Yet, as Tolkien remarked, 'it was a pleasantly ingenious pun in its way, suggesting people with vague or half-formed intimations and ideas plus those who dabble in ink.'

This, coupled with the vague intimations of dread, suggest the art of Odilon Redon.

She remembered some vague intimations, on her brother's part, which--if the supposition were not essentially preposterous--might have been so interpreted.

The Gore campaign did respond, with vague intimations that one of the Clinton-Gore Administration's biggest policy disasters (don't ask, don't tell) might be tempered by (what else?)

But there was something in the latter's expression that warned back the magistrate, although a man not readily obeying the vague intimations that pass from one spirit to another.

Thanks to New York, Mr. Clinton should now have at least a vague intimation of what he is in for when he faces President Bush in the main event.

He sensed patterns of fright, some visible in the sharp muscle etchings beneath her cheekbones, some unclear, glimpsed only through gestalt: vague intimations of terror.

"Rather," said Lewisham, with a vague intimation in his manner of the offence Smithers gave him.

She had never felt such things, only the vaguest intimations.

When the idoru finally appears, he surrounds her with vague intimations of the arcane medieval notion of the "alchemical wedding" to suggest that the intended marriage has some mystical significance.