| 单词 | ambiguity |
| 例句 | The barrier is clear in principle, although there are inevitable ambiguities in practice. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z To us today, it is tempting to ask why societies with early writing systems accepted the ambiguities that restricted writing to a few functions and a few scribes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Any ambiguity, any tendency to wander from the matter at hand, will introduce grave hazards for the cells, and even more for the host in which they live. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There is ambiguity, and some symbolism, in the elaborate ritual observed by each returning expedition of astronauts from the moon. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z These strong passions have somewhat frayed the tolerance for ambiguity that is essential to science. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In effect, he used the inherent ambiguity of the offensive statement to evade any direct response to Burr. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The problem is not one of ungrammaticality but of ambiguity, as in the examples we saw in chapter 4. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He wished to establish a precedent that clarified the constitutional ambiguities concerning the power of Congress over slavery. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z In the simpler case of lexical ambiguity, an individual word has two meanings, as in the headlines Safety Experts Say School Bus Passengers Should Be Belted and New Vaccine May Contain Rabies. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z In syntactic ambiguity, there may be no single word that is ambiguous, but the words can be interconnected into more than one tree. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I had decided to ask a yes-or-no question, which might at least make plain the extent and kind of obscurity or ambiguity in the answer. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z A second ambiguity occurs, as here, in discussing historical events which don’t quite count as actions. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z You start with an incomplete roster of facts, characterized by their ambiguity; often the problem consists of discovering the connections between unrelated pieces of information. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z This ambiguity was carried through into the Renaissance. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Many of the silliest ambiguities in the Internet memes come from newspaper headlines and magazine tag lines precisely because they have been stripped of all punctuation. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The ambiguity in Woman Holding a Balance serves to heighten our interest and pleasure, while the carefully organized composition expresses the artist’s underlying concept with singular clarity. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The student coordinator had blundered into the problem of syntactic ambiguity. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The messages are urgent, but they may arrive, for all we know, in a fragrance of ambiguity. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Pushing the not next to the phrase it negates eliminates the scope ambiguity. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But there are also appalling superstitions and deadly ethical ambiguities. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “But minds are not to be trusted. Minds are always drifting toward ambiguity, toward questions, when what you really need is certainty. Purpose. Clarity. Do not trust your minds.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The resulting ambiguity was resolved by the addition of a silent sign called a determinative, to indicate the category of nouns to which the intended object belonged. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Exactly what happened next, as far as Galileo was concerned, has been a matter of dispute among historians, because there is some ambiguity in the surviving records. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The innocent yellow train that was to bring so many ambiguities and certainties, so many pleasant and unpleasant moments, so many changes, calamities, and feelings of nostalgia to Macondo. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Instead there would be ambiguity, dynamic conflict and doubt. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The recorded songs of the humpback whale, filled with tensions and resolutions, ambiguities and allusions, incomplete, can be listened to as a part of music, like an isolated section of an orchestra. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And I vaguely remember Lara smiling at me from the doorway, the glittering ambiguity of a girl’s smile, which seems to promise an answer to the question but never gives it. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z It was neither a “contract with abolition” nor a “covenant with death,” but rather a prudent exercise in ambiguity. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z This language may be the best we have for explaining what we are like to others in space, with least ambiguity. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z For every ambiguity that is inadvertently funny or ironic, there must be thousands that are simply confusing. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z On the all-important question of sovereignty, the same artfully contrived ambiguity also obtained: Sovereignty did not reside with the federal government or the individual states; it resided with “the people.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I didn’t know who “everyone” was, or when “always” was, and as much as I wanted to understand her ambiguities, the slyness was growing annoying. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z The other is to provide her with hints about the major divisions of the sentence into phrases, thus eliminating some of the ambiguity in how to build the tree. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Phalanxifor had introduced a measure of ambiguity to my cancer story, but I was different from Augustus: My final chapter was written upon diagnosis. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z With the A form, the argument for a helix was never straightforward, and considerable ambiguity existed as to exactly which type of helical symmetry was present. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z In fact, Danes have more in common with Jamaicans when it comes to tolerating ambiguity than they do with some of their European peers. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z If Francis had gone along, no such ambiguity would have existed. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Psycholinguists call these local ambiguities “garden paths,” from the expression “to lead someone up the garden path,” that is, to mislead him. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z In this way most of the ambiguities of the Viking microbiology experiments could be resolved. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It's an ironic tale that closely parallels the first one about the biker in its moral ambiguity. The Place Beyond the Pines – review 2013-04-13T23:07:32Z He also folds into the writing a few trenchant debates about the moral ambiguities of journalists’ role in covering atrocities. 2010-01-29T04:55:00Z And once you’re primed for that sort of ambiguity, you start to see it everywhere. How to Look at a Basquiat 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z "This statement is important for U.S. consumers because they expect the absolute truth — which means no ambiguity," a representative from Sheehan & Associates PC wrote to Fox News via email. King's Hawaiian being 'deceptive' about where its rolls are actually made, lawsuit alleges 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z You take a lot of chances in terms of the ambiguity of your characters. "The Tender Bar" star Lily Rabe on "confident" director George Clooney: "He's a great leader" 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z This is why ambiguity is a major theme in all my films. Director on "Huda's Salon" recruiting Palestinian women for Secret Service: This is still happening 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Zummo is driven as an artist by the desire to endow his creations with this elusive quality of ambiguity; what the English collector he meets at the Medici court calls "liminality". Secrecy by Rupert Thomson – review 2013-03-23T15:00:01Z Somehow Stein's subtle suggestion of Denny's faint culpability in the incident does not come through here — this might be an insoluble, point-of-view problem — and that ambiguity is missed. 'The Art of Racing In the Rain' at Book-It: an amazing dog wagging his tale 2012-04-25T18:30:29Z She steers the drama into deeper and deeper waters as she explores the moral dimensions — and the moral ambiguities — of the case. Theater Review: Rebecca Gilman’s ‘Luna Gale’ Opens at Goodman Theater 2014-02-10T20:50:56Z Had there been some ambiguity about Javi's criminality, the film might have ratcheted up the tension. Movie Review: Give in to Nic Cage's "Massive Talent" 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z They enjoyed the ambiguity, and they knew that even if the show didn't offer a resolution for one case, they'd be able to wrap up another. A brief history of "Unsolved Mysteries" 2021-05-08T04:00:00Z “No one’s heart was dragged through emotional ambiguity more than mine.” Voice of George Michael returns with remix of 'Fantasy' 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z But what made the anime’s ending so memorable was its ambiguity and the romantic yet melancholic tone. The Good, the Bad and the Jazzy: What ‘Cowboy Bebop’ Gets Right and Wrong 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z “Homeland” retains much of the moral ambiguity that has smartly defined the show since its 2011 debut. Are ‘24: Legacy’ and ‘Homeland’ really worth the added anxiety right now? 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z We really just wanted to embrace the ambiguity and the nuance of them. Mae Martin Embraces Ambiguity in ‘Feel Good,’ and in Life 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z The ambiguity ends as bursts of brass, spiky chords and jittering rhythmic figures send the music into dizzying spirals. Music Review: Honeck Steps In for Dudamel With Philharmonic 2014-03-28T21:28:42Z Temptation Dominates the Road to Recovery Joachim Trier’s “Oslo, August 31st” is a perfectly linear story that bristles with suspense and ambiguity. Movie Review: ‘Oslo, August 31st,’ Directed by Joachim Trier 2012-05-25T00:41:58Z “One, there was never any ambiguity about the politics of the paper. It was, from its infancy, what longtime Voice photo editor and photographer Fred W. McDarrah famously called a ‘commie, hippie, pinko rag.’ The Village Voice’s photographers captured change, turmoil unfolding on New York City’s streets 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z I suppose, now, it is; yet I feel as though a certain sinister, and pleasing, ambiguity has been lost, or an internal emphasis shifted. Who is Ozymandias? And Other Puzzles in Poetry by John Fuller – review 2013-04-16T11:56:09Z That ambiguity is central to his movies: As Carney suggests, they are too particular, too magical, vital and strange, to condense to diagnoses of the world. Find Cassavetes Confusing? Start Here 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z Is she really prepared for single motherhood — and for the ambiguities of neonatal science? In ‘Precious Little,’ a linguist grasping for the right words 2013-08-08T19:43:11Z There is a lot of ambiguity in the scene: is he saving her? Jim Lee's best photograph: Vietnam 2012-06-06T16:48:02Z There is a wink or these brief moments where they touch each other are suggestive, but you tease out the ambiguity. "The Inspection" and Don't Ask Don't Tell for a queer Black man: "Boot camp is brainwashing" 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z But this ambiguity undoubtedly makes some people uncomfortable, as evidenced in a few of the notes in the comment book complaining about “white guilt” and “appropriation of other people’s suffering.” Illegal immigration as art exhibit 2013-03-06T19:46:00Z As a gifted orator and writer, Douglass could sometimes tell stories “long after the fact that sidestepped ambiguities or conflicts,” Levine writes. When Frederick Douglass Met Andrew Johnson 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z The force of Hopper’s art is located within the piercing sense of possibility that the paintings convey, the sense of ambiguity and essential unknowability. What can fiction writers bring to Edward Hopper’s paintings? 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z Sensitive to the ways historical narratives can rub out the rough patches of reality, Spufford finally becomes disenchanted with nonfiction and embraces novel writing as a better vehicle for capturing ambiguity, ambivalence and contradiction. An Essayist Searching for Alternate Worlds 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z The world’s oldest profession shows up in both the Old and New Testaments, and enough ambiguity surrounds its treatment that many see the issue as more complicated than the way Christian churches describe it today. “The Virgin Mary was actually a prostitute”: Cartoonist Chester Brown wants to open a debate about sex work, Jesus and the Bible 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z But several portraits of young men against backgrounds of similar symbols are more uncomfortable: The figures are so meticulously rendered that the ambiguity behind them makes you feel snubbed. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z “I have never been clear, and I have always been able to live with ambiguities,” said Weiner. Don Draper Wrote That Coke Ad, After All 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z There was less talking, and maybe that’s why it was easier to improvise because it was a lot of ambiguity and unspoken moments. He slept with a lesbian: Summer’s hottest rom-com 2012-06-13T00:05:00Z But the rest of this book suggests that Tillman is too aware of ambiguity and ambivalence to reduce her mother to that caricature, rounding it out with a fuller portrait, almost in spite of herself. ‘Mothercare’ Takes a Hard Look at What Happens When Duty Outlives Love 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z A more intriguing ambiguity has to do with the value of Margaret’s work. ‘Big Eyes’ Casts Another Side of Keane Art 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Indeed, despite her interest in moral ambiguity, Taddeo seems most comfortable when things are cut and dried. Sex in the Mirror 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z It is a performance of great dignity and ambiguity. Manchester international festival: Room with no view 2011-07-11T20:30:01Z But not those novels without end, steeped in ambiguity, those novels stay with us. Endless fascination: in praise of novels without neat conclusions 2012-11-23T11:25:25Z Castillo embraces an expansive ambiguity — of language, of gender, of nationality — that can sound celebratory and mournful at once. New & Noteworthy 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z Season 4 is unabashedly weird—going down blind alleys, dipping deep into uncomfortable ambiguity, and forcing us to endure long scenes that don’t seem as though they’re going to work. Review: 'Orange is the New Black' Rebounds With a Majestic Fourth Season 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z She opens a lot of interpretive room for the viewer — mostly through ambiguity and the withholding lead performance — a strategy that can be liberating but here too often feels like mannerism. Review: Vengeance Is Hers in ‘Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts’ 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z The bombastic and empty violence, the undeveloped ambiguities, the scattershot complexities of “Suicide Squad” are inseparable from its monotonously professional and impersonal, churning but bland surfaces. The Styleless Fakery of “Suicide Squad” 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z Lest there be any ambiguity about this film’s disposition toward its subject, it is titled “The Armstrong Lie.” ArtsBeat: Alex Gibney Documentary on Lance Armstrong Is Acquired by Sony Pictures Classics 2013-07-24T16:01:06Z It's a war picture of a much more interesting dimension: ambiguity. 'American Sniper:' What if both sides are missing Eastwood's point? 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z I would argue there is something crucial lacking in this formula: the power of ambiguity. Endless fascination: in praise of novels without neat conclusions 2012-11-23T11:25:25Z Throughout the 3,500-square-foot house there is an amplifying ambiguity of boundaries. Key West Contemporary 2010-09-01T04:00:00Z A nasty ambiguity dangles silently from the title. Why Get Out should win the 2018 best picture Oscar 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z Much of the ambiguity stems from the curious, even lopsided, interplay between the libretto and the score, he said. ‘The Threepenny Opera,’ Without the ‘Cabaret’ Clichés 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z The novel's tension derives from the ambiguity of Elinor's search; the extent to which she simply wants to put to rest her doubts about Toby's mental state. The big novels of 2012 2012-07-13T15:00:07Z Once the remembered scenes open before us, there's no attempt to capture the texture of memory or its characteristic ambiguities. Six novelists on their favourite second artform 2013-04-27T07:00:18Z This, with its huge array of slowly cascading scales, is music that seems to envisage Paradise through a tragic filter, and just what it expresses is among the greatest ambiguities in any art form. Critic?s Notebook: The Smallest Dancers Steal Their Own Show 2010-12-22T23:06:19Z Because in the world of his creation, a world in which the stage churned with resentment and bubbled with anxiety and simmered in ambiguity, Albee was consummately in control. Edward Albee, the last of the giants 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z Rather than tie up their famous subjects in neatly moralized biographical packages they dwell on complexities and ambiguities. Movies: ?A Dangerous Method? and ?J. Edgar?: Studies in Repression 2011-11-27T04:53:01Z She’s excellent on “the censorial function of curating itself,” which might value “ambiguity, open-endedness, even dissension” on the one hand, but will always — by definition — entail some form of exclusion on the other. Seeing the Art World Through Personal and Political Lenses 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Robert Swinston, the company’s director of choreography, now dancing the role once inextricably linked to Cunningham himself onstage, kept the drama’s ambiguities alive on many levels. Looking Back: Cunningham, Morris, Ratmansky, Hallberg and Cojocaru 2011-12-17T05:26:08Z And so Joan dwells in a state of depression and ambiguity — a kind of Schrödinger’s marriage. A Métis Woman’s Husband Disappeared — or Did He? 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z Shouldn't there be some ambiguity, even profundity, in art? Marc Quinn's giant baby sculpture infantilises art 2013-01-21T13:41:50Z In the play and the more successful photographs, the ambiguity comes through. A Photographer Turned the Tables on His Parents to Learn About Himself 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z Is the strangeness, richness and ambiguity of theatre a distraction from politics or a source of it? Can political theatre change the world? 2010-04-13T10:47:00Z So if any viewers were thrown off by the moral ambiguity of and the lack of lustrous locks therein, we’ve got the solution: a rundown of the top ten baddest, baldest villains in moviedom. Bald to the Bone: Top 10 Hairless Movie Villains 2012-10-01T12:00:41Z The feverish response to “Serial” was fueled by the seemingly endless ambiguities and questions surrounding the case, many of which remain unanswered to this day. 6 Podcasts About Unsolved Mysteries 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z He charged it with sentimentality, and with damagingly clearing up "valuable ambiguities" by bringing them into "the idyllic sunshine of Christopher's successful escape into the life of a Kentish small-holder". Julian Barnes: a tribute to Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford 2012-08-24T21:55:03Z It seems that ambiguity is always part of the package now. ‘The Jinx’: Served just how we like it these days — in pieces 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z Such ambiguity only makes the film that more absorbing and visceral to experience. "Kingdom of Silence": A wrenching look at how Jamal Khashoggi's life is a story as big as his death 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z It's easier than forcing ourselves to tread in the tricky waters of ambiguity and individuality. What makes a 'real African'? 2013-07-07T17:31:41Z The moral ambiguity is intriguing, and the guitar solo doesn’t run away with the song. Review: Gary Clark Jr. With Hometown Blues 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z The ambiguities of the police’s presence at the housing project bring to mind “Law & Order,” his early portrait of Kansas City cops. Need an Essential Chronicler of America? Try This Nonfiction Master 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z The Claras who debuted in Sunday’s two shows, Stella Abrera and Misty Copeland, both passed the technical challenges, though neither quite captured the role’s affecting ambiguity: the girl in the woman. American Ballet Theater’s ‘The Nutcracker,’ With Cast Changes 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z History and America are contradictory and ambiguous, and yes, 4-year-olds who are capable of being racist and sexist should be exposed to some of that ambiguity as a form of inoculation. Feeling Conflicted on Thanksgiving 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z That the film itself should be perhaps more cerebrally impressive than emotionally engaging is partly a result of Anna's frosty ambiguity – an unsympathetic quality that the increasingly admirable Keira Knightley pitches just right. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2013-02-03T00:05:13Z The reclusive composer, synthesist and energy healer Pauline Anna Strom’s music purposefully and holistically embodies the concept in all of its ambiguity. Pauline Anna Strom’s posthumous album cements her legacy as an electronic music visionary 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z And what was interesting for us was something that was loaded with ambiguity. Fischli and Weiss: Anarchy at the Guggenheim 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z During our present moment of crisis, Bach provides solace, Beethoven stirs us with resolve and Brahms probes aching emotional ambiguities. Not Bach or Beethoven, but Leroy Anderson Is the Composer for Now 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z And when asked recently if he was the most traditional lefty in Hollywood, he typically spotted the ambiguity of the question and corrected it in his answer. 'The day I shared a pint or five with Pete Postlethwaite' 2011-01-06T15:48:31Z The performance was full of tension and disquieting ambiguities. Trio Zimmermann – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-15T17:06:06Z “Anything I can do that will embrace ambiguity in the complicated lives we lead,” Ms. Perel said, “I will feel I have done some good in the world.” The Couples Therapy Expert Esther Perel Takes On Sex and Sexuality 2014-01-24T22:13:57Z A 15-year veteran of Blackberry Farm in eastern Tennessee, Fleer says he was also attracted to “the ambiguity of a vegetable used as a fruit.” Postcard From Tom: Asheville’s more than just the foothills of Southern cuisine Humans don’t like ambiguity very much, and we especially don’t like a freefall into the future. How do we conquer Covid-19 fears now we can go out again? 2020-07-19T04:00:00Z Even when playing virtuous characters, Mr. Hopkins conveys an insinuating ambiguity. | 'The Rite': Giving the Devil His Possessive Due 2011-01-27T23:35:29Z But she’s also clearly working within the idiom of the classic art film, including through her deployment of narrative and character ambiguity. Review: In Angelina Jolie Pitt’s ‘By the Sea,’ an Unhappy Ménage and Tear-Streaked Mascara 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Mayo, who has been choreographing for more than 20 years, has described her work as “predicated on ‘not-knowing,’ ambiguity, shifting landscapes.” Review: A Choreographer’s of-the-Moment Brand of ‘Not Knowing’ 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z But I do cop to a fondness for rom-com with a twist of ambiguity. Nora’s brand new world for women 2012-06-27T19:36:00Z Spencer's portrayal of the maid is extremely memorable: this is a full-beam, surround-sound Hollywood performance with nothing left to ambiguity or chance. Bafta missed their chance to break The Artist's silence 2012-02-12T22:55:19Z “Toxic Psalms” adds a savage yet polished theatricality to the mix as well as an ambiguity all too rare in American performance. Carmina Slovenica Sings the Haunting ‘Toxic Psalms’ 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z As the band acclimatised, Iverson mingled speculative prodding and elegant long lines over Lasserson's fast walk and Williams's foaming cymbals on Just in Time, and imparted purposeful focus and harmonic ambiguity to Wayne Shorter's Juju. Ethan Iverson – review 2013-04-22T17:07:40Z The ambiguity and potential darkness certainly make it a stark departure, Sloan said. Red snow? A most unexpected modern standard for the holidays 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z “And the film, to some degree, creates ambiguity about his choices.” Who Was Moe Berg? A Spy, a Big-League Catcher and an Enigma 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z At first, I found Aladag's approach to storytelling too foursquare and straightforward; every scene goes in a line from point A to point B, and there's not much ambiguity or emotional misdirection. "When We Leave": A Muslim wife breaks away 2011-01-27T01:30:00Z It was a symbolic union, a chance to wash away any ambiguity and be reborn, together, into simple, straightforward blackness. ‘New People’ Riffs on Race and Love, With a Twist 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z The word hero has long since lost the ancients’ sense of ambiguity, but the art retains it. Art Review: Those Greek Heroes, Sometimes Behaving Badly 2010-10-21T20:45:00Z This is the ambiguity that the novel learned to love. The Chapter: A History 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z The ambiguity is essential to Cunningham dance theater. L.A. Dance Project Takes On Merce Cunningham 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z For many practitioners, this delicious ambiguity is sound art's greatest strength. Hear hear: Artangel sound art comes to Radio 4 2013-03-28T07:00:06Z As someone who’s very new to poetry, I’m still getting used to the ambiguity of it — what’s happening, who is speaking, is this real life? Saeed Jones: "No One Is Safe" In These Poems 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z The play's power stems from this ambiguity; it's this sense of instability that forces us to scrutinise things more closely. Endless fascination: in praise of novels without neat conclusions 2012-11-23T11:25:25Z It's an unquestionably thorny question to navigate, rife with irresoluble ambiguity. The latest explosion of allegations against Woody Allen has returned moviegoers to a familiar place: debating the ethics of seeing _ and possibly of loving _ Woody Allen films 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z “The ambiguity of this portrait makes it particularly compelling.” Do Androids Dream of Being Featured in Portrait Competitions? 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z That ambiguity between security and unease is something Lutosławski did deliciously well. Philharmonia/Salonen – review 2013-03-22T17:30:00Z The ambiguity of this exposure is Madboots at its most emotionally complex and promising. Review: Madboots Dance Ignores Gender Boundaries 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z No, what the most humble of cleaning products needs, apparently, is racial stereotyping plus a healthy dose of semantic ambiguity. The Hard Sell: Plenty 2012-09-28T23:05:00Z In itself, the warped vision of the four Beatles on the cover was a hint of things to come — an arresting and skewed image of ambiguity for a new musical age. The genius of the Beatles' "Rubber Soul" 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z A canvas titled “A Painting” announces with delicious ambiguity: “Painting Is No Ordinary Object.” Review: Squeak Carnwath Speaks With Her Varied Palette 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z What he answered seemed to me to sum up the ambiguity of writers and alcoholism, the difficulty of passing judgment on lives at once so troubled and so blessed. What drives writers to drink? 2013-07-27T23:05:00Z Presenting this complexity is part of his attempt to push the public to embrace ambiguity. Painful but crucial: Why you’ll see Emmett Till’s casket at the African American museum 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Embracing his work meant that you, too, could abide a certain amount of ambiguity. Wanting to See Like Robert Frank 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Hanging in the air, leading nowhere, it’s emblematic of Fonseca’s relentless ambiguity. At the Noguchi Museum, Worlds of Stone Fuse the Physical and the Dreamlike 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Neither does justice to the “radical ambiguities” of old age, Segal says. What Old Age Is Really Like 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z But it seems to me that it occupies just the right in-between land of ambiguity, where life is always messy and it’s often hard to distinguish the adults from the children. Theater: In London, Young Playwrights, Including O?Neill 2010-07-30T22:49:00Z “Besides this ambiguity, my first record was a Bowie album,” he said, referring to “David Live,” which he got for his sixth birthday. Hedi Slimane, Designer Turned Photographer, at the Top of His Game, Again 2011-11-09T23:26:41Z And they see that if you’re a reasonably effective person and you can embrace ambiguity as a positive thing, they say, ‘I want to be like that.’ This Life: For a Child, God?s Back Story 2010-10-15T21:10:00Z Fans of Haggis' interlocking story-telling style will be happy when the strings finally come together, although the film's ending does leave viewers with questions - an ambiguity the Ontario-bred director aspired to. Director Haggis polarizes again with 'puzzle' of a film, 'Third Person' 2013-09-12T20:38:09Z Bill Brandt took staged photography out of the studio, blurring artifice with documentary to create an uneasy ambiguity. Review: ‘Grand Illusions’ Showcases Deceptive Photography 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z The ambiguity insures that this is never anything more than a joke or anything less than a poem. Patricia Lockwood's Crowd-Pleasing Poetry 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Unlike Haneke's stern lecture, however, this is a humanist work, more interested in the fragile ambiguities of character than the clean lines of didacticism. