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Word: indistinctly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...skies; their son Okeanos and his wife Tethys, parents of the sea and river gods. Unlike their Olympian descendants, these were too archaic to have acquired a fixed form in classical art. There was no thousand-year lineage of marble prototypes for their shape. They could be big and indistinct. And the conjunction of monumental size with muffled form entranced Tucker. The resulting pieces look ineloquent, truncated, more available -- at first -- to touch than to sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gods, Chess and 28,000 Magazines | 6/13/1988 | See Source »

...indistinct Greek deity, 9 1/ 2- ft. chess pieces and 28,000 magazines are among the items on view in three fine sculpture shows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 6/13/1988 | See Source »

Clean slate. Michael Dukakis starts fresh because perceptions of him are still relatively positive, though indistinct. His favorable rating was 54%, with 20% unfavorable and 26% saying they had no impression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond The Numbers | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

...Italian beachboy. In the end, all three are separated by war. The trouble is that none of these people are believable as disciplined members of the underground. They are sensitive, spoiled Sagan characters, better at being bored than risking their necks. Out of their milieu, they remain oddly indistinct: when Charles admires one of Alice's frocks, she says, "It is a Gres . . . or a Heim." A true Sagan heroine would damn well know her designer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

...member tells the captain, "Whatever you do -- if you do not retreat -- will result in a fiasco." ( The captain has grown increasingly pessimistic: "Any detailed study of an alien technology was futile. Its fragments, like pieces of a broken mirror, would not yield a coherent picture; they were the indistinct result, only, of the thing that had shattered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Aliens Fiasco | 6/1/1987 | See Source »

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