ambiguity
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For a movie so steeped in ambiguity and nuance, it also often states its case quite plainly, such as when the couple’s lawyer says no one can really know what goes on in another family.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Critic Siddhant Adlakha was struck by the ambiguity the film captures.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
I suspect this is one of those peculiarly British collisions of ambiguity, assumption and social discomfort.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
"Reforms are not clearly defined in the agreement document. Some ambiguity remains", Abdoulaye Ndiaye, a Senegalese economist at New York University, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
“The bridge collapsed,” the man repeated simply, in the way of someone who wants to make sure there is no ambiguity.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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Speaking at the end of the two-day summit in Brussels attended by Zelensky, Macron said it was Europe's job to hold the line in the face of some people's "ambiguities".
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
“These ambiguities … are only likely to intensify as the conflict evolves,” Skuld said.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 5, 2026
That includes the need to maintain the ambiguities and the nuance of the film as Tracy wrote it.
From Barron's ● Mar. 1, 2026
But he also explores the moral ambiguities involved.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026
The recorded songs of the humpback whale, filled with tensions and resolutions, ambiguities and allusions, incomplete, can be listened to as a part of music, like an isolated section of an orchestra.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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