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2013-04-06T23:05:13Z In the late 1980s, the Caribbean writers Jean Bernabé, Patrick Chamoiseau and Raphael Confiant proclaimed themselves “Creoles”: “torn between several languages, several histories, caught in the torrential ambiguity of a mosaic identity.” Lifting the Cone of Silence From Black Composers 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z The ambiguity of “praying” makes Jackson’s support ring somewhat hollow, but there remains the strong suggestion that he can’t help but root for the guy. Jason Collins: Out of the NBA? 2013-04-30T16:32:00Z You are known, Cherry, for playing in these stories that are about ambiguity. "People are starved to be in a crowded room again": Cherry Jones on how theater will bounce back 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z Smith writes to discover the complexities and ambiguities within her characters. Zadie Smith, in Los Angeles, says 'I am a voyeur' 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z In terms of what it means to people and everything, I am not ambiguity for ambiguity’s sake. Matthew Weiner opens up about “Mad Men” finale: “I did think, why not end this show with the greatest commercial ever made?” 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Doesn't it just add another layer of ambiguity and interest? To Kill a Mockingbird: a book that still raises questions about 'good' justice 2013-07-18T08:33:11Z The figures’ rough, rudimentary drawing upsets the intoxicating ambiguity of the larger shapes like a false note, and their drastic difference in scale makes them hard to focus on. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z Despite so-called powerful female characters and apparent moral ambiguity, “Game of Thrones” and “True Detective” tend to resign themselves to the darkness — to the way things are. Reveling in the darkness: “True Detective,” “Game of Thrones” and the missing critique in TV’s cult of gritty realism 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z But in the cultural realm, which thrives on ambiguities, the picture is more complex. Provocateur’s Death Haunts the Dutch 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Suddenly, it felt as though every document was just a web of ambiguities and inconsistencies. Review | In the impeachment spin wars, only the English majors can save us 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z While trying to maintain some of the metaphoric ambiguity of the opera, this production tells the story more literally and in greater historical detail. John Adams’s ‘Death of Klinghoffer’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z But Foster ultimately cut explicit references to Uncle Tom, preferring ambiguity about slavery. Is Stephen Foster's song "My Old Kentucky Home" pro-slavery or anti-slavery? 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z Haddon, who is also the author of “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,” declines to resolve such ambiguities. In Mark Haddon’s “The Porpoise,” Storytelling Is an Instrument of Violence and Solace 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z Such ambiguity, of course, doesn’t fit neatly on a metal plaque or marble plinth. Perspective | As statues topple, movies are becoming monuments, and a way to create public memory 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z Notably, Price explained her musical style to Koussevitzky in terms of ambiguity and fusion. As Her Music Is Reconsidered, a Composer Turns 135. Again. 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z Even at 13, I could sense that Valancy was longing for something more concrete than the wonders of the Muskoka landscape, but the ambiguity of the text thrilled me. Why Missy Foreman-Greenwald of "Big Mouth" is one of the most relatable characters on television 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z The ambiguity is as real as the clouds in her character's mind. Playing with memory in 'Marjorie Prime' 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z Instead, indecision and ambiguity are the true hallmarks of his art. Have We Smothered Warhol With Our Admiration? 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z “Leonard’s motives are not ultimately vindictive,” said Mr. Rickman, who knows something about playing moral ambiguity. Arts & Leisure: Alan Rickman in Theresa Rebeck?s Comedy ?Seminar? 2011-11-12T21:57:17Z The show’s plot hardly leaves time to sort through these moral ambiguities, as the characters begin to intersect and compare their common goals. Review | In Ryan Murphy’s ‘Hollywood,’ the old studio system gets a rousingly revisionist wake-up call 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z As in “Lohengrin,” Wagner interrogates the limits of charisma and the burden of leadership, and begins to deal in the ambiguity and complication that would course through his canonical works. Wagner’s Early Operas Shouldn’t Be Mere Curiosities 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z There's no ambiguity behind the meat when it's coming from Henry. The culinary traditions of mainland Europe’s only indigenous people 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z Answers that she once had evaporate, certainty becomes ambiguity and truths morph into something else. ‘Spencer’ star Kristen Stewart is done hiding her life 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z “To be very honest, there is a lot of ambiguity,” Viswanathan said of the information available on masks. Which DIY mask pattern should you use? Even experts can’t pick one to recommend. 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z In some cases, the photographers even let in a potent bit of ambiguity. 10 Under-the-Radar Art Shows to See Now 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z Meditating on a mountaintop might be a way to encounter reality at its most pure, but it’s also free of the ambiguities of sex, friendship or parenting. Why cabin fantasies shut out reality 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z Crimp, the adventurous author of “The Treatment” and the sexual role-play drama “When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other,” finds depths of ambiguity in “Cyrano” that you may not have ever realized were there. Review: James McAvoy’s Rapping Cyrano Dazzles With Words 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z There's no better emblem of ambiguity, indeterminacy and queer fabulousness than Mac in one of Machine Dazzle's costume creations, which are themselves subject to multiple interpretations. Taylor Mac offers a glorious sneak peek of his '24-Decade History of Popular Music' at Royce Hall 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z He was booed by some in the crowd — a topic of endless debate ever since — and a rift was torn in the folk continuum, leaving turbulence and ambiguity behind, and an uncertain road ahead. Newport Folk Festival Pays Tribute, With a Jolt, to Dylan and Seeger 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z Her music refuses to surrender its ambiguity to the conversation it generates. The better we understand Beyoncé, the more there is to know 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z But it's Atzmon, and he doesn't do expected – tensions, surprises, shocks and ambiguities are a lot more interesting. Gilad Atzmon and the Orient House Ensemble: Songs of the Metropolis – review 2013-03-28T22:45:02Z “Instead he tried to examine the complexities and moral ambiguities of the experience of the poor and forgotten, mixing the brutality of that world with the lyricism of the Persian language.” ‘The Colonel,’ by the Iranian Writer Mahmoud Dowlatabadi 2012-07-01T18:15:33Z Wu’s finely crafted sentences and crisp imagery render visceral Willa’s inner disquiet as she simmers in that ambiguity. Women Seeking Intimacy Through Food, Mathematics and Rhythm 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z “All the aspects of the series that once startled viewers have become accepted: serialization; narrative and moral ambiguity; antiheroes or villains as main characters; beauty for its own sake.” Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Deep Dive Back Into ‘The Sopranos’ 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z Wyndham's use of misdirection, subtext, irony and ambiguity I recognised immediately. John Wyndham: The unread bestseller 2010-12-20T16:12:31Z Joan Didion once wrote that because of its “irreducible ambiguities” fiction is “in many ways hostile to ideology.” Girl, Interrupted 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z I wouldn't want to argue with the authors too far; I'll be surprised if a second reading reveals the same depths and ambiguities of Conrad's better works. Joseph Conrad's science fiction novel 2011-01-14T10:19:56Z VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Paul Simon couldn’t resist introducing some ambiguity to the first night of what he has billed as “Homeward Bound — the Farewell Tour,” at Rogers Arena here on Wednesday night. Review: Paul Simon, Still Evolving, Is Saying Goodbye 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Johnson obviously wants us to see each character with ambiguity, but he goes about it so clumsily that you are more likely to view them all with something closer to contempt. Review: ‘Rasheeda Speaking’ Finds a Chilling Place to Work 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z This work is the first in a series of paintings in which Mr. Indiana addressed the ambiguities of the American dream. Robert Indiana’s Best: A Mini Retrospective 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z I’m drawn to ambiguity, and the idea of Stage 0 cancer was very confusing to both me and my wife. David Hollander on ‘Ray Donovan’ Season 4 and Taking Over as Showrunner 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Don displays a certain ambiguity when confronted with spaces so obviously about money and power, which perhaps explains why he prefers the slightly unkempt grandeur of the parkland at the Château de Courances. TV highlights 01/02/2013 2013-01-31T20:00:01Z Since all of the major parties in World War I were nationalist, a movie like "1917" must acknowledge the inherent ambiguity of the conflict. "1917" has one major flaw - it's irresponsibly nationalistic 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z We live our lives in the midst of ambiguities we will never resolve. The God Argument: the Case Against Religion and For Humanism by AC Grayling – review 2013-03-07T10:00:01Z Asked by a tempting lover to turn and look at him, a woman replies, "I don't dare", three words which match the dramatic ambiguity of a line by Harold Pinter. Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman – review 2013-02-28T10:00:01Z The Guardian, too, would avoid ambiguity at the breakfast table: “He ate cereal, kippers, bacon, eggs, toast and marmalade, and tea.” A Few Words About That Ten-Million-Dollar Serial Comma 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z How did you work with Karen to create two distinct characters, but also create the ambiguities to keep viewers off guard? "Dual" director on a world where Karen Gillan duels her own clone for survival: "Karen is a maestro" 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z A balance — almost an ambiguity — between landscape figuration and an abstract handling of the paint is key to his work. Ørnulf Opdahl ’s first U.S. solo show lands in Seattle 2013-07-11T22:36:16Z To speak more about that would be to give away too many surprises; suffice to say that there's a pleasing ambiguity about the events and their causes. Not the Booker prize 2012: The Revelations by Alex Preston 2012-09-25T14:27:51Z Much of Tremblay’s previous fiction has been marked by a deliberate ambiguity regarding horrific or supernatural elements, but that is not the case here. Review | Two new horror novels make sense of our current dystopian reality 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z In the show, their modernist furnishings remain infused with the multiple identities of their owners and lives led in an intercultural ambiguity floating between Europe and India. What Josephine Baker and a Maharajah Teach Us About Design 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z For all his imaginative ventriloquism, it is hard to feel that Fuentes is aware of these ambiguities, let alone that he has resolved them. The Autobiography of Fidel?Castro by Norberto Fuentes 2010-04-30T23:14:00Z The ethical and other ambiguities raised by this encounter are potentially interesting, but the movie mostly has other matters on its mind. ‘Magic Mike’s Last Dance’ Review: Stripping Down to Bare Essentials 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z That ambiguity is present in these essays, often frustratingly so. In a World That Exploits Women, Emily Ratajkowski Exploits Herself. Is That Progress? 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z Indeed, comic ambiguity, blending satire and social observation, was Mr. Mazursky’s stock in trade. Paul Mazursky, Director Who Captured a Changing America, Dies at 84 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z “A Most Violent Year” reaches for the moral ambiguity of the films it is aping, using its period settings and costumes as support, rather than substitution, for the complex characters within them. Stream These 15 Great Titles Before They Leave Netflix in July 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z Here, she’s the hero, a hypothesis abetted by the enduring ambiguities surrounding this daughter of King Herod. Salome, We Hardly Knew Ye 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z “Into the Woods” is nothing if not about ambiguity and contradiction. Review | ‘Into the Woods’ is one of Sondheim’s most popular musicals. A delightful revival at Ford’s Theatre reminds you why. 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z He said that ambiguity in the law could allow for “large scale manufacturing under the guise of pharmacy compounding,” leading to a “shadow industry” of unapproved generic drugs. Compounding the meningitis outbreak 2012-10-11T22:21:00Z The ambiguity around the Boom drives the characters’ anxiety, and the work. Apocalypse Anxiety, the Musical 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z The night before, Ms. Asherie, a hip-hop B-girl versed in seemingly every style of street dance, and Mr. Arce-Espasas, a D.J., navigated a more logistical kind of ambiguity: Was this a performance or a party? River to River Festival Embraces Ambiguity 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Understanding polyamory is complicated, but monogamy is fraught with ambiguity, too. ‘Discovering my true sexual self’: why I embraced polyamory 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z And yet, if the mark of a truly great folly is its flaws and ambiguities, then Cloud Atlas falls short. Cloud Atlas – review 2013-02-21T21:03:01Z Strenuous action precludes boredom, and there’s little moral ambiguity to worry about. “The Revenant” is Trump, “Spotlight” is Bernie: What this best picture race tells us about our divided America 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z That is unfortunate, but the portrait that emerges from archival news footage and the memories of others is fascinating in its ambiguity. ‘Last Days in Vietnam’ Looks at Fall of Saigon 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z The designer Jonathan Anderson, who came to women’s wear via men’s, and also has a collaboration with Topshop, played with sexual ambiguity. Sporty? It's the Olympics, Stupid! 2012-09-18T17:23:29Z The director has a taste for glossy spectacle and an eye for delirious mise-en-scène, matched with a darkly subversive bent and a taste for ambiguity. Paul Verhoeven Has Made a Film About a Lesbian Nun. Jesus Is Next. 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z Flook is no stranger to the territory of sexual, or romantic, ambiguity. Loss and attraction power Maria Flook's 'Mothers and Lovers' 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z A reader expecting to find simple answers in Chinua Achebe’s work will be disappointed, because he is a writer who embraces honesty and ambiguity and who complicates every situation. Chinua Achebe: The man who rediscovered Africa 2013-03-22T14:45:00Z All this specificity adds up to an aura of ambiguity, completely open to the viewer’s interpretation that is De Forest’s parting gift. Roy De Forest’s Greatness Shines Even in a Virtual Display 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z To help reduce ambiguity, modern usage attaches specific words to specific functions. Steven Pinker’s Bad Grammar 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z One of the attractions of contemporary puzzle movies — with their ambiguities and labyrinths, unreliable narrators and storytelling thickets — is that their complexities are by turns beguiling and confounding but also familiar. ‘Ultrasound’ Review: Trapped in a Murky Mystery 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z “History and America are contradictory and ambiguous, and yes, 4-year-olds who are capable of being racist and sexist should be exposed to some of that ambiguity as a form of inoculation.” Feeling Conflicted on Thanksgiving 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z She speaks openly about feminism, and sex, the ambiguity of consent, and she doesn’t apologize for it. Defending Lena Dunham From the Wrath of the Sisterhood 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z Those qualities pay dividends in a thoughtful, alluring account of the D. 935 Impromptus, but slightly veil the turbulent ambiguity of the three Piano Pieces of D. 946. Classical Playlist: Osborne's Schubert and Skride's Sibelius 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z But there is some ambiguity: The film is structured as if it were documenting the St. Ann’s happening, including time stamps, but some of the performance footage actually is from Los Angeles. ‘Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music’ Review: Wish You Were There 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z After Zhao decided she wanted to release the book, she and her publisher sought feedback from scholars and sensitivity readers in an effort to resolve any ambiguity around the type of indentured labor depicted. She Pulled Her Debut Book When Critics Found It Racist. Now She Plans to Publish. 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, he writes about the moral ambiguity of Will’s circumstances with dazzling clarity and impressive philosophical rigor. Books of The Times: ?You Deserve Nothing? by Alexander Maksik - Book Review 2011-09-12T22:26:31Z I’ve always thought that my pictures are very much open for interpretation and I’ve always tried to instill a little bit of ambiguity in what I do. The World’s Great Photographers, Now Insiders, Are Posting Quarantine Pics 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z It's these ambiguities that make the self-touch so useful to actors attempting to occupy that tricky border country between seeming nervous and showing off. Clip joint: Facial stroking 2011-03-23T15:51:51Z This ambiguity is hard to sustain in film, where the reality we see on screen always dominates. Author, author: Joe Dunthorne 2011-03-05T00:07:19Z But Hathaway, for all her ripe smiles, also allows for the ambiguities that transform a poor kid into a Catwoman. TIME's Review of The Dark Knight Rises: To the Depths, To the Heights 2012-07-16T16:59:05Z The artistic glory of Renaissance maps lies in the ambiguity of their nature, for it is impossible to decide if this a map in the modern sense or a landscape picture. Here be monsters 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z Other radical features of Cunningham dance theater included highly unconventional rhythm, the placing and focusing of dancers within stage space and a pronounced degree of ambiguity. Paul Taylor: Return of the Beloved Renegade 2010-02-19T16:07:00Z Mr. Nesbo was drawn to the moral ambiguities in “Macbeth,” Shakespeare’s tragedy about a Scottish nobleman whose hunger for power drives him to murder the king, Duncan, at the behest of three witches. Novelists Reimagine and Update Shakespeare’s Plays 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z The red coat symbolises the tonal ambiguity, or superimposition of the erotic and the uncanny. Don't Look Now and Roeg's red coat 2011-01-18T20:30:03Z His later work looks more closely at the complexities and ambiguities of a period that still haunts people. French letters 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z The show’s self-sabotaging ambiguity is meant to make us question every version of reality that’s on offer — and the last scene throws in another one that makes you doubt the entire narrative framework. Review: Doubling Down on Doublespeak in ’1984’ 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Google it, and you'll find ambiguity even among the top results. The absolute best way to fry an egg, according to 42 tests 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z Yet, there are intriguing ambiguities at play here. Review: A Psychologist Is Put in the Hot Seat in ‘The Drowning’ 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z Despite their racial ambiguity, the Smiths clearly aligned themselves with Black political causes and at times continued to use the courts to resist tightening Jim Crow constructions of race, largely without success. As Her Music Is Reconsidered, a Composer Turns 135. Again. 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z Comedy requires clarity, so ambiguity, though fascinating, just doesn’t get boffos. John Cleese Intends to Have His Unread Books Buried With Him 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z A heart attack, says the coroner, though is there supposed to be some ambiguity there? TV review: Page Eight 2011-08-28T21:45:01Z They clearly have a passion for movies; you get the feeling they could easily have a manic three-day discussion about the brilliant ambiguity of “The Graduate.” The Screenwriting Team Behind ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Through minute changes of expression and tone of voice, Mr. Rickman is a master of insinuation and ambiguity. Movie Review: ‘A Promise,’ With Alan Rickman and Rebecca Hall 2014-04-18T02:10:27Z The blend of the chummy and the appalling mirrors the ambiguity of Boucicault’s work. Reading Racist Literature 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z He said he preferred to shade most of the characters with moral ambiguities, an approach that he hoped would draw in Chicago audiences and stimulate conversations about their own feelings on torture. 2010-01-11T08:09:00Z To Hackermeyer it was brutal ambiguity; the condition of war at its most unfathomable. Richard Matheson, author of I Am Legend and inspiration to Stephen King 2013-06-25T12:40:13Z No ambiguity is even required anymore; “The Comey Rule” rightly decides that there’s no essential mystery to solve about the president. Review | Showtime’s ‘The Comey Rule’ is like replaying a nightmare while we’re still having it 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z The writing of code and the writing of fiction exist for him in tense equipoise; “the stark determinisms of code,” he writes, “were a welcome relief from the ambiguities of literary narrative.” How to Understand Your Computer 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z Yet so apparent are Rachman’s humanity and intelligence throughout that this ambiguity must be fully intended. Portrait of the Artist as a Complete Jerk 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z The result is a not insignificant moral ambiguity. Igniting Resistance, or Smashing It, on TV 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Whedon cultists hope their man gets to explore even more character ambiguities when he directs the Marvel Comics-based movie "The Avengers." Review: There's a lot to love in Balagan Theatre's poignant, fun 'Dr. Horrible' 2010-08-27T21:11:00Z There's more room for ambiguity: a recognition that colonial identities, and the power hierarchies they put into place, can be a source of sustenance, or disgust, or sometimes both. Busting Tabu 2013-03-26T17:14:38Z “But instead it created more ambiguity. ‘Are my visions real?’ ‘Shut Eye’ Lays Its Tarot Cards on the Table 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z He’s a young relative of the Commendatore’s, living in the house, which lends ambiguity to his relationship with Giovanni, his supposed boss. ‘Don Giovanni’ at the Met Opera and in Two Other Stagings 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z It was Forster’s final novel, his greatest study of the ambiguities of intimacy—and, given its difficult birth, a minor miracle. Why Novelize a Novelist's Life? 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z Yet that ambiguity is also the beauty of Mr. Scott’s interpretation. Hamlet and the Surveillance State of Denmark 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z Yet his painstaking effort to restore every brushstroke of the author’s original story paints over the ambiguities of class and social ambition that play out within the Pierce family dynamic. | 'Mildred Pierce': Battling the Depression for an Ungrateful Daughter 2011-03-24T11:00:00Z The British composer's 1954 adaptation of the Henry James story, setting a libretto by Myfanwy Piper, perfectly captures the suffocating atmosphere as well as the ambiguity of the original. Britten ghost story at City Opera 2013-02-25T15:53:18Z The focus keeps changing in “Fun Home,” directed with vivid precision and haunting emotional ambiguity by Sam Gold, as do the time-stopping frames of the woman whose memory we inhabit. Review: ‘Fun Home’ at the Circle in the Square Theater 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z This infuses the play with a new sense of ambiguity, never justifying Willy’s final decision but adding a layer of empathy and compassion. 11 Ways I Escaped Reality This Year 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z You can’t control how it’s taken, and the act of telling a story always involves a gap. Sometimes confusion is the risk of ambiguity–I say that to students all the time. Thank you for killing my novel 2012-07-05T22:12:00Z The opening draws you right in with its destabilizing jump cuts, controlled freneticism, narrative ellipses and oddball swerves — cut to a fog-wreathed discussion about insomnia — which creates an inviting ambiguity. ‘Decision to Leave’ Review: A Labyrinth of Desire 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z Artful combinations of lists, stream-of-consciousness observations, poems and aphorisms, the pages reveal an artist playing with the ambiguities and limits of language, in particular the conventions of letter writing. A movable feast of words in Ray Johnson books 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z The phrase is part of the title character’s entrance line in Mozart’s “Don Giovanni,” and announces the work’s strangeness and ambiguity, the way it shifts between comedy and tragedy. At Salzburg, Don Giovanni Gets No Pleasure From Seducing 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z Part of that purpose was to explore an unsettling ambiguity: Are such images titillating, offensive, tragic or some combination thereof? Sarah Lucas, Unmasked: From Perverse to Profound 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Blue or green, at least I understand the ambiguity of. “What color is this dress?”: The Internet’s (curiously) civil war between perception and fact 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Those who are untroubled by ambiguity may reasonably assert that as the first gentleman did not explicitly ask you to hold the item, there was no obligation for you to do so. Perspective | Miss Manners: Don’t read too much into text-message banter 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z Something about Hollywood's tendency to belabor and oversimplify its points doesn't mesh well with the genre; these films thrive on ambiguity and moral relativism. Scarecrow Video recommendations for "The Ides of March" 2011-10-05T13:18:05Z Wilson’s professionalism, such as it is, is buffeted by demands for vigilante justice — mainly from the victim’s father, the ever-bellicose Ward Bond — even as he is swept up in a snowstorm of ambiguity. Ida Lupino, a Woman of Spine on Both Sides of the Lens 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z His yen for ambiguity has qualified him for greater plaudits, and with them, a more stringent appraisal. Trolled across concrete: why Mel Gibson's new film is a curious provocation 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z Instead, it's strangely beautiful in its interplay of shadow and light and its ambiguity about the sources of its illumination. Colors that emerge from the night: photographer George Ciardi 2012-08-23T20:59:07Z They leave just enough ambiguity to force us to make the leap ourselves. “Miracle on 34th Street”: Best Christmas movie ever? 2012-12-24T23:00:00Z But this is no easy ambiguity that dissolves once you get a better look. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z And in the process, Shafak explores the precarious state of Turkish politics, the evolving position of women in Islam, the sexual ambiguities of college life, and the most profound questions of faith. Review | Elif Shafak’s new novel is so timely that it seems almost clairvoyant 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z Already staged in Europe and Manhattan, the play is written with enough ambiguity to apply to any number of settings during the past 15 years. Feeling guilty when the bomb goes off in ‘I Call My Brothers’ 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z The ambiguity that pervades this production is deliberate and of a different order. Review: Reliving Those Arabian Nights in ‘Pay No Attention to the Girl’ 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z “The refined beauties of ambiguity,” Bernstein wrote in a graceful pencil script on the title page of Mahler’s Symphony No. 9. Mahler Said What to Whom? 2011-02-03T22:00:06Z That it leaves us on a note or two of mournful ambiguity shouldn’t count as points off. Review | In a somber, satisfying ‘Americans’ finale, Philip and Elizabeth make a painful choice 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z The last two words are delivered archly, bringing to mind the sharp-tongued Anderson of 1993, with his aura of decadence and supposed sexual ambiguity. Suede: 'Who says you can only do great stuff if you're damaged?' 