That is about the vaguest way you could possibly praise someone.
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He had only the vaguest sense of the passage of time.
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Don't have the vaguest notion of who the ALOU brothers were?
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"The word consultant is the vaguest term in human history," she said.
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The final impeachable offenses — high crimes and misdemeanors — are perhaps the vaguest.
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DONALD TRUMP has described his foreign-policy priorities in only the vaguest terms.
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But that leaves hundreds of thousands only accounted for in the vaguest way.
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Jones's latest ad references the allegations only in the vaguest, most oblique way.
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They sometimes have only the vaguest idea where they are going next month.
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Some of the harshest messages and vaguest plans have come from Mr. Cruz.
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"The greatest of prophets has but the vaguest of messages," he tells Kif.
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They embrace ideas of tradition and family, but only in the vaguest sense.
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There is only the vaguest sense that economists and policymakers do not all agree.
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On Tuesday afternoon, the Gilmore Girls Twitter account tweeted the vaguest possible string of letters.
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"In the beginning, I had only the vaguest idea of what was happening," he said.
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With only the vaguest motive in mind, I push forward and gather the necessary strength to win.
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Which is to say he offered a melange of the vaguest, fluffiest sentiments any politician can offer.
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Even the vaguest or passing mention of suicidal thoughts was used to hold them, the report said.
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The vaguest (or most secretive) plan seems to be whatever Drake has in the works at Apple.
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Less than thirty words, the vaguest of outlines: slim boy, dark-haired, seventeen, likes music, good books.
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It's half over, and I feel like I have only the vaguest sense of where anything is heading.
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The gigabit applications we've seen so far, she told me, are only the vaguest hints of what's to come.
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It is the pleasure of the familiar with just enough variety to feel, in the vaguest possible sense, adventurous.
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And callers often can give the police only the vaguest description of the direction the gunshot noise came from.
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Political parties have only the vaguest of ideologies, and tend to fall in line behind the president of the day.
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I had only the vaguest sense of where my limbs were and whether my feet were aligned correctly with the floor.
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But if you ask me what could it mean, physically, for time to have two dimensions, I haven't the vaguest idea.
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But, I still think the average person has only the vaguest sense of what Mueller concluded -- and why he concluded it.
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I have vaguest childhood memories of leprosy as a thing that kids talked and joked about a whole lot amongst themselves.
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Other officials insist he prefers to wing it, keeping loose and flexible and avoiding locking himself into even the vaguest plans.
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There is nothing more frustrating than taking your car into the mechanic with only the vaguest sense that something is wrong.
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Tens of thousands of voters spent hours in crowded rooms, and we still have only the vaguest idea what they decided.
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All of this, of course, is only the vaguest outline of potentially catastrophic outcomes in virtually every part of the world.
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In regard to the tapes, which Trump appeared to hint do in fact exist, the president gave the vaguest of vague responses.
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Many had thought only in the vaguest of banalities, but nonetheless insisted that paradise must somehow follow the fall of the regime.
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If there's even the vaguest chance that a battle map could hint at how a story will play out, they'll decipher it.
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Americans have never heard of other countries' movie stars and have only the vaguest notions of what their political conflicts are about.
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We checked out a few sites, but I have only the vaguest memories of those places, and certainly no stories to tell.
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There is the vaguest of hints in the Saudi statement that MBS was not aware of any plans in relation to Khashoggi.
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The children had only the vaguest idea of what she did for a living, since she didn't talk about her job much.
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Mr Trump has described his foreign policy in only the vaguest terms, preferring such bumper-sticker slogans as "America First" to detailed plans.
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Most important in the US, there have only been the vaguest of rumors that Apple is even considering supporting RCS on the iPhone.
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The spell breaks long before it's over, even if it returns near the end for "Always," the album's vaguest and possibly best track.
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Asked by Jeff Mason of Reuters if he holds Russia responsible for anything at all, Trump replies yes only in the vaguest generalities.
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With four days of food and clothing lashed to our bikes, and with the vaguest notion of what awaited us, we started pedaling.
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Names-wise, I think most were doable with crosses, although I'd no clue about ERIC, or ARES (and the vaguest memory of DENCH).
