Word: vaguest
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...cheer surrounding his birthday, there seemed only the vaguest concession to mortality from the former President. When he was studying a landing site for his parachute jump near the Bush presidential library grounds at Texas A&M, he suddenly pointed to a small grove of trees near a pond. "That's where Barbara and I will be buried," he said. But his voice had its usual verve, as if to say that even that would be an adventure...
...essay with: "David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If these be the spirit of the age in which he lived, then he was representative of it." This generality expert has already taken his position for the essay. Actually he has not the vaguest idea of what Hume really said, or in fact what he said it in, or in fact if he ever said anything. But by never bothering to define empiricism, he may write indefinitely on the issue, virtually without contradiction...
...investigation is even less far along in Dar es Salaam, where the FBI and Tanzanian authorities have reconstructed only the vaguest outline of the attack. The solid, three-story, white stone embassy, originally housing the Israeli mission and taken over by the U.S. in 1980, is surrounded by a 100-ft. stone and steel perimeter fence, approached through two gates. A team of local guards from a private firm called Ultimate Security Ltd. patrolled the entry from the first perimeter gate to the Marine post in the embassy door, as well as the parking areas inside and outside the compound...
...gone away? Oh, yes. Aside from the respected research institutes, the female undergrads that I met seem to have only the vaguest sense of the college to which they pay tuition and whose name is on their diploma. These women today are Harvard students (my daughter included), and Radcliffe is a concept...
...essay with "David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If these be the spirit of the age in which he lived, then he was representative of it." This generality expert has already taken his position for the essay. Actually he has not the vaguest idea of what Hume really said, or in fact what he said it in, or in fact if he ever said anything. But by never bothering to define empiricism, he may write indefinitely on the issue, virtually without contradiction...