fine Art, both sculptures vaguely allude to the human figure. Two machines with conceptual liveliness built in at Redling Fine Art 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z Any criticism of Léna, whose professed desire is for some vaguely undefined “freedom,” is countered with a mixture of furious denial and self-reproach. | 'Making Plans for L?na': Chiara Mastroianni in Christophe Honor??s Drama 2010-08-19T23:10:00Z Bernstein also mused about whether he would end a section of the symphony by vaguely waving his arms and stopping when the orchestra ceased playing. Michael Tilson Thomas Looks Back on Bernstein and Mahler 2010-07-09T20:29:00Z More and more often, when listening at home or elsewhere, I’m either literally watching or vaguely aware of a clock: the readout on my Ipod or my computer screen as a song progresses. Critic?s Notebook: The Musical Rhythms in Images Out of Time 2011-02-16T23:19:08Z As yet only vaguely aware of her calling to be a writer, she enrolls in a number of classes on linguistics and the philosophy of language. Elif Batuman turns her gifts to fiction in 'The Idiot' 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Instead, a mysterious, vaguely threatening force seems to lurk within an intricate matrix of industrial power. A chilling portrait of Germany's Weimar era emerges in 'New Objectivity' at LACMA 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z The tiny figure of a walking man only vaguely justifies the title. When Discourse Has the Upper Hand Over Art 2010-06-25T11:00:00Z A year after the Venice success, Kim faced the allegations at home, which he vaguely denied, saying there had been a misunderstanding. Award-winning SKorean director Kim Ki-duk dies in Latvia 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z As we exit the airport, the Nairobi breeze offers itself like a light blanket of delicate material, delivering a foreign, vaguely optimistic caress. ArtsBeat: Stew in Africa: A Long Time Coming 2011-07-26T19:00:27Z The nude scenes – in the bath; shooting the naked photos with Ono for the infamous cover of Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins – only felt "vaguely unusual". Our friend in the north 2010-06-18T23:03:00Z Travel bags and small satchels in a vaguely lurid shade called “motel red” qualified as Lynchian, I suppose. On the Runway: Paris Men's: Fashion Hams and the Home Front 2011-01-20T20:54:21Z Later, Reza texted a friend about this peaceful interlude, acknowledging how strange, even vaguely guilty, she felt to relish a euphoric moment made possible by a nightmarish crisis. Fear, joy, grief, gratitude: The whiplash of parenting during existential chaos 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z But her once-mighty volume has faded, other than an occasional forced burst of blunt power, leaving only her stolid, vaguely querulous portrayal of this complex character. Review: ‘Aida’ Gives a Taste of the Met Opera’s Bad Old Days 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z It was vaguely Antillean, vaguely swinging, funky in quiet ways, unlimited by the history of trap-set drumming or rumba or really anything else. Music Review: David Virelles Continuum, at the Village Vanguard 2013-02-01T23:04:26Z But he must have been vaguely aware of the kicking the film took? Jesse Eisenberg: ‘Do you look at me and think, God! What an indulgent prick?’ 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z Maxwell's vocal performance was perfectly finessed, a vaguely nasal tenor one moment and an airy falsetto the next. Concert review: Maxwell at KeyArena 06/02/10 2010-06-03T12:01:00Z This week, it's the turn of Jason Byrne, en route from the airport, who waxes vaguely amusing about conspiracy theories. Tonight's TV highlights: NCIS 2011-01-05T00:05:01Z That would be all well and good if the characters here were vaguely intriguing. Capsule reviews of `The Avengers,' other new films 2012-05-02T22:04:55Z It is, instead, a sprawling evocation of a vaguely rendered time and place, as crowded as an episode of “Hee Haw” and occasionally as much fun. Movie Review: ‘Lawless,’ With Shia LaBeouf, a Film by John Hillcoat 2012-08-28T12:00:00Z At the far right, in the Simon Cowell chair, sits Anthony Bourdain, the show’s star, now fully engaged in the TV mainstream after his years of louche, vaguely countercultural globe-trotting for the Travel Channel. Television Review: ‘The Taste’ on ABC, Featuring Celebrity Food Judges 2013-01-21T22:53:31Z There is an intended contrast throughout between the vivid colors and modern touches of the vaguely Victorian costumes, designed by Mr. Pelly, and Chantal Thomas’s rather abstract sets, with their askew floors and angles. Music Review: Anna Netrebko in ?Manon? at Metropolitan Opera 2012-03-27T22:50:54Z As a gospel group, the Blind Boys don’t cover as many contemporary songs—or even vaguely contemporary songs—as their album-mates. How Do You Sing Blind Willie Johnson? 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z The music, which Bach wrote in G major, now sounds vaguely like it’s in G minor, though the harmonies are elusive and disorienting. A Jazz Pianist Flips Bach Upside-Down 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z The male characters always vaguely threaten to swallow the show, but Halt and Catch Fire never lets you forget who the real masters are. Summer TV catch-up: Mr Robot, Halt and Catch Fire and more hits you missed 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z The preshipwreck part of the story puts a lot of vaguely religious ideas into play about God and fate and the universe, and these hover in the gauzy digital air. Arts & Leisure: Films Dispense With Storytelling Conventions 2012-11-21T13:00:00Z Searing and concise, the sculptures satisfy that desire -- arguably burdensome for both practitioner and audience -- for work that is emblematic and at least vaguely didactic. Sui Jianguo: Chinese sculpture about control and its absence 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z A series of dreamy episodes — only vaguely comprehensible, unless one were reading the helpful program in the dark — it develops no narrative arc in either the text or the music. 'Smokestack' revisits bloody Everett uprising 2012-02-04T22:47:55Z Alice Mackler is a ceramic artist whose brightly glazed sculptures of female figures, with their exaggerated eyes and breasts, look vaguely “outsider.” Art Review: The Independent, a Maverick Forum 2014-03-06T22:48:57Z What should be a cute story about a mischievous orange tabby cat instead becomes an ironic, even vaguely smug movie in the vein of something like “Deadpool.” ‘The Amazing Maurice’ Review: A Cool Cat and His Band of Merry Rodents 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z The clifftop route is vaguely reminiscent of the Amalfi Coast, with stunning views of turquoise sea and rugged shoreline around each corner. Next Stop: Lerici Lacks the International Cachet of Nearby Cinque Terre. 2010-06-16T20:05:00Z When he tells me about it, he sounds vaguely helpless. How I deal with the unbearable hypocrisy of being an environmentalist 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z Each page contains one joke, often no more than a sentence long, accompanied by a generic photo of nature or wildlife or something vaguely meditative and all-American. 12 Surprising Reasons to Be Grateful for the Arts in 2017 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Scores of nails are stuck into canvas laid on panel, conveying the impression of a swirling movement that is vaguely suggestive of a bird in flight. Sotheby's Sale Leaves Its Audience Dazed 2010-06-29T14:30:00Z And there’s something unsavory about Ben’s reliance on a vaguely Middle Eastern family with suggested illegal-immigrant connections to evade the law, as if undocumented people always knew the best places to hide. Movie Review: ‘Erased,’ Directed by Philipp Stölzl 2013-05-17T01:02:49Z Tuesday, later: The countertops in my kitchen are covered with paint tubes and spatter; the effect is vaguely bohemian. Review | What is the strange allure of Bob Ross? I painted my way to an answer, sort of. 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z This fact vaguely haunted me through my life. The joys of being an absolute beginner – for life 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z "It's just sort of what I'm doing, I suppose," he offers vaguely. Derren Brown: 'I'm being honest about my dishonesty' 2010-10-18T06:59:00Z A lot of superlatives have been slung in the direction of Lena Dunham's debut series, a dramedy that centres on four young women vaguely trying, but generally failing, to be successful human beings. Have you been watching … Girls? 2012-11-21T12:18:58Z Mrs. Alving is only vaguely aware that this is her destiny when the play begins. Review: In Richard Eyre’s Production of ‘Ghosts,’ the Clean Parts Are the Most Disturbing 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z Most of us vaguely understand what it means to be sophisticated. Johnny Hallyday, king of the uncool 2012-10-10T15:00:06Z As Mr. Smythe played light but somber chords, sometimes using the soft pedal and adding a small complement of electronics, Mr. Evans played in gunshot gusts and stout melodies — assertive and bold, but vaguely absconded. Wynton Marsalis Provokes Again With Head-Scratching ‘Ever Fonky Lowdown’ 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z A congenitally restless guy, he finds himself “disgusted, vaguely grouchy, irrationally sore at the farmers who sat around Anderson’s all day and couldn’t think of anything to do but tell bear stories about the flu.” Wallace Stegner and the Conflicted Soul of the West 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z Slater, a former Wall Street Journal reporter and current FastCompany contributor, repackages those banal truisms as vaguely alarming yet exciting developments. What does OKCupid want? 2013-02-16T17:00:00Z The foreground glade looks vaguely English, while craggy mountains in the background resemble the Alps. Antiques: Condemning Slavery With a Paintbrush 2011-07-14T21:51:43Z Last year, Mahr’s Bräu suggested brewing with Record, an herbal, “vaguely minty” European hop that hasn’t been widely used for decades. To revitalize Oktoberfest beers, U.S. brewers turn to Germany for inspiration 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z They were flavored with something mysterious, a taste as old as cooking, but one that, back then, I only vaguely associated with the cause-and-effect of live fire on spud. Smoke Signals: Cooking in, not on, the fire As commentators on the show, they made some vaguely homophobic cracks about serviceman J.R. Dancing with the Stars Week 8 Results: Nancy's Grace Period is Over 2011-11-09T14:00:26Z "Yes," she said, smiled vaguely, and moved on to the next person in the line-up. Diamond jubilee: writers reflect on growing up Elizabethan 2012-06-01T21:50:02Z Names that I was, at most, only vaguely familiar with at the time. The Nas generation of scholars: Finally, a Grammy for the hip hop artist who led me to liberation 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z But out of context it's mystifying, and looks vaguely homophobic. Far from unimpeachable 2010-06-03T11:40:00Z On “Wit’s End,” his fifth album, the songs first sound sad, compact and pretty: acoustic guitar, celesta and mentholated electric-piano sounds, reverb and falsetto, vaguely troubled atmospheres. Critics? Choice: New Cds: The Droll, Buzzing Grandpas of Rap 2011-05-02T19:51:31Z Thanks to Baron Cohen’s initial announcement – a vaguely threatening video addressed to Donald Trump on Independence Day – I assumed that Who Is America? would be squarely targeted at the Trump administration. Who is America?: Why Sacha Baron Cohen's comedy failed to land a punch 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z Star Wars Celebration vaguely announced on social media April 12 that Ahmed would no longer be making his scheduled appearance at the 2019 edition of the fan event. Riz Ahmed missed Star Wars celebration because Homeland Security stopped him at airport 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z Walking around the casino floor must be what the early stages of Alzheimer’s feels like; everything looks vaguely familiar and strangely alien, and you’re in a constant state of being vaguely lost and strangely soothed. Mandalay Bay embodied everything modern Las Vegas wanted to be. Until this week. 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z As you might expect from a group that's styled more like a faction than a band, there's a vaguely martial stomp to the songs they've collected on their debut album Other People's Problems. This week's new live music 2012-06-01T23:05:57Z We're getting to a point where you're vaguely familiar and quite comfortable with who those three characters are and how they operate together. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Caroline Skinner, Executive Producer of 'Doctor Who' 2012-08-29T20:59:51Z In “Refugees,” a young woman in a vaguely described encampment falls under the spell of a traveling guru. Newly Released Books Include ‘The Pier Falls’ by Mark Haddon 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z His Willy Wonka was gentle and generous but also vaguely malevolent—though only if you were a child bent on misbehaving. Gene Wilder Showed That Anxiety Could Be Hilarious—and Tender, Too 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z Those creepy postcards keep coming, and then the postcards become vaguely threatening DVDs, and then the DVDs get replaced by something even more unsettling. John Lanchester's 'Capital': Lost in London on a not-so-easy street 2012-06-27T20:25:04Z Mr. Owens’s fellow students seemed vaguely aware of his singing career and praised him as one of the best conductors in the class. He Sings, He Conducts (and He's Not Bad on the Oboe) 2010-08-03T20:53:00Z Witch Gardens looked and sounded like a band indie labels should be swarming, especially during a brand-new song in which vaguely Malian guitar lines wrapped around a pounding beat, and syncopated vocals wrapped around that. Local music underground alive and kicking at Reverb Fest 2011-10-09T21:01:06Z I used to be agnostic about it, regarding the event as a clatter of harmless eejits making themselves look ridiculous, with their Edwardian dress and pig-meat breakfasts, reading aloud in vaguely silly voices. Bloomsday: a rare chance to feel good about being Irish 2012-06-16T09:59:01Z Alas, the book was only vaguely about restaurants. August Wilson, a Theater Titan Who Spun Gold in Diners 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z A strict Mennonite, he founded the town of Hershey, which included a school for the education of orphans, along vaguely communitarian lines, a conception that became central to Hershey’s mythology and appeal. Review | ‘In Chocolate We Trust’: The bittersweet tale of Hershey’s philanthropy 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z You don't need the great and the vaguely familiar to endorse the . TV review: Evidently John Cooper Clarke; 24 Hours in A&E 2012-05-30T22:00:02Z “Actually, I found that vaguely flattering,” Mr. Thiel said in an interview. Peter Thiel and David Graeber Debate Technology’s Future 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z Venu only vaguely remembers signing up for Date Lab last summer, shortly after he arrived in Washington following grad school. Date Lab: He doesn’t listen to rap, but he was happy to listen to her talk about it 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z This DIY element has now been rendered more Generation Gamey with the introduction of celebrity guests who muck in under some vaguely competitive conceit. TV OD with Daniel Maier: Food Factory 2012-06-29T23:05:00Z Taylor's new album as CANT, "Dreams Come True," is one of this year's best, an exploration of vaguely industrial dance music and ruminative songcraft. Six music happenings this week 2011-10-03T18:36:30Z Replying to two users hungry for answers on the holiday pie’s whereabouts, the Golden Arches vaguely offered that menus vary by store location. McDonald's fans spot holiday pies back on some menus: 'Finally' 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z The new album’s title track and lead single opens with a ghostly, vaguely Middle Eastern chant. The Beautiful Meaninglessness of David Bowie 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z The look, a vaguely period one, is American pastoral. Dance Review: Vail Dance Festival, Often Influential, Delivers Surprises 2013-08-07T21:44:35Z The season kicks off with Bob feeling bad about being vaguely irresponsible and Tina facing a crisis of not being able to do those hand-clapping playground games and songs. