For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.
We cannot afford to have any large section of the business world in doubt whether they have broken the laws or not, and we cannot let the laws become a dead letter through vagueness. In this view it is clear that an administrative commission can render invaluable service.
Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both.
The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed.
And the vagueness of his alarm added to its terrors; when once you have taken the Impossible into your calculations its possibilities become practically limitless.
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts.
Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.
A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people
In abandoning the vagueness of the sketch the artist shows more of his personality by revealing the range but also the limitations of his talent.
Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.
Perhaps I became so vague, so exhilarated with vagueness, precisely in order to forestall a recognition of the final term of the syllogism that begins: If one man loves another he is a homosexual; I love a man.
Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit.
I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
It is in the early morning hour that the unseen is seen, and that the far-off beauty and glory, vanquishing all their vagueness, move down upon us till they stand clear as crystal close over against the soul.
Any useful logic must concern itself with Ideas with a fringe of vagueness and a Truth that is a matter of degree.
A bit of the vagueness of music stops you going completely mad, I imagine.
The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must be steady lucidity and uncompromise of purpose.
