Joseph Heller's comic novel Good and Gold suggests
our human equivocation:
Not exact matches
When the U.S. Muslim community sounds out LOUD and CLEAR, without
equivocation, and immediately against all forms of terrorism, including all aggressive religious intolerance for
human rights, women's right, children, equal protection under the law, the respect for other religions to coexist, the right to free speech, and the ability to separate church from state, IF THEY FINALLY DO THAT AND LOUDLY, then we will begin to feel comfortable that they are truly embracing American ideals and here to join us, not to oppose, defy, or undermine what we hold dear.
The Christ of the Gospels, and the Christ of the Church's faith, is One who is indeed truly
human, in every respect and without
equivocation; but he is also One who is truly divine — pictured first as Messiah, sent from God and coming again from God with power and great glory; pictured soon as the Word of God, as God Himself, made flesh and dwelling amongst us.
Despite the lack of discipline, Apatow is trying to stretch himself, to say something about
human nature: his insight here is less about comedy than about adult life as a succession of
equivocations and betrayals.
«This central truth must be stated without
equivocation: control of the emission of
human - induced greenhouse gases will not halt climate change.