As the movie veers from character to character, the dialogue is too fragmented and the situations too hazily defined for any of the stories to acquire much force.

The moral turf was hazily defined.

But in the hazily defined inner workings of Russian privatization, fair play is only in the eyes of the winner.

But Reverón's majas, hazily defined and set in some twilight space, are more plump water nymphs than vamps.

Then there is a House committee that plans to keep digging, although the panel is wracked by partisan divisions and its agenda seems at best hazily defined.

Since history and its changes in manners were hazily defined concepts then, painters invariably depicted the past in terms of the present.

Mr. Bush is asking for $20 million for a hazily defined effort to train lawyers, judges and prosecutors in capital cases.

The committee must decide whether Mr. Clinton committed hazily defined impeachable offenses.

His personal influence within the Administration remains hazily defined, and his standing as a political figure in the nation's capital has yet to recover from a disappointing start.

People don't think through the connections between the temporary visa program and permanent residency, and it leaves people in these hazily defined roles.