The library, with its vague connection with academic work, can hold little attraction for a student struggling to adjust to university life'.

The influence of Carroll's books here is not so much weak or indirect: it's non-existent, beyond the vaguest thematic connection.

She wasn't really a niece, just a vague connection from the East.

The setting is Los Angeles, and there are vague connections with the film industry as the players interact over a 24-hour period.

Somehow even that vague connection helped.

Hate flourishes when excuses for the conduct are accepted, or justified by vague connections to international politics.

At the time of writing I was too taken up with the present to make any but the vaguest connection with what had happened to me in the past.

As far as animal or plant genes are concerned there is not even this vague connection with possible use.

It was the first time he had been able to draw even the vaguest connection between the Japanese crew and the other groups of corporations on his list.

These days, every self-respecting summer blockbuster must also be an allegory, usually with a vague connection to President Bush and 9/11.