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It's short and simple: Amy Klobuchar Klobuchar has one of the vaguest labor platforms of the candidates who qualified for the third debate.
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It's another spin on "a game of thrones" — a scavenger hunt and worldwide race to find hidden objects based on only the vaguest hints.
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He has so far described his foreign policy in only the vaguest terms, preferring such bumper-sticker slogans as "America First" to detailed plans.
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Theoretically, it could be a sign that Magic Leap is getting closer to showing off its work in more than the vaguest possible ways.
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The StormThe vaguest of titles, this probably doesn't mean a literal weather storm, but rather a fury of violence, of terror, or of discovery.6.
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Would you really want all your business acquaintances and former babysitters and — god forbid — exes to have even the vaguest peek into your romantic life?
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Maybe Plank, who referred to the President as "a real asset for the country," was just trying to find the vaguest possible form of praise.
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By far the vaguest component of Sherman's plan, and the one most aimed at the long term, is the concept of developing new revenue streams.
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As the authorities continue to suppress discussion of the Cultural Revolution, the average person, especially the young, has only the vaguest impression of that time.
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Meanwhile, White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus hinted that the administration might look into restricting freedom of the press (in the vaguest possible terms).
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Both guides address their audience in the vaguest terms possible, grouping all newcomers as "others", while relying on illustration to communicate ethnic differences and state narratives.
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The Hall of Fame is the vaguest of heavens, inviting unresolvable substance-free how-many-angels-can-dance-on-the-head-of-Phil-Rizzuto-style arguments.
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This is not the first time that a group of passengers has retreated into a mob-like mentality after picking up the vaguest scent of danger.
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While some cleaning products will list their ingredients on the bottle, some might not—or give only the vaguest clue about what&aposs in there (like "fragrance").
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The strategy for Brexit, which is due to be triggered in less than three months, remains undefined in any but the vaguest terms, and seems increasingly chaotic.
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Should I bump into a countryman on a New York street, I will avoid eye contact and make only the vaguest of pleasantries before hurrying on my way.
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In practice, as covered benefits, payment systems, and access to care vary widely between states, federal policymakers have only the vaguest idea of what services are being purchased.
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Amos Yadlin, the military intelligence chief at the time, told reporters on Wednesday that Israel had only the vaguest idea what was happening until months before the attack.
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I had only the vaguest idea of who this apparition was supposed to be, but before long what Bogey was to Allan Felix, Woody Allen was for me.
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Through chirps and a story told only in the vaguest of archetypes, Journey allowed us to find the humanity in each other when we're stripped to our barest essentials.
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From the concrete ferry pier, I got the vaguest of directions to my hotel — walk down the pier and take your first left — which turned out to be accurate.
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Lynch has asked viewers to follow him yet again into the dark, with only the vaguest of promises that the naïf will once more turn out to be a genius.
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As one journalist after another stood to ask multipart questions, Trump was able to pick the one part he preferred to address, usually in the vaguest terms, while ignoring the others.
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In the vaguest of terms, Midsommar follows a group of American graduate students who get a rare opportunity: Their Swedish friend invites them to join his small, remote village's midsummer festivities.
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And while Amazon notoriously releases the vaguest sales figures for its devices, it's telling that the Echo was the company's top-selling device on Black Friday, across all devices over $100.
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Taking a dig at self-help movements and dietary gurus (especially the notorious "master cleanse" program), "The Cleanse" embarks on an allegorical journey with only the vaguest notion of a destination.
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The subpoenas were incredibly broad — and Democrats claim that, in direct violation of House rules, they were not consulted and were only given the vaguest of notifications before those subpoenas were issued.
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" But, Rosenfeld added, "If they had only the vaguest plan for how the officers would be deployed, it's just doing more of the same, and the same hasn't been all that effective recently.
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She draws a line back to when she was growing up, reading male authors that rarely gave female characters anything more than the vaguest outline of a personality, much less anything resembling agency.
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People knew they could come in with the vaguest description — "This guy has an eye patch, and I think there's a mariachi band" — and we'd figure out they were looking for Cutter's Way.
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For me, the hype surrounding the announcement was further evidence of Amazon's recent ability to get big public-relations wins for offering only the vaguest of promises — see its recent HQ2 media coup.