2013-03-05T19:00:02Z The pageant’s tensions and ambiguities emerge most vividly through the way particular women understood them in the context of their particular time. ‘Looking for Miss America’ Tells the History of the Legendary Pageant 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z But Mr. Zapruder’s poems aren’t inherently formal — he has a way with the quotidian digression, and there’s disarming ambiguity at work here. Review: Missy Mazzoli’s Unsettling ‘Vespers for a New Dark Age’ 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z In the end, the subject of this fascinating book is not just historical or biographical uncertainty, but psychological and moral ambiguity. How to Survive the Titanic, or The Sinking of J Bruce Ismay by Frances Wilson ? review 2011-08-12T21:55:03Z If such an all-in-one approach sounds like it might generate ambiguity and ambivalence, well, that’s appropriate to the subject at hand. Review: She’s Still Debating ‘What the Constitution Means to Me’ 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z She likes brooding movies rich with ambiguities; he likes movies that arrive somewhere. A Feminist’s Biography of Steven Spielberg Focuses on His Jewish Identity 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z Although The Anderson Platoon was what we would now call an "embedded film" – with all the ambiguities that term implies – somehow Schoendoerffer got away with showing things as they really were from a grunt's perspective. In the firing line: A grunt's eye view of war 2011-04-04T20:31:01Z The strength – and the weakness – of this kind of work is an ambiguity that allows the viewer space to project their own imaginings on to the photographs – which, of themselves, are curiously flat. Has the Deutsche B?rse turned into an art prize? | Sean O'Hagan 2010-03-18T13:46:00Z In its pace, tone and improved dialogue, it provides a way forward that allows for intrigue and ambiguity without turning Kirkman into an antihero. ‘Designated Survivor’ Season 1, Episode 4: A Way Forward 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z And yet, as fond of ambiguity as I usually am, I still felt a bit emotionally detached afterward. Review: Anderson's gorgeous, challenging `Master' 2012-09-11T01:46:04Z Even in a post-Frank Ocean age of gay tolerance, it’s unusual to find a male vocalist who expresses his interest in other men with such bravado and lack of ambiguity. Gay Rapper Le1f is Embraced by his World and the Mainstream 2014-05-02T22:56:37Z "It's a poorly written law and there are a lot of ambiguities, but there are a lot of good things in it," said Susan Brennan, chief executive of Second Line Stages in New Orleans. Louisiana scales back film tax credits, roiling the industry 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z “My mind was blown by the play’s intriguing ambiguities,” he said. Dance: ?Supernatural Wife,? a New York Dance Premiere 2011-11-27T05:10:08Z Both these actors brought sharp clarity to the ambiguity of the brothers' situation. Arthur Miller's 'The Price' bursts into meaning at Mark Taper Forum 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z In a song, ambiguity isn’t something we can measure. Review | Bill Callahan found domestic bliss. Then he wrote the great apocalypse ballad of 2019. 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z The boy from Khandwa does share one trait with celebrities – an ambiguity about his age. Saroo Brierley, the inspiration for the film Lion: 'The tears spoke for themselves' 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z He admires Mr. Lynch’s ability to create a “soup of ambiguity” and declared that the Coen Brothers “play with comedy and drama and sudden bursts of violence better than anybody.” He Gives ‘Atlanta’ Anxiety. And That’s a Good Thing. 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z Not for your group if: You can’t live with a little ambiguity at the end. Review | ‘The Woman in the Window’ or ‘The Wife Between Us’? A guide to the best new thrillers 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z Its title seems to inject a layer of artistic ambiguity. From Artist’s Hand to Shop’s Counter: The Whitney Teams Up With Tiffany 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z Again, Siobhan had this magnificent voice that got all swallowed up in vagueness and ambiguity. "American Idol" recap: Crystal Bowersox saves 2010-04-21T13:22:00Z “This over-breadth and ambiguity is why they are so alarming,” Jonathan Friedman, PEN’s director of free of expression and education, said. Bans on Critical Race Theory Threaten Free Speech, Advocacy Group Says 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z We think one of the things that’s been the coolest about “Lost” is that there’s a lot of intentional ambiguity, and there’s a lot of room for debate and discussion. Television: The Men Who Made ABC?s ?Lost? Last 2010-05-14T01:15:00Z The rhythms in “Dos Estaciones” are somewhat slower than those in contemporary industrial cinema, but the movie never drags, and González doesn’t indulge in excessive longueurs or pointless ambiguities. ‘Dos Estaciones’ Review: A Tequila Factory’s Story, Sip by Sip 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z One performer bowed with the severity of prayer or humiliation; such ambiguity was purposeful. Dance Review: A Work Starts Onstage and Stops at the Subway 2011-04-29T22:09:55Z Any local complications and ambiguities are reduced to mere obstacles on the path, details in the dirt. Cloclo sends its cultural superhero on the same old personal journey 2012-06-20T13:11:52Z Why patiently comb through a culture or a religion for ambiguities when it's simpler to just dismiss it as barbaric? 'Unfreedom,' with stale perspectives and gratuitous sex, has a hollow ring 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z But what’s made that particular scene so galvanizing has been the director’s suggestion of ambiguity and the sucker punch of such a harrowing moral reversal for a character who’d of late been struggling toward redemption. George RR Martin says that scene was “always disturbing” 2014-04-22T14:31:00Z Learning to accept ambiguities is frustrating but fair. When I met Kirk Douglas, did I ask if he’d assaulted Natalie Wood? No, and here’s why | Hadley Freeman 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z His specialty is the ambiguity of self, particularly as defined by skin color, and the futility as well as the necessity of looking for solid answers. Review: ‘War,’ a Deathbed Drama About Identity by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z In his poetry and plays, Mr. Walcott appropriated Greek classics, local folklore and the British literary canon in his explorations of the ambiguities of race, history and cultural identity. Derek Walcott, Nobel laureate whose poetry celebrated the Caribbean, dies at 87 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z The many uncertainties surrounding Lisa incarnate the novel’s moral and philosophical ambiguities. Review | A Nazi admiral secretly thwarts his superiors in Jerome Charyn’s ‘Cesare’ 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z You've actively marginalised yourself' The inherent ambiguity of fairness is still present in a lot of Murphy's music. Last exit from Brooklyn 2010-04-23T23:16:00Z There is a level of ambiguity built into the text that gives it some interest beyond the fascination of the abomination. Not the Booker prize: Pictures of Lily by Matthew Yorke 2010-10-08T13:49:00Z It’s a double image of the ballet’s ambiguity: How quickly do we really see what’s here? Review: Miami City Ballet in ‘Heatscape,’ a Fleeting Chase of Romance 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z He assembled a studio band of forward-looking jazz musicians to play songs full of tense ambiguities: harmonic, structural, verbal. The Best Albums of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z “There’s an enormous amount of ambiguity, gaps that are in the narrative on purpose for the audience to fill in,” he said, adding that he didn’t want to fill them in “in a Freudian way.” ‘Elle,’ Starring Isabelle Huppert as a Rape Victim Who Turns the Tables, Rivets Critics 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z That ambiguity becomes the heart of "True Story," both book and film. As 'True Story' weaves a web of ambiguity, whom can we believe? 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z The opera does not really explore such ambiguities. Review: ‘The Manchurian Candidate,’ Eagerly Awaited, Has Premiere in St. Paul 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z The novel - told in monologue style as Changez relates his personal story to an unidentified American in a Lahori tea house - was acclaimed for its ambiguity and contradictions. 9/11 film explores divided loyalties 2013-05-10T05:36:38Z Many observers of today’s popular culture — and I include film critics — believe that most movies don’t come close to matching the drama, power and ambiguity of the best TV in its series form. David Chase's Not Fade Away: The Sopranos Sing the '60s 2012-10-05T23:52:58Z That was another way of signaling that I know what I’m doing has a history, and it’s not always a good history and here’s another example of that ambiguity. Chabon on race, sex, Obama: “I never wanted to tell the story of two guys in a record store” 2012-09-20T15:25:00Z Thus they “might be more motivated to resolve racial ambiguity, and to resolve it in the most common or culturally accessible manner.” Study: Liberals, conservatives see mixed-race people differently 2013-06-09T14:00:00Z I suspect that the success of “Frozen” may have persuaded the company to modify its traditional formulas to allow more realism and ambiguity, which is all to the good. ‘Into the Woods,’ Disney’s Take on the Sondheim-Lapine Classic 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z All of them rely on the sneaky use of ambiguity and misdirection. Review | Old mysteries and adventure stories deliver a dose of Grand Guignol theatricality and nonstop comic-book action 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z Similarly, the makers of I'm Still Here seem to have encouraged ambiguity about whether the film is the reason for, or simply recording, Phoenix's bizarre transformation. Simon Amstell, Larry David and the rise of the 'sim-com' 2010-08-29T20:30:00Z They covered existential fears about loss of self; sexual ambiguity; deceitful sexual partners; and the self-delusion of humankind's superiority to the natural world. Readers recommend: songs about mistaken identity ? the results 2011-01-27T17:21:22Z And however concrete his subject, there is always a feeling of ambiguity – that what he describes is open to multiple readings. Steve McQueen's city of cinemas makes voyeurs of us all 2013-03-21T17:50:37Z Key to that might be finding the right amount of internal conflict and ambiguity. Edward Snowden emerges as a film star 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z I think there are infinite possibilities to explore when there’s some ambiguity in terms of claiming an identity or being part of a group. Mona Awad on her sharp-voiced debut, '13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl' 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z All in all, the primary ethos projected by the show is moral ambiguity, which translates into chaos. ‘Goya: Order and Disorder’ at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z He is able to project majesty, rage, ambiguity or tenderness with ease and authority. The music of ‘Catone in Utica’ conquers the night 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z He is also the character who makes most clear that if not handled with care, the ambiguity and sympathetic back story granted a violent antihero can offer real-world cover for despicable actions. The Antihero’s Last Gasp 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z Her tangy contralto carries a whiff of androgyny that comfortably embraces the ambiguities of a repertory written predominantly for castrated men. Prina/Il Pomo d'Oro/Minasi – review 2012-11-07T16:53:00Z “There wasn’t any ambiguity because we couldn’t afford that,” Parker remarks, panning their Spanish. Until visas do us part: three couples on marrying for papers – and for love 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z It’s even possible that I grouched in the lobby afterward about poets and their ambiguities. Mom and Dad sever all ties to you. But why? The compelling mystery of 'The House in Scarsdale' 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z His face fills up the majority of the screen, so there’s no ambiguity about how he’s feeling. The Most Soothing Man on TikTok 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z The duo’s characterful interpretation of Debussy’s Sonata in G minor also proved effective as they ably illuminated its impressionistic effects, pizzicati, metric ambiguities and introspective moods. Music Review: Aleksey Semenenko, Young Artist Winner, at Merkin Hall 2014-02-06T23:34:15Z Müller’s note below the work’s title — “to be read in the winter” — introduces some darker ambiguity. Ian Bostridge on Schubert’s Hidden Depths 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z In PJ’s case, especially, it’s the ambiguity of what happened to him on one fine day on the island of Inishmore that feels so resonant and, paradoxically, so illuminating. Review: ‘On Blueberry Hill’ Looks Back in Radiant Regret 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z The novel doesn’t really work if there’s not some ambiguity around the idea. In our paranoid Tea Party age, the benevolent alien Overlords of “Childhood’s End” are a tough sell 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Raffles and Doctor Who all have far too many ambiguities and nuances to be Marvel comic goodies. David Mitchell on Brits as Hollywood superheroes 2011-02-06T00:05:59Z This seems like a sensible decision since, in film, ambiguity is harder to sustain. Was Stephen King right to hate Stanley Kubrick's Shining? 2013-04-06T07:03:01Z Their too-brief scenes are fraught with tension and ambiguity and suggest that Milo was exploited, though he denies it. Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader Star in ‘The Skeleton Twins’ 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z One of the challenges for me with “Godot” has always been its ambiguity. Finding Redemption and Rebirth on the Road to Broadway 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Throughout his career, he was a challenging writer, expansive, consumed by ambiguities, doubling back on his own arguments, his own narratives. Will 'The End of the Tour' warp the way we think about David Foster Wallace? 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z But her kind of directness has had a hard time in a market-driven world that favors the convenient slipperiness of ambiguity. 27 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Rushing took the criticism in stride, Shakur said, the teenager writing a revised version of the poem that's rich in ambiguities, multiple perspectives and internal conflict. Epilogue: Music could not save Aaron Rushing 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z This introductory story sets up the moral ambiguities of the tales that follow, in which ordinary people, robbed of their lives by a senseless conflict, are driven to extremes. In Munich, Young Directors Offer Horrors Both Real and Fantastical 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z That series emerged fully formed, embracing the messiness and ambiguity in its characters, and its humor and heartbreak flowed from that. Review: In Grace and Frankie, Life Starts (Over) at 70 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z There is even an element of ambiguity in the title for Italian speakers, given the existence of the art movement of the 1920s and 1930s called, “il novecento italiano,” or simply “il novecento.” Special Report: Museums: A Milan Home for Modern Art 2011-03-22T17:00:08Z Not everything tastes good, but he’s constantly placing giant, steaming bowls of food before me with all the charm and ambiguity of macaroni art. How Do You Know When It’s Time to Break Up? 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z The director smartly avoids making any one character a real villain, choosing instead to focus on the ambiguity of choice and consequence. 'Felix and Meira' finds small freedom in a repressive landscape 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z "There's this ambiguity to the owlish person pushing the pram," Watts said. Object Lesson: Two images, two photography roads taken 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z What emerged was the unrestrained daring of Grainger's ear, and the profound musical respect for the material, attending to the wandering ambiguities and stark realities of the originals. Prom 25: Northern Sinfonia/Kathryn Tickell Band/BBC Singers ? review 2011-08-03T13:25:42Z He admired structures with ambiguities and overloud statements, and wanted to produce them, even if what he and Scott Brown ended up creating was quieter and more understated. Remembering Robert Venturi, the Close Reader of Architecture 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Could the import of the invented mythology be too great, in Lucas’s mind, for him to subject it to the ambiguities of visual transformations? What the Seven “Star Wars” Films Reveal About George Lucas 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Judged by current standards of emotional impact and artful ambiguity “Marathon Boy” is an unqualified success. Television Review: ?Marathon Boy,? Story of Indian Prodigy, on HBO - Review 2011-11-03T00:48:42Z Classical studies are driven by the ambiguities of survival. 'You may now turn over your papers' 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z Miuccia Prada, reigning queen of ambiguities, gave us her take on the physical as political by showing girls dressed as boys dressed as girls dressed as tomboys. The End of Gender 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z And there was a New York ambiguity, a sense of power, that she hadn’t had in Hollywood. When Marilyn Took Manhattan 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z At the same time, Villeneuve is making a movie in a Marvel-dominated industry that foregrounds obviousness and blunt action sequences over ambiguity and introspection. ‘Dune’ Review: A Hero in the Making, on Shifting Sands 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z But it's interesting to me to look under the surface," Hanson says, "at what the ambiguities might have been. 'Gloria's Cause' looks at the forgotten figures of 1776 2010-11-28T05:01:00Z In the end, it's not the fate of the farm but the critical plaudits for this film that bring optimistic closure to an immigrant story fraught with conflict and ambiguity. "Minari" cultivates the grief and bittersweet allure of America's unfulfilled promise 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z Wearing an oversize suit, the subject oozes ambiguity and is smiling, almost defiantly, as if to say, “You can’t box me in.” The Many Layers of Lorna Simpson 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z The ambiguity surrounding the term “bonus” was also intriguing to me in 2008, at the beginning of the financial crisis. Betrayal, collusion, spying: Exploring a swing from extreme left to right 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z This introduction of artifice is a hopeful sign, since so much of the film’s power isn’t transferable: the sad setting; the close-ups; above all, the ambiguity and shock of fact. Review: ‘Titicut Follies’ Tries to Deliver a Shock to Ballet 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z They are usually flooded with ambiguity, leaving us to our own devices, juggling not always pleasant meanings. A ‘Nasty Woman’ of Contemporary Art Fearlessly Renders the Body 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z In English, the word 'ambiguity' means the meaning is not clear. John Jacobsen's 'The Artist Toolbox' probes creative process 2011-01-22T01:06:10Z Reminiscent of the Italian film farces of the ’60s, the episode employs a rollicking version of the ballad “Guantanamera” to comment on their conjugal struggle and end the movie on a note of triumphant ambiguity. ‘Lucía,’ a Gem of Cuban Cinema, Is Restored 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z And Remick, whose performance toggles between vulnerability and flirtatiousness on a dime, creates a multidimensional character who remains a marvel of ambiguity. Looking for a Great Courtroom Drama? Start Here 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z The film suggests that such ambiguities only compounded Khodorkovsky’s potential legal troubles once he became a Putin foe. ‘Citizen K’ Review: Trying to Pin Down a Russian Oligarch 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z But, as with most things involving Driver, there is an interesting ambiguity at play. Fit for stardom: How Adam Driver went from US Marine to Hollywood heartthrob 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z “Felt” is a movie of ambiguities, starting with its title. Review: In ‘Felt,’ Amy Everson Plays an Eccentric, Troubled Artist 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z The ambiguity faded when they watched an episode of “Game of Thrones” together. A College Crush From Afar Gets Real Two Decades Later 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z Sexual fluidity and ambiguity play key parts in the new projects. Frank Ocean Ends His Long Silence With a Variety of Works 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z What I wanted was to create more protective bubbles of ambiguity. How researching tomboys and gender helped me prepare for a pandemic 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z That shift in voice can obscure the novel’s intent — though to be fair, ambiguity may be the point. A Novel About Surrogacy, Set at a ‘Farm’ Where the Crop Is Human Babies 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z Architectural images are transferred to silkscreen and printed on Plexiglass to achieve a misty and moody ambiguity. This week's new exhibitions 2011-02-12T00:05:41Z The word with its fullest, richest, Tiresian ambiguity, and the example of the writer himself, both his rigor and his cheek. The Ill-Defined Plot 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z Trump has long used small ambiguities to claim unfair treatment from the news media — a tactic that is closely related to his thousands of instances of making misleading, baseless and dishonest statements. ‘Tear gas’ or ‘pepper balls’? In response to assault on White House protesters, Trump harps on the semantics. 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z Most of the songs we love are built out of satisfying repetitions and nifty resolutions, but ambiguity is what makes a song live and breathe and itch and scratch. Review | Bill Callahan found domestic bliss. Then he wrote the great apocalypse ballad of 2019. 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z “Snowden” seems to be made with a fear of imagination, a fear of complexity, a fear of ambiguity, for fear of tarnishing the cause by giving its symbol a full range of human traits. Oliver Stone’s “Snowden” Reviewed 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Goggins grounded the pulpy twists with an understated portrayal that mixed the series’ florid dialogue with an unhinged ambiguity. Television: A Son of the South With Many Accents 2011-01-30T02:30:04Z This troubling ambiguity could explain why Chinese readers, struggling to decipher the intentions of their rulers, made de Tocqueville's book a national bestseller. The Future by Al Gore – review 2013-01-31T12:00:00Z Rereading it, I was startled to find a searching novel of moral ambiguities where once I'd seen only an inventive but simple SF thriller. John Wyndham: The unread bestseller 2010-12-20T16:12:31Z “As you start to threaten that ambiguity, it changes the way that you lie.” Noticed: New Technology, but the Same Old Lies 2011-07-08T19:16:51Z Here, as throughout the work, ambiguity — of gender and motivation — reigns. Review: ‘Obsidian Tear’ Is a Choreographic Breakthrough for Wayne McGregor 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z Its ambiguity appealed to Stanley Kubrick, who played with the idea of filming it. Syfy’s new “Childhood’s End” could be the perfect show for our quasi-populist, government-hating times 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z As important as their ambiguity is the way these planes meet. ‘Men in Armor’: El Greco and Pulzone at the Frick Collection 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z This is a world that typically, and often to a fault, values abstraction, ambiguity and the space for audiences to choose their own adventures. Dance Review: ‘Self Made Man Man Made Land,’ by Ursula Eagly 2012-08-13T19:16:12Z Two decades ago, Maureen Gallace started making small landscape paintings whose implicit awkwardness avoided the bucolic, replacing it with an unsettling ambiguity. Review: Maureen Gallace, Lynda Barry, and Louis M. Eilshemius and Bob Thompson 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z “The necessary ambiguity of the specific image,” Peterson later wrote, “is the starting point.” Critic?s Notebook: San Francisco, the Crossroads of the Avant-Garde 2011-05-06T05:30:06Z Indeed, this moral ambiguity on the Doctor’s part was still front and centre, and that’s where the episode started to fall down a bit. Review: 'Doctor Who', Episode 802, 'Inside The Dalek' -- Peter Capaldi (Almost) Takes Charge 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Kavakos captured the ambiguity of the mellow Aria I movement, which shifts between nervously skittish and melodically yearning passages. A Rare Side-by-Side of a Thrilling Stravinsky 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z Did it scare you to introduce this character, and this ambiguity, into your narrative? Finding out you have a hole in your heart: Joshua Mohr on his memoir 'Sirens' 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z And it is true that certain moments in “The Book of Grace” are infused with an exciting emotional ambiguity that transforms its characters from archetypes into people of splendidly confused humanity. Theater Review | 'The Book of Grace': At the Public, Suzan-Lori Parks?s Family Reunion 2010-03-18T03:57:00Z It offers a fresh model of how opera and music theater can successfully tackle contemporary issues: not with documentary realism — television and film have that covered — but with ambiguity, obliquity, even sheer confusion. ‘The Source,’ an Oratorio About Chelsea Manning’s Leaks 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z The production’s sharpened focus on moral ambiguity extends even to Willow Geer’s steely, unsentimental turn as Portia, the quick-witted ostensible heroine who disguises herself as a lawyer to turn the tables on Shylock. Shylock, revisited, in Theatricum's 'Merchant of Venice' 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z We have been living in an unbelievable netherworld of ambiguity and uncertainty with an amazing backlog of cases pending, when the culture, our society as a whole, has moved on. Primetime TV shows to get racier after court ruling 2010-07-16T04:44:00Z Part of what makes Maxwell a fictional historian — as opposed to a writer of historical fiction — is a resistance to ambiguity for its own sake. In William Maxwell’s Fiction, a Vivid, Varied Tableau of Midwestern Life 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z It is also that the play can expose the spin and distortions that are required by a mass media intolerant of ambiguity and weakness. The election, live on stage! 2010-05-06T15:04:00Z Willis has been quipping his way out of moral ambiguity since the romantic comedy TV series Moonlighting three decades ago. Non-stop action: why Hollywood’s ageing heroes won’t give up 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z He was very quotable, and every quote stresses the ambiguity of the new realm he was opening up, the realm of the smallest conceivable things in the universe. Want to imagine what the Higgs boson might look like? Embrace modern art 2011-07-27T15:31:36Z It’s a tribute to her working-class roots while also signaling her interest in androgyny and other kinds of ambiguity. Sarah Lucas, Unmasked: From Perverse to Profound 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z The complexity and ambiguity of Native American imagery is explained in side galleries that take up key historical moments in the fabrication of Indian identity by the dominant, European-derived American culture. Review | The American Indian museum comes of age by tackling this country’s lies 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Hints of that harmonic ambiguity can be heard in her whimsical “Fairytale Poem,” written in 1971 for a radio broadcast featuring a Czech fairy tale, “The Little Chalk.” Music Review: Schnittke-Inspired Focus! Concludes With Gubaidulina Work 2014-02-04T22:09:26Z But its attempts at ambiguity work against it. Review: ‘Virus of Fear,’ a Kiss Touches Off Child Abuse Accusations 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z And at times they are described with throat-catching beauty and disturbing ambiguity, as in the man in “Pepsi,” who extends his arms and upper torso to lift a case of the soft drink. The Photographer Who Found His Power in Shades of Gray 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z But with the title in mind, you keep seeing more and more possibilities in its hints and ambiguities. Jeffrey Simmons’ fastidious geometries in watercolor 2013-01-16T20:29:07Z There was a lot of ambiguity at the end, whether it’s about her relationship with Jason or the future of the firm. Robert and Michelle King on ‘The Good Wife’ 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Selina Cadell brings the ambiguity that made her shine in Doc Martin to the brisk deaconess sister, who belongs to a church in which "gaiter has yielded to garter". People; Uncle Vanya; Uncle Vanya – review 2012-11-11T00:06:04Z But underneath this deluge of theory, Danforth’s plot is cursed to end in maddening ambiguity. ‘Plain Bad Heroines’ Is a New Kind of Lesbian Fiction 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z That we can’t say with absolute certainty that Naz is being wrongfully accused lends The Night Of moral ambiguity, but does so over the dead body of one of its characters. Review: 'The Night Of' Tells a Powerful Story of Injustice 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z This short song pushes chromatic harmony into fleeting moments of ambiguity. Music Review: Ian Bostridge and Thomas Ad?s at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-11-29T23:23:51Z The incident was also used to illustrate the continuing ambiguity of the motives and sincerity of her opponent, Frank Prady. 'The Good Wife' Recap: Alicia, the Scary Parent 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z I was really conscious about preserving that ambiguity. Ritesh Batra, director of ‘The Sense of an Ending,’ on graduating to the big league 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z The latest trend is for classes to address issues of teamwork, empathy, burnout and tolerance for ambiguity. How an Aesthete’s Eye Can Help a Doctor’s Hand 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z In this unequal, racially hierarchical society, his moral ambiguity is a means of survival. Light Falling on Bamboo – review 2012-09-28T21:55:01Z News broadcasts are usually exempt from this rule, but there are numerous ambiguities. Wait, wait — can you say that on air? There’s a debate on cursing at NPR. 