Sentences with phrase «equivocal sense»

That's the basic premise of NBC's engaging, fed - up - with - sexism crime caper «Good Girls» (premiering Monday), which uses the word «good» in a bluntly equivocal sense, referring to three suburban women (why girls?)

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Our affirmations about God and created things, then, are neither «equivocal» (using the same words very differently for things in no way alike) nor «univocal» (using a word in the same sense in both cases).

The most authentic statement of Manet's sense of his situation as a man and as an artist may well be his two versions, painted in 1881, of The Escape of Rochefort, in my opinion unconscious or disguised self - images, where the equivocal radical leader, hardly an outright hero by any standards, is represented in complete isolation from nature and his fellow men: he is, in fact, not even recognizably present in one of the paintings of his escape from New Caledonia.

In that sense my paintings are sometimes noisy, polyphonic, ambiguous or equivocal.