The poorer the reality, therefore, the meaner and vaguer the ideal it is able to project.
It was decided that they should stay at Somerset House with Patience because of that hope, which was nevertheless growing vaguer and vaguer each day, that Agnes would come home.
Now in a much vaguer and more evolutionary fashion, there is something of the same idea at the back of the great American experiment; the experiment of a democracy of diverse races which has been compared to a melting-pot.
Too busy to waste time over a phantom, gradually she sank back into a vaguerandvaguer might-have-been.
It would be tedious to go in detail through all the degrees of consanguinity, as it is clear that our conception of the mutual duties of kinsmen becomes vaguer as the kinship becomes more remote.
For in this vaguer region we cannot draw a sharp line between valid and invalid claims; 'injustice' shades gradually off into mere 'hardship.
With the growth of religion the vaguer spirits tended to become gods and goddesses, and worshipful animals to become anthropomorphic divinities, with the animals as their symbols, attendants, or victims.
Let us then pass from the exact idea of a machine to the vaguer one of a thing in general.
His eyes questioned the wall; they grew vaguer and vagueras his excitement decreased, as a ship in docks sinks further and further on her side while the water ebbs away.
The individuality of P[=u]shan dies out, but the vaguer he becomes the more grandiloquently is he praised and associated with other powers; while for lack of definite laudation general glory is ascribed to him.
It is not true that influence of this sort decays or passes into vaguer and vaguerdepths of memory.
It went over dead leaves and quite lonely to the thick of the forest; there it died out into a vaguer and a vaguer trail.
We remembered, all three of us, the times when no such things were done in Europe, and yet men hung well together, and a nation was vaguer and yet more instinctive and ready.
Responsive to the personal cry of the solitary hero, Browning rarely caught or cared to reproduce the vaguer multitudinous murmur of the great mass.
But this vaguer and truer finality restored to its rights will be a difficult thing to give content to.
He gains a great deal from such talks, noting every point down afterwards, and I gain great stimulation, though in a vaguer way.
The ministers seemed so much vaguer than the hard-driving business men with whom she had worked; and the question of what Joshua had done seemed to have little relation to what Julius Schwirtz was likely to do.
From that moment Felix was powerless; a new definite suggestion overrode his vaguer influence.
Was it the summer moon, ghost-like, slipping through the vaguer blue above?
The perfume of roses, the rustle of fans, the touch of rounded arms and the laughter grew vaguer and vaguer.
The further we get away from this direct, first-hand source of knowledge, the more numerous the sources of error, and the vaguer the resulting idea.
But the latter term may be used to indicate a number of qualifications which are vaguer than vocational ability.
And along with the vaguer images which were raised by those biting words, came the precise conception of disagreeables which her experience enabled her to imagine.
The deeper he went and the more he tried to grapple with fundamental conceptions, the vaguer and more elusive they became in his hands.
Like radical finalism, although in a vaguer form, our philosophy represents the organized world as a harmonious whole.
But it is understood by Parmelee in a much vaguer and more extended sense than I have used it.
In fact, his recollection grew vaguer and vaguer the more they tried to make it specific, and to Emily's chagrin, when they brought him to the jail, he asserted positively that Robert was not the man.
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