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z “Why do people keep seeing me as this vaguely psychotic repressed strange woman?” she said. Keira Knightley, Making Her Broadway Debut, Is Not Afraid of the Dark 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z But I remember wishing, if only vaguely, that I might be able to create the pleasure I took from that book for myself. Michael Lewis: By the Book 2014-04-10T14:00:01Z He added that he vaguely recalled having spoken about a reference to Salinger in his play “Six Degrees of Separation.” ‘Salinger,’ a Documentary Film 2013-05-08T21:24:06Z My daughter and I, however, gleefully pounced on the cake, without a moment's regard for the fact that there might actually be something vaguely healthy in it. Yes, prunes belong in chocolate cake 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Yet the actors don’t sound even vaguely Hispanic.” ArtsBeat Blog: Playwright Criticizes Casting for Production of 'The ____________ With the Hat' 2011-11-30T19:45:25Z A sprawling, cheery bar/brewery features 60 beers on tap, from the vaguely traditional to the ferociously imaginative. A guide to Scandinavian food in New York City 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z If you look at this as an artistry, which I still vaguely do, you feel like you should always try to change. Paul Janeway on the new St. Paul & the Broken Bones LP and “open wounds we didn’t know were t... 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Bryan — and Eckford’s other tormentors — couldn’t be absolved by simply insisting that racism had been vaguely “in the air” at the time. Think You Know the 1960s? ‘The Shattering’ Asks You to Think Again. 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z She describes Comiskey as Hollywood's version of what a critic looks like."He wears a lot of tweed blazers, he's vaguely middle-aged, nice looking," she said. "No one suspected me": Women food critics dish on dining out for a living 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z Even Sheen himself, however, seems to be noticing, vaguely, that he is no longer winning. Charlie Sheen's mental health problems aren't funny 2011-03-03T09:00:03Z To round off a poem with an intriguing point the reader hadn't expected, or end with a moral or message, is a hazardous enterprise; the reader can feel vaguely caught out. Poetry workshop: a rectangular frame 2010-05-24T15:22:00Z Growing up, guitarist Heath Fogg says he was only vaguely aware of the Shoals’ legacy. The New Sound of Muscle Shoals 2012-12-25T13:20:15.353Z It results in a vaguely Vietnamese tangle of pulled pork that is best accompanied by a bright and crunchy slaw, and served on warm flour tortillas that recall the soft pliancy of Chinese bao. How to get the best meals out of your slow cooker 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z “Hey, don’t worry I’ll take a selfie with you,” says the man, who I vaguely remember was hanging round with Murphy earlier. Banned, snubbed, and saved by Colin Firth – my life in Oscars parties 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z Hembrey talks about his artists — and he says it that way, “my artists” — as fully realized people, using the same vaguely custodial tone that novelists sometimes employ when discussing their characters. One Hundred Artists Rolled Into One Man 2011-12-16T16:41:49Z Does he embrace a minority and immigrant identity, or hope to “transcend” it in favor of something more vaguely universal? Julián Castro’s American Story 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Adam’s father is a psychotherapist at a vaguely creepy treatment center called the Foundation. Review | Ben Lerner’s brilliant new novel, ‘The Topeka School,’ captures America’s brutal divisions 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Humperdinck worked with Richard Wagner, the master of German operatic folklore, and his music, is Wagnerian - rich, lyrical and vaguely reminiscent of some of the German master's early works. Witch burns, audience on fire at Vienna opera show 2012-12-23T23:01:04Z The late appearance of Ms. Cloud, steely yet elfin in pale gray, adds another psychological tension; her sliding steps, both crisp and plush, are vaguely hypnotic. Review: Beth Gill’s ‘Catacomb,’ Dreamlike and Site-Specific 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z The comparison makes “Work of Art” sound vaguely tedious, which it is decidedly not. | 'Work of Art: The Next Great Artist': Bravo Series Picks the New Picasso, ?Runway? Style 2010-06-08T22:47:00Z It’s an odd moment that in a different show could make for cringe comedy, but here, this random gesture comes off as vaguely generous and inexplicable. Joe Pera and the Surprising Pleasures of Gentle Humor 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z A combination of laddish rock and vaguely nostalgic sentiment, Jones's songs are so meat and potatoes you need to listen to them with a knife and fork, but that's not really the issue here. Doctor Who 2010-06-26T05:45:00Z He was blind in one eye and couldn’t see especially well out of the other, wore dark-framed, vaguely government-issue glasses, but they’re lowered, he’s turning his head and squinting over the top of them. Voyages: My Debt to Ireland 2012-02-10T20:35:10Z Based on my appearance, I might be vaguely classified as a person of color, however, I am also white. Why we should stop using acronyms like BIPOC 2023-09-24T04:00:00Z In spite of this alarming aspect, the band are not unclubbable, but Mi Ami's key strength is in the vaguely intimidating nature of their groove. This week's new live music 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z Gulbrandsen said it took her about 10 lessons to manage to dance anything even vaguely resembling the samba. Rio teacher out to prove 'gringos' can samba, too 2013-02-12T13:06:16Z Although the story is set in a vaguely medieval fairy-tale kingdom — easier to conjure now, with digital effects — the tone is cheerfully, unapologetically anachronistic. Arts & Leisure: ?Mirror Mirror,? ?Grimm? and Hollywood Love for Fairy Tales 2012-03-21T12:00:11Z “Yes, it does, vaguely, but I can’t remember who actually wrote it,” she said. ‘Glitch of the Pentagon’: There’s a reason you might not have heard of this monster 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z She feels vaguely dissatisfied with her life but, despite apparently being a talented music therapist, has absolutely no self-insight and can't put her finger on why. I Think I Love You by Allison Pearson 2010-06-28T21:00:00Z These days, the hill is equal parts charm and kitsch — still vaguely small-town rustic but mobbed with tourists and pickpockets on sunny weekends. The back streets of Bohemian Montmartre 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z The idea of being set straight by Hanks is vaguely terrifying, like being told off by a judge. Tom Hanks: ‘I’ve made a lot of movies that didn’t make sense – or money’ 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z Half of a brand-new suite of 14 Barney sculptures, a number vaguely related to Osiris' usurper brother, has been added for L.A.'s version of the show. Matthew Barney's 'River of Fundament'? Well, it's certainly big 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z When I first tasted this wine, my thought was “Pinot nero — an Italian grape variety that tastes vaguely like pinot noir.” Sip this $12 Italian red and observe as its flavors unfurl and develop 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z I was also vaguely curious about why he left The West Wing for that show about the lawyer that flopped after like two episodes. Friends in Lowe Places: Rob Lowe and the Art of the Celebrity Memoir 2011-04-21T10:15:00Z The tip came from a slightly more seasoned friend and employee who was, like me, young and vaguely ambitious about a career in the industry. The Sony hack shows movie studios are still insane 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z Shooting a separate scene, we see Wiig dressed in a scholarly plaid skirt and matching blazer – an outfit vaguely reminiscent of the traumatized librarian in the opening scene of the first film. Here Are First Photos of Melissa McCarthy From 'Ghostbusters' Reboot Set 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z The chain has long outlived its similarly vaguely named competitor, Linens ’n’ Things. Bed Bath and the great Beyond 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z It’s an instrumental with a vaguely Asian keyboard motif, drum syncopations that clarify and recede into quiet thuds, one-syllable vocal snippets, rhythmic breathing and a constantly recalibrated sense of tension. The Playlist: Calle 13’s Residente Goes Globe-Trotting and Slowdive Cruises Back 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z But if you’re even vaguely interested in pop music, dance and the art of performance, see “Piece of Me,” which Spears will perform at the Planet Hollywood casino through 2017. One thing can get a buttoned-up millennial feminist to praise Las Vegas: Britney Spears 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z I vaguely wondered how I might annotate it on a musical stave – a run of semiquavers, a minim’s pause, and triplets: presto agitato! 'I was weak, despairing, confused': did writing a novel make me ill? 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z It’s one that dresses up common sense in big words and, increasingly, in only vaguely understood neurobiological research. 'How We Are,’ by Vincent Deary, Mixes Psychology and Philosophy 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z I’ve spent the summer only vaguely aware of its existence and even more vaguely aware of what it sounds like. A summer of drive-by listening 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z With its Asimovian name, wielded these days as a vaguely derisive epithet, the Acela might sound to an untrained ear like something exotic, even menacing. Zippy Amtrak Train Gets Tangled in ‘the Swamp’ 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z At least three hours in a car from L.A. to Fresno, or as the characters vaguely call it, “north.” “True Detective” recap: After the shoot-out, nobody’s satisfied — now the real investigation begins 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Lowry said the collaboration also allows MoMA “to expand our knowledge about a range of artists we may only be vaguely familiar with.” MoMA to Close, Then Open Doors to More Expansive View of Art 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z Just stop going online and getting weird information from your vaguely racist neighbors. "The Daily Show" launched 25 years ago to tackle the news: "We didn't lampoon it, we became it" 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z It vaguely resembles one of Matisse’s early familial interiors, but is in fact a Kalman variation. Maira Kalman’s Irreverent Pictures for the Grammar Bible 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z Touching and vaguely menacing, Martin looms like a colossus. ‘Martin Eden’ Review: Reading and Writing His Way Out of the Pit 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z This statistic reflects a significant lack of imagination, considering that a lot of the work here is merely vaguely oceanic. Art Review: Surfing Art at Nyehaus, Petzel and Metro Pictures 2010-07-22T21:52:00Z They find book tours exhausting, distracting, vaguely humiliating. The book is dead. Long live the book festival. 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z There are poems such as “A Parasol at Noon,” vaguely reminiscent of Wallace Stevens, which imagines “a land apart” that is “neither a plain of old nor yet a dream.” A Strange Australian Masterpiece About Our Relationship to the Land 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z We vaguely knew that it had something to do with creatures created by voodoo in Haiti. The Zombies resurrect their famous album 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Which may be why VIP 2.0, for all its high-minded features, is vaguely unsatisfying, at least if your interest in going to a fair is more in looking than in buying. Art Review: VIP Art Fair 2.0 Is Virtual, Modeled on the Traditional 2012-02-06T22:32:27Z Where museums used to be vaguely or overtly suspicious of the new, allowing it through the door only hesitantly, now they can’t get enough of it, or at least certain kinds of it. Hold That Obit; MoMA?s Not Dead 2010-12-30T16:49:20Z Now, when I come in, the camera is all set up and they have some body-double who looks vaguely like me sitting there already. Paul Bettany: 'Lars von Trier simply wouldn't talk to me' 2013-05-30T13:01:15Z This production, vaguely set somewhere in the early Renaissance or late Middle Ages by the designer Zack Brown, is visually handsome. Review: Two True Artists, One Dramatically Limp ‘Swan Lake’ 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z I vaguely remember its publication and recall, in my post-punk arrogance, feeling affronted that I should be so prominently featured in a wanky, intellectual, middle-class publication that was all about books. Alexei Sayle: 'I'm still full of hate' 2013-01-22T18:45:01Z Even though the code is vaguely defined, it cannot be violated. Joe Queenan's guide to crime cliches 2010-10-17T11:00:00Z Simon Cowell is supposed to be vaguely literary, but who cares? Forget Pippa Middleton's party pooper. Not all celebrity books are a bum deal 2012-11-15T11:45:50Z Usually assumed to depict Rembrandt’s invalid wife attended by a nurse or maid, it is vaguely dated to within the two years before Saskia’s death in 1642. Art Review: Pride of Place, Brighter Than Ever 2011-02-18T00:30:05Z A big mistake, or so I thought, as I witnessed her time after time look vaguely around the kitchen at 6:30 pm wondering what to make her guests due to arrive at 7:30. What to make when you're having Michael Pollan over for dinner: white lasagna with roasted vegetable 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z Brits are vaguely multicultural, not wearing pith helmets and disdaining everything. William Dalrymple: a life in writing 2013-01-19T10:00:01Z On one side of the table were the Guy and the Girl with European accents, who memorably infused their vaguely written movie characters with their own personalities. Arts & Leisure: The Film ?Once? Becomes a New York Musical 2011-12-04T03:13:02Z They often seem dweebish but they have mastered a skillset that most of us only vaguely comprehend, though we use their handiwork every day. Edinburgh international book festival: writers' picks 2011-08-12T21:55:15Z Sestak vaguely explained that he was a former congressman who “beat someone but then lost to someone else” and was now walking — yes, walking — the Keystone State. Joe Sestak still wants to be senator — so he walked solo across Pennsylvania. 