indefiniteness

Example Sentences

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This is exactly the kind of indefiniteness which New York courts do not allow to form the terms of a binding contract.”

From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2021

One irony is that notwithstanding his reputation, Mr. Cruz tends to nurture a careful strategic indefiniteness about his positions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2016

Were Alice’s ideas to make it over that first hurdle, they would still be subject to challenges for obviousness, lack of novelty or indefiniteness.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2014

When the first volumes of the Joseph series were published, Novelist Willa Cather brilliantly characterized their "dreamy indefiniteness . . . the story has almost the movement of grazing sheep."

From Time Magazine Archive

They receive their influence, as objections, rather from their indefiniteness and the ambiguity of terms, than from any intrinsic force.

From Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Fisk, Wilbur