Sentences with phrase «ambiguity often»

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This ambiguity often leads to despair when the senior passes away and the family tries to collect on the policy.

A critical point of entry is the potential for ambiguity often associated with abstraction.

Such ambiguity often makes scientists hesitant to contribute their expertise in service of science policy, Smith said, but he encouraged scientists to share their knowledge with policymakers, the majority of whom are not scientists themselves — just 5 % of members in the 114th Congress have a college degree in any science, Smith said.

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You have to change, often on the fly, and needing to deal with a great amount of ambiguity in order to succeed.»

a) I know the color of all my friends» eyes b) I am comfortable with ambiguity c) I know what all the controls on my stereo system are for d) I often adjust the controls on my stereo system and can tell the difference when I do

Dealing with ambiguity at a startup is par for the course, but the benefits of solving the problems that matter most eventually become very clear — though it's often years down the road before they do.

«By comparison, studies show that men are often more comfortable with ambiguity, and willing to take action with incomplete information, sometimes to a fault.

Many of his peers were disturbed by his openness to ambiguity and he was often labeled a universalist and a man who slipped into open theology or process theology.

It refuses to recognize or share the global claims power - knowers make; instead it lives — often uncomfortably — with ambiguity and doubt.

People have often fled to these other groups as virtual black sheep because of ambiguity as to what AA.

Although he is the son of an Anglican clergyman, he is alone and self - sufficient in a world of ambiguity and violence where love often is a possessive passion which is easily transformed into hate.

Going beyond Neumann here, we must note that often the ideal of purity has meant the repression of ambiguity, duality, polarity, and internal contradiction.

«Focus study of all of the above through the lens of questions about Christian congregations in all their diversity and often appalling ambiguity.»

Another way of looking at this question of the evolution of religious thought is to note that any verbal form of statement which has been before the world for some time discloses ambiguities; and that often such ambiguities strike at the very heart of the meaning.

But in the complexity and ambiguity of human relationships, many decisions can be made creatively only by dialogue and negotiation with those whose lives and needs intertwine and often conflict with our own.

I asked our pediatrician if the research is really as conclusive as often presented and she was pretty adamant that there is little ambiguity in the current body of research (and yes, it does show clear favorable outcomes for breastfeeding).

The name has been traditionally spelled Cillian - as in actor Irish Cillian Murphy - but there's often ambiguity over how to pronounce the C, making Killian a perfect alternative for North American parents.

«Business success is often defined by comfort with ambiguity and risk — personal, organizational, and financial.

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.

And when humans are faced with guesswork and ambiguity, they often perceive it as threatening and react accordingly.

It is intelligent, intriguing, and topical, but it too often gets mired in its own good intentions, too many plot convolutions, and character ambiguities that try to pass for suspense.

But unlike «Lady Macbeth,» which is often blatant in its defiance, My Cousin Rachel relies more on obfuscation and ambiguity, the titular character defying expectations both of her social role and the narrative.

Often lacking any sense of subtlety or with a holier - than - thou attitude filmmakers have failed to grasp the complexity and moral ambiguity of war and its impact on those who fight in it.

Mortensen's open features lend a note of ambiguity to every scene, notably the haunting final shot, and he makes the often huge shifts in Tom's character believable.

These films are often as slow - moving as Robert Bresson, tortuously plotted, and shot through with moral ambiguity as well as displays of anti-heroism tainted by betrayal and duplicity.

Students often have a difficult time grasping the ambiguity in Heart of Darkness and why Conrad would use this style when writing.

When learning is confined to a single disciplinary perspective ambiguity is often considered either a shortcoming of the analytical framework or evidence that assumptions need to be adopted to provide a clear prediction.

And those interactions are marked by brevity, variety, fragmentation and ambiguity — meaning that the problem in need of a solution is often undefined.

The teachers identified the most - often missed question and then quickly discounted its relevance due to ambiguity in the multiple choice options and the difficulty of the corresponding reading passage.

Mathematical inquiry addresses complex problems that contain ambiguities, yet classroom environments often do not adopt norms that promote curiosity, risk - taking and negotiation needed to productively engage with complex...

Even if a couple of key documents are in English, other docs / releases aren't — people seem comfortable with Google translate, but I don't have the time if I want to look through 20 - 50 candidates, and language ambiguities can often be frustrating & v crucial..!

This ambiguity is complicated by the fact that workers at dog shelters often have to specify a dog's breed, if not provided, using their experience to essentially come up with a best guess.

The experience of these games often hums with ambiguity and anxiety because it forfeits familiar patterns of gameplay with fundamental basics, a style that rarely appears in more complex games.

Often the focus is upon a fragment of a larger subject or on an aspect removed from its larger context, adding an interesting ambiguity to the work.

While often lumped in with Pop Art, his predilection for unconventional materials and subject matters aligns him more closely with the Minimal and Conceptual Art, and the Whitney Museum retrospective that this book, authored by AICA member Jennifer Gross, documents makes clear the degree to which the ambiguities of perception drive this influential artist's creativity.

The concept of layering, both literally and figuratively has continued to play a role in Frandsen's work, and his pieces most often contain a degree of ambiguity, evincing an aesthetic that is at once inviting and repellant.

Prager, whose practice often explores the figure in relation to its surroundings, will exhibit recent photographic work that evokes a sense of ambiguity about time and place.

Having witnessed first - hand one of the twentieth century's most contentious struggles — the dissolution of apartheid — Kentridge brings the ambiguity and subtlety of personal experience to public subjects that are most often framed in narrowly defined terms.

It is not known if Untitled [glossy black painting] was produced as part of the first or second campaign.8 But the work's facture resembles that seen in paintings associated with the first group, such as the Whitney Museum of American Art's Untitled [glossy black four - panel painting](fig. 4), and it explores the ambiguities of «monochrome» in ways that seem more closely tied to the abstract expressionist project than to the later paintings» concern with the degradation of materials, an interest often linked to Rauschenberg's 1953 visit to Alberto Burri's (1915 — 1995) studio in Rome.9

Franchy's collages and photographs often convey an intriguing sense of ambiguity.

This has often involved responding to the aesthetic and political ambiguities of historical art works and their reception.

Although this is a deeply personal process, the tension and ambiguity of the circumstances that often arise allow this experience to be related by any viewer.

Raoul De Keyser's concise exposition of painterly ambiguity of image and form is, as so often with this artist, a seemingly casual composition that rewards close, careful attention.

Ranging from the festive to the ironic, they show a fascination with perceptual ambiguities and the macabre, often with visual trickery inspired by the 18th — and 19th - century stage spectacle known as the «phantasmagoria.»

The results are often wryly humorous and sometimes uncomfortable, but they undoubtedly speak to the contradictions and ambiguities of visual culture in the 21st century.

The artists» works assembled in Betwixt & Between share an unexpected beauty and reveal a common aspiration: to question the moral ambiguity of the ordinary using surprising and often humorous means.

Oldenburg often experimented with ambiguity.

Throughout her career, Barbara Kruger has reflected on or augmented the formal, thematic, and visual messages of these specific communication strategies, often unmasking their problematic ambiguity in the process.

The artist, who currently lives and works in Amsterdam, tends to focus on figures and portraits through drawings and watercolours, often strongly marked with sexual tension and ambiguity.