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z The connection that flesh and mechanics made in the magnificent closing image seemed definitive — but all through the piece there was an ambiguity as to who or what was manipulating what or whom. Chunky Move troupe visits Seattle with 5 dancers, a giant mobile 2012-04-13T16:50:04Z It echoes some of contemporary China's own problems, such as corruption, money, ambiguity and morality. Mystery (Fucheng mishi) - review 2012-11-20T14:02:30Z That kind of moral ambiguity is a hard sell, and making it safe for the multiplexes would take major watering down. 'I Saw the Devil': The hellish tables turn on sadistic killer 2011-03-31T21:26:10Z But the border between reality and dream, conscious and unconscious was porous for them — indeed, that ambiguity is one of the foundational elements of Surrealism, a style with which they are commonly associated. Review: ‘Leonora and Alejandro’ and One Rather Trippy Encounter 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z She’s not insensitive: Art also illuminates the ambiguity of the way that beauty and horror, sympathy and repugnance, can exist side by side. Perspective | Can a festival make the Kennedy Center a destination for political art? 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z In a year that surfaced so many of the ambiguities of the American experiment, this long, hypnotic song was a welcome space for rumination. Best Songs of 2020 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z That ambiguity is most apparent in a motif of hands raised overhead. Dance Review: ‘Political Mother,’ by Hofesh Shechter, at BAM 2012-10-12T22:47:29Z As with all things true crime, there’s a great deal of ambiguity here. The Freeing of Brendan Dassey Isn't Making a Murderer's Victory 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z "There's a constant ambiguity to middle-class life," Sly says. Sly and Reggie: sound of the suburbs 2010-11-24T20:59:00Z In any case, the moral ambiguities that animate the film’s last act are less intriguing than the world it depicts on the way to an overwrought climax. Review: Jean-Pierre Melville’s ‘When You Read This Letter’ Is a Vexing Noir 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z The final scene has a teasing, troubling ambiguity. Think He’s a Jerk? Then He’s Doing His Job 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z She accepted his artistic vision without always understanding its explicitly rendered ambiguities. Billie Whitelaw, Longtime Beckett Muse, Dies at 82 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z She is drawn to the story’s moral ambiguity. Jane Goldman: 'The only way Hit-Girl could be not sexualised was by being 11' 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z Perhaps the emblematic vocal style of the day, it’s widely used in pop and hip-hop, but his ambiguity is of an elevated, refined sort. Post Malone Smears All the Genres Into One (Emotions, Too) 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z In Mr. Nolan and Ms. Joy’s series, the ambiguity is unsettling, and the park’s creators are making it worse with each new upgrade. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 2: If You Can’t Tell, Does It Matter? 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z While this novel celebrates language, it also seems to assert the unreliability of words, their ambiguities, their inadequacies. The vapor between languages: Idra Novey on writing and translation 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z He's some kind of genius, that's for sure, and so is Schröder for resisting the temptation to chase down all his ambiguities – leaving us instead with a beguiling film. Kids in care and The Invention of Dr Nakamats 2010-10-06T07:00:00Z But directness of this kind has a hard time in a market-driven world that favors the convenient slipperiness of ambiguity. The Art of Staying Cool: 10 Can’t-Miss Summer Shows in New York 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z Celebrating this kind of ambiguity is one of the reasons Surprise Industries exists. Inside the 'Surprise House' on Governors Island 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z She likes how the ambiguity of the image can bring them into the discussion. In Hollywood, Another Sign of Women Punching Back 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z There’s a lot of ambiguity, and we were trying to get people to embrace that. Making ‘Making a Murderer,’ Again 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z Others took issue with lyrics in the rap that describe rough sex and even the title, which hints at moral ambiguity. Robin Thicke, a Romantic, Has a Naughty Hit 2013-07-21T16:14:52Z A moralistic reading of “The Giving Tree” is challenged again and again by Silverstein’s other writing for children, as he consistently ended his books on a note of ambiguity. The Giving Tree at Fifty: Sadder Than I Remembered 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z The United Nations, in a separate report, highlighted the problem, the full scope of which it said was hard to grasp because of legal ambiguities. Japan exhibition puts child prostitution in the limelight 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z It has a hypnotic intensity and unbearable ambiguity that is maintained until the very end. Best films of 2018 so far 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z The English settler, who believes that his family lives on divinely given land, doesn’t traffic in ambiguities. Review: ‘Spiral’ Chronicles the Impact of Prejudice on Everyday Lives 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z It concludes, needless to say, with just enough ambiguity and people left alive to make room for "Paranormal Activity 3," possibly an NC-17 intergenerational road movie directed by Larry Clark. "Paranormal Activity 2": Is the thrill ride over? 2010-10-22T18:30:00Z That ambiguity and openness feels very contemporary, rooted in the shifting, uncertain social world young people live in today. Sufjan Stevens and Justin Peck Make a Ballet About Respect 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z It doesn’t suffocate on its own good intentions; instead it works because of its ambiguities — much like the tone of Simon’s masterwork, “The Wire.” ‘Show Me a Hero’: How one mayor won (and lost) the ugliest fight in Yonkers 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Cleareyed, calmly determined and invitingly tuneful, she captures each situation in all its ambiguity. Review: Laura Marling’s ‘Semper Femina’ Seeks the Cryptic in the Plainspoken 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z “But I think the ambiguity was important, and Houseman understood that.” John Jay Osborn Jr., Author of ‘The Paper Chase,’ Dies at 77 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z As Yasaka’s presence in the household becomes ever more disruptive, the story veers in unexpected directions, leaping over years before landing with wrenching ambiguity. Review: In ‘Harmonium,’ a Family Lets the Wrong One In 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Cohen delves deeply into the Israeli psyche as he analyzes — and debates — the reign of nuclear ambiguity. Books of The Times: Vague, Opaque and Ambiguous: Israel?s Hush-Hush Nuclear Policy 2010-10-13T23:25:00Z The persistent niggles remain – Ezekiel, stupid characters doing even more stupid things, plot-necessitated lapses in logic – but it threw dashes of the moral ambiguity of old Walking Dead back into this new, action-heavy mix. The Walking Dead: season eight, episode three recap – Monster 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z Some of the intended ambiguity may be lost, especially in a finale that’s chaotic and confusing, but the film still feels like an adaptation problem Harron and Turner have solved. American Psycho at 20: a vicious satire that remains as sharp as ever 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z When we get to a historico-religious figure whose legacy has been vigorously contested for nearly 2,000 years, we have pretty much maxed out the dial on epistemological error and narrative ambiguity. Jesus Christ: Jewish radical or bathrobe Republican? The “reason for the season” remains an enigma after 2,000 years 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z Actually, the line is just another example of how everything Ondaatje writes has depth and ambiguity that rewards slow reading and careful thought - just another demonstration of his meticulous talent. Booker club: The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje 2011-03-04T11:00:46Z But Mr. Warlikowski’s enigmatic, melancholy images of showgirls, boxing rings, silent movies and performance art can be entrancing in their ambiguity, like a puzzle from a strange mind. In Europe, Opera Takes On Our Time 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z But, at 24, I was done with occupying a box of black ambiguity. ‘It made me question my ancestry’: does DNA home testing really understand race? 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z Such ambiguity has stalled many California cities from writing rules that would grant cannabis tourism a “green” light. Cannabis tourism in California – a women’s wellness retreat with puff love 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z That he sang with a virile sound and sputtering intensity lent intriguing ambiguity to his portrayal. Music Review: Reimagining Wagner’s ‘Meistersinger’ at Salzburg Festival 2013-08-05T21:45:01Z In cases where the uncertainty includes a possible negative outcome, women are not pleased by ambiguity. Studied: The Allure of a Man?s Uncertainty 2011-03-10T22:19:31Z But Mr. Hearne, especially in “The Source,” shows a soulful sincerity and command of ambiguity that elude Mr. Ter Veldhuis, whose works blare with neon colors, obvious politics and nonstop activity. Review: In ‘The News,’ a Cacophony of Current Events 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z Much like the term “producer” in Hollywood, the job of promoter is veiled in a certain ambiguity. The Night Is Young 2011-08-19T21:48:29Z Because of this ambiguity, he never thought “Grief Is the Thing With Feathers” would be published, he said. A Writer’s Deathbed Portrait of Francis Bacon 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z To keep the franchise on ice rather than consigning it to the morgue, The Dark Knight Rises necessarily weaves a certain ambiguity into the ending. The Dark Knight Rises – review 2012-07-21T23:05:32Z Rather than leaving this question to hang in productive ambiguity, Hannah offers the answer. Two Novels, United by Troubled Daughters of Damaged Fathers 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z Chapman agrees, but he says we have a tendency to view uncertainty and ambiguity as threatening, when in reality, they aren’t. Is anxiety more common in our 30s and 40s? | Mona Chalabi 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z The “It” in the movie’s title sparked widespread debate, but interpretation is almost beside the point—the terror here results directly from “it’s” painfully unresolved ambiguity. 11 Horror Movies for People Who Don’t Like Scary Movies 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z According to the program, Groag has focused on the ambiguity of the script, eschewing “pure froth to which it’s so often consigned.” 'The Guardsman' at NoHo Arts Center 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z And he was wrong that art had no place for moral statement, that ambiguity was the only way to go, that what you randomly see is all that matters. ‘Garry Winogrand,’ a Retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z In real life there are questions and ambiguities to grapple with. Critic?s Notebook: Rihanna and Chris Brown Appear on Each Other?s Songs 2012-02-21T23:10:12Z The misconduct storyline has ambiguities – Kessler doesn’t view himself as a predator. Billy Crudup: ‘Life is hard. It’s filled with grief, confusion, unpredictability … ' 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z The resulting ambiguity perfectly mirrors the film's unsettling philosophical core. From Goblin to Morricone: the art of horror movie music 2011-08-18T22:00:02Z But the plot moves a little too quickly from intriguing ambiguity to straight-up terror, without giving Moretz and Huppert enough time to explore the kinks in the characters’ relationship or the temperamental contrast between them. ‘Greta’ Review: Isabelle Huppert as Sweet Surrogate Mom Turned Psycho Stalker 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z As a play, it teaches very well; there are a lot of wonderful ambiguities to explore. ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf’ Returns for an Anniversary 2012-09-29T23:00:21Z “What happened?” is, for him, a question often freighted with ambiguity but not necessarily unknowable. | 'Tabloid': Was It Love? The ?Manacled Mormon? and His Kinky Weekend 2011-07-14T22:11:29Z And, given Ms. Sheck’s penchant for ambiguity, does “lying,” which appears in a later stanza, mean telling a falsehood, or is it meant to refer to the state of being reclined or supine? ArtsBeat: Translators Get a Slam of Their Own at PEN Festival 2012-05-04T14:33:54Z Starting with Hindu mythology — filled with ambiguities, abstractions and contradictions — is as nervy a move as Aru lighting the lamp. Young Heroines Who Are Saviors, but Not Saints 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z It didn’t leave any ambiguity about whether he survived, though: The final moments flashed forward to Dexter, alive, having escaped from the authorities in Miami to start a new life in the Pacific Northwest. What’s on TV This Week: ‘The Oratorio’ and ‘Dexter: New Blood’ 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z That the ambiguities remained enhanced this slowly unfolding performance. War Requiem 2010-05-02T20:45:00Z Yet the grayness that envelops this production is less one of moral ambiguity than of hazy dramatic uncertainty. Review: In David Hare’s ‘Plenty,’ Time Takes the Edge Off a Femme Fatale 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z He drifts on to the subject of Last Year at Marienbad, which must have been vital in his development, what with its wealth of spatial and temporal ambiguities. Nicolas Roeg: 'I don't want to be ahead of my time' 2011-03-10T22:25:00Z Simultaneously feminine and tomboyish, Lauren Bacall embodied an intense female ambiguity – an ambiguity about what it meant to be a woman — that bubbled under the surface of 1940s Hollywood, and 1940s America. Why Lauren Bacall was one of Hollywood’s greatest feminist icons 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z Through our meticulous research, we have also created a new sketch of the winding and at times traumatic multigenerational experience of racial ambiguity for Price and her family. As Her Music Is Reconsidered, a Composer Turns 135. Again. 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z It was an ingenious tactic, laced with threatening ambiguity and predicated on his subjects’ sexual propriety, and Wascom is just as ingenious in reimagining the kind of military ruler who would devise such an order. ‘Secessia’ is Kent Wascom’s vivid portrait of 1862 New Orleans 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z At many crucial points, they’re given showy, superficial Soviet revisions of the original choreography, depriving the opposite heroines of ambiguity and depth. Opposites Who Reveal Ballet’s Expressive Range 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z If you look at the character, there’s a lot of moral ambiguity, yet he has been tasked with fighting for this legacy. ‘Yellowstone’ Proves There Is Still an Appetite for TV Westerns 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z But mainly her home state is in her voice, which unlike that of many of her genre peers, is rife with ambiguity, not clarity. Are You Listenin’? New Holiday Albums From Sarah McLachlan and Others 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z Alas, Promised Land offers no wiggle room, no ambiguities, eccentricities or human contradictions to its characters; they are placards with famous faces. Matt Damon’s Promised Land: What the Frack!? 2012-12-21T10:45:15Z This exhibition is not alone; this anniversary is widely marked by ambiguity, uncertainty and guilt. Exhibition Review: 9/11 Exhibition at New-York Historical Society ? Review 2011-09-07T21:28:42Z It doesn’t leave much room for ambiguity or surprise. ‘The Normal Heart’: Then and now, a relevant outrage Les Illuminations, in contrast, is a work of streetwise swagger that ironically examines themes of urban sophistication and sexual ambiguity. Nash Ensemble/Brabbins – review 2012-12-05T19:48:00Z Emery’s script is remarkably nuanced, filled with gray areas and ambiguities. Theater Review: ‘The Hero’ Reflects on War and Life in 1921 2014-03-10T22:18:41Z “Love Songs” left me wondering if the theatricality of posing and the ambiguity of still images undercut the capacity of photography to document intimacy. Love and Loss Through the Photographer’s Lens 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z I wouldn't have developed such a core of persistence if I hadn't come to realise through feminism that I wasn't the only person with all these doubts and ambiguities and conflicts. Susan Hiller 2011-01-30T00:02:04Z In interviews, Lennon was at times ambiguous about his beliefs on religion and spirituality, but such ambiguity is at odds with the clear message of "Imagine." "Imagine" at 50: Why John Lennon’s ode to humanism still resonates 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z We reach reflexively for either/or conclusions, because complexity seems too difficult and ambiguity too intolerable. Lonnae O’Neal: When we all shout about violence, can anyone hear? 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z Harmonies meander through chromatic ambiguities; low-fi moments dovetail into studio opulence, as loops and echoes enfold her voice like electronic ghosts. L’Rain’s Songs Hold Ghosts, Demons and Healing 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z I think part of the joy of the show is some of the ambiguity, so we didn't want to answer every question. "Killing Eve" boss on that shocking finale: "It just felt like the most truthful end" 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z Nowhere is this capacity for ambiguity, sexual and otherwise, more splendidly evident than in “Some Like it Hot,” a comedy now more than 50 years old that does everything but show its age. An Appraisal: Marvelous Invention of Movie Make-Believe 2010-10-01T23:18:00Z With meaning suspended between painterly fact and pictorial ambiguity, his expanded repertory points to a very interesting future. Art In Review: Robert Bordo: Three Point Turn 2013-04-18T20:35:15Z That ambiguity, and the fact that a stream fed into the lake, settled it. Peering Into Volcanoes at Tanzania’s Crater Highlands 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z One of the persistent concerns of this work is the ambiguity of family happiness and unhappiness. Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z The front scrim is really two different layers of material, one transparent and one reflective, creating continuous ambiguities as to what we're seeing. zoe | juniper: visual wizardry, brilliant dance 2011-12-03T20:22:03Z There are no blurred lines here, no ambiguities, no water-cooler talking points about gradations of consent. Welcome to New York review – Abel Ferrara is unencumbered by good taste 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z And I thought, ‘Wow, so ambiguity is not on the table any more.’ Feeling the force: why directing a Hollywood blockbuster is tougher than ever 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Only in its last lap does the film lose something when it ramps up the action and trades its ambiguities for an over-explicit and not quite plausible plot wrap-up. Colin Farrell shines in Neil Jordan's 'Ondine' 2010-06-17T21:47:00Z George Herbert's first poem entitled "Prayer" captures that ambiguity as a positive force – prayer is "reversed thunder"; it is "church-bells beyond the stars heard". Silence: A Christian History by Diarmaid MacCulloch – review 2013-03-29T08:01:01Z His politeness may have fostered ambiguity during the date, but he didn’t leave it that way. Date Lab: They both study biology. But that didn’t guarantee chemistry. 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z Both characters live in a shared universe of extreme moral ambiguity, and their reaction to that couldn’t more different. How Fear the Walking Dead Created a Better Hero Than The Walking Dead' 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z “The rest of us,” she wrote, “are out there in the mainstream of a spinning and distracted society, trying to make some sense of our one and only voyage through its ambiguities.” Gail Sheehy, Journalist, Author and Social Observer, Dies at 83 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z One of the delicious ambiguities of the book is that she never quite gets her Old Testament eye-for-an-eye. Reading group: Truest grit 2012-12-06T11:09:52Z The world is a complicated place, and war, as a subject for novels and movies, often presents a tangle of moral ambiguity and a fog of confusion. Movie Review: ‘Fury' Has Brad Pitt Killing Nazis Again 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Sure, Batman saves the city because that’s what a Batman does, but the film admirably ignores the urge to resolve the ambiguities of power and revolution. From Memento to Interstellar: our writers pick their favourite Christopher Nolan films 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Although the focus is often on a male soloist, it sometimes shifts to a different dancer, creating a marvelous ambiguity of identity that is one of the work’s most haunting accomplishments. Review: Ballet Arizona Performs ‘Round’ in a Dreamy Desert Ambience 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Oddly, this medium becomes a catalyst for an array of imaginary landscapes, suggesting that ambiguity is the subject matter of this exhibition. Young arts critics competition 2010: the winning entries 2010-10-20T22:00:00Z Kelvin Harrison Jr. has portrayed his share of promising young men at risk, using his wholesome good looks and charismatic glow as a canvas for ambiguity. ‘Monster’ Review: Teenager on Trial 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z Like the Bible, the Koran is built on ambiguity: you filter its messages through the beliefs and needs you bring to it. Art in Review: SANDOW BIRK: ?American Qu?ran? 2010-09-17T16:50:00Z We wanted to show the sensuality, the ambiguity of these clothes through a nightclub scene that has a strange, smoky ambience, rather than showing the outfit as an iconic design piece. In the Biopic ‘Yves Saint Laurent,’ Fashion From the Vault 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z “Or the result will be an ambiguity that is cruel or an ambivalence that may even be destructive.” The Novel That Riveted France During Lockdown Arrives in the U.S. 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z “The Earth Is Blue as an Orange” dwells in this ambiguity, balancing gently between hope and harsh truths. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z The fourth shot is best, thanks mostly to the spatial ambiguities created by the woman’s floral playsuit. Art Review: ‘Snap Noir’ and ‘Photo Brut’ Display Found Photographs 2013-08-08T21:53:25Z Greater ambiguity would certainly strengthen the play intellectually. Arts & Leisure: ‘Denial,’ ‘Bofors Gun’ and the London Revival of Rage 2012-06-17T00:00:31Z The strange synthesis of clarity and ambiguity in the way Chazelle addresses it is both unnerving and intriguing. 'Whiplash,' exquisite and painful, hits all the right notes 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Branching plot lines based on player choice mix with cyberpunk and renaissance themes underscored by a sense of ambiguity and conspiracy that will be maintained until the final moments, insists game director Jean-Francois Dugas. Games preview for 2011 2011-01-02T00:04:02Z The relentlessly externalized quasi-objectivity with which “The Girlfriend Experience” is filmed sparks a calculated ambiguity that’s the antithesis of true indeterminacy, of existential mystery, of imaginative psychology. “The Girlfriend Experience” Is Not an Experience 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z “Law & Order” featured greater ambiguity than previous legal TV juggernauts, such as “Perry Mason” and “Matlock,” but justice was generally served. Steven Hill, a star of ‘Law & Order’ as DA Adam Schiff, dies at 94 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z The second is related to the comfort level of a person when dealing with unfamiliar situations, or “tolerance of ambiguity.” Newspeak for the rest of us: Learning a new language can give new insight, improve tolerance 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z “There is no ambiguity in what he says,” Mr. Bellamy added. Muslim Rapper’s Plans to Play at the Bataclan in Paris Prompt Furor 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z What’s most impressive about this production is that it conveys that ambiguity with such specific, palpable detail. | 'This Wide Night': Edie Falco and Alison Pill as Reunited Ex-Cons 2010-05-17T02:15:00Z The songs on “The Record” make ambiguity and ambivalence sound sensible, even intimate. The Indie-Rock Trio boygenius Returns, Confident and Connected 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z Wyatt, Monahan and Wahlberg never seem quite settled on what they want to say with the character or the story, so the film feels marked not by ambiguity but uncertainty. 'The Gambler' comes up short by failing to go all in 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z And when the count is as charismatic and confidently seductive as Mr. Mattei plays him, this charges the opera with extra tension and lends ambiguity to his pursuit. Metropolitan Opera Opens With ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’ 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Buffier, of the New York Attorney General’s office, said the ambiguity creates “high burdens to prove violations in court.” Live Nation Rules Music Ticketing, Some Say With Threats 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z On a stone and granite campus where tradition and rigidity are heirlooms, Samet is distinctive for drawing on centuries of literature to teach prospective second lieutenants about the psychological puzzles and ethical ambiguities of war. At West Point, warriors shaped through Plutarch and Shakespeare 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z And, I thought, there’s not another dramatist living who could pull off the kind of ambiguity he exercises so exquisitely here. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Heaven and Earth 2013-07-02T16:03:02Z David Ajala has the right bright ambiguity as the surprise visitor who is threat and hope – and something of a mystery. Gatz; The Witness; You Once Said Yes – review 2012-06-16T23:06:06Z For street rappers in particular, the ambiguity of fact vs. fiction is, in fact, the point and the beauty of their music. The Controversial Use of Rap Lyrics as Evidence 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z In 1999, when a retrospective of Mr. Hodges’s movies was showing in Los Angeles, Kevin Thomas of The Los Angeles Times said that the crime films stood out for their complexity and ambiguity. Mike Hodges, Director Acclaimed for ‘Get Carter,’ Dies at 90 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z The movie’s airtight homiletics are the antithesis of ambiguity. Spielberg’s Airtight “Bridge of Spies” 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z We need to use this time wisely, embrace this uncontrollable ambiguity and reset our relationship to longer-term thinking. Quarantine is perfect for discovering the beauty and power of boredom 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z The biggest ambiguity is that we never learn what happened to the kid in "Madre," and that generates an interesting mystery. Unsettling "Madre" plays with perception of madness to examine a woman "clinging to the impossible" 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z The performance captured the ambiguity of this somber, restless music. Music Review: An Unlikely Pair, Making Musical Sense 2011-07-14T23:06:24Z There's a spectrum in art, with specificity at one end and ambiguity at the other. David Mitchell: 'In a libretto you just write "storm"' 2013-03-25T20:40:00Z Some viewers may welcome that; not everyone digs artistic ambiguity, especially in prime time. Review | Noah Wyle gives a must-see performance in CBS’s occasionally clunky ‘Red Line’ 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Politics, on the other hand, does not offer the luxury of ambiguity. Ukraine’s Biggest Rock Star Doesn’t Want to Go Back Into Politics—Yet 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z Don’t tell the Iranian authorities, though by now they should be familiar with movies that explore the enigmatic qualities of everyday life while at the same time inviting ruminations on the ambiguities of cinema itself. Movie Review: He?s Jafar Panahi, but ?This Is Not a Film? 2012-02-29T00:00:06Z Growing up in Worcester, Mass., with a white mother and Chinese father, Tsang said that she was acutely aware of language’s ambiguities. An Artist’s Queer Take on ‘Moby-Dick’ 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z "The Immaculate Room" ends with a frustrating lack of ambiguity. The intriguing, well-acted "Immaculate Room" isolates a couple for 50 days as a test of resolve 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z Reich is now 76, and, while his sense of rhythm is as sharp as ever, his clapping was weaker than Hockings's, so the delicious ambiguity of the piece was lost. Steve Reich, London Sinfonietta; Mitsuko Uchida; Tallis Scholars – review 2013-03-10T00:06:07Z Ultimately there’s something sinister about the song’s playful ambiguity, as we’ll never truly know if she wants to stay or if it’s just the roofie talking. Is “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” a date-rape anthem? 2012-12-10T21:14:00Z The judge decided, among other things, that the policy was worded ambiguously; and in matters of ambiguity, the law is interpreted in favor of extending coverage. To Defray His Legal Costs in Defamation Suits, Cosby Turns to His Insurance 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z Something she obviously thought her headliner, whose sexual ambiguity is notorious, would be perfectly fine with. The Pogues wouldn't be your best fwends? Headline acts often aren't ... 2011-04-07T15:26:47Z Despite some absolute realism, there is a magical realist quality to your film, which creates ambiguity and becomes open to interpretation. "Undine" is an exquisite, romantic reimagining of an underwater myth using a phallic CGI catfish 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Because of the ambiguity of the language used in the legislation, parents of students at any age can sue over perceived violations. This Florida teen went viral for his lesson on the Stonewall riots 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z He crushes on evasion and ambiguity, but his own prose has always been distinguished by its tautness and agility. Wayne Koestenbaum’s Cerebral, Smutty Essays Playfully Disobey the Rules 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z And by the end of the book, there was no ambiguity. Thank you for killing my novel 2012-07-05T22:12:00Z Irresolution and ambiguity become it; it’s a first date rather than a marriage. