Word: indistinctness
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...been at Harvard, I’ve never heard anyone else recall this experience, much less associate with it any sort of unease or irony. Many will note, however, that the stereotypical Harvard experience rests in coping with the transition from being incredibly special in high school to being indistinct among so many special others in college...
...Come What Will” is your archetypal acoustic-folk album. His genre is not an unfamiliar one—with the familiar acoustic melody and tenderly rough vocals, Park sounds like a synthesis of Damien Rice and Taylor Swift. His songs are sweet but indistinct. There is nothing either personalized or individual to his sound...
...natural richness seem partially reconciled, as a “chemical load” is put on the same level as “gold” and “majesty.” The world only exists in “some kind” of things, indistinct and vague. Nonetheless, this unreality is finally comforting; “some kind of plastic” is depicted as a sort of blanket. We may be surrounded by the synthetic, but in the end this artificiality can be used as something real, even useful and protecting...
...President made the best possible argument for a rather iffy proposition: the expansion of a war that is 51% necessary and 49% futile (or vice versa). But you can't argue a people into war, especially one that seems so indistinct and perplexing. Once you have made the decision to go, or to redouble your efforts, you must lead the charge - passionately and, yes, with a touch of anger. Obama's attempt to do that, his peroration about the ideals that cause us to fight, was lovely but abstract: "It is easy to forget that when this war began...
President Bush's fiscal lifeline for GM and Chrysler, announced at the White House Friday morning, amounts to a $13.4 billion handoff to the incoming Administration of President-elect Obama. The deal is rife with indistinct targets the automakers must meet to avoid being forced to repay the loan in three months, squishy conditions for union sacrifices and a deadline that can be changed under numerous circumstances. And of course the entire thing can be renegotiated at will by the incoming Administration...