How To Use Ambiguity In A Sentence

Advancing age has occasionally brought resolution, more often just a little understanding, to many of these riddles, but not necessarily to the resilient ambiguity of history.
Nowhere was this ambiguity more apparent than concerning the question of sovereignty.
He uses the ambiguity of passageways and transitional spaces to construct an esthetic of anticipation.
There is no such ambiguity about a skills analysis which is always person-orientated and not just system-orientated.
The ambiguity inherent in that fantasy of unpinning suggests not only the male desire, but also the very real potential of a female "wildness" that desires release.

In its seeming ambiguity yet divine reality it remains free of the influence of humankind and our lusts.
The term implies something less than the ideal outcome of a war: reservation, equivocation, ambiguity, limitation—substitutes for victory. Between War and Peace
He means that death repeals the whole implied adventure of being missing, and a certain tantalising ambiguity enters the picture.
The output from a character recogniser requires further processing to reduce the ambiguity and hence increase the accuracy of recognition.
Fortunately, for the advocates of both schools of thought, the brief text contains sufficient ambiguity to support a colorable claim for either position.
Justice Ginsburg rightly described this as overbroad, and she cited Court precedent that "ambiguity concerning the ambit of criminal statutes should be resolved in favor of lenity. Conrad Black's Revenge
It should be clear by now that the ambiguity of form and complexity of content in Seven Pillars are both foreshadowed in its dedicatory poem.
On the other side of Twitter-Wood, there's far less ambiguity in Alyssa Milano, Michael Ian Black and Brian Lynch's tweets about Pat Robertson. ‘Scream 4′ & A Droid, Pat Robertson And James Gunn’s ‘Super’ In Today’s Twitter-Wood » MTV Movies Blog
The pyramids of corporate strength have flattened into a web of organizational ambiguity.
What, then, we have to beware of, is not being refuted, but seeming to be, because of course the asking of amphibolies and of questions that turn upon ambiguity, and all the other tricks of that kind, conceal even a genuine refutation, and make it uncertain who is refuted and who is not. On Sophistical Refutations
Company - To avoid any ambiguity in which part of our operation we are concerned with this should be defined first. Market-led Strategic Change
Moral ambiguity hovers over its use of these disclosure facilities. Times, Sunday Times
It claims conservatism is rooted in phobias that cause ‘fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity.’
Video teleconferencing obviates the need to collocate staffs and reduces ambiguity in commanders' intentions.
This paper focuses on the resolution of quantifier - induced scope ambiguity by Prolog implementation.
It's debatable whether the studio recording actually contains the f-word, given the incoherent roar Jim Morrison emits at the song's climax, but there's no ambiguity to the Oedipus context in this live version. Eric Williams: F***ing up the Charts: on F-Words and Music
There exists no single work that traces ambiguity or multivalence through the whole of Western culture; there - fore the suggested readings are arranged historically. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
You should all be ‘pedantic old farts’ about unambiguity in words, because no-one else is going to stop them from becoming completely malleable (or, put another way - completely meaningless.)
The term delusional disorder was suggested by Winokur 1072 to avoid the confusion resulting from the diverse concepts of paranoia and the ambiguity of that term, which has been used to denote insanity, suspiciousness, persecutory or grandiose delusions, schizophrenia, and a specific disease entity distinct from other psychoses. The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
He responded with a gesture of remarkable unambiguity.
Can the enthusiast for indeterminacy, ambiguity, undecidability, and the endless play of signifiers be held to conventional standards of clarity? The Times Literary Supplement
You must understand the ambiguity of my position.
Researchers have found that Conservatives typically are dogmatic, intolerant of ambiguity with beliefs rooted in fear and aggression.
The governor also said laws are under review to preclude ambiguity and to close loopholes allowing suspects to evade arrest.
As her heartbeat slows, her mind settles on the same thoughts that have haunted her for weeks: her desire to understand the order and purpose of things, especially the ambiguity of death and the mysterious abyss between matter and spirit. The Impulse of Breathing
Described as post-grunge rock, it strips all the guts and glory out of the grunge we know and love, leaving the listener with watered-down middle-of-the-road ambiguity in both music and lyric.