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z They show us characters struggling to understand how their minds and identities might be changed from afar, by systems of influence that they only vaguely understand. The Weird Thoreau 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Her landlord in the village is often drunk and vaguely threatening. Back to Europe 2014-05-08T04:00:00Z Zaniel vaguely remembered his grandma mentioning a girl who she looked after sometimes, but hadn't ever met her. Your stories: Tower Clearing - Part 1 by ellathebookworm 2013-07-26T08:01:00Z Dear Amy: I loved your response to "Befuddled Guest" who was faced with a vaguely familiar person at a dinner party only to learn later that this person is transgender. Perspective | Ask Amy: DNA test reveals mistaken identity 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z Hanging in the hallway was a photograph of Mantel standing in front of the famous Hans Holbein oil painting of Cromwell: stout, beady-eyed, vaguely threatening. For Hilary Mantel, There’s No Time Like the Past 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z So giddy-making are Lijiang’s offerings that the Old Town is filled with such vaguely fortune-cookie-like signs as “Mountains and rivers will be your friends and you will be with good reputation as a civilized tourist.” 36 Hours in Lijiang, China 2012-11-29T17:58:36Z But these forces are only vaguely touched upon — too bad considering that tale’s dramatic potential relative to the humdrum love story whipped up here instead. ‘Eiffel’ Review: Paris is for Lovers 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, for some vaguely explained reason, she finds herself playing paintball and meeting a Dutch movie star. TV highlights 05/03/2013 2013-03-05T07:00:13Z “That’s another funny aspect of it,” he said, “is that it’s kind of vaguely not about anything.” Red snow? A most unexpected modern standard for the holidays 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z She served tea, and we sat at the kitchen table and talked, but she still seemed sleepy, vaguely disinterested and perhaps surprised that I had actually shown up. In my genes: Adventures in DNA testing 2016-07-23T04:00:00Z Say what you will about the vaguely insane plot and ever more inventive ways of killing off characters, though, there’s one element of the show that’s surprisingly real: the locations. The 7 kingdoms in “Game of Thrones” are actually these 5 real-world places 2014-04-29T22:57:00Z Today, younger generations – schooled on the tawdry crude narcissism of Lohan and Sheen, and not knowing her film or stage work – know Taylor only vaguely, if at all, as a tabloid creature. Elizabeth Taylor, always leading lady 2011-03-24T15:29:00Z Usher in the season with Richard Curtis’s big-hearted, scattershot film, which weaves together vaguely interconnected tales of love, sex and heartbreak over London. What’s On TV Friday: ‘Hey Arnold!’ and Grammy Highlights 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z As Mr. Rogen’s shaggy visage filled the screen on a Zoom call from his sun-drenched West Hollywood production office two weeks ago, I vaguely felt like my MacBook screen had turned into a mirror. Seth Rogen Is All Fired Up 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z On Facebook, a liberal friend of mine recently confessed that, against all possible reason and for reasons she could not explain, she felt vaguely sorry for Conway right now. Perspective | Farewell to Kellyanne Conway, the ultimate Woman for Trump 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z This is a quietly shimmering movie about disillusionment and doomed romance, and Zsigmond’s nighttime exteriors, both alluring and vaguely spooky, foreshadow despair rolling in like like fog. Cinematographer Extraordinaire Vilmos Zsigmond Could Light Up the Night, and the Daytime Too 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z Also, the rich kimono silks worked great with the masculine khaki and blues and with the vaguely uniform-style tailoring. Fashion Review: Collections From Balenciaga, Rick Owns, Dries Van Noten, Rochas, Ann Demeulemeester 2012-03-02T00:23:08Z It’s wonderful that Biden has decided to nominate a woman, but by vaguely publicizing gender as his main qualifier, he’s preemptively set his candidate up for pushback. Perspective | Brace yourself: America is about to act really awkward about Biden’s female VP pick 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z The only thing vaguely like my family was “The Joy Luck Club” or “Mississippi Masala” or Ang Lee’s “Eat, Drink, Man, Woman” or “The Wedding Banquet.” "The Persian Version" director on creating a film that is "playful in terms of sexuality" 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z I vaguely remembered a bottle of sherry; there was a bottle of Amontillado made by Bodegas Valderrama, probably sometime in the 1980s. The When and Why of Amontillado 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z While the Lancaster version vaguely cleaves to Arthurian legend, Maxwell takes a free-form approach. Merlin and the Woods of Time ? review 2011-07-21T17:17:38Z Tears We Cried is vaguely in the territory of the Band and Where Do You Come From could be one of those "trad arr" ones. New band of the day – The Jar Family (No 1,479) 2013-03-26T17:22:17Z A guy I vaguely knew came over and said, "I hear you can sing." Portrait of the artist: Sharleen Spiteri, musician 2010-09-20T21:30:00Z Hollywood Reporter film critic Todd McCarthy said the film was a "vaguely ambitious but tawdry melodrama," adding that it was "lacking both style and insight into the netherworld it seeks to reveal." In thriller 'Runner Runner,' Timberlake, Affleck explore gambling's underside 2013-10-02T18:21:17Z As apologies go, this one is scrumdiddlyumptious — a perfect concoction of corporate ingredients: Dahl’s slurs, only vaguely alluded to, are subsumed within a larger reiteration of how great Dahl’s stories are. Perspective | Roald Dahl was anti-Semitic. Do we need his family’s apology now? 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z The latter felt vaguely radical in the nineteen-seventies; now it is increasingly sweet and rare to hear ordinary things like sweaters, coasters, brass bedposts, and white linens memorialized with such care and delicacy. Joni Mitchell Discusses Her New Book of Early Songs and Drawings 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z But Sichuan’s is a peculiar spiciness, in part thanks to the native peppercorns, famous for their vaguely anesthetic power. Choice Tables: In Chengdu, China, Remaking Sichuan Food 2010-11-16T00:30:00Z These cool, gorgeous, lonely spaces conjure up associations with both the futuristic perfection of virtual worlds and vaguely seedy memories of glamorous vacations and escapist activities. Artists at Winston Wächter gallery construct enticing ‘Summer Dreams’ 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z Her face and torso are more than vaguely human, even aesthetically beautiful, but she has legs like a wading bird, and a tail, and that's just not right. Anne Billson 2010-07-15T20:59:00Z The ceramics feature vaguely absurdist “Eggheads,” while the banners are from the more poetic “Low Tide Wandering” series. 10 Galleries to Visit in SoHo and TriBeCa 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Clonmillis Hall, with its leaking roof, empty ballroom and neglected upper rooms smelling vaguely of rotten apples, has clearly seen better days. An Irish Refuge for Two Royal British Sisters 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z In her awards remarks, the H.F.P.A.’s president, Helen Hoehne, spoke vaguely of “a year of momentous change for our organization” and pledged to “continue to add representation to our organization from around the world.” The Golden Globes Were Too Big to Fail 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z “The Spine of Music” offers a different, vaguely utopian model of peaceful no-rules anarchy, participation and silence. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z “Admission by Invitation Only,” it read: a message vaguely exciting when you are 7 and don’t yet comprehend what that actually means. My Life in Hotels 2011-12-02T14:36:36Z As an act of manipulation it was masterful if vaguely dystopian, in a Terry Gilliam kind of way. Duckie Brown and Michael Kors Make the Case for American Fashion at New York Men’s Shows 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Resting on the paper is a piece of wood that vaguely resembles a limb, draped with a sculpture of a partial rib cage. Bone, organs, scars: At Hannah Hoffman, a surreal and sculptural exploration of the body 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z But the limitations of verse-chorus cycles are becoming apparent on your recent records, giving them a vaguely joyless sheen, and I fear it may be a case of good girl gone fembot. An Open Letter to Rihanna: Please Use More Words 2012-10-18T12:00:15Z Cohan was “friendly with” each one, he writes vaguely, “to varying degrees.” The Lives of Four Andover Grads Cut Short 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z The bookshelves were full of biographies about vaguely naughty Georgian duchesses with skyscraper hair and a bad gambling/drink/marriage habit. The art of biography is alive and well 2013-02-15T18:10:01Z I think in a lot of network television, everyone’s vaguely Protestant and doesn’t really go to church so they can be “relatable.” Rachel Bloom Is Breaking TV Boundaries With Spanx and Diversity 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Exiting the clinic I wonder vaguely if my blood is diseased, marked by unknown genetic failures absorbed through centuries of pairings, mixings, births. Selling my eggs to make rent 2013-02-03T18:00:00Z At this point the fashion industry and Hollywood seem to be locked in a sensual if vaguely hostile tango, with influential celebrity stylists playing referee or, increasingly, cutting right in. | Los Angeles, Where the Wild Things Are 2013-08-20T18:49:15Z That problem is vaguely outlined in the series: Tenured orchestra musicians are too old! ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ and entertainment’s classical-music problem 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z Of course I feel vaguely guilty, because that's the currency of our age: So many people have suffered far worse. Home alone: A New Year unlike any other, tinged with grief and loneliness — and hope 2021-01-03T05:00:00Z The movement was vaguely modern and entirely undistinguished. Review: Three Ballets at City Center Honor Two Impresarios 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z For the most part, it’s a bland reprocessing of neo-noir tropes, vaguely borrowing its tone and theme from “Body Heat” and other films that are themselves reprocessings of earlier Hollywood motifs. “Serenity,” Reviewed: An Earnestly Absurd Film-Noir Grab-Bag 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z “Telling someone that college is not right for him seems harsh and classist, vaguely Dickensian,” Professor X writes, “as though we were sentencing him to a life in the coal mines.” Books of The Times: An Academic Hit Man Brings More Bad News 2011-04-05T21:12:11Z Magazines like More vaguely allude to "the richest years" of a woman's life and offer tips on how to dress "modern" and the best makeup "trends." The absurdity of "over 40" 2011-06-16T20:17:00Z "I don't want to live tomorrow," sings Cummings, sounding vaguely bored even by the notion of Armageddon. New band of the day – Skaters (No 1,418) 2012-12-18T16:55:00Z Martin teased a possible twist in "The Winds of Winter," but very vaguely. George R.R. Martin is developing new series for HBO 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z When we say, vaguely, that the Bible influenced poets like Walt Whitman, we're probably thinking mostly of the hypnotic rhythms and the parallelism found in the Book of Psalms. Poem of the week: Psalm 23 2011-02-07T10:26:09Z Rather than industrial motifs, the materials are transformed into a homespun dollhouse, a child’s chair and vaguely figurative forms suggesting giant rag dolls and gargantuan puppets. Marisa Merz retrospective at the Hammer gives an overlooked female artist her due 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z And so I continued to vaguely watch him in such a manner to seem as if I wasn't looking. Read the Wicked young writers' awards 2012 winning entries 2012-12-08T08:15:12Z He sends teams of StoryBots into the outside world to answer questions posed by vaguely hipster children. Ask the StoryBots: a kids' TV show so good you will weep with gratitude 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z They pitch us back into her cerebral yet vaguely surreal and magical intellectual world. Review: ‘Living on Paper,’ Seven Decades of Letters From Iris Murdoch 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z Last summer, as reported by Politico, the Rockwells suddenly disappeared from a White House wall, a decision vaguely attributed to a family request. Rockwells Long at White House Are Now at the Heart of a Family Dispute 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Polley is Canadian and the film was largely shot in Toronto, showing off the city's attractive inner neighborhoods, with their attached rowhouses, deep porches and vaguely funky vibe. "Take This Waltz": Michelle Williams' daring, contemporary love story 2011-09-14T20:15:00Z The rest of the audience is constituted, vaguely, as other students, and as the professor takes attendance, you may hear your name called. ‘Fragments’ Review: Guest Lectures from a Famed Professor 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Casey Jane Ellison, a Los Angeles stand-up comic and artist in the triennial, creates video routines using digital avatars that vaguely resemble her but sometimes look more like Max Headroom. New Museum’s Triennial Is All About Being Wired 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z The ostensible purpose is to perform “Hit List,” the never fully shown, vaguely “Rent”-like rock musical from “Smash.” The ‘Smash’-That-Wasn’t Returns, for 3 Concerts 2013-12-06T17:02:29Z I can only recollect the books vaguely as I read them over 15 years ago, but the first episode brought back the feeling of reading them, which is the highest praise I can give. 'Eleven-year-old me was very, very happy!' You review His Dark Materials 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Each culture’s individuality is erased; history is scarcely noticed; the object’s purpose only vaguely mentioned. Critic?s Notebook: Quai Branly Museum in Paris Glorifies the ?Other? 