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: Nathan Englander Talks About His New Stories 2012-02-17T20:15:02Z You can have ambiguity in television that you are not allowed in film. Behind the Candelabra is tipped for Cannes success – but can't win Oscar 2013-05-21T16:27:22Z And in that ambiguity, the stark differences between here and there, presence and absence, the screen and the dance floor began to blur. Perspective | This is what our nightlife sounds like in a pandemic 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z It's full of ambiguity and, in spite of the adorable Scout, the noble Atticus and all that demonstration of human decency, it's full of darkness, danger and difficulty. To Kill a Mockingbird: shadows on film 2013-07-25T10:27:40Z This unsettling ambiguity is the only constant in their playful, passionate, bitter encounters. Antony and Cleopatra ? review 2010-10-16T23:07:00Z But allow yourself to sink into that ambiguity, and you’ll find “Bangkok Wakes to Rain” entrancing. Review | As catastrophic waters rise in Thailand, a writer examines the past and imagines the future 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z For many people, the ambiguity of Wilson’s legacy is an argument for not changing the name of the Woodrow Wilson School. The Meaning of Names at Princeton and Yale 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z But the scariest thing about “American Dharma,” the quality that makes it the most disturbing movie of the year, stems from its continuing ambiguity: It’s never clear who has the upper hand. “American Dharma” review: Errol Morris’ Steve Bannon doc is the most disturbing movie of th... 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Ohno’s solo performances, for which he was known, were irresistibly powerful and fraught with ambiguity. Obituaries: Kazuo Ohno, a Founder of Japanese Butoh, Dies at 103 2010-06-02T03:25:00Z The moves rattled state directors already agitated by other concerns about the looming pageant, including ambiguity about a new scoring system. It’s not just about bikinis: Inside the battle for the future of Miss America 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z That ambiguity only makes more anxious to find some meaning amongst the chaos. OJ Simpson and the unshakable demons that continue to haunt America 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z This style is familiar from Errol Morris’s documentaries, but “A Fragile Trust” is far less successful at conjuring ambiguity or mystery. Movie Review: In ‘A Fragile Trust,’ Jayson Blair Tries to Give Answers 2014-04-10T23:48:14Z They speak like middle Americans too, and they inhabit a realm of moral ambiguities that’s overseen by a man with both a wicked sense of humor and a highly refined sense of right and wrong. Magazine Preview: The Dark Art of ?Breaking Bad? 2011-07-06T12:20:00Z Although Krasner and Mitchell eventually came to be seen by some as sacred monsters, coldhearted warrior women in paint-spattered jeans, their imperiousness may have served to mask a deep ambiguity. Lee Krasner and Joan Mitchell: Abstract Expressionist Lives 2011-07-08T15:56:48Z Director Simon Brand devotes so much running time to fear-mongering and grotesque stereotypes that a last-ditch effort at moral ambiguity and a critique on muckraking barely register. 'Default' a hostage thriller that demands little attention 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z The new version, while still focused on the station chief, also multiplies the moral ambiguity. Mr. Rogers?s Very Tough Neighborhood 2011-11-20T16:57:52Z Herein lies the eternal appeal of Shakespeare, his unfathomable ambiguity, what Keats called his "negative capability". Political comparisons of Shakespeare are odorous 2013-04-19T20:00:21Z Series creator Ray McKinnon intentionally played with Daniel’s relationship with ambiguity to write a unique richness into his world of characters navigating moral and emotional grey areas. An “acute observation of the absurdity of being alive”: The star and creator of “Rectify” discuss ambiguity and the series’ end 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z There is more ambiguity in Beuys, who was not famous for his jokes. The Glasgow International impact zone 2010-04-19T20:30:00Z The novel ends – if I'm reading it correctly – on a note of poised ambiguity. Good book, great film 2011-04-01T10:08:52Z These areas meet along a gray diagonal that is probably a gutter, but what matters most is their woozy, tilting glow and the irreconcilable spatial ambiguities. Art in Review: RICHARD ARTSCHWAGER 2011-11-10T22:55:25Z There is no legal ambiguity in either case. Marco Rubio’s real disqualification: New video outlines bizarre religious faith — and he wants to govern by it 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z At the same time the movie, as if absorbing Leda’s ambiguities, has an uncertain quality that thickens the suspense. ‘The Lost Daughter’ Review: The Parent Trap 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z One question that Suleiman asks is why Némirovsky’s supposed self-hatred and anti-Semitism evoke such strong reactions, particularly in Jewish readers; she suggests, instead, an examination of ambivalence and ambiguity regarding Jewish identity and self-definition. A Strange and Beautiful Book About a Mother Who Disappeared 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z Still, despite some scrappy moments, the ensemble conveyed the weighty depths of this moody music, suffused with late-Romantic richness and chromatic ambiguities. Review: Ensemble LPR Plays, With Central Park as an Inspiration 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z The stage space is marvelously fluid; even the four musicians move from place to place, and we see the dancers in the wings, with some ambiguity about where their stage personae start or end. ‘Sunset, o639 Hours,’ a BalletX World Premiere 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Taylor is a moralist fully aware of the ambiguities of real life, and his sense of humor keeps him from becoming a narrow-minded ideologue. Art Review: Henry Taylor?s Portraits and Other Paintings at MoMA PS1 2012-02-02T23:19:39Z Repressive regimes excel at creating ambiguity, at making complicity easier than resistance and at blurring the lines between heroes and villains. Review: ‘Karl Marx City’ Revisits the Everyday Terror of Dictatorship 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z Wide swaths of modern comedy, including the work of Fielder, depend on deadpan and ambiguity. Hey, Elon Musk, Comedy Doesn’t Want to Be Legal 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z But even as Mr. Wentworth highlights the object’s potentially infinite ambiguity, he is also minimizing it, because the wires themselves, mounted in front of the shadows, remain exactly what they are. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z “Fargo” has its share of moral ambiguity, but this is pure white hat-black hat stuff, with two incorruptible lawmen refusing to surrender or make any compromises that might spare their lives. ‘Fargo’ Season 2, Episode 6: Defending the Common Man 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z “After 30 years away from the short story, it is good to have her back, cleareyed and fearless as ever, whispering difficult truths and ambiguities that a less assured writer would feel compelled to shout.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z The idea of ambiguity — is it old or made yesterday? Damien Hirst Is Back With an Underwater Fantasy. Will Collectors Care? 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Nested inside the line’s ambiguity is yet another one, embedded within the phrase “to find herself.” An Expansive New Book From Amanda Gorman, Celebrity Poet and Inaugural Star 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z But Liberace seems oddly inhibited, too reticent to explore the emotional depths and ambiguities. Critic’s Notebook: Liberace Examined, as a Piano Player 2013-05-27T21:40:53Z There is no waiting, no ambiguity — is my butter soft enough? room temp eggs . . . even when it's 90°F? — about when to pass go. The internet's favorite chocolate chip cookie 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z And there’s no promise of resolving their ambiguity. Review | In Jeff Wall’s photographs, it’s all about the details. But are they important? 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z That meant complex wordplay and ambiguities created through deliberate mispronunciation. The Hidden History of Japan’s Folk-Rock Boom 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z The modern Total Recall is more subtle and more willing to embrace ambiguity than the original, and for that alone, I feel we should be grateful. Total Recall Revisited: What Colin and Arnold Can Tell Us About Pop Culture 2012-08-01T12:00:49Z “Yes, it’s very important that what happened at wind tunnel Number 1 not be forgotten because it came here shrouded in moral ambiguity,” he said. How Nazi scientists and their wind tunnels ended up in D.C.’s suburbs 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z But Rattle's overly brash approach, occasionally bordering on the strident, robbed Rachmaninov's dark-hued visions of some of their essentially enigmatic ambiguity. JLCO/LSO/Rattle – review 2012-07-27T20:30:01Z The ambiguity around the group’s motivations only feeds the interest in KIRAC’s work. Trailing Michel Houellebecq From the Bedroom to the Courtroom 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z The sexual transaction takes place in an open phone booth, and the shot leaves no space for ambiguity about what the viewer witnesses. The dirt on "The Deuce," David Simon's next great HBO drama 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z I feel there is no comfortable conclusion or clear answer to take onwards with me, only ambiguity and more questions. Should I be ashamed of my grandfather? 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z The episode, and the way it resolved, was another example of how The Good Wife works at a level of moral ambiguity that other network shows can’t reach. The Good Wife Watch: This Means War 2013-10-28T09:30:50Z I think that the movies are all fraught with ambiguity. Todd Solondz, patron saint of pessimism 2010-07-23T19:01:00Z Others have suggested that complexity and ambiguity of Dunham’s story is why it resonates so strongly with young women for whom these kinds of experiences may be an unfortunate reality. National Review Cover Story Calls Lena Dunham 'Gutless' For Writing About Her Rape 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z They made up miniatures and shot on a backlot and had these scripts that were not afraid to end on ambiguity or tragedy. Amazon's "Vast of Night" is a Richard Linklater, sci-fi, "All the President's Men" thriller mash-up 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z Yet the ambiguity between performers and spectators, gone at the outset, is never replaced with anything more than mild confusion about what is expected of audience members, what’s allowed. Dance Review: ?The White Box Project? by No?mie LaFrance - Review 2011-09-11T21:55:11Z But there's still much room for complexity and ambiguity. This week's new films 2013-01-26T06:00:06Z There will always be a role for adrenaline junkies among the ranks of emergency workers, and there will always be moral ambiguities when we send people, no matter how well trained, into difficult, chaotic situations. The Merit, Thrills, Boredom and Fear of Police Work 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z Swollen with certainty, the story tolerates little ambiguity and offers few surprises. Review | If you like despair — and ‘Orange Is the New Black’ — you’ll love ‘The Mars Room’ 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z The mood music of Michele’s Gucci chimes with Van Sant, who is so disarmingly comfortable with ambiguity that he often answers my questions by both agreeing and demurring at the same time. Gus Van Sant: 'We are living in a wilder time than anything we could imagine' 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z Here the smoke and flames obscure any ambiguities in the characters. | 'Julius Caesar': Cry Havoc! The Blood Sport Called Politics 2011-07-31T22:23:03Z She cites research suggesting that subtle bias can in some cases be more detrimental than overt bias, because navigating ambiguity is so mentally and emotionally taxing. ‘The End of Bias’ Says There’s Hope for Meaningful Change 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z "Yet this is an architecture as rich in ambiguities and multivalences as anything proposed by postmodernism or deconstructionism." 'Suyama: A Complex Serenity' illuminates the career of a prizewinning Seattle architect 2011-07-06T22:40:11Z The relationships among the characters in “Prairie du Chien” are only vaguely particularized, and its creepy, creeping tone benefits from such ambiguity. Review: David Mamet’s ‘Ghost Stories,’ Bedtime Tales With a Gunshot 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z The achievements and ambiguities of cultural heritage protection suffuse the closing chapter, as Johnson pays a visit to Machu Picchu, the ancient Inca city carved into a Peruvian mountaintop. Book review: ‘Lives in Ruins,” archaeology and human life, by Marilyn Johnson 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z The ambiguity was magnetic: Were the dancers friends or foes? Jessica Lang Dance, Leila Josefowicz and the NSO, waltzing together onstage The choreography returns us to the same ambiguity later. Dance Review: ‘Dido and Aeneas,’ From Mark Morris, at Mostly Mozart 2012-08-23T22:03:45Z Hamaguchi’s realism is as constructed as that of any Sundance selection, but what distinguishes his work is his attention to ambiguity and to everyday moments, and his general avoidance of dramatic or melodramatic inflection. ‘Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy’ Review: What We Talk About 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z “A good thing free of qualifiers, of ambiguity. A thing that actually matters.” ‘Youngblood’ review: A novel about the Iraq War from a soldier who was there 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z Brennan said that with so much ambiguity around what travel will look like, it’s a good idea to create realistic expectations to temper possible disappointment. For travelers, anticipation is the best part. But what if there’s no trip to look forward to? 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z The power of his work lies in that very ambiguity. Florida’s Shadow Country 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z It’s unclear — and in that ambiguity lies the work’s power. New-Music Festival in Chicago Offers the Complicated and the Compelling 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z That ambiguity is one of many; the enveloping aura of mystery is the opera’s real achievement. A Spy Opera (or Is It?) Returns to the Stage 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z Its two movements, though, are just as concentrated, and if anything more poetic and thus haunting in their ambiguity. Review: An Oratorio Cautiously Looks Back on Women’s Suffrage 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z I missed the novel’s provocative ambiguity and its startling flashes of humor. About a (Bad) Boy 2011-12-08T13:15:55Z Exactly what happened remains unknown, and the gaps and ambiguities in the record provide the filmmakers with room for speculation and embellishment. Review: ‘Chappaquiddick’ Revisits a Grim ’60s Kennedy Scandal 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z With that kind of ambiguity, “one parent may go get the child vaccinated, and then it’s done. You can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube,” Bates says. Divorced parents are going to court over vaccinating their kids against the coronavirus 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z She argues that reactions to its sobering realities and moral and political ambiguities were expressed most authentically in landscape and in anecdotal genre painting, as well as in photography. Art Review: ‘The Civil War and American Art’ at the Metropolitan Museum 2013-05-30T19:19:19Z This “Dido and Aeneas” also broods on the powerful ambiguities of erotic affliction. Dance Review: ‘Dido and Aeneas,’ From Mark Morris, at Mostly Mozart 2012-08-23T22:03:45Z All the ambiguities remain — is it a letter or a drawing? The Alphabet That Can Do Anything 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Perry is aware of these sorts of ambiguities. Grayson Perry’s ‘The Descent of Man’: Deconstructing the Masculine Mystique 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z Her Behn is innately quizzical — the Restoration-style prologue outlines the ambiguities of the play’s title — yet she is absolutely set on achieving literary glory. Review | Having it all as the first female playwright in ‘Or,’ 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z James’s corpulent face, with its still-sensuous lips and coolly — wearily? regretfully? arrogantly? — appraising eyes, radiates a modern ambiguity. Henry James, a Poohbah Who Painted With Words 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z “It’s really hard to make something that a lot of people understand, and yet is not obvious, still has subtlety and ambiguity, and leaves you with something to do as a viewer.” Steven Soderbergh Quit Movies. Now He’s Back. What Gives? 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z There is a thread of steel in every movement Ms. Mearns makes, yet also threads of ambiguity and irony. A Father-Daughter Pas de Deux 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z The series probes a post 9/11 world of suspicion and moral ambiguity and is one of the few U.S. movies or TV shows to tackle the global war on terror and find critical acclaim. Mandy Patinkin thrilled to be part of Emmy winner "Homeland" 2012-09-24T22:29:38Z “Gender ambiguity and fluidity is well reflected by many artists at that time.” Art Basel Hong Kong: Where Commerce and Creativity Meet 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z The ambiguity that is so unbearable to Curtis — the sense that he might be losing his mind and also receiving omens of impending disaster — is crucial to the film’s logic. | 'Take Shelter': ?Take Shelter,? With Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain 2011-09-29T22:13:08Z But the fact of the matter is: There is no ambiguity with “wife.” What Does ‘Wife’ Mean for Queer Women? 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z He thinks the ambiguity was insurance in case the guards found the diary. A Diary From Inside the Gulag Meets Evil with Lightness 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z Why was that important to you to have that kind of ambiguity? "Devil in Ohio" creator on reinventing the Satanic cult and that ending: "Is she a force for evil?" 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z He has matinee idol looks, but if you film him from another angle, he can look very disturbing, and that makes him rather ambiguous, and I wanted this ambiguity for the audience. "Black Box" filmmaker on making a plane crash thriller that requires you to listen closely 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z Like “Our Time,” “Another Hundred People” slyly revels in sexual ambiguity and in dissolving gender stereotypes, with both performers singing numbers associated with the opposite sex. Review: ‘Another Hundred People’ Digs Into Stephen Sondheim’s Catalog 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z “We really wanted to explore the moral ambiguity from the show, where right and wrong are subjective. We’re very excited to put these choices into the player’s hands.” Mobile Game Based on Netflix's "Narcos" To Launch In September 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z During your stay, I did what I typically do when I sense that someone has unreciprocated feelings for me: I let everything linger in ambiguity. Asymmetric love, part four: the view from the other side 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z It is the micro version of the form of her essay on David Salle: an accumulation, through the presentation of differences, of a singular picture of ambiguity. In the Hands of Janet Malcolm, Journalism Becomes Art 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Gall: First of all, I personally love a little ambiguity. "Keep Breathing" creators talk survival, not Googling solutions and that controversial ending 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z But what I'm also interested in is how, because we can accept who the good guys were, then as a dramatist, that opens the window to look at the moral ambiguity. "It's our foundation myth": PBS' "World on Fire" challenges the World War II narrative we know 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z The present, uncertain times ask for simplistic narratives without complications and ambiguity. ‘Beyond Bollywood’ exhibit at MOHAI looks at the contributions of Indian Americans 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z The Late Middle Classes deals expertly in secrets, concealments, ambiguities. The Late Middle Clases; The Crucible; Ingredient X 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z That won’t happen, of course, so I’m left to wish that Mr. Ayer had done more with the moral ambiguities of the source material. Review: ‘Suicide Squad’ Chases Nihilistic Swagger but Trips Over Its Own Feet 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z No ambiguity, of either technique or interpretation, is permitted. Review | In the galleries: Crossing the line between aesthetics and science 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z We must work to understand the complex politics of music, even when that means embracing discomfort and ambiguity. When Classical Music Was an Alibi 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Despite the public hoo-ha about nepotism engendered by the recent election, the palpable discomfort with political dynasties and the ambiguity around Ivanka Trump’s role, when it comes to what sells, apparently, lineage matters. Fashion’s Rising Stars: Chips Off the Celebrity Block 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z But I’d like to focus briefly on the life of Billy Robinson and how it points to the ambiguities inherent in most professional magic careers of the time. The real (and more interesting) story behind Woody Allen’s “Magic in the Moonlight” 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z But ambiguity and doubt ultimately rendered the scene psychologically richer. The Power Player of ‘Triangle of Sadness’: Dolly de Leon 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z At least there’s a sliver of ambiguity to play with. Happily never after: why we don't need romantic comedy sequels 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z The film is beautifully shot, genuinely terrifying, and few actresses have walked the story’s tightrope of ambiguity as well as Kerr. ‘The Haunting of Bly Manor’ Brings Back the Ghosts of Henry James 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Jealous and treacherous, but with a seed of good, he is an animated Rorschach test whose remarkably expressive features register more shades of ambiguity than I can recall encountering in a Hollywood animated character. Movie Review: ?Puss in Boots? With Antonio Banderas - Review 2011-10-27T21:48:54Z Could you talk about your interest in that ambiguity? ‘Queen of Earth’ (With Movie Trailer): Alex Ross Perry Narrates a Scene 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z That same sense of ambiguity carries over into other aspects of Guterl’s life, and his story. Reckoning with an Upbringing in a ‘Noah’s Ark’ of a Family, With ‘Two of Every Race’ 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z Skeptics tend to wrestle with the ambiguity of essential oils, which occupy a gray area between perfume and medicine. Essential oils are potent, risky and promising. Here’s what you need to know. 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z The endless renewability of the play results, I think, from the quality that most angers Pinter's detractors: the ambiguity of his writing, which leaves actors leeway. Can you see the same play too many times? 2012-07-24T13:21:31Z Any ambiguity could also have been dealt with by the following exchange: The Walking Dead: season eight, episode five recap – The King, the Widow and Rick 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z The ambiguity turns out to be more like a contradiction, a bending of the rules of perspective. The Server by Tim Parks ? review 2012-05-18T21:51:01Z “The internet makes it hard to end relationships when there is any ambiguity. But this time, I knew not to be in touch.” ‘We were sexually frustrated’: did it work out for people who texted an ex in lockdown? 2020-08-08T04:00:00Z The general aim of writers and directors – and even more so in an opening episode – is to create tension and intrigue, often through deliberate ambiguity about who someone is or what is happening. Television re-runs: only 235 episodes to go 2011-03-06T22:46:00Z “Walkin’ ” or “This Road I’m On” leave no such room for ambiguity. Playlist: New Albums: Neil Young, Thelonious Monk and Shelby Lynne 2013-12-06T21:53:11Z And on Monday night, the libertarian Cato Institute in Washington drew together panelists from thinktanks and the media to delve into the complexities and ambiguities of the show’s politics. Ice and fire: what Game of Thrones can teach us about power politics 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z But there’s no such ambiguity in “The Last Duel.” ‘The Last Duel’ Review: A Medieval Epic in the Age of #MeToo 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z But it seems to me that it occupies just the right in-between land of ambiguity, where life is always messy and it’s often hard to distinguish the adults from the kids. London Theater Journal: 12 and Miserable 2010-07-29T15:47:00Z But Mr. Rosen brings an anguished, dark sincerity to this tricky role, making the ambiguities believable, at least in the moment. | 'Gabriel': World War II Melodrama at Atlantic Theater Company 2010-05-14T03:55:00Z Though ambiguity and the unknowable drive and derange this novel’s characters, I don’t believe Apostol is arguing against the existence of demonstrable fact. A Comic Novel Asks Who Gets to Write the History of the Colonial Philippines 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z It’s a book about ambiguities of all kinds. Two Classic American Novels About the Madness and Beauty of Race 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z It's called The Professionals and it highlights the ambiguity of the term "amateur" when applied to creativity. Finding the sweet spot: writing for amateur pianists 2012-06-08T14:29:09Z And a sculpture by Titos Mabota, from Mozambique, wraps the show up where it started, with ambiguity and questions. ‘Luminós/C/ity.Ordinary Joy’ Opens the Cooper Gallery at Harvard 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z The first and final movements feature more contrapuntal motion and tonal ambiguity. Clara Schumann and Florence Price Get Their Due at Carnegie Hall 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z There is a tonal ambiguity to the bumptious romantic pursuit that follows, a surprisingly tremulous and fragile air, which may be what dismayed critics who were expecting a more conventional drama. Revisiting “Moment by Moment,” Lily Tomlin and John Travolta’s Wrongly Despised 1978 Melodrama 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z “The Leftovers” is intricately imagined, but it also has an off-putting reliance on ambiguity and obfuscation. ‘The Leftovers’: A biblical event leaves a sorrowful mystery Dutton’s work, like James’s and like Keene’s, serves to emphasize the ambiguities of archival proof, restoring historical narratives to what they have perhaps always already been: provoking and serious fantasies, convincing reconstructions, true fictions. How Archival Fiction Upends Our View of History 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z If those possibilities imply that the play’s ambiguities are intriguing or unsettling, don’t be deceived. Theater Review: ?Massacre (Sing to Your Children)? at Rattlestick 2012-04-16T21:52:09Z The genre for which she was best remembered was dubbed film noir, which inclined toward hard-boiled realism, emphasizing the shady underside of human society, replete with ambiguity, cynicism and the ever-present possibility of betrayal. Lizabeth Scott, sultry femme fatale of Hollywood’s film noir, dies at 92 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z After 30 years away from the short story, it is good to have her back, cleareyed and fearless as ever, whispering difficult truths and ambiguities that a less assured writer would feel compelled to shout. Life, and Other Interruptions: A Storyteller Explains ‘Why I Don’t Write’ 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z For her part, Ms. Theron mostly looks hot and color coordinated, with black-and-white outfits that suit her character’s ambiguity. Review: Dressed to Kill, ‘Atomic Blonde’ Also Shoots to Kill 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z A tense tale of disguises and deceptions, “Ballo” is by far the strangest of this collection, a product of Verdi’s middle-period experimentations in emotional ambiguity and sometimes jarring juxtapositions of tone. Review: Before Riccardo Muti Leaves Chicago, a Verdi Farewell 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z But part of her task has been to twist the poetic ambiguity of Ms. Morissette’s lyrics in the service of an original story. Has Alanis Morissette Made the Most Woke Musical Since ‘Hair’? 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z The definition of ambiguity, the woman in the woods will help you, but at what cost? The power of Hannah Waddingham's character Mother Witch in "Hocus Pocus 2" 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z The music pulsates eerily as Nick sings about a childhood train trip, a passage of haunting ambiguity that is barely suggested in the book. Music Review: John Harbison’s ‘Great Gatsby’ Opera at Tanglewood 2013-07-14T19:50:12Z But it's right in line with the film's premise that language is inadequate to convey the ambiguity and pathos of this family's situation. "The Time That Remains": One Arab family in Israel 2011-01-07T02:01:00Z Weaving from Faust to Hamlet, Lan expresses belief in theatre that embraces paradox, ambiguity and complexity. Noises off: Theatre that makes us see differently 2012-05-25T08:35:20Z What set Smiley and his colleagues apart was the moral ambiguity of their exploits, which often placed them at odds with their own consciences. John le Carré is back in fine form — with George Smiley — in 'A Legacy of Spies' 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z “My goal is to talk about imagination and the ambiguity of what you’re looking at.” Thomas Struth's Hyperrealistic Photographs of Disneyland on View at the Marian Goodman Gallery in New York 2014-01-15T05:00:00Z No Pandora, Mr. Ziporyn has deliberately kept a tight seal on the ambiguities. Celebrating A Gift From Bali: Delicious Confusion 2010-10-10T01:30:00Z But I don’t want to say that ambiguity is my forte. Ritesh Batra, director of ‘The Sense of an Ending,’ on graduating to the big league 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z This ambiguity in the editor's code may partly explain the cavalier attitude shown by Rebekah Brooks, chief executive of Murdoch's News International, when she testified about police payoffs before a parliamentary subcommittee in 2003. Police and press: ties under scrutiny in Britain 2011-07-14T17:33:08Z Among Pelecanos’s gifts as a storyteller is that he understands the appeal of moral ambiguity and authentically flawed characters. Review | George Pelecanos has helped make TV great again. His new book reminds us why. 