The reformers are reduced, then, to the vague generality, that smoking and chewing "affect the nerves."

You can hardly expect the world to believe such a vague generality when the documents which would prove its truth or falsity are carefully suppressed.

These words-"nationalunity"-mustnot be allowed to be come merely a high-sounding phrase, a vague generality, a pious hope, to which everyone can give lip-service.

The appeals of the unfortunate prince were responded to with vague generalities.

Suppose, for example, that in place of vague generalities the experimenter had said:

Jeremiah uttered no vague generalities, but brought the matter home with awful directness.

This is not to be answered by vague generalities nor by sweeping statements.

I know their failings, and so have no need to resort to vague generalities.

The sentence was a string of vague generalities, intolerably long, and as tangled as the interrogatories.

But utilitarian or natural ethics need not stop with the statement of vague generalities like the foregoing.

Large parts of it are also constructed around vague generalities which have not yet hardened into legislative plans.

But instead of the old, vague generalities and misty assurance of goodwill, he now declared definite plans based on knowledge.

As I do not believe any well-founded experiments or facts are known, each must form his opinion from vague generalities.

And so it went on for almost two hours; vague generalities and professions of guilt, followed by categorical denials and outright lies.

We retorted by the word "sentimentality," which, along with "declamation" and " vague generalities," served us as common terms of opprobrium.

Jimmy stuck religiously to four pages, though he knew enough of censorship rules to avoid mention of his work, except in vague generalities.