2011-11-25T23:47:39Z The setting is modern, vaguely Scandinavian, with pale bentwood slats from ceiling to floor, to echo the idea of noodles. French Fare From a Comfort Food Veteran in the West Village 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z I was only vaguely aware that, at similar hours of the day, classmates of mine were doing seemingly exotic things like watching cartoons on TV, which was strictly forbidden in our house. The Battle Hymn of the Papier-Mâché Mother 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z He lounged on a couch in a vaguely shiny Calvin Klein suit, his entire 6-foot-10 frame smelling of fragrance by the same brand. Scene City: The Whitney Heads Downtown 2011-05-26T15:33:49Z How these antics fit into the theme I couldn’t say, although it, too, was vaguely funny. Review: ‘The Art of Luv (Part 1),’ a Quest for the Perfect Erotic Recipe 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z "Any film with a brain in it, any film that is vaguely adult, you're going to have trouble getting made," he says, candidly. Richard Linklater on the enduring appeal of Jesse and Celine 2013-06-15T05:00:00Z This louche, vaguely ridiculous and “intentionally ahistorical” vision of the 18th century Russian court — actually a set in East London — was brought to you by Tony McNamara, the creator of the Hulu comedy “The Great.” This Is Not History’s Catherine the Great 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z “I looked like I had been living under a rock… I hadn’t literally seen the sun in about 18 months. I kind of only feel like I’m vaguely coming back to normal now.” Robert Pattinson helps a new Batman emerge from the darkness 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z Rachel Crow, the 13-year-old who to this point has been a vaguely annoying curiosity, aged about 20 years when she closed the night with “I’d Rather Go Blind” from the film “Cadillac Records.” ArtsBeat Blog: 'X Factor' Watch: Young and Old, Trading Places 2011-11-10T06:04:58Z Jessica is baffled by the sound and other, vaguely similar phenomena, but she doesn’t seem to be delusional, or even unduly troubled. ‘Memoria’ Review: In Search of Lost Time 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z The whisky literally sizzles on the bar, and some grizzled and vaguely familiar faces from the days when Westerns were essentially more nourishing stare at him from the tables. Back to the Future day: live! Enjoy 21 October 2015 around the world 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Fuchsia, toffee and orange geometric designs with a vaguely Native American feeling dressed up one side of an extra-wide reversible shearling coat. YSL does fall-winter 2011-12 in a nutshell 2011-03-07T23:05:18Z These figures are often vaguely familiar: reality tv contestants, Instagram models, the criminal with the hot mug shot. It’s the future, everyone’s famous: From the A-List to the “Z-List,” fame isn’t what it used to be 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z The rounded shoulder of a ship’s bollard emerges on one side, adding a vaguely surrealistic, organic element. On the Met?s Roof Garden, Sculpture at Play 2011-04-29T13:42:59Z Standing frames made of slender lengths of steel outline a surrounding, curvy, pristine architecture, giving the whole a vaguely sacral feeling. ‘Mirror Cells’ Asks: What Lights Up the Brain? 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z On “Me & My Shadow,” a track vaguely reminiscent of “Hotel California,” Deschanel’s backup vocals play second fiddle to Ward wildly jamming on his fuzzed-out Gretsch, providing proof that he is an extremely underrated guitar player. M. Ward's A Wasteland Companion: The Folk-Rocker Delivers Again 2012-04-10T10:45:04Z If there is text or a logo, the more vaguely recognizable the better. The Designer Turning Two Used T-Shirts Into High Fashion 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z When the sublime is vaguely terrifying, it occurred to me, part of the terror is the capriciousness of the universe. In California Desert, Father and Daughter Find the Sublime 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Despite the vaguely emo lyricism—”I need time to stay useless;” “I miss you ’cause I like damage;” “No one knows our plans for us/We won’t last long”—Baldi hardly comes off as juvenile. Cloud Nothings' Attack on Memory: An Aural Assault on the Heart 2012-01-24T17:59:07Z Perhaps their parents could not imagine anything even vaguely related to Bergman could be fun? A Birthday Tribute to the Other Ingmar Bergman 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z The night of the Kenneth Lane soiree, she wore a vintage vaguely ’40s suit with a peplum jacket, below-the-knee skirt, ruffled blouse and sensible pumps that had seen their share of boggy installations. An ?Outsider? Blossom Upends the Flowerpot 2011-03-30T22:41:16Z Instead, Mr. Kissinger talks vaguely about his respect and affection for President George W. Bush, praising him for guiding the country “with courage, dignity and conviction in an unsteady time.” In ‘World Order,’ Henry Kissinger Sums Up His Philosophy 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z There were more long black robes and vaguely sinister coat-hanger-shoulder suits. It’s the End of the World as We Know It 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z While watching “Dahmer” I vaguely remembered reading — back in my thesis-writing days — a scholarly essay about the way cannibalism was eroticized in Melville’s writings. Perspective | I am a former cannibalism scholar, and I finally watched ‘Dahmer’ 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z I started writing vaguely, but I was obviously the main character. CIA agent turned comics writer Tom King on making art in the era of Trump's "absurdity" 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z She is vaguely familiar; I wonder if I met her at the annual neighborhood potluck. When someone destroyed our pride flags, our tiny town sprang into action 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Koren draws explosive, vaguely humanoid figures by the dozens, like a musician practicing scales. Art Review: Edward Koren at the Wallach and Luise Ross Galleries 2010-05-20T21:44:00Z “She is only vaguely troubled by her easy situation, vaguely wondering why God does not ‘try’ her in some way. They’re just trying to scare you: The GOP’s long history of bizarre, make-believe enemies 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z The movie is full of such details to unpack, but Knight just waves his hands vaguely at them. “Serenity,” Reviewed: An Earnestly Absurd Film-Noir Grab-Bag 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z Mostly, they are just vaguely sketched conceits — jaded, corrupt, yammering — who look good in suits, smack around generic villains and make nice with the ladies. Review: ‘War on Everyone’ Is Missing Some Crucial Components 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z “The words being vaguely dark was kind of cutting the sweetness of the melody,” he said. Red snow? A most unexpected modern standard for the holidays 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z When asked about the sauce's taste, Pii vaguely said, "Honestly, it has its own taste. If you wanna taste it, buy it." TikTok’s viral — and infamous — Pink Sauce is now available at Walmart 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z Traveling in Europe with her boyfriend, feeling vaguely oppressed and bored with tourist sites, she begins to imagine each of their destinations as a photograph on the wall of their future house. Writers Recount Stories of Grief and Joy in Illustrated Panels 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z Americans, no matter how much they might vaguely protest when a statue of Robert E. Lee is about collapse, do not care about history. My hometown Confederate war 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z We work slowly along the port side of the ship, which, thanks to salt, currents, storms and time, more resembles a vaguely contiguous mound of rubble than a distinct section of a vessel. Off the North Carolina shore, a deep dive into history 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z But the Swedish company, primarily a jeans and sportswear brand, just sent out a brief collection that was vaguely sporty in its use of suede separates and a big knit sweater dress. Special Report: Ballet Russes Takes a Bow 2010-09-21T10:50:00Z I vamped vaguely to keep the conversation going: "Something that uses modern palaeontology and blue-sky biological thinking and dark matter the way HP Lovecraft used Antarctic exploration and the discovery of Pluto," I said. When a writer's words have unintended consequences 2011-08-06T15:00:01Z On Valentine’s Day I went to a bar with my roommate and chatted with a young man in a newsboy cap I vaguely recognized from the university where I was doing research. Facebook stalking his ex-girlfriend 2013-01-08T01:00:00Z It's been tempting this week to bristle at anything sounding vaguely sexist, following the shenanigans from Andy Gray and Richard Keys. Elisabeth Mahoney on Woman's Hour 2011-02-02T08:00:05Z The track fluctuates gorgeously, juxtaposing loops of piano that are soothing and vaguely ominous, and only settling into a beat about halfway through, like a ghost gradually solidifying. James Blake Finds Love, Moodily, on ‘Assume Form’ 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z And the movie is a fumbled attempt by this ferociously talented comic actor to bridge the gap from eternal adolescent to adulthood in a format vaguely similar to that of an extended episode of “Louie.” ‘Fugly!,’ a Comedy Starring John Leguizamo 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z As an Army medic, he goes on missions that are vaguely explained, often impromptu, frequently disastrous. Review | Nico Walker is a convicted bank robber. ‘Cherry’ proves he’s also a must-read author. 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Although he was born and raised in Los Angeles, he speaks with a vaguely British accent, perhaps as a result of the 33 years he spent with Isherwood. Don Bachardy puts honest face on fame in 'Hollywood' 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z We’ll need a dish of cold cobbler, a bottle of good Scotch, a cellphone, repressed hostility and vaguely liberal attitudes. | 'Carnage': Roman Polanski?s ?Carnage,? With Jodie Foster - Review 2011-12-15T15:59:53Z The first third of the book is taken up with their attempts to settle in Novilla, a city in this new country, which seems to be run on drably utopian and vaguely socialist lines. The Childhood of Jesus by JM Coetzee – review 2013-03-02T11:01:01Z You will learn to be comfortable with indeterminateness, with vaguely tethered pronouns, with dimly lighted horrors. Books of The Times: ‘Mountains of the Moon,’ by I. J. Kay 2012-07-10T13:31:36Z Where there is a scientific study providing such proof, there will be a right-winger willing to gesture vaguely in the direction of mythical evidence to the contrary. Science or sex: Which does the right hate more? 2012-06-24T00:00:00Z They enforce strict dress codes and keep the party going until sunrise with a soundtrack of vaguely folk music set to driving house beats. Belgrade: Not only dirt cheap, but a chic party spot 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z On “One Life to Live,” Dorian Lord, a United States senator, gets herself into a vaguely defined scandal that has something to do with C.I.A. black ops. Critic’s Notebook: ‘All My Children’ and ‘One Life to Live,’ on Hulu and iTunes 2013-05-03T21:37:46Z With all those missiles, boats and beards, it seemed exotic and vaguely threatening. Restaurant-Hopping With the Author of ‘The Cuban Table’ 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z “The Americans, it seems, have just committed suicide,” he said, in a vaguely British accent. The Worldly Digressions of Javier Marías 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z My children only vaguely remember their other grandma, who died of colon cancer before they were school age. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: With abusive parents on the guest list, is brother’s wedding a ‘nope’? 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z We last see Becky, still professing happiness but looking vaguely lost, hosting a live-chat room — hardly the glamorous life she dreamed of back home. ‘Pretty Filthy,’ a Behind-the-Scenes Musical about Pornography Stars 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z The fuel might be books, given some vaguely boxy shapes, or maybe wadded up documents. At LACMA's Toba Khedoori show, enchanting mysteries burn beneath a fragile surface 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z The work seems to be, in part, a vaguely Duchampian commentary on the line between everyday object and valuable sculpture. Kim Gordon Wanted to Be a Visual Artist. Then She Got ‘Sidetracked.’ 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z A few meteorologists and other experts talk briefly and vaguely about the lessons of the storm, but the most insightful comment involves a look backward rather than a look forward. Television Review: ‘Megastorm’ on the Discovery Channel 2012-11-17T01:17:18Z With just one phone call, Lawrence shifts from vaguely depressed to downright morose. ‘Insecure’ Season 1, Episode 2: Failure to Change 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z They try vaguely and often unsuccessfully to conceal their advantages, looking for a walkup instead of a doorman building, telling a Times reporter that they always pack their lunch for work. Refinery29, Kylie Jenner, and the Denial Underlying Millennial Financial Resentment 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z Still waters run turbulent, or worse than that, across three separate if vaguely interwoven encounters, all set in or around Heathrow Airport. Theater Review: Pinter Revival, Short on Impact 2011-04-19T14:00:04Z He was sporting a retro dinner jacket, a bolo tie, and a vaguely Victorian haircut, and since unique style usually suggests independent thought, I was already intrigued. Perfecting the Art of the Cocktail 2012-04-05T21:50:00.863Z Nussbaum, by then so traumatized, so absent from anything like life, thought vaguely of calling a doctor, but she was not allowed to use the phone in Steinberg’s absence. Donald Trump is always the victim, but never to blame 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z The only vaguely romantic activity is a kiss onstage. Perspective | For Banned Books Week, I read the country’s 10 most challenged books. The gay penguins did not corrupt me. 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z These threads dissolve in the hundreds of pages of vaguely sketched economic history that follow. An Economist’s Argument for Preserving Communities 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z The movie depicts a mostly stoic black population, while the whites are shown as vaguely annoyed that their town is the subject of national attention. Wade Into the Deep Bollywood Pool With Amazon’s Heera 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z There is a vaguely nautical feel to the room, enhanced by a dark wood ceiling. Boîte: The Dalloway in SoHo 2013-01-16T16:14:47Z There was no one anywhere who looked any more like either of us than two people who look vaguely alike ever do. Fiction: You Live Here Now 2012-07-14T16:00:00Z What follows is the story that the narrator vaguely thinks he might write. Jung Young Moon weaves a metafictional dream in 'Vaseline Buddha' 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z Held partly on the street and partly in a shopping mall, it felt like several shindigs at once, united by a vaguely British theme. Toronto 2013: Reporter's diary 2013-09-09T07:46:10Z I vaguely remember this awkward moment at the airport. Why did you leave, mom? 2012-07-18T00:00:00Z The vocals are hazy, the sound is smeary and indistinct, but it coalesces into what might vaguely be considered a pop-song shape. New band of the day ? No 825: Sleeping Bags 2010-07-14T16:27:00Z She looks up to meet the man with the vaguely British accent’s gaze. All Hallmark Christmas movies are horror films in disguise 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Simón and his makeshift family arrive in a benevolent city with a vaguely European socialist vibe. Review | J.M. Coetzee’s ‘The Schooldays of Jesus’ raises more questions than it answers 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z A repeated piano riff — ever so vaguely and probably completely unintentionally reminiscent of the one from Jack Harlow’s “What’s Poppin’” — floats weightlessly over a skittish beat. Cardi B’s All-Star Team-Up, and 9 More New Songs 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z With a long face and a lean frame that in later years turned gaunt, Mr. Stanton could look hapless, but also vaguely sinister, deflated or as wily as a hungry coyote. Harry Dean Stanton: Fully Inhabiting Scenes, Not Stealing Them 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z However, the magic of Schitt’s Creek is that it has been unafraid to let everyone develop in a vaguely naturalistic way. Schitt's Creek: the funniest sitcom you're (probably) not watching 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z It’s all vaguely threatening, the failed modernity even somehow sinister. Review: Marius Bercea at Francois Ghebaly Gallery 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z This isn’t the first time that the editing process has taught me something about the way I write that I’d been unaware of while writing, or only vaguely aware. This Week in Fiction: Tim Parks 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z I’m vaguely paraphrasing the official palace job description here. Is there a way out of the Epstein mess? Prince Andrew hasn't put his fat finger on it 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z We knew, vaguely, the back story of Walt’s leaving his business, but never exactly how much he lost, or how much he could have gotten. Breaking Bad Watch: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? 