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z Infuriatingly, however, it doesn't arrive, and a plot strand remains untied; we are left feeling this residual mood of vague ambiguity and disquiet is supposed to make up for it. Sound of My Voice – review 2012-08-02T20:45:01Z The children’s intimations of physical violence felt overplayed at times; still, enough ambiguity remained. Music Review: ‘The Turn of the Screw,’ by Opera Moderne, at Symphony Space 2012-05-28T22:04:32Z Everything is challenging in this theater of threat and ambiguity. ‘Youngblood’ review: A novel about the Iraq War from a soldier who was there 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z Such troubling ambiguity is scarcely in evidence in the opening of moments of “The Tricky Part,” directed with delicacy and deliberation by Seth Barrish. Review: Reliving a Childhood Interrupted in ‘The Tricky Part’ 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z On the one hand, adding that level of moral ambiguity to a story called "Hellboy" may have been ill-advised. "Hellboy" needs Guillermo del Toro. 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z Not the ambiguity of unclear information, but of information that doesn’t quite match the world it’s depicting. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z A Family Coming Apart at the Seams Asghar Farhadi’s “Separation,” with its deliberate ambiguities and multiple points of view, looks at the complexities of life in Iran. Awards Season: The Golden Globes 2012-01-13T23:42:11Z A more restless kind of writing, devoid of neatness, riddled with ambiguities and rhetorical flourishes. Theatremakers, don't be coy ? blog about your work 2011-02-18T15:29:17Z Critics have argued for decades over the keenly balanced ambiguities of James’ tale. Just in time for Halloween: An ingenious twist on an old-school ghost story 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z It’s clear by the end that he’s reaching for some kind of ambiguity and resolution for Stanley’s character. ‘The Last Shift’ Review: Passing the Fast-Food Torch 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z This is another classic that has become overfamiliar in other media; the original is rather rich in moral ambiguities, and sometimes discussions of these took us dangerously close to the Ten O'Clock News. Mal Peet's top 10 books to read aloud 2011-08-03T13:08:37Z You might call Faye’s specialty, like the play’s, clarity about moral ambiguity. Review: In ‘Skeleton Crew,’ Making Quick Work of Hard Labor 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z Those who see the Mona Lisa's reputation as exaggerated are refusing to see how formidable her mixture of classical perfection and dreamlike ambiguity actually is; how much is in that smile. Leonardo or Michelangelo: who is the greatest? 2010-03-30T07:00:00Z This juxtaposition suggests other ambiguities, of black men performing, even in daily life, a conspicuous role for public consumption. The Experimental High Notes of “Hale County This Morning, This Evening” 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z His films’ ambiguities and counter-clichés don’t so much challenge verities as muddy conspiratorial waters; it’s a cinema of disinformation masquerading as transgression. The Phony Sexual Transgressions of Paul Verhoeven’s “Elle” 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z There’s none of the poetic ambiguity or psychological penetration of Graham’s finest work, all of which predates 1960. Dance Review: Martha Graham Company in Old and New Works 2014-03-23T22:39:40Z “We demonstrated moral ambiguities and the pathology that leads to the abuses.” The Protests Come for ‘Paw Patrol’ 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z In program notes, Ms. Lash cites her admiration for Bartok and Debussy, whose influences course through “Desire,” from the concision it shares with “Bluebeard’s Castle” to the elusive ambiguity of “Pelléas et Mélisande.” Review: A New Opera Pays Poetic Tribute to the Creative Process 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z The way it went about doing this, by choosing to end on a childlike note of hopeful ambiguity, was sentimental in the extreme. Why Matt Groening's new adult fantasy Disenchantment will find the fun side of hell 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z Ray and Tom are well-developed, red-blooded characters, each with a full load of flaws and ambiguities. ‘The Carrion Birds’: battling for survival in the New Mexican wilderness 2013-04-11T20:42:50Z My altered name is a telling reminder of the power the British wielded over my ancestors and of the ambiguities of the colonial relationship. What’s in my name: tales that cross continents and generations 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z The fluidity of Pittman’s characterization, the way she inhabits Jory’s ambiguities so naturally, enlivens the production while adding to its truthfulness. 'Disgraced' at the Taper: Islam, America and the cloudy prism of perception 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z I’d agree, and add that it’s also one of his most terrifying, which they teased out by building on its harmonic ambiguity for a tension almost as discomfiting as the thought of death itself. One Night, Several String Quartet Premieres 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z She plays with that ambiguity in this plush, elusive nine-minute piece. Ode to Meredith Monk From American Composers Orchestra 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z He was able to retain a guileless, handsome-is-as-handsome-does innocence even in situations that embroiled him in all kinds of interesting ambiguities. An Appraisal: Marvelous Invention of Movie Make-Believe 2010-10-01T23:18:00Z The virtue of this movie is its commitment to political ambiguity and emotional truth. Review: Jon Stewart's Rosewater: Laughing Through the Torture 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z "Helping Hands", about a widow who meets an Iraq war veteran while trying to dispose of her husband's clothing, retains an ambiguity that persists past the deliberately inconclusive last lines. The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares by Joyce Carol Oates – review 2012-12-27T05:59:01Z Now that Ridley has trained loyal viewers to expect a layered approach to moral ambiguity, “American Crime” comes across this time as a much broader story built entirely on cues, hints and nuances. Review | ABC’s striking ‘American Crime’ returns with heavy tales of human exploitation 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z This leaves the door open for a second season, but I hope the story ends right here, leaving us at this point of ambiguity. How Hugh Grant's charming villain who plays the victim embodies 2020 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z He is particularly comfortable portraying bittersweet sexual ambiguity and androgyny, and his vocal agility — this tenor can pull off soprano parts — is the show’s greatest asset. The Drag Queen Overshares, but the Guru Has Something to Hide 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z The short-chapter format also means there isn’t much room for emotional ambiguity or complexity. 2 Graphic-Style Guidebooks to Calm Kids’ Social Butterflies 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z It’s probable that Bausch, here and elsewhere, intended to restore to dance some of the poetic ambiguity that was so striking and baffling in Graham’s choreography in the 1940s. Dance Review: Pina Bausch’s ‘Orpheus and Eurydice’ From Paris Opera Ballet 2012-07-22T20:20:07Z That ambiguity is conveyed here ingeniously: sometimes we see the characters as hand puppets; sometimes we see them portrayed by dancers. Music Review: ‘A Dancer’s Dream’ Includes Orchestra in Stravinsky Ballets 2013-06-28T21:18:49Z But this deliberate ambiguity draws heavily from the book the series is based on, "Fire & Blood" by George R.R. Whose truth? On "House of the Dragon," what is unseen often matters more than what's onscreen 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z The changing social sets in Oakland are, in this movie, creating not just ambiguity but distortion. Review: ‘Blindspotting’ Walks a Tense Line in a Gentrifying Oakland 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z Will time be split between night and the working day without any ambiguities? A Surreal End for an Unforgettable Queen: Pedro Lemebel, 1952-2015 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z Her memoir becomes a dramatic, step-by-step examination of what it means to sustain a life without knowing the consequences of doing so, of tolerating an excruciating level of ambiguity. Review: In ‘Girl in Glass,’ Deanna Fei Shares Her Baby’s Struggles 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z Such ambiguity may benefit the story — it really doesn’t matter — but his goals in meeting Hunter include wanting his autograph and for Hunter to follow him on social media. Fred Durst's "The Fanatic": Even Travolta's overacting can't make this limp thriller any fun 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z You create not a sense of ambiguity but raise questions about what folks believed and why. Welcome to "Narrowsburg," a tiny town conned out of its Hollywood dreams 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Q. Technology and the moral ambiguities it creates is a recurring theme of yours. Adam Johnson, Inspired by Holograms, Humor and Escape 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z Reviewing Ted Hearne’s oblique yet shattering WikiLeaks oratorio “The Source” in October, I wrote in praise of musical, dramatic and political ambiguity, all too rare in art these days. An Argument for Hearing a Work With a Nazi Reference 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z On the other hand, artful ambiguity is a risk. 2020 reads like a TV script. So we asked screenwriters how it should end. 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z That fearlessness extended to his costumes, which were further exercises in contradiction and gender ambiguity. Prince Is Mourned by Fashion World, Which Counted Him as One of Its Own 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z Race and ethnic ambiguity are some of what they mean to explore in this show, which is about the nexus of technology and identity, and the danger that science will erode our humanness. Review: In ‘Assembled Identity,’ They Laugh Alike, They Walk Alike, but They’re Not Twins 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z But it is the musical lack of ambiguity or individuality that also holds "Fallujah" back. Long Beach Opera's 'Fallujah' tackles the Iraq war with authentic anguish 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z That sense of moral ambiguity propels this gripping drama, plunging us into the psychic depths of the traumas that accompany survival. ‘7 Prisoners’ Review: Survival at Any Cost 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z I’ve heard it said, and I think it’s true, that readers love closure, but writers love ambiguity. The Nonsense of an Ending: In Defense of the Middles of Books 2012-01-04T15:58:18Z This context also helps explain the peculiar ambiguities in the camps’ regulatory mixture of anxiety, ruthlessness and flexibility. Museum Review: Heart Mountain Interpretive Learning Center - Review 2011-12-10T00:45:29Z Bartok’s “Bluebeard’s Castle,” first performed in 1918, is a work of such symbolism and ambiguity that almost anything goes in a production. ‘Bluebeard’s Castle’ and ‘Iolanta’ Open at the Met 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z My research on motivation, anxiety and beliefs indicates that language learning improves people’s tolerance of ambiguity, especially when more than one foreign language is involved. Newspeak for the rest of us: Learning a new language can give new insight, improve tolerance 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z The ambiguity of what is really going on is what makes the film so tantalizing. Park Chan-wook's mesmerizing "Decision to Leave" is a dreamy seduction that plays with our trust 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Complexity, ambiguity and paradox may be sweet nectar for historians, but not necessarily for a broad public that tends to prefer grand generalizations, sound bites and contemporary categories into which to shoehorn historical figures. Slaying the Dragon of the Dark Ages 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z There are two clear traditions for representing such killers; in both cases, the power of the films involved depends on a moral ambiguity that lets us identify with the assassin even as we question them. Assassination at the movies 2012-10-04T07:00:02Z There was simply no ambiguity about it, he was the one. Wayne Shorter, a Jazz Hero Whose Goal Was ‘to Fear Nothing’ 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z A member of the audience put his ambiguity differently: "It was very exciting, but it gave me a headache." BBCNOW/Fischer ? review 2011-02-01T18:05:52Z The competition was won by an indistinct jumble of pavilions faced in charred wood that reflects all too well the ambiguities of the Guggenheim’s intentions. Lacking spark 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z We're even told at one point that Galen "used his opposable thumbs" to grip an axe, as if to clear up any ambiguity over whether the protagonist possesses hooves. Dirt by David Vann - review 2012-06-22T21:55:03Z But what she brings to a familiar dramatic theme is a surprising moral ambiguity. Review 2011-01-21T00:42:01Z But he had an edge, an ambiguity, and a gleaming maniacal quality, too. Pete Postlethwaite obituary 2011-01-03T18:27:54Z He designed the entire set — the Cold War battlefield that was painted in shades of gray, with the characters haunted by the moral ambiguity of their work. Perspective | John le Carré didn’t just invent the characters in the foreground of the spy world. He designed the entire set. 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z Like all great art, the piece is filled with paradox and ambiguity. The Rest is Noise festival: what's your favourite piece of 20th-century music? 2012-11-29T20:00:02Z The ambiguity extends to the leadership of Meek, whose motives are questioned in the film as they were in real life. Oregon Frontier, From Under a Bonnet 2011-04-01T20:53:01Z They have to fight to deliver their lines at the right moment, and this imprecision and ambiguity brought the right energy to the scene. "It is always the other who is guilty, never us": Movie "R.M.N." examines what drives xenophobia 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Debussy’s Impressionist music, full of veiled harmonies, blurry textures and emotional ambiguity, hauntingly taps the subliminal stirrings of this mysterious story of a sullen royal family in a timeless, placeless kingdom. ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: Which 20th-Century Masters Will Make the Cut? 2011-01-12T13:43:50Z But for that reason, it’s the closest to melodrama — saved by more ambiguity, as the onstage creator appears to doubt the worth of his art. Review: ‘Shostakovich Trilogy,’ Where Joy and Grief Flourish 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z They sound like good country songs at first, but their ambiguities eventually rise to the surface. Review | Hailey Whitters made the year’s deepest country album. Just look beneath the surface. 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z It’s a time more prone to the certainties of rage than the ambiguities of art. Amy Sillman’s Breakthrough Moment Is Here 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z The textures and rhythmic ambiguities of the piece, which concluded the program, held a listener’s attention for its 23-minute duration. Music Review: American Soundscapes Ensemble at Carnegie Hall 2013-04-29T20:31:54Z In his works, opposites combine and collide; the multiplicity of human experience is represented in music that's volatile, and full of ambiguity and contradiction. Elliott Carter remembered: 'Music seemed to erupt from his very being' 2012-11-06T18:41:42Z But it also feels as if it might be a direct, somewhat panicked reaction to the ambiguities of the story. Review: Taking Another Spooky Hike Up ‘Hanging Rock’ 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z This was a momentous part of our nation's history and we wanted to illustrate the ambiguities, the contradictions, and complexities of this 10-year search. Zero Dark Thirty premiere sparks anti-torture protest 2013-01-09T12:54:21Z But we’re more curious, and more comfortable with artful ambiguity, than “Quince” gives us credit for. ‘Quince’ Review: A Mexican American Tale That Explains Too Much 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z And there is an ambiguity about the characters that keeps viewers wondering: can they be trusted? "They are both lying": Claire Denis on creating ambiguous tension between her "Stars at Noon" lovers 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z No wonder this poetry and its music became the pabulum for Sufi gatherings, where this human-divine ambiguity was the keynote. Songs of the city 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Two of those were by Mr. Copland, who brought a welcome shimmer of harmonic ambiguity to the group, along with an observant calm. Music Review: Greg Osby at the Vanguard, Without Nostalgia 2010-08-04T22:41:00Z Such decisiveness offered a welcome edge of steel to the ambiguity. Alexis Arquette: She's My Brother 2010-05-21T22:00:00Z They're good guy/bad guy adventures as unconcerned with ambiguity as fairy tales. 'November Man' script undercuts Pierce Brosnan's performance 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z As a consequence it has become difficult for filmmakers to make midlevel studio movies for adults that value thought over action, narrative ambiguity over blunt spectacle. Movie Review: ‘Iron Man 3,’ With Robert Downey Jr. 2013-05-02T12:00:01Z The only factor holding it back from the top spot is that it is a little opaque in its intentions, a homage to ambiguity and untrustworthiness that means it feels a little evasive. Stanley Kubrick's best films – ranked! 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z I was intoxicated by the sense of boundless space and ambiguity projected by this disembodied, almost abstract landscape. Hilary Spurling's top 10 unputdownable Chinese books 2010-05-11T10:30:00Z Huston, as he’s followed in Ross’s lenses, is exuberant and expressive, but, like many complex artists, he is also a figure of elusive, iridescent ambiguity. Lillian Ross’s Brilliant Chronicle of the Power Struggle Behind a John Huston Film 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Yet while the book's claustrophobic first-person narration is filled with ambiguities – is Changez an inspiring lecturer or terrorist, is he talking to a CIA agent or a hapless tourist? – the film is more straightforward. Mohsin Hamid 2013-03-26T19:07:18Z Like Mr. Lamar’s album, the finalists are politically charged: Mr. Hearne, always socially conscious, here mashes up texts from Supreme Court decisions to suggest the ambiguities of identity and humanity. Kendrick Lamar Shakes Up the Pulitzer Game: Let’s Discuss 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z “But I don’t want to be didactic. I like ambiguity. I want a world of possibilities suggested by the music.” Myra Melford Builds Anew With an All-Star, All-Woman Quintet 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z This novel about ambiguity and identity issues begins, around its midpoint, to have identity issues of its own. Review: Mat Johnson’s ‘Loving Day’ Takes a Satirical Slant on Racial Identities 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z At the start of its run, many ticketbuyers were walking out; as word spread, people more open to ambiguity began to dominate the audiences, walkouts declined, and the run was actually extended. New York Theater Workshop Rides a Wave With Care 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z One learned to live with fuzziness and ambiguity in a way one never would in life.” Books of The Times: ?The Chemistry of Tears,? a Novel by Peter Carey 2012-05-21T03:47:19Z Together with Thompson and Negga, Hall hauntingly brings to life characters forced to exist in that “not entirely friendly” space, with its cruelties, appearances, ambiguities and hard, merciless truths. ‘Passing’ Review: Black Skin, White Masks 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Mr. Vecchio said the portrait reflected a “dissonance” found in Miller’s work, between the “clarity and the transparentness of the message” and an “ambiguity and grayness about the present.” Designing Arthur Miller: Simple Gestures, Big Ideas 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z His work thrives on destabilization and ambiguity, and in that regard could hardly be further from the fascist mind-set of Trumpism. Donald Trump’s America and the Visions of David Lynch 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Then Cody begins to suspect that Virginia is not actually in Berlin, as she claims, and Mr. Wigon’s film briefly enters a delicious, almost Continental realm of existential ambiguity and obsession. ‘The Heart Machine’ Explores Human Connection 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z All efforts to splice complexity, ambiguity and doubt into the personality of those classic DC Comics heroes — while perhaps laudable in narrative terms — are essentially heretical. Spider-Man and Holden Caulfield: A secret history 2012-07-03T00:00:00Z “Then She Fell” addresses the ambiguity of that relationship, but without drifting into the polluted shallows of pathography. Theater Review: ‘Then She Fell’ at Greenpoint Hospital in Brooklyn 2012-11-30T23:50:54Z Here lay ambiguity, tangibility, the scrutiny of tiny passages of existence abounding in a pastoral field, all with the intensity of fairy tale. He’s a Legend of Contemporary Poetry. There’s Finally a Volume of His Collected Work. 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z There are many ambiguities and no simple explanation: is it a religious allegory, of Old Testament and New, Jewish and Christian? In the Penal Colony; Don Pasquale; La boh?me/Euridice; Chilingirian Quartet 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z Wit—that eerie quick flair, an almost clairvoyant fitted-to-circumstance-ness—sees ambiguity and mines it; it becomes a strategy for negotiating doubleness with grace. How Wit Reveals the Trickster Beauty of Our Garbage World 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z The drama might have been enhanced if he had a bit more moral ambiguity. “The Kill Team” offers atrocities, but little insight into wartime murders of civilians 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z Exploring ambiguity and paradox may not be a particularly American trait. Review | In Maggie Nelson’s ‘On Freedom,’ liberation and entrapment aren’t easy to untangle 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z This tendency to add complexity, ambiguity, and doubt is a troubling feature of Pinker’s rules. Steven Pinker’s Bad Grammar 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z I do not like ambiguity for ambiguity’s sake. Mad Men: 11 things Matthew Weiner revealed about the finale 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Though overtly dramatic and mostly accessible, the music is so inventive and charged with ambiguities that talk of conservative versus experimental approaches to composition seems pointless. Music Review: London Symphony Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall - Review 2011-10-24T21:46:31Z Even the religious songs, with which the recital opened, shimmered with ambiguity. Music Review: Angelika Kirchschlager and Ian Bostridge at Lincoln Center 2013-02-05T22:13:38Z Mackintosh traffics in ambivalence and ambiguity, suitable tools for charting Calla’s hesitant progress toward, if not self-knowledge, at least knowledge of what she is looking for. Review | In Sophie Mackintosh’s dystopian ‘Blue Ticket,’ a woman’s fate is determined by lottery 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z Compared to her series as a whole, Lim’s single portraits are unusual in their ambiguity. Anna Lim’s Vision of Nuclear Anxiety in South Korea 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z Which is a shame; it would be interesting to see some ambiguity or even an agenda with Kidd's work. Tom Hanks' "News of the World" is a toothless throwback Western 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z Cunningham, however, loving ambiguity, also reminded people that he himself grew up in Washington State, near the temperate rain forest of the Pacific Northwest. Dance Review: Jungle Gymnasts on a Farewell Tour 2011-07-11T22:45:25Z They offer narratives of belief, and novelistic narratives make real the ambiguity, the contradiction, the intermittence, even the absurdity and comic irrationality of our intellectual lives. The New Atheism 2011-08-26T21:55:10Z The suggestive colours, ambiguities and painterly richness of their art is a window into the Romantic self.• Gormley goes inside the body, and JRR Tolkien the painter – the week in art 2012-11-30T13:20:26Z Meanwhile, the hypnotic ambiguity of the Bengali language mimicked doublespeak. Summer readings: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell 2011-08-06T08:00:02Z At the same time, its painstakingly calibrated ambiguity leaves it open to spiritual interpretation and political speculation, as is suggested by the exhibition’s final sculpture. Art Review: Jane Alexander’s Work at St. John the Divine 2013-04-25T20:34:53Z Rather than resolve the ambiguity, Mr. Gergiev embraced it, drawing consistently incisive, colorful, richly characterized playing from the inspired orchestra. Music Review: Embracing the Ambiguity of Mahler?s Seventh 2011-02-24T23:27:09Z Then comes the ending, which has an ambiguity and emotional complexity that the writer-director, Christian Papierniak, has done little to earn. Review: Mackenzie Davis Gets ‘Across Town,’ With Diversions 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z It seemed unsurprising that their coupling, especially in such a demented setting, would have a violent edge, and there were some ambiguities during the act itself. ArtsBeat: ‘Game of Thrones’ Recap: Whispers, Threats and Baby Blues 2014-04-28T03:23:02Z The movie’s twists and turns will be somewhat familiar to experienced sci-fi viewers, but Rossi gives them an effective art house bent, and maintains enough ambiguity to create a lingering sense of unease. Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z Can you talk about the ambiguity in your film? Director on "Huda's Salon" recruiting Palestinian women for Secret Service: This is still happening 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z While there’s ambiguity in the story, there’s none regarding Picoult’s passion for Egyptology. Review | In ‘The Book of Two Ways,’ Jodi Picoult delivers another powerful story about heart-wrenching moral choices 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z I’m upset about the deliberate ambiguity about Don’s future. 'Mad Men' Finale: Readers Respond 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z But when Mr. Sakamoto shifted his attention to material from “Playing the Piano,” rich ambiguity ceded to consonance and simplicity. Music Review: Sylvan Sounds, Meant to Be Seen 2010-10-19T22:05:00Z Her background had primed her to appreciate these ambiguities. Simone Leigh, in the World 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z There is a lot of ambiguity about the boundaries between the real and what might be called the Alpine dimensions of interpersonal contact. Movie Review: ‘Alps,’ From Yorgos Lanthimos 2012-07-12T22:31:03Z “The Killing” was renewed for a second season only recently, so I suspect that while the writers were aiming for ambiguity they had really been banking on Richmond as the killer all along. ArtsBeat: The 'Killing' Finale: Clearer Than You Thought 2011-06-20T17:49:34Z But ironically, lawyers and legal ambiguities eventually threatened to overshadow Lee’s life and work. No way to treat an author: How Harper Lee lost control of her legacy. 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z A penchant for visual ambiguity also saves the works from being simply pleasing or pretty. Farah Atassi paintings: Part Picasso and pure catnip for fans of midcentury design 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z It wonders, in other words, if in this TMZ era, ambiguity and secrecy may be the most watchable spectacle of all. Michael Fassbender gets big head in 'Frank' to make point about TMZ era 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z The result is a film that feels lazily compressed and overly literal, suggesting a lamentable discomfort with ambiguity that’s all too common in arthouse-to-mainstream retreads. ‘Goodnight Mommy’ Review: Behind the Mask 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z However, One Mississippi lacks the ambiguity that would make it a truly great show. One Mississippi: Tig Notaro bares her scars in intensely dark comedy 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z The brilliance of “The Babadook,” beyond Ms. Kent’s skillful deployment of the tried-and-true visual and aural techniques of movie horror, lies in its interlocking ambiguities. In ‘The Babadook,’ a Frightfully Unwelcome Guest 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z But the feelings you’ve described offer little room for ambiguity or indeed censure and there’s not a whiff of hysteria about them to my mind. I’m trying to leave my boyfriend but my mother says it’s ‘hysteria’ | Dear Mariella 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z "Pi"'s ambiguities, its contemplation of religious and moral questions, and its nature as a parable made reading the book a rich — if mystifying — experience. 