Sentences with phrase «how equivocal»

In a year that has witnessed a vigorous refurbishing of the aura of sainthood surrounding the Kennedys, it is useful to be reminded how equivocal they and most of their minions were in the face of the demand for black equality.

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It's not that I don't think it's an important topic — I do, and crucially so — but only that, each time I return to it, I realize how vast and complex the field is, how much it shifts, how multifaceted and equivocal is each study, each researcher, each point of view.

Equivocal phrases like «underlines how important cholesterol is» is a dishonest equivocation.

His focus tends to be more on the intimate, apparently insignificant and unremarkable moments of everyday life, their humble materiality and physicality — and how they often lend visibility to moral dilemmas and equivocal feelings better than dialogue or, obviously, acting codes.

Given the choice between violent and dogmatic or simpering and equivocal, the American electorate has erred badly on the side of a unified message, no matter how dangerous — and who can blame them?

However, Colbert's questions indicated how, in the changing culture surrounding sexual harassment and abuse in the entertainment industry that Franco claims to support, hazy, equivocal answers aren't going to cut it anymore.

When asked to provide evidence and guidance on enhancing the quality of teaching and student performance, I'm usually equivocal about advocating quick fixes because I know how long it can take to turn a school around, as I've already said in How schools get moving and keep improvihow long it can take to turn a school around, as I've already said in How schools get moving and keep improviHow schools get moving and keep improving.

The science remains utterly equivocal on how global warming might boost the longstanding peril from tornadoes in the storm belt.

Research on the work of the court - based Citizens Advice Bureau in London proved a bit equivocal about how effective this form of help seemed to be, at least in a British context — though California and Scotland appeared to have a happier story to tell.