2012-08-20T12:00:18Z One that, as you warm that third flatbread and open a second tub of hummus, still feels vaguely virtuous. How to eat: hummus 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z "What are these Jewish values that we so vaguely admire? Is Michael Bloomberg the best person to answer that question before an increasingly skeptical younger generation?" Michael Douglas to be honored by the Genesis Prize Foundation 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z As I wandered around, doing my feeble best to be sociable, I noticed one gentleman standing alone, looking a bit overwhelmed but also vaguely familiar. Perspective | ‘Dune’ has long divided the science fiction world. The new film won’t change that. 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z At the end of the 1991 cartoon, when the enchantment is lifted, he looks incomplete, vaguely embryonic—a smooth-skinned creature with maidenly bedhead and a tentative smile. Beauty and the Bestiality 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Penderecki's concerto, premiered 13 years ago in Tokyo, vaguely follows the Baroque concerto grosso format of a small group of soloists in opposition to a large group of players. Concertos take the lead at L.A. Phil, L.A. Chamber Orchestra 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z She was only vaguely aware that they were happening until the memes began cascading onto her phone. Ironic Occultists for Marianne Williamson 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Whatever their wartime contributions, the returning cartoonists couldn’t wait to shrug off the regimentation of military life and return to their “vaguely anarchic” chosen field. The Comic Strip’s Heyday in ‘Cartoon County’ 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z But when you order it, what you receive only vaguely matches the photo of what you thought you were getting. You avoid fake designer handbags and watches, but what about furniture? 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z Shot through the windows and looking vaguely like surveillance footage, the image made Mueller appear focused and intense. Perspective | Pictures of Robert Mueller tell the story of a man who is finally free 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z The canvas in “Orange Glyph” comes perched on top of a wooden stick that makes the whole ensemble look vaguely useful, like a protest sign soon to be lettered. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in July 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z A hairy camel vaguely reminiscent of the Central Asian species seems to be chuckling as the tune played by Orpheus on his violin persuades a hare, warren rabbits and even a mouse to keep still. Art Review: Dutch Masterpieces, Assembled by Art Lovers 2011-04-22T11:00:04Z When the Unsound Festival, a highly regarded annual experimental-music series that started in Poland in 1993, first planted its flag in New York in 2010, it arrived with a vaguely precise mandate. Music Review: Unsound Festival Returns to New York 2014-04-04T21:50:54Z Goofy, charming and vaguely anthropomorphic, they are bedecked with bells and sit on wheels, at once sculptures and props. Haegue Yang’s Radical Art of Obscure Delights 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z While their activities are mundane in nearly every case, they are almost all seemingly viewed through dreamily romantic, vaguely erotic lenses. Art Review: Danish Paintings Show at Scandinavia House 2013-12-05T22:25:09Z These bars exist primarily in resort areas, where they nurture the rich, or in bohemian enclaves, where they have vaguely Wiccan overtones. Skin Deep: Aromatherapy: Competing for Your Nose 2010-07-28T21:09:00Z You’re an optimist, I suggest, and while Hanks allows this to be the case, he looks vaguely as if I have accused him of something. Tom Hanks: ‘I’ve made a lot of movies that didn’t make sense – or money’ 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z They seem to be based on lawmakers being terrified of transgender people but also being vaguely aware that, in 2021, they shouldn’t say that outright. Perspective | The GOP’s anti-trans bills are ignorance in action 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z “How, specifically, do you support women,” she asks, “besides being vaguely personally effeminate?” Review: Hipsters Double-Check Their Privilege in ‘Cute Activist’ 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z Also, Atlanta is only vaguely a fried chicken town. Choice Tables: Atlanta Serves Sophisticated Southern 2011-05-06T20:15:00Z Sheer Garments Make a Tasteful Return Despite the sheer number of sheer garments in recent runway collections, a public display of underwear still seems vaguely … well, amateur. On the Runway Blog: Sheer Garments Make a Tasteful Return 2013-06-05T23:17:38Z Maya Cooper was dressed in raspberry tights, gold chains and a blue kufi, a tableau that looked vaguely like vintage MC Hammer. Hey, ‘Budtender’: Los Angeles’s Power Brokers of Pot Crank Up the Kook 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z In vaguely autobiographical drawings, artist books and even a cookbook — which features deadpan lines about her life interwoven with recipes — Iannone has tackled issues of love, sexual awakening and her marriage to artist Dieter Roth. Art cookbooks to Chicano zines: What to see at the L.A. Art Book Fair 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z She had to make one more trip to lobby to sign autographs and perform any last-minute knighting ceremonies in the same formal, vaguely English accent all the actors are encouraged to use. Medieval Times Goes Modern, Replacing Its Kings With Queens 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z Even the young Scout Finch manages to accidentally diffuse a KKK-flavored mob outside of the courthouse that has vaguely violent intentions toward her father. My Harper Lee pilgrimage: Visiting Monroeville, in search of “Mockingbird’s” essence 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z From there, it’s an onslaught of attempts at psychedelic imagery, which often land closer to the mundane or vaguely offensive. Review: Momix’s ‘Alice’ Is a Rabbit Hole (or 22) Too Far 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z Perhaps a vaguely refusenik mood was in the air and the travellers and squatters were the most refusenik of the lot. The Levellers take it to the next level ? the return of crusty 2011-02-17T23:21:01Z She becomes a workaholic, plunging herself into a vaguely defined office job and limiting her emotional life to fending off the unwanted advances of her boss. Movie Review: ?Delicacy,? With Audrey Tautou 2012-03-13T22:58:26Z He begins by declaring the notion of the big bang to be vaguely ridiculous, and likens it to a mythopoetic bedtime story. Tom Wolfe’s ‘The Kingdom of Speech’ Takes Aim at Darwin and Chomsky 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z The band is back to using synthesizers, after a three-album moratorium, and the squelchy disco sounds and vaguely Asian timbres add a haywire gloss to the proceedings. The Magnetic Fields ? love songs with a cynical undertow 2012-03-05T22:10:05Z The classic American heroine, Howland once wrote, breaks the rules and infuriates society out of a mixture of innocence and defiance; she’s often only vaguely aware of the conventions she so scandalously flouts. ‘W-3,’ a Memoir That Recalls Suffering Without Sentimentality or Sensationalism 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z She was only vaguely aware of Ms. Grandin at the time. 2010-01-31T05:37:00Z Maybe the simple contours of his women meet a current desire for simplicity, something vaguely recession-related. Masters of Surface 2012-07-26T20:00:00Z A moody pop song gradually swells, vaguely conveying themes of youthful desire. | 'Boston Med': Inside Boston Hospitals, Where Reality Is Real 2010-06-23T23:58:00Z He is wearing bell-bottoms and a richly patterned shirt, but his stance is vaguely melancholy, and his eyes are either narrowed or altogether closed. Wanting to See Like Robert Frank 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Atmosphere A warmly lighted, sparely decorated bistro with a vaguely New England look. Restaurant Review: Houseman in Hudson Square 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z Closer inspection reveals only vaguely “tribal” textiles, a necklace made of house numbers, and even an American Apparel label. Review: ‘Everything has been material for scissors to shape’ is a flow of textiles, interrupted 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z This in turn seems to have morphed into a vaguely aristocratic honorific, and before long the delightful young orderly had become the Munshi. When the Empress of India Met Her Muslim Teacher 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z The only vaguely contemporary element here is a reference to Honey Boo Boo. TV highlights 05/06/2013 2013-06-05T06:00:05Z Link to this video But just as the engines start, two suited figures climb into the plane and sit down opposite us – one a crop-haired, tough-looking figure, the other overweight and vaguely sinister. Spies, Chopin and a Libya rescue 2013-01-14T07:00:03Z In a convenience store parking lot, there’s even a 13-foot grinning peanut that vaguely resembles the president and rivals Carter as Plains’s best prop for group shots and selfies. In Plains, Ga., President Jimmy Carter’s Sunday school program still draws crowds 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z I vaguely remember telling myself I needed Dettol and remember thinking: “Can’t just buy one bottle online, so go for four.” Drunk online shopping: readers’ regrets 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z It stirs in characters a bit less distinctive than the average game avatar — a blue-eyed hero, a dark-haired villain, a few funny sidekicks, a girl — and sets them off in pursuit of something vaguely archetypal. Movie Review: ‘Need for Speed’ Puts Video Gamers in the Passenger Seat 2014-03-13T21:41:59Z The method yields inverted values: the drawings vaguely resemble photographic negatives, luminous tracery floating within dark fields. Mark Sheinkman's drawings made by erasure at Von Lintel Gallery 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z The balletic, vaguely Latino-inflected piece would be harmless enough if it were half the length. Dance Review: Parade of Bodies and Tame Exoticism 2011-05-16T21:30:09Z “Her ambition was something she remembered vaguely,” Sullivan writes, “yet couldn’t seem to conjure.” Review | In ‘Friends and Strangers,’ a new mom insists the babysitter is her buddy. She’s not. 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z When he turned and knelt down to give the musicians the spotlight, he thought to himself vaguely that the violist had cool hair. ‘I Think We’re Cousins?’: ‘Ain’t Too Proud’ Performers Realize Link 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z Many of Mr. Azrouël’s pieces are collages, their torn parts apparent in a way that is sort of playful and vaguely sinister at the same time. Critical Shopper: Yigal Azrouël Opens Uptown 2012-10-16T15:22:35Z But she did not want too many more of those moments, because they shifted her balance, left her spirit vaguely disjointed. ‘The Arrangements’: A Work of Fiction 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z Up to that point, the movie is methodically constructed like a Rube Goldberg device; it’s vaguely reminiscent of the work of Steven Soderbergh, with an emphasis on process and behind-the-scenes relations. "Fantastic Four" Should Have Been Great 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Rolling Stone described his first album as “lyrically tart” and “vaguely Wilco-ish.” David Duchovny’s Truth Is Out There, Between Covers 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z It’s also vaguely annoying that she is made to suffer from a one-night stand by having a man, no matter how attractive, live on inside her head, constantly talking and interrupting her train of thought. Review | As a fast-paced caper, ‘The Flight Attendant’ soars. As a story about alcoholism, well, there’s turbulence. 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z James Murphy is the kind of person who knows a little bit about a lot of vaguely connected subjects – making music, selling music, fashion, drugs, electronics, mixed martial arts. Last exit from Brooklyn 2010-04-23T23:16:00Z She eventually lures Dominique away to a “wimmin’s commune” called Spirit Moon, a place vaguely reminiscent of Toni Morrison’s “Paradise.” Review | Bernardine Evaristo’s ‘Girl, Woman, Other’ received half a Booker Prize, but it deserves all the glory 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z The band is conjured in several colorful, vaguely Neo-Expressionist paintings that resemble concert posters; one features a figure with two faces and a split skull from which his brain is emerging like a jack-in-the-box. Art Review: At Hauser & Worth, Ziolkowski?s U.S. Solo Debut 2010-07-05T21:52:00Z He talks vaguely about “the man who walks between worlds,” who was “sent from hell to oversee our world.” ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 4: Truth and Consequences 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z But with Mr. Mamet every word matters, and it’s no accident that he describes the smell with the word “vaguely,” a tip-off to one of the play’s primary beliefs about sales. Learning How to Sell From ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ 2012-11-11T04:40:29Z The plan was vaguely expressed to me, but as I understood it, she would fall into a coma and her do-not-resuscitate order was in place. The crime we committed for her 2014-03-10T00:00:00Z This vaguely racist, entirely milquetoast Hallmark card of a movie went on to win best picture at the Oscars, but that doesn’t mean we can excuse its surprise victory a month earlier. Perspective | The 10 most baffling Golden Globe wins and nominations of the millennium. (Remember ‘Salmon Fishing in the Yemen’?) 