'Beatrice and Virgil': Yann Martel's haunting fable of humans, animals and violence 2010-04-14T21:26:00Z It acknowledges the ambiguities that we're now facing now, and it's a very hard war to identify. Claire Danes switches gears for "Homeland" TV drama 2011-09-30T12:33:45Z It’s the perfect setup for an ending of such delicious ambiguity it was all I could do not to applaud. ‘Resurrection’ Review: Mother of Fears 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z White asparagus brings to mind Dutch still life, as well as pointing to the intractable ambiguity of even the crispest photograph, since it’s so hard not to read these particular examples as French fries. TriBeCa, the New Art Stroll 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z The painting is a pointed rant, but what prevents it from being merely a self-satisfying one is the layered ambiguity of the enterprise. With pointed, political new work, Llyn Foulkes, 82, shows he's far from finished 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z In fact, engrossing ambiguities pervade “Written on Skin.” Review: In ‘Written on Skin,’ George Benjamin Creates an Unusual Love Triangle 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z The book does not grant us a neat, circular ending, and Hershon is not afraid of ambiguity. During a Weekend in the Country, Secrets Simmer Between Old Friends 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z But because they are, also, recognizable objects in their own right, they have a beguiling sort of ambiguity. How to Look at a Basquiat 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z Nichols takes risks with his interpretation but maintains the necessary ambiguity of the situation. Press views: Weisz and Craig in Betrayal 2013-11-04T11:37:56Z Bridges was drawn to it by “the moral ambiguities” of all the characters and the story. 'The American epic': Hollywood's enduring love for the western 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Most of Flight, though, has a character sharpness and an openness to ambiguity that are rare in movies from big studios and commercially savvy directors. Denzel Washington in Flight: A Crash Landing That Soars 2012-10-16T19:00:52Z Scant details are known about his life – just enough to offer a tantalising prospect to a novelist with an eye for ambiguity. Secrecy by Rupert Thomson – review 2013-03-23T15:00:01Z It's hard to fault McCann's fine sentiments, but really memorable fiction requires a little more ambiguity – some more grit in the oyster. TransAtlantic by Colum McCann – review 2013-06-01T07:30:01Z For today's filmmakers, capturing how people relate to one another digitally often involves a lot of messiness, confusion and ambiguity. Hollywood explores the virtues and evils of social media 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z “I hope the atmosphere of the building and the environment promotes an ambiguity of boundaries between various disciplines, between art and architecture in Somerset.” Smiljan Radić’s 2014 Serpentine Pavilion Lands at Hauser & Wirth Somerset 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Adès conveyed the ambiguity while playing with crisp articulation and brio. Music Review | Thomas Ad?s: At Carnegie Hall, Composer Is Keyboard Virtuoso Too 2010-03-29T04:58:00Z What makes the marital dissonance on screen so gripping is the subtle ambiguity of interactions between the couple, which appear mundane but are freighted with significance. Gemma Arterton: ‘Everyone in the industry knows I'm a pain’ 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z In Johnson’s work, the staples of modern literature — irony, ambiguity, complexity — are noticeable only in their absence, like the holes in a chunk of Swiss cheese. Perspective | ‘Who Moved My Cheese’ became a monster hit. Twenty years later, we’re still wondering why. 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z We love Kraftwerk for their immaculate ambiguity about the collision of man and machine. Kraftwerk at Tate Modern, night five: Computer World 2013-02-12T15:13:31Z “I gather from photos,” she wrote, “that they carry ambiguity of appearance to lengths which might satisfy even me.” Review: ‘Living on Paper,’ Seven Decades of Letters From Iris Murdoch 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z Mr. Felton, who played Draco Malfoy in the “Harry Potter” movies, is almost automatically unlikable, with an ice-blue gaze that looks either cruel or crazy and that leaves little room for ambiguity. ‘Murder in the First,’ a New Drama on TNT 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z Mr. McGregor doesn’t tell his story clearly, but its ambiguities are the point. Review: From Tap to Sci-Fi Rites at Ballet Theater Gala 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z But as a marital satire, this cartoonish movie is a blunt instrument, lacking the elegance and ambiguity of perspective seen just recently in “Gone Girl.” Review: In ‘Home Sweet Hell,’ Married Life Isn’t Heaven 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Perhaps to compensate for the tedium of composition and the ambiguity of their motives, literary figures on film are depicted as living strenuous, even strident, lives full of incident and feeling. | 'Young Goethe in Love': ?Young Goethe in Love? - Review 2011-11-03T23:48:59Z It portrays a man who works both for the Gestapo and for the resistance and whose moral ambiguity reflects France’s national divide. French letters 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z In a show that loves to play with moral ambiguity, these were objectively “good” events. 'Game of Thrones' Bends Over Backwards to Give Us a Girl Power Moment 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z To pretend otherwise is the true moral offense, to write as if it were possible to reduce the nuance, the ambiguity, of experience to stark shades of black and white. Literature and the moral question 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z That ambiguity of the sacred and the profane would continue to animate Mr. Koons’s art over the next three decades. Jeff Koons: ‘Jim Beam — J. B. Turner Engine and Six Individual Cars’ 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Characters are drawn in brisk, broad strokes, and with little of the complex ambiguity that fueled the later Harry Potter instalments. Muted enthusiasm for Rowling book 2012-09-27T10:23:32Z The ambiguity of the term, the fact that its definition remains unsettled even among legal scholars, only serves to bolster the position that the rule is arcane. Don’t be a Ted Cruz birther: Liberals should reject the xenophobia behind “natural born” citizenship 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z Zero Dark Thirty's much-discussed ambiguity on the use of torture reflects the film's sympathy for total war on those deemed to be the enemies of what is right. Oscars 2013: what the nominations say about America 2013-02-21T16:00:00Z But despite passages of richness, ambiguity and complexity, especially in the orchestra, the music seldom plumbs the darkest strands of this psychological drama. Review: ‘Marnie’ Stays in the Shadows in Nico Muhly’s Opera 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z The ambiguity of time often creates a poetic implication. “I don’t think as artists we’re supposed to have a very specific mission. . . . We’re supposed to go towards what is meaningless”: Songwriter Ben Folds judges Nat Geo photo competition 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Its moral complexities and political ambiguities are intriguing rather than troubling, its ethical and emotional agonies a diversion from rather than a reflection of our own. Review: ‘Allied’ Uncorks a Favorite Vintage, and Infuses It 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z In a work about ambiguity and repression, this device is an ideal way for Bourne to choreograph layers of simultaneous emotion and reaction. Matthew Bourne's Play Without Words – review 2012-07-15T17:00:02Z But such slick, award-winning cinema isn't about nuance, it's just self-serving moral ambiguity – and in this sense it is a fitting cultural reflection of actual US policy in the Middle East. And the winner is … Islamophobia 2013-01-15T08:30:03Z One unbattered invention, “Perpetual Notion Machine,” is an elaborate interactive device that yields only ambiguity. How are these things not like the others? 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z But the rare moments of ambiguity and uncertainty are the ones that stay with you – and when it works, it works. Inception: confusion can be good 2010-06-04T09:25:00Z Yet, under Mr. Gergiev, who seemed inspired, these players delved beneath the Neo-Classical surfaces of the piece to reveal the ambiguity and intensity within. The Mariinsky in Two All-Russian Programs at Carnegie Hall 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Similar ambiguities apply to the concepts stress, intelligence, and regulation. Science doesn’t know everything 2013-06-02T18:00:00Z Yet each of these things, or groups of things, is a study in complication, a visual essay on the ambiguities that surround conventional notions of measurement, meaning, value and time. Art Review: Alighiero Boetti Retrospective at Museum of Modern Art 2012-06-28T21:40:05Z Of course, there is a bottomless ambiguity in that very Jamesian caveat—“if we but allow the term its full extension”—but that itself is part of the fun. Henry James and the Great Y.A. Debate 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z And where there’s ambiguity in the world, there’s ambiguity in the film. Cover Story: Kathryn Bigelow’s Art of Darkness 2013-01-24T12:35:23Z “M. Butterfly,” the play, always had ambiguity and illusion at its core, and this operatic version tries to break down binaries still further, especially through Song’s character. Review: ‘M. Butterfly’ Metamorphoses Again, as an Opera 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z Across the river the next evening, a similar ambiguity — and loneliness — suffused Mr. Wey’s new work for four performers, which had moments of stunning alignment with its maritime surroundings. River to River Festival Embraces Ambiguity 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z His own fantasy writing has always delighted in ambiguity, in contrast to the nursery-school morality of much of the genre. When Hari Kunzru met Michael Moorcock 2011-02-04T12:05:01Z There was some initial ambiguity around whether the original Kettering Incident – the disappearance of Gillian, the girl in the red coat – was supernatural. The Kettering Incident – do you miss Stranger Things? This will tide you over 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z With his ambiguities and hesitations, his irrepressible gift for self-deprecation, he’d be a natural for the cinematic worlds of Sofia Coppola or Paul Thomas Anderson. The Good and the Bad in “Central Intelligence” 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z The title of Doug Varone’s new dance, “Chapters From a Broken Novel,” would seem to indicate a good deal of ambiguity and space. Dance Review: Weavers Threading a Tale, Chapters 1 Through 20 2011-03-16T21:14:47Z Mr. Slimane attributed his longstanding fascination with androgyny in part to the ambiguities in his first name. Hedi Slimane, Designer Turned Photographer, at the Top of His Game, Again 2011-11-09T23:26:41Z The ending of the play is vexing in its ambiguity. Review: In ‘A Man of Good Hope,’ a Boy Wonders if America Is His Refuge 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z The work of preserving ambiguity is not glossing over something. Ritesh Batra, director of ‘The Sense of an Ending,’ on graduating to the big league 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z So much of the best modern fiction tends towards ambiguity and open-endedness, while increasingly the commercial cinema has a fetish for closure and ends neatly tied. Good book, great film 2011-04-01T10:08:52Z Along the way Pedro retraces his life, summoning up memories that address the ambiguities of his origins. | 'Mysteries of Lisbon': A Portuguese Tale of Time, the Revealer 2011-08-04T22:17:21Z Salon spoke with Moss about life in a city destabilized by the oil industry and the ambiguities of America’s energy explosion. “The roads were cracking, the crime rate was rising”: What happens when fracking takes over your town 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z Where other tales of divine female possession, like Rose Glass’s chilling “Saint Maud,” might cast their prophets as either blessed or delusional, “A Banquet” favors ambiguity. ‘A Banquet’ Review: Starving for a Higher Purpose 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z There’s a lot of ambiguity in that relationship. Taymour Soomro on the Sights, Sounds, and Social Dynamics of Karachi 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z Mr. Lovano, a master of the blurred edge, seemed to savor that touch of ambiguity. Music Review | Joe Lovano and Us Five: Celebrating 75 Years of Grooves in Village 2010-02-26T22:49:00Z Louis C. K. has clearly been influenced by him but is just as happy with ambiguity or confusion. Louis C.K.’s New Special Mines Comedy From the Middle Ground 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z I think there's a tiny note of ambiguity. "Sanditon" boss on that heartbreaking finale, a curious "Bridgerton" connection to and Season 3 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z That ambiguity, the sense of blurry nights bleeding into one another, is echoed in the music, as well. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Kiss Land’ is the Weeknd’s New Album 2013-09-08T21:45:10Z Like any complex revenge tale, "Confessions" comes with a healthy dose of moral ambiguity. Kanae Minato's 'Confessions' hits its mark with a vengeance 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z “There is a lot of ambiguity about the boundaries between the real and what might be called the Alpine dimensions of interpersonal contact,” A. O. Scott wrote in The Times. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Hacksaw Ridge’ and ‘Gone: The Forgotten Women of Ohio’ 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z Here is my system to minimize ambiguity as I eat, honed by trial and error during eight years of travel around the world. Traveling while gluten free: a survival guide 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z With this kind of specificity as his anchor, Hammons became free to dive into the most pregnant ambiguities without ever losing his footing. David Hammons, Body and Soul, at the Drawing Center 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z I think it's more a case of critics who haven't the aesthetic sophistication to process postmodern dramaturgy or ideological ambiguity. Why doesn't Broadway love Enron? 2010-04-29T11:33:00Z “Photographs of a captured country shot through the lens of the captor possess layers of ambiguity too confusing to grasp,” she writes. A Comic Novel Asks Who Gets to Write the History of the Colonial Philippines 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z To Holland's credit she plays this ambiguity with consummate balance, making the eventual acknowledgement that Socha and his wife were awarded "Righteous among the Nations" status by Israel in 1978 all the more powerful. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2012-07-07T23:05:22Z Further ambiguity is provided by her bedside reading matter: the feminist American author "Marilyn French, or something in that style". Could an Abba reunion ever top The Day Before You Came? 2010-09-30T12:42:00Z From the moment William moves into a haunted brownstone, there is no ambiguity as to whether supernatural phenomena are occurring or if there is some sort of afterlife. Hell House 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z This kind of ambiguity is part of the fun: “Taxi” is full of wry jokes, surprising incidents and allusions to Mr. Panahi’s earlier work. Review: In ‘Taxi,’ a Filmmaker Pushes Against Iranian Censorship From Behind the Wheel 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Israel’s policy goes by the Hebrew word amimut, meaning vagueness, opacity or ambiguity. Books of The Times: Vague, Opaque and Ambiguous: Israel?s Hush-Hush Nuclear Policy 2010-10-13T23:25:00Z These works of desperate sadness distill Brahms’s typical ambiguity into the most concentrated of forms. ‘There’s Nothing Quite as Distressing as This Piece’ 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z From an early age, Prince cultivated a certain sexual and racial ambiguity. Prince, mysterious, inventive chameleon of music, dies at 57 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z There’s a lot of ambiguity in this situation, and a lot of possibly unanswerable questions. The Department of Justice vs. the Publishers: Nobody Wins 2012-06-20T10:45:46Z Drenched in ambiguity and wit, it is a strangely comedic drama that casually plays with movie tropes. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2013-05-25T05:00:11Z There was no ambiguity to McCartney’s marathon performance on Saturday. Did rock-and-roll die at Desert Trip? Or did it finally achieve eternal life? 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Lang’s piece invites you to savor the softness and bask in ambiguity. Review: A Whispered Opera Requests Your Close-Up Attention 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z The eight-bar phrase from Opus 110 that Adams obsesses over in the first of the quartet's two movements has a cloud-like floating quality, which was exploited for its ambiguity. John Adams on a big Beethoven kick in San Francisco 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z It's unclear exactly how much the outside world knows about how the girls survived, but one of the most interesting parts of "Yellowjackets" is how it handles ambiguity and duality. The swarming secrets of “Yellowjackets” 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z But if the Bible itself is the heart, then to read it is to enter the Holy of Holies, making it that much harder to accept any normal human ambiguity or inaccuracy in its words. How biblical literalism took root 2011-02-21T10:59:00Z This would be a vigilant democracy, one that is aware of the political ambiguity of communications technologies and the complicity of big business and corporate media in eliminating legal protections on privacy. Julian Assange’s latest wake-up call 2013-04-30T17:42:00Z It’s an ingenious setup that once again illustrates the inherent ambiguity of photography. Love and Loss Through the Photographer’s Lens 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z “There was no duration, no practical details. There were a lot of ambiguities,” said Mr. de Goldschmidt, who in the end kept the piece. It’s the Art Form of the Moment (but It’s a Hard Sell) 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z Mann addresses the ambiguities of the relationship and scratches at its wider meanings in her book and in a section of the exhibition devoted to Gee-Gee. Review | Sally Mann: A great artist who loves tumbling into trouble 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z How far is ambiguity, or ambivalence, a characteristic indicator of greatness in art? A sublime, profound ‘War Requiem’ at SSO | Classical review 2013-06-14T18:03:36Z Mr. Meltzer captures the ambiguity of Wright’s attitude in his fitful music. Music Review: Festival of Song Offers ?Newest Deal? at Merkin Hall 2010-05-05T22:38:00Z When Jackson wrote “It’s Different for Girls,” he flipped a gendered conversation on its head; for girls—and boys, I assume—it’s refreshing, full of new truths and ambiguities. Joe Jackson, Past, Present, and Fast Forward 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Q: “The Sense of an Ending” leaves an exquisite ambiguity as to the resolution of its mystery. Ritesh Batra, director of ‘The Sense of an Ending,’ on graduating to the big league 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z His work holds in balance the tensions between visionary revelation and realism, design and colour, painting and sculpture, showing the ambiguities of his world, on the cusp of the middle ages and modernity. Jan Gossaert's Renaissance ? review 2011-03-04T10:52:10Z As Ben disengages, Dorff’s disarming, laid-back presence draws attention to the character’s ambiguity — he is both a father understandably disturbed by grief and a husband failing to support his wife. Review: In ‘Don’t Go,’ Will a Dad’s Dreams Change Reality? 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Given that relationship, Lewis was an ideal figure to extract more from Ewart about the ambiguities only hinted at in the performance’s staging and program notes. Review: A Contemporary Music Group’s Next Era Begins 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z From the start this music is steeped in ambiguity. Music Review: Embracing the Ambiguity of Mahler?s Seventh 2011-02-24T23:27:09Z “To those of us who remained committed mainly to the exploration of moral distinctions and ambiguities, the feminist analysis may have seemed a particularly narrow and cracked determinism.” Meghan Daum to Millennials: Get off My Lawn 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z Showtime assures us that this fifth season will be the last, but every season of “The Affair” had a way of feeling like a final season — such was the show’s mastery of ambiguity and distance. Review | ‘The Affair’ returns for a final season of old hurts — and a glimpse of the future 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z That switch leaves a residue of ambiguity in this wickedly funny and disturbing satire about America’s confused and confusing attitudes about race. Why write a novel about a race that’s not your own? The case of ‘Ginny Gall’ 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Or is it better, and smarter, to nurture ambiguity, performing innocence through artful ignorance? What Was “The Good Wife” Really About? 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z With “Julius Caesar,” Shakespeare strewed ambiguities like tacks on a highway, creating a play designed to multiply and complicate our responses. Shakespeare Conquers America! Starring Ulysses S. Grant as Desdemona 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z Though hints of Frisell's famous country- impressionism and waltzing momentum were present, this was music far closer to the cool ambiguities of the paintings themselves. Bill Frisell: Sign of Life: Music for the 858 Quartet ? review 2011-08-25T20:46:01Z The ambiguity derives chiefly from the tension between the figures’ ridiculously assertive noses and the refusal enacted by their helmet-hair. Full-frontal absurdity: The world of Louise Bonnet's fleshy, surreal portraits 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z There’s something that about the level of ambiguity and incompleteness offered by both shows that reminds me of prose; both require the listener or reader to fill in the blanks. The Strange Pleasures of Watching Radio 2013-07-24T16:53:29Z He wants the group to take responsibility for the creation of each performance — an ambiguity that can sound almost like a dare to classical music’s traditional structures and hierarchies. 17 Players in Five States, Composing Over the Internet 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z The theme of the film is ambiguity — between true and false, loyalty and betrayal. Director on "Huda's Salon" recruiting Palestinian women for Secret Service: This is still happening 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z In her new collection, Oates may be interested in renovations more than innovations, but readers will find plenty of ambiguity and strangeness to celebrate. The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares by Joyce Carol Oates – review 2012-12-27T05:59:01Z He conveyed the music’s ambiguity where it seems unmistakable, in the second movement, for example, which hovered here between a bucolic dance and a grotesquerie of a scherzo. Music Review: A Visitor Arrives, Armed With a Sprawling Score 2011-02-11T22:52:48Z The quintet already shows the beginnings of Sibelius’s mature style, the folky harmonies and sometimes bewildering rhythmic ambiguity, the sense of careening from chaos to rhapsody. Hearing the Mystery in Sibelius 2011-08-15T21:18:14Z This is not a popular perspective; it asks us to wrestle with ambiguities that we might prefer to leave alone. 'The Brothers' looks at Boston Marathon bombers' motivations 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z The sets, designed by Ms. Chaplin, are among the show’s best features, heightening the ambiguity of illusion. Theater Review: ‘Murmurs’ Brings Slapstick to the Lincoln Center Festival 2013-07-26T20:44:14Z Certainly ellipsis and ambiguity define Kipling's post-1900 work, which, if not modernist itself, travels on a modernist trajectory. A brief survey of the short story part 41: Rudyard Kipling 2012-06-21T11:28:42Z Many documentaries have dealt with real-life ambiguity by making it part of their structure and argument. ‘The Anthrax Attacks’ Review: Strange Behavior and an Incriminating Flask 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z “Mad Men”’s finale borrowed a lot of pages straight from “The Sopranos”’ playbook: Ambiguity, a ritualistic bell, a seemingly tangential set of adventures, and did I mention ambiguity? “Mad Men” finale recap: “Someday, people are going to brag that they worked with you” 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Throughout his long career, Mr. Penn never lost his flair for the spontaneous, his remarkable ability to capture an emotional moment in all of its pulsing ambiguity and messy vitality. Arthur Penn, Director of ?Bonnie and Clyde,? Is Dead 2010-09-29T14:59:00Z That sounds more like good and evil than moral ambiguity. Perspective | John le Carré didn’t just invent the characters in the foreground of the spy world. He designed the entire set. 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z There may be neither irony nor ambiguity in her demonstration of Prokofiev issuing a red flag warning, but she also reveals an indomitable spirit, a vision of what is at risk. An L.A. Phil reminder that but a mile, and fate, separate Disney Hall from skid row 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z Roy Orbison was in the same category, with the additional appeal, to my mind at least, that he wasn’t concerning himself with intergalactic sexual ambiguity. Clive James: ‘If I were a pop star, I’d sing like Johnny Cash’ 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z Secrecy — and an ambiguity about true meaning — will be “Mad Men’s” legacy, a show that is so fussy about verisimilitude that it struggles to reveal its characters and their stories in a plain manner. In TV’s Silver Age, a logjam of shows that are ‘pretty good,’ but not great 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z It's a phrase that can be taken a couple of ways, so to clear up any ambiguity, I specifically refer to the unfortunate gentleman's current state of penury. Chris Moyles is not the first: A history of on-air rants 2010-09-23T16:46:00Z While a tale or two borders on the cryptic, most trigger shadowy epiphanies as they alight on moments of perfect ambiguity or oblique revelation. Karen Joy Fowler's fine new story collection, 'What I Didn't See,' moves from ordinary to fantastical and back 2010-09-29T21:40:00Z This ambiguity reflects the struggle of the wealthy Milanese family in the film to reconcile its values, which are rooted in that era, with the pressures of modern life. The Artistry of Inconspicuous Quality 2010-05-02T18:00:00Z It is a shift from the “no means no” mantra of a generation ago, the idea being that having to give, or ask for, a clear “yes” will help eliminate ambiguity. Campus Sex … With a Syllabus 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z “Between Bodies” seems to use ambiguity strategically, asking us to consider the natural world through different lenses. ‘Between Bodies’ at Henry Art Gallery asks us to consider the natural world through different lenses 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z His compositions, sleek and insinuating, can convey elegant ambiguities of mood. Wayne Shorter, Intrepid Saxophonist and Composer, Dies at 89 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z This limited series shared American Crime’s format, its insistence on moral ambiguity, and, confusingly, two words in its title. Here Are the Best TV Shows of 2016 So Far 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z He was married five times and had a number of girlfriends, but he projected an androgynous ambiguity that led to humiliating and painful encounters. Jimmy Scott, hard-luck singer with a haunting voice, dies at 88 Are we supposed to share our uncertainties with our children or pretend we know all the answers and let them discover their own ambiguities in due time? This Life: For a Child, God?s Back Story 2010-10-15T21:10:00Z “Gloria Bell” is at once obvious and filled with ambiguities, like the raging neighbor upstairs having a nervous breakdown, a man whose violent, mysterious thundering periodically shakes her apartment and equilibrium. ‘Gloria Bell’ Review: Love Is in the Air for a Transcendent Julianne Moore 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z But he was also a cipher operator in the second world war: his crises of "species survival" are never innocent, always freighted with questions and ambiguity. John Wyndham: The unread bestseller 2010-12-20T16:12:31Z Other stories are rendered with such nuanced ambiguity that it’s impossible to extract a moral. Dark Fairy Tales From a Now-Vanished Agrarian Japan 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z While "True Grit" is entertaining, it's also surprisingly lacking in emotional resonance, as well as the intriguing sense of ambiguity that so often permeates Coen pictures. Capsule reviews: 'True Grit,' 'Little Fockers' 2010-12-22T18:47:15Z Those are the ambiguities at play in the film. ‘Chocolat,’ a Biopic in France, Stirs a Discussion About Race 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z But rather than create a black-and-white morality tale, Bahrani focused on the moral ambiguities of fending for oneself and one’s family within a broader system that’s rigged in favor of the big fish. Director Ramin Bahrani on His Housing Drama 99 Homes: It's a 'Thriller With a Humanist Heart' 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Sometimes her abbreviation served as a helpful goad, urging me to glimpse ambiguity and bifurcation where I’d initially seen only straightforwardness. Reading Through Someone Else’s Eyes 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Reality instead offers complexity, ambiguity, doubt and unfairness. The West Memphis Three rewrite their own endings 2011-08-22T22:10:00Z Written between 1942 and 1945, it's a piece full of ambiguities that uses music from an abandoned Hollywood film score to look at war-torn Europe and the Allied victory. Prom 53: GMJO/Davis ? review 2011-08-25T09:59:05Z More likely the ambiguities of “Theodora,” depicting characters caught in moral, religious and civic confusion, may have failed to engage Handel’s original audience. Review: ‘Theodora,’ Once a Handel Flop, Is Celebrated Anew 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z In your version, the ending is bleak but also allows for some ambiguity. Edward St. Aubyn on the Challenge of Reimagining Shakespeare 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z There’s no more ambiguity than that in the music, either. Los Angeles’s Thriving Jazz Scene Produces Four New Albums 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z The work ends, beautifully, on a note of ambiguity: Johnson and Quintero crawling to the sound of a surf report. Finding a Home at La MaMa Moves! 