Oracle boasts more than its share of high-level Macintosh loyalists, but this ecumenical approach is not the product of any warm and fuzzy notions about fairness.

Among the millions of people now owning a CD player, many have only a fuzzy notion of how it works.

Although viewers may have been left with only a fuzzy notion of the specific proposals to which most laid claim, differences of message and of personality did come through.

But charting improvements in a community's quality of life, a somewhat fuzzy notion to begin with, can be tricky.

"it was with a vague, fuzzy notion that I was going to do something in public service."

And it's not just a matter of choosing a foreign university based on fuzzy notions like Germany is good for engineering, or Sweden is good for sociology.

A person had to touch a contact point to communicate with him, and then it could seem indirect, because of Burgess' fuzzy notion of self.

That was hard to the point of impossible, for the simple reason that she herself had only the fuzziest notion of exactly what the Solarians were maneuvering for.

What if the warm and fuzzy notion of an all-species inventory suddenly became a laundry list over at the patent office?

By contrast, many - perhaps most - students of human intelligence consider the fuzzy notion of "an all-purpose problem-solving ability" to be eminently dispensable.