Sentences with phrase «as much ambiguity»

Scully's apparent turn from sculpture holds as much ambiguity.

Unlike some past announcements centered on the Higgs in the past few years, which have produced as much ambiguity and confusion as anything else, this one did not disappoint.

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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.

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.

There is no clear agreement as to its meaning, and the ambiguity with which sin is regarded is responsible for much ineffectiveness in Christian preaching and in Christian living.

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?»

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

He's much stronger in Spielberg's A.I., in which emotional ambiguity serves the story rather than functioning as a smokescreen.

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.

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.

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.

The materials may not be miscellaneous and everyday, as with Rauschenberg, but Stella's renditions very much play with the ambiguity between panting and sculpture, flatness and three - dimensionality.

She encouraged the ambiguity as much by sudden shifts in style and subject matter as by subtlety, if that words makes any sense in this context.

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.

Today, it is clear that the enduring power of Wood's art owes as much to its mesmerizing psychological ambiguity as to its archetypal Midwestern imagery.

There is a clear lesson here for both the Administration and Congress as they craft a global warming bill this year: industry will exploit every ambiguity, every gap and every loophole in legislation to avoid real climate action as much and as long as possible.

However, I have to admit that I am puzzled as to why a little ambiguity in terminology has thrown you off so much.

Ambiguities regarding projected greenhouse warming call in much the same way for clearer information regarding the role of the Sun, as a possibly important contributor to the current warming trend.

In traditional «common law» «blue collar» crimes there is usually no ambiguity over where it is committed except in the most extraordinary circumstances, but in prosecutions of conspiracies and crimes involving economic activity (such as owning or mailing something), the question of where a crime is committed can grow much fuzzier.

«There is too much ambiguity and therefore too much discretion about what our right to justice means in practice, as the supreme court judgment on employment tribunal fees recently acknowledged,» the commission states in the report.

III: No other discipline concentrates as much on the effects of ambiguity of individual words and phrases.

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

It lends itself, however, as much to ambiguity as to brevity.

This point is not drawn out much in the judgment in Sandwell, which focuses more on resolving apparent ambiguity in the phrase «actions founded on simple contract» by reference to extraneous sources, such as the Law Revision Committee report of 1936 preceding LA 1939, which noted that a «simple contract» would include a «quasi-contract» (this in accordance with the then prevailing «implied contract» theory of restitution).

A will makes it much easier to avoid any ambiguity as far as who gets what when you're gone, and there's good news: writing your will online is pretty simple these days.

«There is ambiguity around how much sales tax is applicable on revenues of these startups as the product they deal in is not defined by the current tax laws.