Sentences with phrase «much of the ambiguity»

Nonetheless, the event of the council has lost much of its ambiguity for the Catholic Church, while the teaching of the council has gradually but definitely taken root.

Much of the ambiguity stems from where exactly Harry Ross stands in relation to this class solidarity — as an invited guest or a trained servant.

Much of the ambiguity stems from inconsistent regulation of digital privacy by federal and state governments, as well as private entities.

Not exact matches

Like much of the research on how diet affects health, the research on the link between meat and cancer has enough ambiguity that it's possible to cherry - pick a research list that supports either position, but many reviews of research on the best - established link between meat and cancer — colorectal cancer — find, as this 2014 review published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition does, that there is a convincing association between meat eating and colorectal cancer.

The stock in trade of this award - winning 1960s ad industry TV drama is moral ambiguity, perhaps as much of a hook as the smoking and drinking and skirt - chasing that titillate the show's audience.

The ambiguity regarding the nature of the gospel in the WCC — in contrast to its elaborate world order visions — could not be in starker relief to the clarity and assurance (without smugness and with much charity and mercy) of those missionaries and national Christians I visited in Singapore.

One significant attempt to avoid the ambiguities of history, similar in some ways to that of Albrecht Ritschl, was made by Rudolf Bultmann (1884 - 1976), a German theologian who was much influenced by the writings of the philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889 - 1976).

«Testifies to»: there is a troublesome ambiguity about the logic of this relationship, an ambiguity that pervades much of the recent literature on science and religion.

Much of the polarization of praise in our sanctuaries stems from the ambiguity of the terms themselves.

We've already discussed Chapter 2 — «The Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Literature» — in which Enns tackles the difficult question of how to understand the Bible as special and revelatory when Genesis in particular looks so much like other literature from the ancient Near Eastern world, and Chapter 3 --- «The Old Testament and Theological Diversity» — which addresses some of the tension, ambiguity, and diversity found within the pages of Scripture.

Bater pertinently comments, «If there was that much ambiguity about the resurrection of Jesus for the eyewitnesses, on whose testimony all the succeeding ages must depend, do not the efforts twenty centuries later to establish it as demonstrable and unambiguous take on a certain comical effect?»

But I do wonder how much longer our society will stay trapped in a futile debate on sexuality limited to the moralists and the medicalists, neither of whom has much sense of the moral wisdom, compassionate understanding and sense of ambiguity available to us from the biblical tradition.

This was created not so much by any moral ambiguity in his professions per se (though some inspired less certainty than others) but by two features of my own interpretive hardwiring as a Muslim.

(1) to accept the ambiguity of such a high number of humans on the planet; (2) to stabilize that population as much as possible, and then (3) to find ways of allowing six to eleven billion people to live on the planet in ways that are ecologically wise.

At the present time, however, this famous center of theological inquiry is obviously in transition, and feels much pain and ambiguity.

There was not much ambiguity in the statement as adopted, but there was plenty of avoidance.

I am still too much of a Niebuhrian to conceive easily of a state of affairs which transcends ambiguity within history itself.

One of the underlying reasons for much of the aforementioned ambiguity and debate is Big Food coming in and slapping clean eating claims on all types of unhealthy packaged foods.

However, much like an episode of the Simpsons where Monty Burns abates the safety inspector's concerns with ambiguity and charm, or where a banking crash is blamed on an individual's greed and selfishness rather than on inadequate regulation and recklessness from those at the top, Wenger will paper over the cracks from now until the end of the transfer window.

The Countryside Alliance Foundation has long been concerned about the ambiguity surrounding meat labelling, so much so that the adoption of a mandatory country of origin labelling framework was a key plank of the Countryside Alliance Rural Manifesto published in 2009 (to view the manifesto in full please click here).

All parties in the conflict recognize Palestinian control of those areas (though the PNA and Israel object to Hamas» control of Gaza), so we can, without much ambiguity, refer to Areas A and B of the West Bank, as well as the Gaza Strip, as Palestine.

This is mainly because of ambiguity in how the sequester is supposed to be applied: the cuts are described as across - the - board, but how much latitude agencies will have to manage reductions at the programme level remains unclear.

Even when there's hardly any ambiguity — a blow - dried weatherman promising 65 degrees for the weekend — there is too often a fleeting sensation of uncertainty, much as when one approaches a glass door with the word «LLUP» or «HSUP» written on it, before the instruction is decoded to the satisfaction of the unconscious.

There really isn't much room for ambiguity in the multiplexes, and, tellingly, there's not much room for Annihilation in them, either — Paramount, the studio that produced the film, lost faith in the resulting weirdness of the finished project and sold off most of the international rights to Netflix (which has been making itself a home for sci - fi studio discards recently).

The ambiguity that characterises the film ultimately does not seem to be so much an artistic decision as lack of assertiveness on the part of the writers.

And if someone can speak volumes in a glance or a gesture without saying a word — or if cinematographer Roger Deakins can suggest menace and moral ambiguity by letting the camera slowly creep - glide into a performer's personal space (what Villeneuve calls the visual equivalent of «putting pressure on your characters»)-- he'd much rather do that.