Again, from the viewpoint of referential disambiguity, singulars are more important than plurals.
There is also a certain ambiguity in the reactions (there is at any time more than one chemical process going on up there). The Crisis of Life on Earth - our legacy from the second millenium
The design of policy has to take into account the ambiguity of the welfare analysis outlined in the previous section.
It requires motivation towards making new connections as a way of resolving existing ambiguity.
Fortunately, for the advocates of both schools of thought, the brief text contains sufficient ambiguity to support a colorable claim for either position.
On this account, it is the polysemy of the indefinite article that gives rise to the ambiguity of the indefinite noun phrase.
They lie in a grey area between conductors and insulators whose boundaries are somewhat unclear, and it is this ambiguity itself that is useful.
Nevertheless, we were always able to assign a cone to one of three categories without ambiguity.
With the chilliness of the air, the ambiguity of the wire cages and the moving shadows, something interesting is born inside the work.
This ambiguity is also becoming part of US policy toward Israel. Think Progress » ThinkFast: April 9, 2010
Context, mediated by anaphora, can affect the resolution of lexical as well as structural ambiguity.
There is a degree of ambiguity in this statement.
The ambiguity in the flow of authority made that a difficult defense to challenge.
Furthermore, the ambiguity of distinction between species and varieties is not only a synchronic problem, reflecting some kind of contemporaneous blurring of the boundaries between taxa at these levels.
The nature of fuzziness is its unsharp referential boundary, it is the essence that acts as the major criterion in distinguishing fuzziness from generality, ambiguity, and vagueness.
Another thing it can do is to make use of ambiguity in the antiderivative. Wolfram Blog : Mathematica and the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
Their authority is fundamentally illegitimate to begin with, meaning defiance carries no moral ambiguity, even if the physical consequences for the defier are deadly.
The original inspiration for this deluxe 21st-century version of the hemiola is the 19th-century's master of rhythmic ambiguity, Brahms.
This causes a complete north-south ambiguity of the map: there is no way to distinguish northern from southern features.
These two effects, output creation and output diversion, create an ambiguity about the welfare effects of trade.
Traditionally, ambiguity in unfolding news requires flexibility to different aspects of the same story.
The question was, indeed, broached by the greatest thinkers among the great Greeks; howeer, their answer was always with reference to the presencing of the present Anwesen des Anwesenden, and the ambiguity contained in this "twofold," the tragic flaw contained in this failure to make what Heidegger calls the "ontological difference" was to haunt western thought concerning the tiny word "is" from Parmenides' famous maxim to the "is" of Hegel's speculative propositions. Enowning
It is a movie that struggles for significance as it fashions actuality out of ambiguity.
Thus, the ambiguity in the split authority flow creates organizational confusion, and Homeric breakdowns in communication.
This description owes its quaint sound partly to its antiquity, and partly to ambiguity.
So quit lying, quit with straw arguments, quit with the pusslike ambiguity and just state what it is you disagree with. Think Progress
He pays me a sidewise glance, incredulous brows knitting an ambiguity, finding it almost unsporting to fold and venture a smile of concession.
The result of giving the words their ordinary meaning is not absurd or unreasonable, nor is there ambiguity or obscurity.
That is all a mere abuse of words, mere logomachy and ambiguity. A Philosophical Dictionary
When keeping the ambiguity with you ,I fear I will fall in love with you, and I fear I will cry after your leaving.
It is likely that this, too, is a function of the incompleteness of certain taxa in the data matrix, which increases ambiguity under resampling techniques such as the bootstrap.
However, for all dominant themes of harmony, within the noisy ambiguity there might also be quieter, discordant notes.
