If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.
Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous.
In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.
These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.
On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.
In general, silence often reflects ambiguity on the part of the listener as the observer wishes to understand the other's experience.
The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.
Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.
...it is precisely because the world appears to us to be multiple, ambiguous, and paradoxical, that we must strive to speak and write clearly.
Evangelicalism as a movement is rushing headlong toward theological ambiguity, which is another way of saying apostasy.
Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.
Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity.
In a very complex way, things have improved in the dramatic field. Before you had the good and the bad and you couldn't mingle them. Now it's more ambiguous.
Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.
Men tend to try to struggle to be more rational and reduce things to simplicity more and are more impatient with ambiguity than women are.
Governments have always been wary of the arts because they're wayward and ambiguous and because they deal with feelings rather than facts.
When people first meet me, they're always like, 'What are you?' as far as ethnicity. And I've been pegged as 'ethnically ambiguous.'
The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way.
Why e-mail a full emotional statement when, instead, you can text a totally insignificant and ambiguous half-considered phrase?
Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity.
We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