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The order, issued Thursday night, is expansion of MOPRs in PJM with almost no limits — a change "of kind and not just degree," Glick writes — using the broadest, vaguest definition of state subsidies.
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In a similar way to how "feminism"—in its vaguest terms—has been hijacked as a way of selling anything from period pants to singer-songwriters, mental health is rapidly becoming a commodified issue.
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In the vaguest terms possible, Geragos implied two teams might be in the hunt for Kaepernick, and the bread crumbs he left, in an interview with TMZ, suggest the Oakland Raiders and New England Patriots.
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What made the council system so precious, in Arendt's view, was its absolute novelty: It represented an entirely new type of political system, one that was imagined, though only in the vaguest outline, by Jefferson.
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Readers afflicted with extreme spoiler sensitivity may want to cover their ears and start humming right now, since even the vaguest, most careful description of Jeff Nichols's "Midnight Special" risks giving away some important surprises.
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"Waypoint of the Year" was one of the vaguest, and while eating hot chicken over lunch, Rob started talking, out of nowhere, about The Newsroom, the Aaron Sorkin show on HBO from some years back.
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"What they left out is that these investigations are based on the vaguest scraps of information"—such as tips about neighbors wearing burqas—"and almost none of them go anywhere," the military-intelligence official said.
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Everyone currently on the show was naturally tight-lipped about what's to come in the final season of Game of Thrones, so even the vaguest questions about character growth were met with practiced, if funny responses.
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And because the police often arrested people on the vaguest of suspicions, it was common to have a portrait in the rogue's gallery even if the person had never been charged or was later proven innocent.
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Executive producer — and Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker — Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side, Going Clear, and many more) brought Bloom to the project when it was the vaguest of ideas at his company, Jigsaw Productions.
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Her "joke" about the three dying heroes who are awaiting God's judgment makes reference to major "Watchmen" characters — Nite Owl, Ozymandias and Dr. Manhattan — that have been explicated in only the vaguest terms on the show.
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Dern may have played a pivotal part in The Last Jedi, but that was years ago and has only the vaguest connection to the alien creature that has captured our collective hearts and imaginations and whatever lately.
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And while they may do their best to keep up with the literature, a key insight or relevant result may be hidden away in an obscure journal that only gets the vaguest reference in a citation or review.
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And yet, somehow, a guy from Stretford whose calling card is pairing elaborate headgear with bootcuts and a tracksuit jacket, singing in the vaguest possible terms about the universe, has become a sensation that transcends all the usual demographics.
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Meanwhile, Trump's top domestic policy staffer, Andrew Bremberg, is quoted speaking in only the vaguest banalities and broadest strokes, offering no substantive guidance whatsoever besides saying that HHS Secretary nominee Tom Price is a "compassionate" guy and a good doctor.
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It follows a decision taken nearly two years ago to ban the entire group, under the terms of a Russian law that defines extremism in the vaguest of terms, and that was amended in 2007 to embrace some non-violent movements.
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JPMorgan's Mackie and Barr said there was only the vaguest of possibilities that Article 50, if and when enacted, could be reversed although EU leaders like Germany's Angela Merkel said there is "no way to turn this around" on Tuesday.
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The official version of what happened remains largely opaque, with no radio traffic or dashboard camera footage released by the authorities, and only the vaguest outline of events provided by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the agency that is investigating.
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But the deep subject of this book, what holds its disparate bits together and makes it worth your time even if you have only the vaguest idea of who its author is supposed to be, is not celebrity at all.
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No. 1 drinks like a legit adult beverage, with a pleasing complexity and bite, and the vaguest hint of, yes, cough syrup, which is actually a good thing when talking about something intended to invoke a Campari-laced summer favorite.
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My wife and I were hard-wired into the wars, and it was often disorienting to realize not only how little others were affected by them, but also that many were not even aware of them in all but the vaguest ways.
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In short: I probably won't get harassed at a polling place, if only because I'm a white Californian, but in this batshit crazy year for democracy, why even go to the polls and face the vaguest possibility of a hassle from some activist?
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A few early thoughts: Still no mention of Kit Harrington's Jon Snow, despite the fact that we now know he's returned from the dead, which tells us even HBO's Department of Vaguest Teases Ever couldn't even find a way to say what he's up to.
