Word: indistinctness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...madness of the other seem appropriate but by no means tragic ends. Much as she cares for Port, Kit makes love to his best friend and tripmate, Tunner, in a train compartment, again on a sand dune as Port lies dying. Kit and Port, with their indistinct backgrounds and motives, are largely novelist's puppets, and Tunner is a collard lightweight who is used to fill out the classic triangle...
...suspicions. Of course, some hardship cases will certainly result from the increase. But these must be cut to a minimum by careful and efficient methods. A torrent of student demands for redress will only indicate that the University has botched its policy. What is now a rather low and indistinct undergraduate grumbling pointed in the general direction of University Hall could easily become an articulate chorus of howls. And this, at any rate, the administration should go far to avoid...
...Bremen wave length, Lord Haw-Haw denounced Bolshevism-and tried it again in Hamburg. The words were indistinct ; Lord Haw-Haw was patently stewed...
...Congressional chin rested in a Congressional palm, when Michigan's veteran John D. Dingell got the floor to make a brief speech on another subject. He spoke of "the rising tide of resentment and criticism among veterans of World War II because of the issuance of an indistinct, cheap, and unworthy discharge button. . ." Afterwards the debate on manpower went...
...three-dimensional psychological portrait of Albert Lory not only has many indistinct patches, it also seems to belong in a French novel rather than on the screen. This miscarriage of form is not helped by hackneyed studio settings and self-conscious photography - audiences may feel that Hamlet and Hamlet's descendants were not meant for Hollywood...