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z By his side were his smiling wife and their model children, none of whom an even vaguely countercultural youth would have wanted to sit next to in the school cafeteria. How Bing Crosby Changed the Course of Pop Music 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Yet as ominous events begin happening in her seaside town, scenes from her past begin to seep through: Who was that vaguely familiar woman she saw watching the house a few weeks before? ‘The Taxidermist’s Daughter’: From the author of ‘Labyrinth,’ a tale of revenge 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z I think we all approach life in a vaguely similar manner, the creative urge is in us all. Bill Drummond: 'The creative urge is in us all' 2012-05-28T19:30:01Z The film appears to emerge from a weirdly indeterminate cross-cultural sludge, a homogenised, vaguely imagined zone in which the monsters are, for me, bigger but blander than in the classic Japanese monster movies of old. Pacific Rim – review 2013-07-11T14:30:00Z More vaguely, each had to capture the breezy, loopy, head-spinning quintessence of summer.” Music Match: If You Like Melissa Etheridge, Listen to Serena Ryder 2013-05-28T20:59:36Z The shelves lining its walls contain two decades’ worth of his work, along with bins of colorful housedresses, a hollowed-out falcon missing its head and several busts that look only vaguely human. An Artist Who Makes Use of Housedresses, Resin and Sound 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z The sauce for seafood involves coconut nectar and lemongrass, and what it actually does is put you, vaguely and pleasantly, in mind of Thailand. The TV Chef Rocco DiSpirito Returns, With a Quieter Touch 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z In Ted Chiang’s 1998 short story, on which the film is based, the sound the aliens make is described as vaguely resembling “a wet dog shaking the water out of its fur.” It’s all in the wording: ‘Arrival’ raises profile of linguists, making them almost cool. 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z She glugs her glass and smiles, vaguely pained. 'Awards chat makes me sick': Olivia Colman, Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz on new film, The Favourite 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z His banter is stilted, the scripts are eye–rollingly leaden, his photography is terrible and it's not funny, but there's something homely and vaguely comforting about it nonetheless. TV highlights 04/03/2013 2013-03-04T07:00:00Z “But unfortunately,” she said, “the objects are only vaguely described.” Not Picassos, but Still Precious: Museums Return Silver Lost to the Nazis 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z With its mixture of heavy scientific detail and lurid plot twists, it vaguely resembles a mid-career novel. The Heart Broke In by James Meek - review 2012-08-24T07:00:01Z She is not into pop music and is only vaguely aware of his renown. Movie Review: ‘10 Years,’ a Comedy Directed by Jamie Linden 2012-09-13T22:55:13Z This is exactly the kind of obfuscatory, vaguely conceptual, busily physical work that leaves audiences feeling like they didn’t get it. Dance Review: Swirls of Motion in Black and White 2010-12-06T23:25:00Z “Dancing With Myself” is tapping into the of-the-moment power of TikTok as well as the now vaguely nostalgic power of a network television talent show. Where TikTok-Like Dance Challenges Meet Network TV 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z Editors were invited to stitch the funnier bits into something that vaguely resembled a feature film, and boom -- it's the perfect side dish for a 7-Eleven burrito and a Coke Slurpee. "30 Minutes or Less": Jesse Eisenberg is the bomb! 2011-08-11T00:30:00Z "The Random House lawyer suggested pseudonyms," I explained, vaguely recalling it had to do with him being my first love, before the fall. A spy in the house of my first love 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z Avoid the ratatouille; in general it’s best to hew to menu items that seem vaguely Scandinavian over the traditional French choices. Choice Tables: Delicious Ways to Love Downtown Los Angeles 2010-09-10T03:01:00Z She’s interested and friendly, with an easy laugh and a halting Jamaican accent that can sound vaguely French or British. Grace Jones has been a star for 40 years, and there’s still no one quite like her 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Then, after vaguely congratulating his opponents, Trump shifted out of his newly gracious gear: “Now that I got that over with, you know, it’s always tough and then, tomorrow, boom, boom.” The Fake Donald Trump Movie Isn’t Funny Enough 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z Harwell's men vaguely mutter about launching their final attack on Arthur who, for no good reason, is now alone in defending the tiny village. Camelot: episode 10 2011-08-05T21:01:01Z While this is a vaguely Judeo-Christian realm, it carefully avoids ever being specifically Jewish or Christian, and God is conspicuous by his absence. “Winter’s Tale” and America’s tortured quest for the divine 2014-02-15T17:00:00Z Meanwhile, the koto players pretty much did their thing, vaguely Asian and vaguely not. Piano and koto meet in 'Strings and Serpents' 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z You need a lot of confidence in your material if you're going to give episodes such unpromising and vaguely sermonising names as Qualities and Difficulties. Parenthood – box set review 2013-01-24T16:40:01Z It is seen by many as vaguely worded and as carrying overly harsh penalties. Indonesian star jailed for sex-tape scandal 2011-01-31T12:42:09Z This – 18th-century, Norwegian – is displayed close by in the new exhibition at Tate Modern, giving the viewer, too, a vaguely uncanny sense of being within reach of the dream. Gauguin: Into the mystic 2010-10-01T23:06:00Z He seemed vaguely tortured, and he wasn’t about to tell you why. When It Came to Style, Sam Shepard Was an Endangered Species 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z Johnny strolls the lonely streets with his guitar, vaguely yearning for love and achievement. | 'American Idiot': A Musical Inspired by a Green Day Album Opens 2010-04-21T03:16:00Z It wasn’t some hand-wringing, “Go buy a $500 juicer and some organic greens because everything else gives you cancer” vaguely eating disordered manifesto. Confessions of a part-time vegan: How changing my diet changed my life 2014-01-27T15:59:00Z A stay in a vaguely sketched recovery facility spurs him to sever harmful relationships. ‘I Love My Dad’ Review: A Father Catfishes His Son 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z For whatever reason — the unconscious associations they dredge up, the vaguely repellent echoes or off-putting synapses they fire — they inspire aversion rather than interest and sympathy. Is it possible to be fair to actors we simply, irrationally just don’t like? 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z Most are large, horizontal, gray-hued works that vaguely resemble a blackboard, with an actual string suspended in a U-shape from their top corners. Jasper Johns Still Doesn’t Want to Explain His Art 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z Here Rodney Bolt injects into the narrative of Mary's life scraps of other stories culled from newspaper reports, vaguely relevant novels or contemporary advice books. Book reviews roundup 2011-07-15T21:55:13Z This year’s #redcups are just that — red cups, vaguely reminiscent of the lowly Solo cup, even, stripped of decoration other than the ubiquitous Starbucks logo. #MerryChristmasStarbucks! Watch the absurd “war on Christmas” call-to-arms over red coffee cups 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z A voice-over rattles off vaguely Italian dishes: spaghetti, spaghetti and meatballs, and a “‘sghetti sandwich” — a scoop of pasta squeezed between two pieces of buttery white bread. One Night at Mom’s Spaghetti 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Though we were born and raised in Oregon, and my sisters live there still, we had only vaguely heard of the place. Topping off a resort vacation on Oregon’s Smith Rock 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z It’s vaguely amusing, but like many sections in this work, which bounces from scenario to scenario, it switches gears too soon. Dance Review: Headlong Dance Theater at Danspace Project 2013-06-07T21:14:11Z Throughout, objects are vaguely animated, as if someone is recalling the story years later: Frisbees soar, oil drips, bare shoulders roll. When First Love Is as Lethal as Religious Extremism 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z Ladylike sophistication was tempered with '70s bohemian looks and items that looked vaguely of lingerie. Grown-up fashions still leave room for fun 2010-09-20T18:58:00Z In 1957 a woman stands looking vaguely at the furniture and tries to remember why she came in the room, while, at the bottom of the page, a black cat walks past — in 1999. Richard McGuire’s ‘Here’ 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z We’re told vaguely of severe weather events, of the time “before the earthquakes” and “before the Internet became a privilege for the very few.” Edan Lepucki’s ‘California,’ Alberto Moravia’s ‘Agostino,’ and More 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z And so far, he has spoken only vaguely about what he wants to do at the Met: fostering high standards and camaraderie; championing overlooked works; generating commissions, all without getting too specific. A First for New York: New Conductors at the Met Opera and Philharmonic 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Periodic intrusions of authentically terrible Italian pop songs add to the sense of vaguely existential longing. Theater Review: ‘The Hotel Colors,’ Eliza Bent’s Debut at Bushwick Starr 2013-05-14T21:30:57Z Friday headliners Animal Collective also fell flat, wasting some amazing, vaguely obscene synthesizer sounds and a cracking light show on a set with very few actual songs. Wolf gang grins, but doesn't flinch 2011-07-17T23:23:00Z Sitting on the tables and counters are vaguely humanoid gourds filled with sansho and the spice blend shichi, as well as pitchers of soy sauce. Parts Are Greater Than the Sum of the Chicken at Torishin 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z What Mr. Van Assche produced was in the main a selection of handsome dark two-piece suits — snugly tailored, bristling with buttons, vaguely feminized through the use of dressmaking techniques, yet still armoring and tough. ‘The Rich Look’ Lives On in Paris 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z But by leaving the series vaguely open-ended, with Boyd on the run and Raylan on the water, it allows us to make up our own minds. A "Justified: City Primeval" ending breakdown: The good, the bad and the conflicted 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z But on Wednesday night, a dozen writers from around the world gathered onstage at a New York University auditorium to send some heartfelt words toward the heavens — or somewhere vaguely in that direction. Ambivalence Prevails at PEN Festival Prayer Session 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z The group's finer ballads – Yellow, Fix You – also triumph here, Martin's expert lachrymose melodies and vaguely emotive lyrics enough to spark grand cathartic singalongs, enough to sweep even cynics up in the communal moment. Coldplay – review 2012-06-03T17:00:01Z We asked the conductor and he nodded vaguely to the wheelchair-accessible bathroom. How Doing Nothing Became the Ultimate Family Vacation 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Three onions softly stewed in butter until vaguely caramelised, handfuls of thick grated Lancashire cheese, encased in pastry. The Good Cook: Grace Dent's TV OD 2011-07-22T23:06:51Z Revealed as a political instrument invested in controlling access to elite services and positions, the university’s task is to reproduce dominant sociocultural structures commonly understood, however vaguely, as the operative hierarchies of “power.” The ivory tower doesn’t exist: Mizzou’s boycott victory can’t be dismissed as just another “campus p.c. culture” controversy 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z Several executives pointed to the industry furor last year after Spotify instituted a vaguely articulated “hateful conduct” policy that appeared to largely affect black artists, including Kelly. Why It Could Be Hard to Mute R. Kelly 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z Instead of pushing “Ocean Eyes,” which goes down easy as vaguely R&B indie-pop, to Top 40 radio, Eilish’s team vowed to move slower and more deliberately. Billie Eilish Is Not Your Typical 17-Year-Old Pop Star. Get Used to Her. 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Just when Ross Matthews was starting to be vaguely appealing, he makes an awful joke about beating faces. RuPaul's Drag Race recap: season 12, episode 10: Send in the clowns 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z It’s also circumspect about Lulu and Jackson’s experiences of war, which is vaguely understood as something horrible but also glorious. ‘Dog’ Review: Man and Beast Hit the Road 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z The building, now a theater called the United Palace of Cultural Arts, is lined with well-kept, vaguely Byzantine and Thai gilded ornament. Antiques: The Beauty That Remains Beyond the Final Curtain 2013-04-25T21:19:43Z The result here is a beautifully decadent, truffle-like confection with a mysterious, ever so vaguely vegetal richness. These no bake fudge squares have 3 ingredients, and one is booze 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z No one seems even vaguely uncomfortable or put off by Max's lifestyle, which isn't to say everyone in their obscenely privileged circle is a good person. New “Gossip Girl” offers unapologetic male bisexual representation 2021-07-11T04:00:00Z The setup is very Gervais: a south London phone shop where nothing much happens other than a few vaguely dysfunctional characters having a chat – but Gervais's stardust has gone awol on this occasion. TV review: Kids With Guns: Stacey Dooley Investigates 2010-10-08T05:45:00Z The deep forest is a wondrous place, vaguely threatening yet capable of igniting astonishment. Getty exhibition makes a case for the enduring power of Theodore Rousseau 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z Have a bean burger or a grain burger if you wanna put something between a bun that's vaguely like meat, with ketchup and stuff on it. Mark Bittman has new cookbook and is no longer cooking everything, he's cooking for everybody 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z In the United States, Simón Bolívar is remembered, vaguely, as a kind of George Washington of South America, commander of an army that freed a half-dozen countries, including his native Venezuela, from Spanish colonial rule. Inspired by Simón Bolívar and Gustavo Dudamel 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z The prints’ shapes conform only vaguely to the contours of human anatomy. Harriet Sanderson crafts ‘Uneasy Landscapes’ | Art review 2012-12-04T15:01:05Z Alcohol, narcotics, gambling, high-calorie food: I vaguely understood the draws, but never felt any of them to be in a serious contest against my self-control. Don't fear the flip phone: My year of living archaically gave me back more than I lost 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z I continued on a narrow road through rolling hills and gradually, everything around me began to feel like a vaguely remembered dream. The girl in the cave: how a search for my former hermit's cell led to the old me 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z There is also some vaguely gothic script on the clothes, for a little touch of the ornate. Kanye West's Yeezy Season 3 Extravaganza 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z When I'm explaining something to you, if I'm being long-winded, and twisty in a non-productive way, I could make you feel vaguely insulted. George Saunders: a life in writing 2013-01-12T12:01:01Z If lately you’ve been shuffling through too many novels that feel a little unambitious, vaguely sentimental, even adolescent, “No. 4 Imperial Lane” could give your summer reading some real depth. ‘No. 4 Imperial Lane’: A powerful elegy for lost love and lost empire 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z But something of a preacher’s forbidding fire infuses other parts of the production, if not the movement itself, which registers only vaguely despite Ms. Sandsmark’s dogged performance. Review: In ‘o’ death,’ Creation Stirs Amid the Specter of Imminent Death 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z I vaguely recall that Scarlet Theatre did a version more than a decade ago, but then the princess was called Sharon. