Most likely those "long shapes, white and vaguely suggestive," were remnants of kelps, sponges or barnacles, torn loose by storms and cast ashore in great numbers.
His vaguely suggestive style shows the influence of Stéphane Mallarmé, of whom he was an assiduous disciple.
Mr. Genovese soloed with a rumbling insistence vaguely suggestive of 1960s Andrew Hill.
She carried a pitcher of lemonade in one hand, two glasses in the other, and a vaguely suggestive smile on lips thickly coated with bright red lipstick.
Then she fashioned a handful of her own bluesy choruses, in a rippling style vaguely suggestive of the present-day McCoy Tyner.
Vaguely suggestive of a striding man, it has an open center that can be walked through, in effect making a sportive entranceway to the prim Seagram building.
He touched the fluttering membrane at the base of her throat in a vaguely suggestive manner, but she gently pushed his hand away.
Maria noticed some long shapes, "white and vaguely suggestive."
There was nothing risque or even vaguely suggestive about her performance.
They are vaguely suggestive of the monochromatic paintings of Milton Resnick, where a minimum of incident must carry a maximum of meaning.