These are problems curable by personal means alone, without reference to a wider political context or much recourse to the sort of multilayered psychological ambiguity found in the work of Maurice Pialat or John Cassavetes.

I think much of my fascination with to it stems from my own relationship to Africa, the ambiguities of which the film echoes quite unnervingly.

Take Shelter (d. Jeff Nichols) Much ink has been spilled about the closing moments of Jeff Nichols's sophomore effort, yet the real mark of his intelligence is not his ambiguity about the film's apocalyptic elements, but rather his restraint in framing them as personal matters of faith between a married couple who are about to weather any number of crises, not all of them earth - shattering.

Consider how Marshall spends altogether too much time on the budding relationship of these non-characters and how at its semi-resolution, Syrena does something completely inexplicable, then something else completely inexplicable, leading to ambiguity not of the provocative kind but of the rudderless kind indulged in by people making it up as they go along, forgetting what they've left in and what they've left at the side of this endless slog.

Far from the dark ambiguity of High Art, Cholodenko's Laurel Canyon is actually about happy endings and reunifications of familial structures — it's not that I didn't enjoy the film, it's that by the end of it, I didn't respect it so much.

Trust your instincts,» Bryan says, because embracing ambiguity instead of looking at life as a series of steps leading to a goal can lead to a much healthier outlook.

Since, of course, The Lords of Salem is essentially a horror movie, it will ultimately go the way of genre and privilege the supernatural over the rational, but before that happens, much like the films that it so lovingly apes — Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby and The Tenant, William Friedkin's The Exorcist — it will flex and stretch its ambiguities to uncanny breaking point.

The ambiguity of it all is handled well by director Ben Ketai (who previously helmed the direct - to - video sequel) and writers Patrick Doody and Chris Valenziano (who previously penned the underrated SyFy creature feature Bugs), but it might prove frustrating to some viewers, and it doesn't do much for generating scares.

Recalling last year's haunting psychodrama Take Shelter, much of the running time here is spent developing the ambiguity of whether Kenneth is simply a nutjob or not.

Further adding to its differentiation, The Call also delivers a nice end twist that isn't so much a wild revelation as just a little spiky add - on of moral ambiguity.

Amid all the mirrored surfaces and hazy ambiguities of Olivier Assayas's bewitching, brazenly unconventional ghost story, this much can be said with certainty: Kristen Stewart has become one hell of an actor.

Much like Charles Xavier and Magneto, Doom has grown from «Destroyer of Worlds» into moral ambiguity over time, while his heroic enemy, Reed Richards, sometimes veers into extremism and ethical murkiness.

Lindsay was famously cagey about whether any of her dreamy, ethereal novel was actually true — something which intrigued director Peter Weir so much he decided to keep the ambiguity going by adding a similar introduction and postscript to his 1975 film adaptation.

Ambiguity can lead to confusion amongst students as to what is expected of them, which in turns makes it that much more difficult for them to actually meet those expectations.

Much of the criticism of the Common Core is a product of the same ambiguity that facilitated its early success.

Probably as a result of the marketing ambiguity which harmed the Wii U launch so badly Nintendo vowed to make a much greater effort with marketing, advertising and getting themselves and their franchises back into the public eye in 2014.

For some people this ambiguity that surrounds so much of the plot may very well be frustrating, and for others it will be the cause of many hours of reflection.

I got them, played them, finished them and so on, however, silent hill really stood out for me due to the ambiguity of its surroundings, the focus on psychological horror which was unheard of in games at the time, eerie soundtrack, disturbing environments, the amazing puzzles, the unforgettable scenes such as when Lisa was bleeding off to death due to Samael's possession and the fact that the hell the character was experiencing didn't have much explanation at the time and that added to the appeal of the game.

You're never given clear direction in Rime or any real explanation as to the boy's past or purpose; as you slowly start to explore the island you'll stumble across artefacts that shed some light on the backstory, showing a grieving monarch with an inquisitive and familiar young charge, but an air of ambiguity consistently colours the game and you'll find yourself spending the first few hours puzzling over things like just how exactly is that fox spirit connected to everything, who is the mysterious figure in the red cape who watches silently from afar and is the source of our protagonist's vivid red cape, what tragic fate befell the bipedal robots who lay littered about the place and much more.

In both mods, I attempted to construct a vivid and detailed world in which to exist, and played with ideas of character and event ambiguity — in much the same way as University of Portsmouth researcher Dan Pinchbeck did with his revered creation Dear Esther.

I mean as much as it creates greater ambiguity, it also reveals both a sense of history of the layering of the paint while, at the same time, anchoring the whole image so that it doesn't float in the picture plane.

Much like accepting the uncertainty inherent to the pursuit of a serious artistic practice, Washington suggests that the ultimate heroic gesture is embracing ambiguity and the passage of time.

In Color Pieces, video artist Nan Hoover has created spatial ambiguities through a muted colour spectrum and subtle play of shadows and lights that are as much a test or rehearsal as a final piece of work.

Klara's androgynous features, short hair, and simple garb compound the peculiarity of her smoldering stare, and, as with much of Peyton's work, if we didn't know the gender of the subject, it could bend either way; the beauty in the work lies in its compounded sexual ambiguity.