Emotional tears resolve ambiguity and add meaning to the neuromuscular instrument of facial expression, what we term the tear effect. TierneyLab
The multivalence and ambiguity that characterize these images is in keeping with the nature of the entertainment, and enabled Marsh to engage contemporary concerns about class and authenticity, gender and employment, and consumer culture and personal fulfillment, while satirizing the performers, their fans, and the culture at large. Dissertation on Burlesque
That is a difficult question, and its difficulty results from a deep ambiguity in our legal system.
The output from a character recogniser requires further processing to reduce the ambiguity and hence increase the accuracy of recognition.
They describe the anti-terror laws passed in many Arab countries, in which “imprecision and ambiguity form a threat to basic freedoms”, and note that states have clearly “failed to find the required balance between the security of society and the preservation of individual rights and freedoms”. Wonk Room » Political Reform And The Legacy Of The War On Terror
Context, mediated by anaphora, can affect the resolution of lexical as well as structural ambiguity.
Perhaps my ambiguity is a sign of undigested thought, but I don't deny it.
There is considerable ambiguity about what this part of the agreement actually means.
Her firm pronouncements are often couched in ambiguity. The Times Literary Supplement
Thus, a trace of ambiguity in the data can lower success rate.
Attempts to understand the significance of Woman Wisdom in ancient Israelite life and in the canonical and deuterocanonical traditions underscore her deep ambiguity: to feminist thought, whether historically or theologically inclined. Woman Wisdom: Bible.
The design of policy has to take into account the ambiguity of the welfare analysis outlined in the previous section.
Avoiding ambiguity that requires the reader to wantonly misinterpret is less crucial than avoiding easy-to-fall-into ambiguities. I come to praise potential ambiguity, not to bury it « Motivated Grammar
But the complexity of his own world view he opposed British involvement in the war but was himself a power-worshiper with a totalitarian itch who believed passionately in human perfectibility charges what might have been a standard-issue Shavian sermon with the multilayered ambiguity of high art. Smile as the Bomb Goes Off
The fundamental ambiguity of the love/hate, attraction / repulsion toward the other ultimately reveals the barbaric and primitive side hidden behind the cultured and civilized mask.
In my own time gaining a B.S. in Bio-Chem at the UW I was surprised at the overwhelming number of fellow students who had real trouble dealing with ambiguity in science. Sound Politics: Scenes from Wallingford
This severe ambiguity leads people to conclude that Obama actually "palled" around with this domestic terrorist whilst he was committing the crime. Blog4Brains.com: A Revolutionary Blog Redefining Intellectualism
Together with her emotional setback, the ambiguity of her political position left her feeling confused and miserable. DOVES OF WAR: Four Women of Spain
Perhaps it was part of a more general interest in undecidability, and ambiguity.
The ambiguity can be resolved by quantification of the noun: He bought several premises, a number of premises, three new premises.
Incorrect choice of words leads to ambiguity for the reader.
In sum, even though the rabbinic semiotics of the body open the gate towards a remarkable self-consciousness about the potential ambiguity of its signs, the same system manages to maintain its fundamental gender binarism in Jewish law. Gender Identity In Halakhic Discourse.
Her book is a rallying cry for all those who like their politics simple and uncluttered by complexity and ambiguity. Times, Sunday Times
The Rheims, which is here kept right by the Vulgate ( "et qui venturus est"), so renders the words as to exclude ambiguity, "and which shall come. Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia.
To remove any ambiguity we have to acquire more accurate information.
Bal, who co-wrote "A Certain Ambiguity: A Mathematical Novel", bemoaned "a lack of ambition and a repetitiveness of theme and setting", in part because authors in their early 30s or younger have been largely shaped by post-liberation India after the opening up of the economy in the early 90s. Moneycontrol Top Headlines
Just so there's no ambiguity: I am not in favour of speeding, or any reckless driving.