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2011-01-07T15:50:17Z I was only vaguely aware of this as a child, but in middle school I couldn’t ignore it. “Brillo head,” “Don King,” “Sideshow Bob”: It took me years to embrace the hair that white people scorned 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z At an NBC party at the Rainbow Room last Thursday, everyone looked vaguely famous, even if their names weren’t necessarily top of mind. ‘Housewives’ Star and Dogs Toast Avenue Magazine 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z It is rhythmically complex without much dance impulse and sounds vaguely late-Romantic without actually evoking romance. Review: Premiere of Wheeldon’s ‘Strapless’ at the Royal Ballet 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z “I can’t really talk about any fragrances,” she said, alluding vaguely to business negotiations. The Oscars of Fragrance: The Perfumed Envelope, Please 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z It’s one of those dystopias in which the prosperous locations vaguely resemble the World Trade Center Oculus and the impoverished zones are strewn with fires burning in oil drums. Review: Peacock’s ‘Brave New World’ Is Neither Brave Nor New 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z There’s the issue of the stranger, of course: Which side of the vaguely defined battle is he on, if any, and should the teenagers get him medical attention? | 'Edgewise': Burger With Apocalypse and Some Cheese Fries 2010-11-19T06:00:00Z In the Devil's Double, as Uday, he's campily histrionic in a set of false teeth, vaguely reminiscent of Derek Jacobi in I, Claudius, and compelling to watch. The devil inside 2011-08-06T23:04:04Z And according to Salon, “Like almost all reality television, “Sex Box” wants to be provocative, but not too provocative; vaguely laudatory, but not truly groundbreaking,” Did 'Sex Box' turn anybody on? 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z At once silly and complex but vaguely enthralling stuff. TV highlights 02/04/2013 2013-04-02T06:00:05Z Today, movies about vaguely heroic computer dweebs get nominated for Golden Globes. Why is Disney hiding the original "Tron"? 2010-12-14T16:15:00Z Rasmussen, now 40, has known he wanted to tell the story of Amin’s flight from Afghanistan for nearly two decades, even though he only vaguely knew what his friend went through. A Refugee’s Harrowing Story, Finally Told Through Animation 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z There are limitations to Mr. James’s instinct as a jazz balladeer, and he ran up against them on “Tenderly,” ending up vaguely adrift. José James Celebrates Billie Holiday at the Blue Note 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z The more my thoughts ran this way, the more the man under the tree began vaguely to resemble the lean, five-tennish figure I judged Cheadle to be from seeing his movies. Don Cheadle: 'Acting can be such a grind' 2011-08-11T21:00:00Z It’s Burne-Jones’s painting “Love Song”—hauntingly mysterious, with a vaguely romantic undercurrent of anxiety—that may stay with you after you leave the Met exhibition. The Pre-Raphaelites: The Original Artisanal Hipsters 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z Adrenaline pumping, I was vaguely aware of a broken hand and a tender lump on my head. Train wreck: Healing for two and parenting with PTSD 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z Or to ogle the vaguely campy crystal Cascade Wall that stood in the company’s legendary flagship at 717 Fifth Avenue. Steuben?s Last Customers Say Goodbye 2011-12-28T23:07:50Z By the end, the picture’s spirit is gloomy and ill-humored, as if it had tried hard to be a dark comedy and simply failed, leaving a vaguely sour taste in its wake. Sorry, But the Original Ghostbusters Isn't Even That Good 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z In “Thérèse,” that violence flickers only vaguely, and its world remains far too pretty to burn. Movie Review: In ‘Thérèse,’ a Woman Struggles in 1920s France 2013-08-22T21:01:30Z Carson Daly opens “The Voice” from an empty set, the trademark red judges’ chairs sitting like abandoned monuments, and refers vaguely to “Everything that’s been going on.” Live(ish), From Someone’s Room, This … Is American Isolation 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z Now that I have a toddler who can shout the word “pancakes” in a vaguely threatening manner, Saturday breakfast is always a rigidly enforced stack of banana pancakes. The 10-a-day diet tested: 'I feel like a sentient composter' 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z A suggestion: Maybe at a faculty meeting one of them could vaguely suggest that it’s possible that some of us are perhaps doing an adequate job? Teaching ate me alive 2012-09-15T19:00:00Z But anyone who has vaguely followed her career will know that they come from her personal experience, having bulldozed her way through seemingly insurmountable prejudices in the entertainment business. Mindy Kaling: ‘I was so embarrassed about being a diversity hire’ 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Except for the Hendrix stamp, which shows the guitar virtuoso in a cartoonish drawing that only vaguely resembles him, the musicians in the series are shown in photographs. Post Office to Release a Janis Joplin Stamp 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z I wasn't deeply worried, just vaguely unsettled by it all. Q&A: Author Erik Larson nervously awaits arrival of 'Beasts' 2011-05-09T15:32:05Z There was a similar contrast between a vaguely defined orchestral concert at Geffen and a riveting Kaplan Penthouse event earlier this week. Lincoln Center Still Has Mostly Mozart, but What Is It? 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z The man replied somewhat vaguely that yeah, it might be as bad, maybe; driving away, the correspondent made it sound as though the man's answer had been an unequivocal yes. Why TV news is addicted to weather porn 2011-08-29T12:30:00Z The website ever so vaguely suggested that they will also continue to receive free security protection from London’s Metropolitan Police. Prince Harry and Meghan Stepping Back, Explained 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z And let's not forget the vaguely satanic phantasmagoria Madonna devised for the performance of her new single, "Living for Love." Grammys 2015 was a low-wattage affair 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z But just 10 minutes down the Transpeninsular, there are rocky cliffs overlooking the dark blue Pacific and an alluring, vaguely Mediterranean landscape. In Ensenada, Cheap Mexican Charms Await 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z The only reason this film is even vaguely a step in the right direction is because all the previous films and shows never bothered to make a single step. "The Flash" is a missed opportunity, continuing the disappointing history of Jewish superheroes 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z This is a sage strategy, because “Enemy” deserves to be a popular recommendation at school libraries across the land — humanizing a brutal chapter in U.S. history that even many adults seem to understand only vaguely. Review | George Takei has talked about his family’s internment before. But never quite like this. 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z She has short brown hair, a broad smile, and a strong chin, and wore vaguely hippie clothes: a plain T-shirt, patterned trousers, rubber boots. Are Disability Rights and Animal Rights Connected? 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z This relationship is vaguely, the author implies, sexual as well. ‘Pure Colour’ Seeks Answers About Love, Mortality and God 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z The dining room, next door to Mr. Colicchio’s flagship, Craft, is an awkward pastiche of bland, vaguely corporate design and odd decorative hand-me-downs that have served time in other Colicchio restaurants. Searching for Italy at Tom Colicchio’s New Restaurant 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z Just before I drifted off to sleep I was vaguely aware of her getting into bed. Southern Scamps and Scoundrels in the Fiction of Larry Brown 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z They are made of black industrial pipe and rail, vaguely softened by bits of cloth and ornaments. At His Moment of Triumph, Arthur Jafa Is Looking for Trouble 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z We see vaguely related tensions between “honor” and “self-determination” in Western cultures, too, right — take, just for one example, the SlutWalks? The war on female sexuality: Is globalization to blame? 2013-01-05T23:00:00Z If I do, I'm vaguely happy with what I see. What I see in the mirror: Jeremy Vine 2012-08-03T21:59:15Z There is an odor to the river as well, vaguely sweet and earthy, though oddly more like the sea than like a mountain lake. 2010-01-07T18:26:00Z The sounds of nature, combined with a spare and vaguely ominous electronic soundtrack, add enough atmosphere to augment an acute awareness of the great outdoors as a wild kingdom fraught with peril. Movie Review: ‘Hide Your Smiling Faces’ Explores a Grim Childhood 2014-03-27T22:42:29Z The arrangement is only vaguely chronological, though there are early pieces near the start. David Hammons Is Still Messing With What Art Means 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Newly released after serving 20 years for an only vaguely specified crime, Chris is pushing 40 and uncertain how to reclaim a life he left while still a teenager. Review: On Parole and in Love in ‘Outside In’ 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z “Had I been vaguely in the world, I might have been more offended.” Lena Headey, Cersei in ‘Game of Thrones,’ Has Her Own Power Moves 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z When “In the Middle” is performed by other companies, this wary surveillance, the bravado that masks fear, is often enacted as a vaguely sulky aggressiveness. Critic’s Notebook: William Forsythe Revival at Paris Opera Ballet 2012-12-28T21:15:47Z But I worried vaguely about a story about Diana Ross that New York magazine had run in 2009. A Working Vacation on an Umbrian Farm 2014-05-09T19:04:24Z “Rescue, Miss—no, Miss Marvel, Black Widow,” he trailed off, vaguely. Why Marvel’s Female Superheroes Look Like Porn Stars 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z How shall I ever read “The Great Gatsby” without seeing a middle-aged gigolo who vaguely resembles Noël Coward with a mustache? Letters to the Editor 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z Walter, a veteran, returned from Iraq with a vaguely defined injury that he believes gave him a gift for locating things that are lost. Television Review: ?The Finder,? From Hart Hanson, on Fox - Review 2012-01-11T22:44:27Z It's like the same thing when you're playing live - you're taking something that's so incredibly personal and weird and removed and trying to put it into a very social, communal, vaguely celebratory place. | Grimes 2012-10-18T17:03:38Z I had vaguely heard of them, but would never have bought tickets unprompted. Simon Hoggart's week: Nick Clegg strikes a chord as spiritual leader 2012-09-28T23:01:19Z It’s vaguely explained, by her, as a result of neediness and depression. ‘Grand Concourse,’ by Heidi Schreck at Playwrights Horizons 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z That vaguely mingy silhouette, so far in class terms from the fat-knot ties and lavish woolens of Savile Row suits favored by City types then and now, had an appealingly outsider air. Review: With Weather as a Composed Prop 2011-01-15T20:42:43Z If you're still not convinced about Soul Surfer, don't forget that it contains a scene where a woman who once won American Idol hamfistedly emotes at an amputee in a vaguely religious way. Soul Surfer: something for everyone 2011-02-02T09:38:00Z “Euphoria” is adapted from an Israeli series of the same name, which, if nothing else, may offer an explanation as to why the show feels foreign — as in unrelatable and vaguely alien. Review | ‘Euphoria’ is a depressing, dirty show about teenagers. Of course you’ll watch. 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z Also known as caviar lime, this odd, long variety that vaguely resembles a jalapeño, doesn't show the usual segments when you cut it open. A guide to winter citrus varieties 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z Even the mainstream brand Dove claims vaguely that its products are “microbiome-gentle”. ‘I don’t smell!’ Meet the people who have stopped washing 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z The audience navigates vaguely real-world conundrums in a space more conducive to imagination — the theater. Dance Review: ‘On Trial Together’ by Sasa Ascentic and Ana Vujanovic 2014-02-23T22:20:04Z Having vaguely heard of Monte Carlo, I assumed "Bust" must be some other seaside resort, an alternative destination further up the coast. Watch Monte Carlo or Bust! live 2010-10-07T10:49:00Z I vaguely remember the two of us appearing on the local television news, making a statement against the easy accessibility of handguns. Long aftermath of a mass shooting: Remembering my father, killed in 1991 at the University of Iowa 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z At best, the songs are only vaguely related. From the Archives: The Original Review of ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Every song — the titles include “Circus of Your Mind” and “We’re All Made of Stars” — vaguely reminds you of some recording you have heard in the background of your life. Review: ‘Finding Neverland,’ a Broadway Musical With Matthew Morrison 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z A little dated and a little convoluted, “A-C-E One” ends up in a vaguely unsatisfying place that wavers between comedy and tragedy. Dance Review: Yoshiko Chuma?s ?A-C-E One? at the River to River Festival 2010-07-08T21:23:00Z Unfortunately, such descriptions tend to feel like rote recitations of stories Mr. Townshend has had to recount hundreds of times before; there is something truncated and vaguely perfunctory about them. Books of The Times: ‘Who I Am: A Memoir,’ by Pete Townshend 2012-10-09T00:36:11Z Bird, Blood and Slim never reference their deaths; they seem only vaguely aware of their predicament. Review: In ‘Hang Time,’ Lynched Men Tell Finely Tuned Tales 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z During the first two hours of this frothfest of courtly pageantry, vaguely situated in medieval Hungary, were any of the dancers truly enjoying themselves? Mariinsky Ballet’s ‘Raymonda’ comes slowly to life 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Case in point: the New Mexico Piñon Coffee Company, offering blends made with local pine nuts, which fans say add a vaguely cocoa or hazelnut flavor. These Are America's Best Coffee Cities 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z On Sunday, those characters will exit the series in much the same way that they began it, treating life like a prepaid, vaguely disappointing all-you-can-eat buffet. On Finally Watching “Girls,” a Different and Better Show Than I’d Been Led to Imagine 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z The book’s hero, a roving photographer named Robert, walks into the life of the comfortably married if vaguely dissatisfied Francesca and leaves her shaken, stirred and forever changed. Theater Review: ‘Bridges of Madison County’ Brings Iowa to Broadway 2014-02-21T03:00:02Z It pains me even to give "Grown Ups" this much credit, but as usual Sandler's heart is sort of vaguely in the right place. "Grown Ups": It's time to kill the midlife dude flick 2010-06-25T00:23:00Z It’s “a question that I despise,” he told Variety’s Elsa Keslassy dismissively before vaguely noting that more women were represented this year, “which is a good thing.” Cannes and ‘Wonder Woman’ show what happens when women challenge archetypes — and triumph 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Even though Teddy is gainfully employed in a lucrative profession, and even though he has had dream-worthy success in a dream-worthy industry, he still feels vaguely unfulfilled. ‘Thank You, Goodnight,’ by Andy Abramowitz 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z The waiter who had served him said she was only vaguely aware of who he was. James Corden Would Rather Not Talk About That Omelet 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z He took courses at Miami University in Ohio, Hillsborough Community College in Tampa and Columbia University, pursuing, vaguely, a career in accountancy. J.S.G. Boggs, Artist, Dies at 62; He Made Money. Literally. 