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As we move past the jazz-hands era of native advertising where outlandish CPMs could thrive hand in hand with the vaguest of returns, media companies will be under increasing pressure to deliver something concrete just as their own business becomes more and more dependent on intangibility.
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After it ended, every time I decided to talk or write about what I'd been through — even in the vaguest terms — I experienced a concerted backlash, an attempt to silence me that pushed me more and more toward the domain of the hysterical, exaggerated, resented woman.
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Then, the odds in favor of getting rid of the regime were at least plausible, even though the Obama administration hadn't the vaguest idea of how it might be done and was unwilling to commit enough resources to the fight to bring it about either unilaterally or by backing Assad's opponents.
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The HSR Act, as it's known, does leave a lot of wiggle room, where acquisitions, when they are reported, can be noted in the vaguest of terms without a lot of detail as to specific purposes, so it's not clear what kind of information we will get out of this.
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"One cannot help remembering the nineteen-thirties and forties when we condemned with wrath and held up to shame without having the vaguest idea of what we were condemning," Professor Shafarevich wrote in the letter, referring to those who were denounced as enemies of the state under the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.
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Of the mixtapes, Monster is probably the most distinct (radio hit "Fuck Up Some Commas" is inexhaustible, Lil Wayne's guest verse fits right in on "After That", and the beats snarl and squirm throughout) and 56 Nights probably the vaguest (although it too has its moments, specifically "March Madness" and the outlandish "No Compadre").
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The opening scenes of Craig Zobel's "The Hunt" are pointedly free of all but the vaguest exposition, mostly for dramatic effect; it takes some time to figure out exactly who is doing the hunting, who is being hunted and why — and these revelations provide much of the narrative fuel for the controversy-soaked picture.
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The era before the 1966 season, when the N.F.L. and A.F.L. created a championship game between the leagues that became the greatest spectacle in American sports, was defined by strong defenses, running games and a group of star quarterbacks — Sammy Baugh, Otto Graham, Y.A. Tittle — who are discussed in the vaguest, yet grandest, of terms.
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Or it's like how most English speakers can put on a recognizable Dracula voice to say, "I vant to suck your bloood," with only the vaguest awareness that this accent was originally an imitation of Bela Lugosi, who played the iconic 1931 Dracula using his native Hungarian accent (and technically never said that line).
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"We're still guessing until YouTube gives us an explanation that isn't complete garbage, but it sounds like they're just being stupid about this, and this has only the vaguest connection to sanctions," said Joshua Stanton, an attorney in Washington, D.C., who drafted the legislation that later became the North Korea Sanctions and Policy Enhancement Act of 2016.
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Of course a fight is an individual occurrence can only give the vaguest hints of how the two participants will match up with the rest of the division, but from the thoughtful, adaptive, disciplined work and vast improvements seen from both fighters, I can certainly say that from a technical and tactical standpoint this was the best bout I have seen from the straw weight division in the UFC so far.
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I would tell the story, I thought, of how "my grandfather's" rough-and-tumble coming-of-age, at the fringes of South Philadelphia's Jewish underworld, played a key role in his baptism of fire as an O.S.S. spy during World War II. In terms of incident, it was the vaguest of all the plot arcs I envisioned, but paradoxically a sharper insight into my protagonist's personality seemed to coalesce around it.
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Amid prodding by my colleagues on these issues, he made only the vaguest of promises about firewalling himself off from his companies and investments, while constantly stressing that no clear conflict-of-interest laws govern the presidency, playing down the appearance of corruption as inconsequential and basically suggesting that he intends to continue the kind of seemingly self-dealing moments (photo ops with business partners, self-interested comments to foreign politicians) that have already cropped up during his transition.
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While we're not calling for some kind of utopian mega-festival that caters for everyone out there with even the vaguest interest in combining four to the floor kickdrums with getting very, very pissed and smoking cheap cigarettes, the fact that the same DJs end up on bill after bill suggests that, maybe, just maybe, we could live without another Exciting New One Day Festival Taking Over London For a Day Of House, Techno and Grime, or another Hot New Festival Hitting Croatia For a Weekend's Worth of House and Techno.
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