However, as an animal lover who prefers FU Penguin and the challenging moral ambiguity of Ratatouille, I am preconditioned to be critical of the cuddly, patronizing work of most anthropomorphic faire. Kathleen Osborn: The Winged Warriors of Ga'Hoole: Owl Movie Is a Sobering Elixir in 3-D
That the gourmand, amiable savant, is pictured as nibbling on a partridge wing (itself related to the arm which raises it to the diner's mouth) au suprême (mark of invested expertise), thus with the expertly prepared food neither completely inside or outside the mouth even as it is consumed, a circumstance that works to prolong the process of eating and its attendant pleasure, emphasizes this ambiguity. Economies of Excess in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, and Baudelaire
Poetry in particular moves at a slant or tangent, taking advantage of the ambiguity of words, the various meanings to be found in them.
Various elementary operations are studied to find whether they preserve unambiguity and inherent ambiguity of languages.
Modern decadence and moral ambiguity are brought to the fore, with peerless acting by Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt.
You must understand the ambiguity of my position.
There is considerable ambiguity about what this part of the agreement actually means.
It is their very complexity and ambiguity of meaning which renders literary classics re-readable and thus classics.
Yet they maintain just enough ambiguity so that the audience is left still puzzling over the piece afterwards.
The context enables one to specify more clearly the meaning of the word and thus to eliminate the ambiguity.
It requires motivation towards making new connections as a way of resolving existing ambiguity.
Worldbuilding: The ambiguity in the term "worldbuilding" resides in the fact that it was coined for the craft of creating ordinate realities in the manner of Tolkien's highly methodical "subcreation," largely a matter of blocking, bolstering, gilding and bumphing, but has come to be applied not just to worldscapes generated by worldblazing but to any sufficiently foreign and/or complex fictive milieu, even to milieus that are largely mimetic. Archive 2009-12-01
Another difference is that obvious unambiguity can be used in the interface to hint at shortcuts.
Much of this ambiguity arises through relatively rare usages of the words.
All test questions are pretested and reviewed for ambiguity and bias by trained testing professionals.
Those ways of producing the false appearance of an argument which depend on language are six in number: they are ambiguity, amphiboly, combination, division of words, accent, form of expression. On Sophistical Refutations
But while all of these have pretty obvious analogues to our culture, there's a fair amount of ambiguity as to who're the villains and who're the heroes.
Nationalization is a word which is neither very felicitous nor free from ambiguity.
Gould's position may seem attractively irenic; but its appeal derives from its vagueness and ambiguity, and evanesces under closer scrutiny.
The good-ought tie-up rests on an ambiguity in the concept of ought, which may be interpreted either in a commendatory sense or in a prescriptive sense. How to Kill a Missionary
That is to say, there are referential and quantificational uses of indefinite descriptions and these are a reflex of a genuine semantical ambiguity.
See Announcements for an account of the problems we had in 2000 with a gender dysphoria/transsexual organisation trying to interfere in protocols for 'gender reinforcement' surgery in intersexed infants with so-called genital ambiguity. Transsexual Causation, the American Psychiatric Association, and Interpol
Ambiguity is the root cause of all conflict," says Cy Wakeman, a leadership and executive coach in Sioux City, Iowa. When A Close Friend Becomes A Workmate
Thus, the ambiguity in the split authority flow creates organizational confusion, and Homeric breakdowns in communication.
The statement of Clement of Alexandria at an earlier date is open to no ambiguity. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
His interest in gray is metaphysical as well as visual, for he cultivates ambiguity, indirection, and impermanence.
Attitude training Attitudes are much more difficult to change than are skills and there can be ambiguity about what constitutes an improvement.
These activities are performed to solve problems involving complexity, uncertainty and/or ambiguity that require intelligence and decision-making.
However, due to the ambiguity in the phylogenetic analyses, this divergence is shown as an unresolved trichotomy.
Accidental obscurity or dawdling is one thing, sure, but deliberate protraction and orchestrated ambiguity can be choices, no less elegant when carried off with expertise. Are You Meandering Around a Castle for 200 Pages? Well, Stop That, Suckah!
Let us clearly and definitely understand and appreciate without any ambiguity that the meaning of the word ageing is not merely becoming old but also developing and maturing. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
Of the refutations, then, that depend upon ambiguity and amphiboly some contain some question with more than one meaning, while others contain a conclusion bearing a number of senses: e.g. in the proof that ‘speaking of the silent’ is possible, the conclusion has a double meaning, while in the proof that On Sophistical Refutations
It is sure to retain its ambiguity, its complexity, and its centrality in human life.