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z But for Frances and her cohort of vaguely artistic, post-collegiate New Yorkers, precocity has become its own form of arrested development. Movie Review: ‘Frances Ha,’ With Greta Gerwig 2013-05-16T21:27:33Z The weaker novels provide a sugar rush of emotionalism and a vaguely shameful sense of having been manipulated. Bill Clegg’s ‘Did You Ever Have a Family’ navigates grief and recovery 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z "Clicking it will activate an endless, incredibly annoying sound that sounds vaguely like a swarm of insects." YouTube, now with instant vuvuzela sound 2010-06-24T18:54:00Z The connections are sometimes drawn rather vaguely, but the theme of this year's international festival in Edinburgh is the European discovery of the New World, and the resulting cross-fertilisation of ideas. This week's new live music 2010-08-06T23:05:00Z There's something undeniably warm and wholesome about the trend towards what some would describe as "urban homesteading," but there's also something strange and vaguely futile about the whole thing, too. "At Home with Amy Sedaris" is the kind of pandemic cooking content we deserve 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z If this book has a downside, it’s that reading about mostly unhappy people doing vaguely unhappy work isn’t always an invigorating experience. Books of The Times: Nikil Saval’s ‘Cubed’ Tells the History of the Modern Workplace 2014-04-24T19:44:01Z Smallwood is not interested in a vaguely thrumming, elliptical backdrop of global anxiety, the kind of backdrop found in Jenny Offill’s “Weather” and other recent books. A Debut Novel With Prose as Lively as Its Heroine’s Mind 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z It couldn’t change the past but it might ensure that all Americans vaguely understood the same version of it. Perspective | Liz Cheney understood the assignment 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z "Is that what it looks like?" she asks, vaguely amused but undeniably bleak over just how much she's compromised lately. "Mad Men" recap: Through the looking glass 2010-10-11T12:30:00Z Nine minutes long, brazenly episodic, shifting from hallucinatory ambience to synthesised funk to slow-jam R&B to a sprawling, vaguely Pink Floyd-like guitar solo, it sounded remarkably audacious. Frank Ocean: Channel Orange – review 2012-07-11T16:58:28Z Gropingly, he felt his way, vaguely dissatisfied with much of the poetry around him, and searching for the kind of subject worthy of poetic treatment. C. K. Williams, Poet Who Tackled Moral Issues, Dies at 78 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z “I’m a big reader. It’s very important to me that someone is at least vaguely interested in reading,” she said. Date Lab: Who wants to talk shop for half an hour? 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z The Brits should be a chance to do something vaguely provocative because you know people are watching. The Cribs' Ryan Jarman: 'This is the only job I can do ... McDonald's wouldn't employ me' 2013-02-27T09:28:23Z You watch it — if you can stand to — with the feeling that you are participating in something forbidden, perhaps dangerous, which makes viewing it feel vaguely like defying authority. Film: Brutal Truths About Screen Bloodshed in ?Kick-Ass? 2010-04-16T18:47:00Z But whatever he's doing, none of it is likely to involve anything even vaguely resembling the making of a feature film. Has David Lynch retired, or is it just a bad dream? 2011-08-19T11:40:48Z At Block Party, the backing track was atmospheric and clacking, vaguely sci-fi. Capitol Hill Block Party 2011 day one notables: F-ed Up, Craft Spells, THEESatisfaction 2011-07-23T18:44:53Z At the National Gallery here, in a room where the crowds tend to thin, hang Rembrandt’s two Trips: There’s Jacob, the grumpy Dordrecht merchant, with that eyebrow raised and that vaguely disapproving, deadpan glare. Postcard From London: On a Gallery?s Walls, the Circle of Life 2011-06-15T20:23:29Z Its final refrain is “I might as well be anyone at all,” and she rides it into the fade-out, sounding vaguely hopeful. New Music: New Music From Webbie and Charlotte Gainsbourg 2011-12-26T21:46:38Z At least her accompanist knows her vaguely intimately. Review: Audra McDonald's Lady Day on HBO is a Moving Parable of Fame 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z The clay is impressed against these blocks or else modeled into shims, wedges, tubes or vaguely internal-organ-like sacs before being stippled with welts of white or yellow glaze. What to See in New York Galleries This Week 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Allen’s films don’t glorify or even vaguely approve of child molestation. Is Woody Allen a Great Filmmaker? Discuss 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z The argumentation, such as it is, is far too thin and weary to even properly earn the label of propaganda, and the entire project drips with a vaguely self-aware déjà vu. Dinesh D’Souza’s laughable embarrassment: A review of “America: Imagine the World Without Her” 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z Maybe I had to do was lean away from milk, but the vaguely bloated feeling and the skin irritation reduced. Confessions of a part-time vegan: How changing my diet changed my life 2014-01-27T15:59:00Z When I catch him, he looks up with a vaguely guilty expression and dirty smudges around his lips. How gardening can help build healthier, happier kids 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z Beyond that, he talks vaguely about a lack of substance today, but stresses that Sex Beet are about nothing more involved than "having fun". New band of the day ? No 951: Sex Beet 2011-01-21T16:51:24Z The New York Times critic Ben Brantley called him "thin voiced, polite, vaguely charming and forgettable". Ricky Martin's holiday leaves Evita crying 2012-07-17T11:31:37Z I was a child in 1965 and I vaguely recall the events from television broadcasts and news reports. What Movies to See This December 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z Should you let the kids slob out with a movie or make them do something vaguely constructive during the summer holiday? This week's new film events 2013-07-13T05:00:07Z So a week before the trip, I took off into the woods in search of poison ivy, plucking any plant even vaguely resembling it and rubbing it all over my face and body. My fear of flying 2012-12-16T17:00:00Z After posing for Playboy magazine, she got famous before she was even vaguely ready for any such thing. ‘Pamela, a Love Story’ Review: A Frank Look Back 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z He crossed over to big, mainstream-sized sales because his songs were picked up by mainstream radio, particularly "Black and Yellow," which sweeps listeners away on a vaguely sports, muscle cars and joints-themed good-time energy wave. Pitchfork pans The Head and the Heart: what does it mean? 2011-04-19T00:46:07Z “It’s vaguely ethnic, aboriginal, but very street, very downtown New York.” Nineties Nostalgia Propels Coogi Brand Resurgence 2014-04-04T23:20:16Z But, to be officially accredited as biodynamic by the main regulatory body Demeter, it's not enough to vaguely follow the movement's broad principles of treating the vineyard as an organic whole. Can making your wine listen to music improve its flavour? 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Adams found the questions vaguely insulting, saying that the same might not be asked of a soldier dedicated to protecting the country, no matter who was president. Surgeon General Jerome Adams may be the nicest guy in the Trump administration. But is that what America needs right now? 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z It all seems vaguely New Age with lots of talk about opening up and discovering “the truth”. The Path: Hulu's new cult show fails to inspire a movement 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z Costumes pivoted between modern tuxedos and vaguely 18th-century frock coats and gowns. ArtsBeat Blog: Watching a La Scala Opening on the Big Screen 2011-12-07T23:05:49Z “I like to be touched,” Elizabeth tells her, in what sounds like a vaguely sinister pronouncement. Books of The Times: ?The Language of Flowers? by Vanessa Diffenbaugh ? Review 2011-09-07T19:08:12Z Rather than adhere to the accelerated pop of their Mercury Prize-winning Myths Of The Near Future album, for their second, they've enlisted hard rock producer Ross Robinson and a sound vaguely reminiscent of Enter Shikari. This week's new live music 2010-07-09T23:06:00Z To be honest, until we met, I was only vaguely aware of Richard’s art. Richard Prince: This Ain’t No Retrospective, It’s a Rodeo 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z The music in the concert’s first half was sympathetic and duly elegant but also vaguely unsettled, even a bit labored. Music Review: Keith Jarrett Opens CareFusion Festival at Carnegie 2010-06-20T21:35:00Z In its first season, “Breaking Bad” seemed like the story of the nuttiest midlife crisis ever, told with elements that felt vaguely familiar. Magazine Preview: The Dark Art of ?Breaking Bad? 2011-07-06T12:20:00Z Don, in particular, seems to be in a kind of waking dream state, seeing faces and images that vaguely remind him of his past. Review: Mad Men's Time Machine Warms Up for Its Last Trip 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z This is a solidly traditional epic fantasy on its face, taking place in a vaguely European land of dukedoms and mad kings, featuring names full of umlauts and acute and grave accents. From ‘Frankenstein’ to Nora Roberts in 200 Years 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z “It has a vaguely mild sweetness, a nice smooth mouth feel, nothing that overwhelms the flavor profile,” said Kevin Freeman, a shift manager at the store. Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z Charisma calls forth a melancholy, a vaguely unrequited feeling. A Gift From the Musical Gods 2011-08-17T14:36:45Z But what may sound like an vaguely aspirational aphorism has a very specific meaning, that happens to hold particular promise for an industry in the midst of intense self-examination, and equally intense avoidance thereof. Perspective | Enough with naming and shaming: It’s time for restorative justice in Hollywood. 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z The setting here seems vaguely meant to be Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, which was both a hotbed during the Russian Revolution and a major center in the global oil boom. Music Review: Wagner’s ‘Ring’ Opens at Bayreuth With Reality-Cam Touch 2013-07-28T21:38:06Z Mr. Fegan was heading into his senior year in the fall, vaguely dreading it. They Get Paid to Have a Catalog-Perfect Summer 2016-08-20T04:00:00Z He vaguely wondered if his friend might now want to reconsider that remark. Heartbreak by Craig Raine Digested read 2010-07-12T23:05:00Z By contrast, creating an aesthetic that’s vaguely familiar yet thoroughly out of time, “Kat Hats,” by Daniel Pinkwater, with illustrations by Aaron Renier, plunges us into a geography of the absurd. A Hat Tip to 4 New Picture Books 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Characters refer vaguely to the Avengers battle all the time on the show. How Netflix's "Daredevil" Fits Into the Greater Marvel Universe 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z As a “child of Democrats,” Neyfakh says, he “took Clinton’s side and believed sort of vaguely and ambiently that Ken Starr was in the wrong.” “Slow Burn” Season 2, Reviewed: The Painful Lessons of the Clinton Impeachment 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z And he presides in some vaguely ceremonial way over the festivities celebrating the four weddings in the offing at the finale. ‘Lady, Be Good!,’ an Encores! Version of the Gershwins’ 1924 Hit 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z His decanters, pickle jars and bowls fiddle vaguely with ideas, but without nearly the sense of transcendence he pulls off with his fir and cedar pieces. Chris Engman’s photographic illusions dazzle 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z The very words “film festival” can elicit images of jerky handheld camerawork and vaguely recognizable actors holding mumbled conversations over a lo-fi indie soundtrack. | Raising the Curtain on This Year’s Tribeca Film Festival 2014-04-16T13:00:15Z For all the grand lushness and inventive production design of its time in Paris, the show felt vaguely lost and overburdened. ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 8: Homecoming 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z Steven Klein, the photographer and auteur of this vaguely sinister spectacle, wasn’t about to clear up the mystery. The Photographer and Auteur Steven Klein Loves to Shock, but Surreptitiously 2011-11-24T10:45:04Z And I only vaguely even knew about it. ArtsBeat: You Wouldn’t Like Him When He’s Angry: Peter Sarsgaard Joins ‘The Killing’ 2013-05-29T14:00:24Z Unfolding like a symphony of small humiliations, there isn’t a moment in this movie that doesn’t feel at least vaguely familiar, and there isn’t a moment in this movie that doesn’t feel completely true. The 7 best movies new to Netflix in February 2019 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z And thanks to International Art English, the artist can still appear vaguely subversive and the host state committed to openness, a mutual saving of face. When artspeak masks oppression 2013-03-07T22:48:00Z The lengthy catalogue entry vaguely suggested 12th century “England or Germany.” Auctions: Glamorous History Drives Divine Surprise 2011-11-18T12:30:13Z In fact, he welcomed death so readily into his lines that the reaper became a vaguely cheerful figure in the Strandian landscapes. 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