Word: indistinct
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This process accomplishes a gradual and comprehensive replacement of the indistinct general terms by the technical ones. "Filament" replaces "fine wire"; "emit" takes the place of "glow" and "give off light", and then the word "emit" is inflected in different ways for greater familiarity with terms...
...swallowed the potion, lay down on a couch and waited. Within an hour Hofmann began tg report: "I am losing my normal bodily sensations . . . My perception of space and time is changing . . . Your faces appear strange . . ." Finally: "Now, as I close my eyes, I see a wonderful but indistinct kaleidoscopic train of visions. They are vividly colored...
Sprouting out of the New York Times one morning last week was a full-page advertisement that showed a mushroom cloud, huge, horrific, indistinct. WE MUST POSTPONE OUR COMING TESTS, proclaimed the ad's sponsor, an organization called the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy-ACT NOW FOR MAN'S SAKE. The way to do that, said the committee, was to 1) write President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon; 2) write Congressmen, editors and commentators; 3) "organize a group" or work with existing groups "in your community." The point to make: the U.S.'s summer series...
...Hangchow. His Mist in Wooded Mountains shows that he could combine these earlier influences into a work that became uniquely his own. The drama is in the landscape itself, in the mountains and solid trees seen emerging through the fog. But 500 years later it was the small, indistinct figures that caught the eye of Ch'ing (Manchu) Emperor Ch'ien-lung, caused him to write his appreciation at the top of the scroll: "Mountain and villages, dimly seen through rain and clouds; the fisherman on his way home feels the weight [of rain] on his clothes...
...large part because almost none of the cast have any sense of military bearing or authority. They look and act more like hoods in an all-night card game than naval officers struggling with a very difficult question of right and wrong. The characterizations are without exception sloppy and indistinct. In addition, Marker's blocking and use of Sanders Theatre stage are most unhappy. The bulk of the movement in the performance consists of ridiculous and histrionic stridings from one side of the huge, empty stage to the other. And any merits or subtleties that the performance might have were...