To remove any ambiguity we have to acquire more accurate information.
Context, mediated by anaphora, can affect the resolution of lexical as well as structural ambiguity.
Many political solutions are rife with moral ambiguity. Christianity Today
The sophistication of wordplay and ambiguity is positively Joycean. It(‘)s nothing new « Motivated Grammar
Such ambiguity is anathema to autocratic regimes. Times, Sunday Times
It is not an absolute clarity or an absolute absence of any possible ambiguity which is desiderated.
After the examples are analyzed, there are problems which need to be solved such as ambiguity, real-time clock bias error and the estimate method of zenith wet delay.
Their very flexibility creates an uncomfortable ambiguity for those who are part of them.
Nor is the ambiguity identified by the court some artifact of the suspect, supposedly not-in-the-dictionary nature of the word “postliminary”; rather, the ambiguity is in the statutory definition, and applies to “preliminary” aswell. The Volokh Conspiracy » 2009 » August
There is no ambiguity about the wider cause. Times, Sunday Times
This is what psychologists call attributional ambiguity. Times, Sunday Times
There is a great divide between ambiguity and vagueness.
In many families naming tarantism was taboo, reflecting this ambiguity between condemnation and belief.
The initial ambiguity solution will be lost and must be redetermined.
The plan itself does serve as a binding mechanism to reduce ambiguity, but not too much should be expected of it.
Such difficulty as the case presented turned upon the characterisation of the facts rather than upon any ambiguity in the statute.
Screened with a mat of lashed tree branches that provide shading along the south-west facade, it merges with the surrounding forest and exploits the ambiguity of inside and out.
The intention is to indicate the degree of ambiguity and the general lack of information that can characterize debate on tax reform.
The potential for ambiguity aside, this was an offer that couldn't be refused.
Much British humour depends on ambiguity.
This description owes its quaint sound partly to its antiquity, and partly to ambiguity.
To avoid ambiguity it is good practice to complete the comments section even if the current version is required.
One is the ambiguity in his argument about the appropriate place of semiotic process in the analysis of work.
The output from a character recogniser requires further processing to reduce the ambiguity and hence increase the accuracy of recognition.
Note that I'm not denying that languages can and do differ in their relative amounts of homophony, word-sense ambiguity and lexical category ambiguity.
From the later fourth century, this ideal offered puzzled Christians a means to define their identity without ambiguity.
The same person will tolerate ambiguity in one situation but not in another.
These activities are performed to solve problems involving complexity, uncertainty and/or ambiguity that require intelligence and decision-making.
Lust - Ambiguity -," by Yasushi Ebihara, who applies classical Japanese "nihonga" brush-painting techniques to themes inspired by advertising and the Internet. Undiscovered Country
For the outsider, the objects maintain a ‘deliberate vagueness, nebulosity, and ambiguity’ that help preserve their power within Bwami.
The ambiguity about craft was widespread among the pantheon of Greek philosophers.
SOCIAL workers deal with vulnerable people in situations of ambiguity, uncertainty and risk. Times, Sunday Times
The ambiguity of his iconography gave his art its power. The Times Literary Supplement
We are going to have accept there is going to be some risk, but maybe its worth living with ambiguity in the hope of somehow heading them off from exercising that choice, because iff you strike the Iranian programme you guarantee they are going to turn around and try to make a bomb. Iran nuclear report: IAEA claims Tehran working on advanced warhead
It has also reminded me vividly of my schooldays, when the intellectual horizon of Chilean adolescents had more than a sliver reserved for paradox, mystery and ambiguity.
In employing the postmodern style of playfulness with words and punctuation, the title Human / Nature with its central virgule suggests ambiguity.
No point of view is left unexplored, no complexity left unexamined, no ambiguity left undeciphered. Times, Sunday Times
These characters had an interesting ambiguity, somewhere between the believable and the discreditable.
In Chapters 5 and 6 the Chart is allowed to run to completion in order to determine the worst-case effects of lexical ambiguity.
Thus, a trace of ambiguity in the data can lower success rate.
Her firm pronouncements are often couched in ambiguity. The Times Literary Supplement
The second is body . First, the segment distinguishes the ambiguity from polysemy and vagueness.
From the later fourth century, this ideal offered puzzled Christians a means to define their identity without ambiguity.
The authors make a compelling case that the billable hours it takes American lawyers to write up prolix contracts often cost Americans more in fees than it would cost to go to court to resolve an ambiguity.
Their very flexibility creates an uncomfortable ambiguity for those who are part of them.
The competing claims are mired in historical ambiguity, and complicated by several name changes and cartographical evidence from myriad Korean, Japanese and western sources stretching back centuries. Rocky relations between Japan and South Korea over disputed islands
As is so often the case, it is the use of the passive voice in the paragraph that leads you into ambiguity and trouble.
The Frandon matter has been one of some embarrassment and I am glad it has been resolved, though the ambiguity remains.
In my opinion, since there is no ambiguity or uncertainty, the application of this rule does not arise.
Ambiguity arises when students' spoken English is very limited.
He strongly felt the consoling power of the music in the pastorale, and Silverman recognizes the ambiguity in the title, which means both ‘woman rocking a cradle ‘and ‘lullaby.’
In The Economic Way of Thinking, for example, the ambiguity associated with the term monopoly is explored --- if you define the relevant market broadly enough no monopoly is evident, but if your definition is narrow then every good will exhibit monopolistic characteristics. Responding to Claims of Market Failure - The Austrian Economists
These two effects, output creation and output diversion, create an ambiguity about the welfare effects of trade.
It may be found from testing that this is impossible to achieve due to the ambiguity in previous word positions.
But I must own up to a certain ambiguity yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
While ambiguity is probably the most important feature of Nostradamus's prophecies, another notable feature is their dark, foreboding quality.
Our moral convictions must arm us to face the ambiguity inseparable from the long haul.
This means that there is always the possibility of grammatical ambiguity whenever a nonfinite clause is used. On non-ambiguities
Recently, the property of unambiguity in alternating Turing machines has received considerable attention in the context of analyzing globally-unique games.
Among people, ambiguity in sexuality and indefinable emotions, cause them to drift afloat endlessly.
So any question of ambiguity is really dealt with in accordance with those ordinary principles.
They had to change some of the wording in the document to resolve the ambiguity.
Introduced in July 1999, the software ignores misspellings, interprets incorrect phraseology or unclear terminology, accepts ambiguity and expects error.
So much for the good news - now for the uncertainty and ambiguity. Times, Sunday Times
Thus, the ambiguity in the split authority flow creates organizational confusion, and Homeric breakdowns in communication.
Sometimes, paradoxically, you can even use ambiguity to make the story more understandable or accessible.
The country has always maintained a policy of nuclear ambiguity, refusing to confirm or deny it has atomic weapons.
This precision and comprehensiveness also serves to dispel ambiguity and miscommunication in camp.
There will always be some ambiguity about what actually happened.
Strategic ambiguity has its uses, but a policy of temporizing may eventually fall short.
For the Sun, there is no ambiguity: no such settling could explain the enormous radiated flux of light.
This is caused partly by insecurity but also by an ambiguity about the compromises required to win. Times, Sunday Times
In fact there is an ambiguity to several of these benefactions.
Overlapping ambiguity is a major type of ambiguity in Chinese word segmentation.
Here's what I think: The ambiguity of the term allows for it to be applied universally. Kate Fridkis: What in the World Is Spirituality?
Ambiguity, discursiveness, leaving you with the feeling that you know less at the end than you did at the beginning -- these are the hallmarks of the films of David Lynch. Sing Along With David Lynch on 'Dark Night of the Soul'
In some non-Western conversations, the term jihad has acquired much of the same ambiguity. A World Is Born

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