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z His impatience -- and absolute lack of ambiguity -- is startling. What assisted suicide really looks like 2011-05-25T15:01:00Z Such examples haunt the exhibition, which emphasizes ambiguities, transformations and uncertainties. Critic?s Notebook: Museum of the Confederacy and Others Depict the ?Lost Cause? 2011-12-05T23:01:15Z Her stories, like all great stories, lead us into that uncomfortable holy of holies: ambiguity. Grace Paley, the Saint of Seeing 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z But it is here that all ambiguity flies out of his own prose. In Searching Essays, Knausgaard Extols the Freedom and Limitations of Art 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z That zone of ambiguity is what sets “Key & Peele” apart — it leaves us to read the cultural cues ourselves, and isn’t that concerned if we can’t keep up. In ‘Key & Peele’ Season Premiere, a Shift in Tone and Volume 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z Moral ambiguity reigns, and the series makes viewers ask themselves uncomfortable questions. Need to Escape? Stream These 12 Great Foreign-Language TV Shows 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z "Part of the fantastic appeal of the White Stripes was the ambiguity of their relationship," she says, arguing that such bands changed attitudes. Til musical differences do us part 2011-02-10T21:29:00Z Contradictions, ambiguities, unstable and multiple meanings: art writing needs to find a way of dealing with these things, Levine argues, just as other English-language critical discourses learned to, under the same French influences. A user's guide to art-speak 2013-01-27T19:00:02Z Since his earliest days, he’s privileged ambiguity and personal compromise in his conclusions, allowing victory and failure only in partial measures. The Irishman: the murder, the women, the ending – discuss with spoilers 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z The ambiguity that made the first season intriguing is largely gone, replaced by straightforward psychological drama that reinforces your suspicion that the show’s strengths lay in the puzzle, not the psychology. Season 2 of ‘Mr. Robot’ Turns Inward From the Cyberworld 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z In response, Lerner goes back and forth on Whitman’s ambiguities -- his “belief in american exceptionalism” and his abiding individualism, his “utopian corporate vision” and his “secular radicalism,” the two sides of one rhetorical self. Brevity is the soul of 'The Honest Pint,' a broadside on poetics 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z Stone clearly longs to invest these characters with emotional and moral ambiguity, and to craft a tale whose heroes and villains are never entirely clear. "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps": Gekko's back! 2010-05-14T15:15:00Z Although the author focuses on the high points of Gandhi's life, he attempts to show his human side by illuminating the trials, ambiguities and eccentricities of the man. 'Great Soul': Joseph Lelyveld tells Mahatma Gandhi's larger-than-life story 2011-04-06T22:21:04Z And structural ambiguity, so characteristic of Cunningham, pervades basic compositional factors of Mr. Petronio’s piece. Review: Stephen Petronio’s ‘Bloodlines’ 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z It brings to mind the ambiguity in the project of Kehinde Wiley, whose years of situating everyday black men into settings of colonial wealth culminated in his portrait of the first black President. What It Means When Beyoncé and Jay-Z Take Over the Louvre 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Will it help to know this has as much ambiguity as all those other yarns, even if it is ficitional? American Crime: the first must-watch TV show of 2016 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z “Do not travel to Bolivia due to civil unrest,” the agency states without ambiguity. Is it safe to travel to Hong Kong? I went to find out. 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z The more uncomfortable truth may be that the ambiguity of classical musicians’ status under Nazism makes them prime examples of “implicated subjects,” to use the theorist Michael Rothberg’s phrase. When Classical Music Was an Alibi 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z The film explores the sickness of the soul and repression, which the nuanced Greyeyes delivers with tension and a sense of moral ambiguity in every scene. These MVPs of television delivered greatness in a year that almost broke us 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z Sounding softly immaculate one moment, commandingly dense the next, he suggests the ambiguities of this strange character, neither Tannhäuser’s friend nor really his foe. Review: A Writhing, Emotional Revival of Wagner’s ‘Tannhäuser’ 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Such uncertainty generates stress, Boss said, and “coping with stress, coping with ambiguity, is especially hard.” Politics and conspiracy theories are fracturing relationships. Here’s how to grieve those broken bonds. 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z Another academic, Paul Clements, discusses the band’s “outside hip” and “representational ambiguity” for the journal Leisure Studies. Reading Steely Dan: The lyrical genius that helped define a decade 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z As is to be expected, the museum explains its goal in pleasantly opaque artspeak: they seek to “reveal the energy that inhabits these artists, but also their questioning, their ambiguities or their paradoxes.” Contemplating Art, and Its Sideshow 2010-06-15T12:00:00Z For legal experts, the trial put an unusually public prism on the ambiguities in such cases: the challenge to women’s credibility, the legal presumption of innocence, inconsistent police procedures and the science of memory itself. A Post-Cosby-Trial Question: Is the System Stacked Against Women? 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z And “Lonesome Cowboy” is too tightly wound to find its way into any of the true ambiguities of masculine identity. Dance Review: The Methods of Maleness, Kilts Included 2011-01-07T21:47:47Z The themes powering "JMM" pierce through any ambiguity about how much of Jimmy remains in Saul Goodman by the time Walter White gets his hooks into him in "Breaking Bad." "Better Call Saul" and the two faces of JMM 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z Three-dimensional mass dissolves into two-dimensional planes, which skirt the conceptual ambiguity of a line as a point moving through space. Where yellow means go, and go now: LACMA's standout show on '60s Dwan Gallery 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z The film, from 1977, is the rare big-budget blockbuster to display a poetic touch and, perhaps even odder nowadays, a sense of brooding ambiguity that still allows for hopefulness. The World’s Greatest Directors Have Their Own Streaming Lists 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z The musical language draws from contrasting styles with intriguing ambiguity. Matthias Pintscher Conducts in the NY Phil Biennial 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z It was such a refreshing change from the ambiguity I’d suffered through with all of the men I’d been attracted to in New York. Auditioning for the Role of Boyfriend 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z In the context of all this heady ambiguity, Manna’s sculptures, a series of large ceramic boxes with slick finishes, work fairly well. In Jumana Manna’s Film, a Wild Plant Crosses the Political Line 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Instead, the unnamed narrator emerges to find himself alive and alone in the world, after an apocalyptic ambiguity he refers to as “the Event.” It’s the End of Humanity. Maybe It’s for the Best. 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z And no one had a nimbler and more assured sarcastic voice, which he used to find humor in ambiguity. Here’s Why Norm Macdonald Was Comedy Royalty. It’s Not ‘S.N.L.’ 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z “The French need to come to terms with the ambiguities of their history.” Le Corbusier’s Architecture and His Politics Are Revisited 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z Perhaps that’s why the bystander’s predicament has lent itself so handily to comedy, particularly the kind of dark prestige dramedies that make moral and sexual ambiguity their playgrounds. Hollywood Harassment Was an Open Secret. But TV Comedies Took It On. 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z When people say “him,” chances are they mean, well, him, and to dispel any ambiguity they sometimes double up the masculine pronoun. ‘Loro’ Review: A Corrupt Leader, and the People Who Love Him 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z In this know-it-all age of thought-leader messiahs and thumb-taunting Twitter Torquemadas, Russo places his faith in the ideals of art — ambiguity, paradox, heresy, the sublime — over the black-and-white ideologies of our current politics. What Do Mark Twain, Carpentry and Commodes Have in Common? 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z “Yellowface” is a kind of Art Monster story, but one that can’t allow room for ambiguity or revelation without rushing in to fill that space. Her Novel Became a Best Seller. The Trouble: The Manuscript Was Stolen. 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z When we think of Nordic noir, we tend to associate it with moral ambiguity, oblique social commentary and gloomy locales. What’s on TV Monday: ‘And She Could Be Next’ and ‘The Sommerdahl Murders’ 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z But the ambiguity reflects a theme at the heart of “Fences”: Rose’s fight for centrality in her own story. Oscar Spotlight: The Actresses 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Reynor told USA Today the ambiguity of the film’s ending is what he loved most. "Midsommar" ending: Ari Aster and Florence Pugh disagree over that insane final twist 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z For that podcast, there’s a measure of ambiguity. In ‘The Jinx,’ Andrew Jarecki takes on a real-life mystery 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Many admirers, of which I am one, write about the flatness of her figures or the ambiguity of their emotions or situations. Fay Jones’ awkwardly magical, mysterious paintings 2013-11-29T15:01:24Z "But on the other hand, the cause isn't helped by my ambiguity or qualms." Alexei Sayle: How?Stalin stole my?childhood 2011-08-11T20:00:02Z At a time when Vietnam was largely an unmentionable word in mainstream entertainment, Mr. Rabe, an Army veteran who served 11 months there, dragged the war’s moral ambiguities onstage, kicking, screaming and spitting blood. Holly Hunter and Bill Pullman in David Rabe's 'Sticks and Bones' 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z The intoxication of “Dance Nation” was the ambiguity between child and performer — the poetic text required the costumes to support the hopefulness of youth while honoring the maturity of the performers. Theater’s Latest Prompt: Don’t Act Your Age! 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z The tone of “Dragged Across Concrete” suggests a faux-Hemingwayesque minimalism without Hemingway’s dandyishness, ambiguity, irony, or sense of vast implication; his movie is all tip and no iceberg. “Dragged Across Concrete,” Reviewed: A Stylish, Repugnant Crime Thriller Starring Mel Gibson 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z That was one of the ambiguities of the film. Simon Rex on playing a washed-up porn star in "Red Rocket": "He's an aging narcissist " 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Yet the movie finally punts on grappling with its ambiguities. Review: Transfusion and Transference in ‘The Children Act’ 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z Thanks to a board book’s simple and spare language, ambiguity reigns, releasing other, equally plausible meanings. The Hidden Depths of Sandra Boynton’s Board Books 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Even if I accept that Bruce is moving in the Pete Seeger tradition, there’s no ambiguity in Seeger’s vision, political or aesthetic. Music: Pareles and Caramanica on Springsteen?s ?Wrecking Ball? 2012-03-02T21:32:35Z Scholars may disagree, but in Wheeldon’s mind, and his ballet, there’s little ambiguity in the ending and the clear message of forgiveness it presents. ‘The Winter’s Tale’: The blockbuster ballet that almost wasn’t 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z There is enough ambiguity built in the story to leave me wondering exactly why no one helped poor old Black. Not the Booker prize 2012: The Casablanca Case by Simon Swift 2012-10-03T10:07:25Z Maher nodded to the ambiguity, but added, due to the use of AK-47s and suicide vests, “It’s probably not the Amish.” Later this morning, it was reported that ISIS claimed responsibility for the attacks. Bill Maher’s moral superiority: Grandstanding on Islam and political correctness while tragedy in Paris unfolds 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z But her supply of complex characters and subtle, vivid scenes was inexhaustible and she caught the ambiguities of human behaviour and the pleasures of the senses in precise, perfect words. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala obituary 2013-04-03T15:24:01Z Mr. Modiano has examined some of the same questions as Mr. Paxton, exploring the moral ambiguities of Parisians during the war — what they revealed and what they kept hidden, what they did to survive. Patrick Modiano, an Author of Paris Mysteries, Keeps His Own 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z How could we possibly trust any creature that comes into the world wearing such a caul of ambiguity? The Ill-Defined Plot 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z The degree to which the music is ironic — its bubbly passages even politically subversive — is unclear, a familiar ambiguity from a composer adept at playing all the angles. Review: The Philharmonic’s Conductor Returns to His Perch 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z The short is full of ambiguity; it prompts viewers to consider what may or may not be happening. Unsettling "Madre" plays with perception of madness to examine a woman "clinging to the impossible" 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z Even American Sniper had more moral ambiguity—far more, in fact—than does this simple celebration of Swagger’s talents. USA Network Pulls 'Shooter'—But Would It Ever Have Been Appropriate? 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z There is no ambiguity about the attack on culture that started this weekend. Will anyone save Timbuktu from Islamist tomb raiders? 2012-07-02T11:56:11Z It was an object lesson in ambiguity, one that not all spectators were equipped to handle. A Fine Italian Hand 2010-10-11T18:30:00Z “The studies he cited are well-known and have been interpreted in a lot of different ways. I wanted to see if he’d acknowledge that ambiguity.” Clashes in the White House press room are riveting. But how far is too far? 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z All this to say that I tried to put that mystery into “Fates and Furies,” but also the deep ambiguity and flux of marriage. This Week in Fiction: Lauren Groff 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z Britten’s “The Turn of the Screw” is a fascinating adaptation of James’ story, one which necessarily has to make choices about things that draw their power in the text from ambiguity. Meet the 13- and 14-year-old boys starring in Seattle Opera’s ‘Turn of the Screw’ 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Did you think about the moral ambiguity of playing President Fitzgerald Grant III, this complicated, Republican president who is really very left-leaning, in the age of Obama? The Gladiators of ‘Scandal’ Leave the Arena 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z “No one’s heart was dragged through emotional ambiguity more than mine.” Voice of George Michael returns with remix of 'Fantasy' 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z The two pianos do not portray individual characters, but there are two interpreters, and intriguing psychological ambiguities inevitably ensue. Spectacular start to Piano Spheres' 21st season 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z Lead characters are now being written with a little more fluidity to their natures, creating a certain moral ambiguity. Drama: When TV heroes go bad, it's a good thing, these actors say 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z As Mike pivots from moral ambiguity to righteous heroism, Mr. Neeson looks increasingly tired. Review: ‘The Commuter’ Has Panic, Paranoia and Punches. Liam Neeson Too. 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Plus: photography that touches on the ambiguities of gender, surreal embroideries and paper puppet theaters. Datebook: Art inspired by Octavia Butler, photos that get gender-ambiguous, revisiting a Bay Area group 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z But Bannon, a former Goldman Sachs investment banker whose doc on the financial crisis, Generation Zero, managed to blame liberal policies and not Goldman Sachs, doesn't truck in delicate ironies or political ambiguities. The Undefeated: Her Holiness Sarah Palin 2011-07-15T08:55:00Z “And, of course, we go back and take another look. If there’s any ambiguity, we reach out to the reviewer to ask their intent.” Think ‘The Emoji Movie’ Got Bad Reviews? Check Out These Stinkers. 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z He was not one to frolic in ambiguity or irony. Mark Fisher’s “K-Punk” and the Futures That Have Never Arrived 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z There are depths and shaded ambiguities to the Schubert and to Mr. LaBrie’s impassioned singing that the choreography, fluent yet almost anonymous in style, doesn’t touch. Jessica Lang’s ‘The Wanderer,’ a Premiere at BAM 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z The line between good and evil is clear, but that doesn’t banish moral ambiguity or save the righteous from guilt. ‘The Little Things’ Review: Good Old-Fashioned Police Work 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z Initially, s/he is raised as a girl, but during adolescence her sexual ambiguity is revealed by a medical examination. Sam Mills' top 10 fictional sex changes 2013-03-20T13:54:52Z Still, Mr. Esbjornson stages the play’s open ending with darkly resonant ambiguity. | 'Measure for Measure': Hold Onto Your Morals: Life Is Tough 2011-07-01T02:30:38Z When many artists and institutions have shied from the slightest ambiguity around race, sex or childhood, Ray has pushed further, in the Met’s other astounding new work, “Sarah Williams.” Charles Ray Is Pushing Sculpture to Its Limit 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z I’m comfortable in this ambiguity, and live there, too: is it a bedtime story or is it life? Cultural Studies: Sharing Her Secrets 2011-03-24T21:13:59Z She is not worried about offending her Florida neighbors with the book, she said, because her friends understand the ambivalence and ambiguity in her stories about this state. Short Stories for Summer Reading 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Confined in Ana’s earnest narration, the story provides no critical distance, no irony, no real thematic ambiguity. Review | In Sue Monk Kidd’s ‘The Book of Longings,’ Jesus has a wife — and behold, she’s so woke! 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z “But that’s a slope I’m comfortable being on. I’m comfortable with ambiguity.” Why the Smithsonian is changing its approach to collecting, starting with the removal of looted Benin treasures 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z And it was also particularly riveting because of the ambiguity of the pauses. Waiting for Murdoch 2011-07-22T18:00:01Z Expect twists, turns and a nagging sense of ambiguity. Netflix and Blizzard: What to Watch During the Storm 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z Even the Kinks' name was laden with a particularly English sexual ambiguity – hinting at behind-closed-doors naughtiness. Readers recommend: songs about mistaken identity ? the results 2011-01-27T17:21:22Z Mr. Nolan’s idea of the mind is too literal, too logical, too rule bound to allow the full measure of madness — the risk of real confusion, of delirium, of ineffable ambiguity — that this subject requires.” Dvdsdave Kehr: Rain City Woes and Escape in the Desert 2010-12-03T16:01:00Z If there was vagueness in the staging, this in some ways enhanced the dramatic ambiguity at the core of the work, often glossed over in performances. Review: A Dazzling ‘Creation’ Brings Light to Lincoln Center 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z It’s easy for a performer to express the defiance in such a song, but difficult to locate the ambiguity and pathos, which Ms. Herman’s singing failed to do on Sunday evening. Music Review: Tunes to Help Gray Skies Clear Up 2011-05-16T20:58:29Z Such ambiguity may be too nuanced for the push to war. Film: ?Tillman Story? and ?A Film Unfinished,? Wartime Lies 2010-08-13T21:36:00Z “It was clear to the actors that they should not act out any changes. We talked about ambiguity and also about the ideas that build up in your mind about other people’s behaviour,” said Hausner. It’s ‘Day of the Triffids’ for today’s Britain, but with antidepressants as the monster 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z But viewers who stick around will come to know Olive better and more deeply in what is essentially a four-hour portrait that relishes both complexity and ambiguity. In HBO’s ‘Olive Kitteridge,’ the power of negative thinking A connection is drawn, for example, between the ambiguities in Hedwig’s sexual identity and the partition of the country of his/her birth. Decades later, ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ is still bold and fresh 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z During much of the work, first performed on Wednesday night at Dance Theater Workshop, Ms. Bartosik juxtaposes the hazy ambiguities of memory with formal structures. 2010-02-06T06:48:00Z Throughout HEAL, there’s astoundingly little ambiguity as he sings clearly and frankly. REVIEW: The Musical Reinvention of Strand of Oaks 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z Spontaneity and ambiguity remain her mortal enemies, and across 18 tracks, she vanquishes them 18 different ways. Taylor Swift's 'Lover' album review: The pop star keeps getting older without growing up - The Washington Post 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z Then again, maybe not; it’s hard to know, exactly, because of the film’s sly ambiguity, which is part of its pleasure, and because Welles did not actually finish it. Review: ‘The Other Side of the Wind’ Is Orson Welles’s Haunted Hall of Mirrors 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Of course, you can eliminate all ambiguity by embracing the subjectivity. Was 1971 the Year ‘Music Changed Everything’? 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z Emotional ambiguity has been one of her great strengths in the past — on “Golden Hour,” her space-cookie deadpan made uncomplicated lyrics about feeling “happy and sad at the same time” resonate like cosmogonic poetry. Review | Kacey Musgraves made a divorce album that sounds like easy-listening 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z Someone with a high tolerance of ambiguity finds unfamiliar situations exciting, rather than frightening. Newspeak for the rest of us: Learning a new language can give new insight, improve tolerance 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z The role of the critic, Scott says, is to resist the manufactured consensus—to interrogate the successful, to exalt the unknown, to argue for ambiguity and complexity. The Fate of the Critic in the Clickbait Age 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z It is deaf to irony, metaphor, satire, allegory, provocation, ambiguity, contrariness. Salman Rushdie not first novelist to suffer assassination attempt by someone who hadn’t read book 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z Two decades ago, Maureen Gallace emerged making small landscape paintings whose implicit awkwardness avoided the bucolic, replacing it with an unsettling ambiguity. Maureen Gallace, Small Landscapes Big on Ambiguity 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Key works, however, revolve around the great difficulty and even moral ambiguity of mystic retreat or, at the very least, the excess of idealism. Peter Sellars jump-starts the conversation at the Ojai Music Festival 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Ms. Ruhl, whose works include “Eurydice” and “The Clean House,” is celebrated for capitalizing on such ambiguity and for blurring boundaries between myth and reality, poetry and prose and even animal and human. Review: Plunging Into Polyamory With ‘How to Transcend a Happy Marriage’ 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z I did recently see “A Most Wanted Man,” and it did capture the ambiguities and the waiting. Valerie Plame: Most female spies in pop culture are gun-wielding eye candy 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z Written during a particularly trying period, its overcast songs largely deal with loss and heartbreak on several fronts, getting personal and political with just the right amount of open-armed lyrical ambiguity. Black Belt Eagle Scout pushes for representation with intrinsically Northwest indie rock 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Even when her subjects are dwarfed by their tapestries, their furniture, their throw pillows, their sweeping vistas, there is never any ambiguity about the relationship. A Spotlight on the Season’s Top Photography Books 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Brick is mourning the death of good friend Skipper and the ambiguity of their relationship, which not only haunts him but Maggie as well. Review: A noisy 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' distracts 2013-01-18T01:32:11Z He greets an opera of unmatched ambiguity with a web of associations. Review: An Operatic Locavore Consumes the English Countryside 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z As he sees it, the Audible adaptation hasn’t required him to compromise the audacity, the ambiguity or the endearing strangeness of the comics. Sweet Dreams: Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman Becomes an Audio Drama 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z 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. Barry Unsworth, Booker prizewinner, dies at 81 2012-06-08T10:54:11Z In a nation where martyrs for independence are still revered and sclerotic revolutionary leaders have ruthlessly held power for more than half a century, ambiguity and subtle distinctions are unwelcome. An Algerian novelist takes on Camus in ‘The Meursault Investigation’ 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z The filmmakers sought to emphasize the story’s ambiguities and complications, Burns said. Ken Burns Explores America’s Inaction During the Holocaust 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z It might have been the very ambiguity of the imagery in the Labors that led to the most painful episode of Spafford’s career. Michael Spafford, one of Seattle’s most respected artists, dies at age 86 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z I admire the simplicity of Johnny's delivery and arrangements and the moral ambiguity in his storytelling; sometimes sacred, sometimes profane,always entertaining. 'I have a tattoo of Bruce Springsteen wearing 3D glasses on my leg' 2011-02-08T11:56:00Z He’s enjoying the process in all of its ambiguity. Neil Greenberg’s New Dance ‘Betsy’ Is a Wild Child 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z The play's ambiguity is at the heart of its fascination for modern audiences. Faustus doctored as Marlowe gets a monster-inspired makeover 2013-02-28T12:47:03Z On the second date, about two weeks later, there was no ambiguity. The Right Answer to a Different Question 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z That series highlighted the ambiguity that still shrouds the band. Music Review: Opening for the Eagles, the Dixie Chicks Are Cautious 2010-06-11T22:56:00Z That’s the thing about these journeys – they end, in less time and with less ambiguity than other, greater challenges of parenting. Flying with my toddler is easy 2012-08-31T23:30:00Z The result is moral ambiguity at the level of the book’s form rather than its content. Sex in the Mirror 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z It deals with death and, perhaps more challenging, is shot through with ambiguity. Review: ‘Aging Magician,’ a Fable Complete With Complexities 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z That switch leaves a residue of ambiguity in this wickedly funny and disturbing satire about America’s confused and confusing attitudes about race. Why write a novel about a race that’s not your own? The case of ‘Ginny Gall’ 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Her jazzy new geometric-gestural paintings, which are fierce of color and thick of paint applied with zealous offhandedness, demonstrate commitment issues and an insouciant ambiguity that is very fashionable. Art in Review: IDA EKBLAD 2011-10-06T20:59:39Z Numerous stories anticipate the moral ambiguity of Chekhov's mature work, in particular "A Singular Occurrence". A brief survey of the short story part 47: Machado 2013-03-01T15:28:24Z “Conservatives exhibit stronger preferences for order, structure, and closure, and greater intolerance of ambiguity in comparison with liberals.” Study: Liberals, conservatives see mixed-race people differently 2013-06-09T14:00:00Z He is filled with ambiguities – he is well-meaning as well as pompous, oddly kind as well as superior, nervous as well as resentful. Joyce's Dublin: city of dreamers and chancers 2012-06-15T21:55:00Z This is not to say that programming isn’t troubled by its own mysteries, its own illegibilities; it’s just that, unlike the ambiguities of literature, these are bugs rather than features. How to Understand Your Computer 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z Only time will tell: Such are the ambiguities of acoustics. The Philharmonic Tests Its New Home With the Classics 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z I got my first publishing deal with Faber back in 2005 by pretending to be a man, capitalising on the androgynous ambiguity of my name, for my book was aimed at male readers. Sam Mills' top 10 fictional sex changes 2013-03-20T13:54:52Z There is no ambiguity in the “Irishman,” though: De Niro shoots Pacino twice. ‘The Irishman’ tells us who killed Jimmy Hoffa. A lawyer with a secret trove of documents says the movie got it wrong. 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z Cleverly playing with our sympathies, Gaynord, in his feature debut, stirs upper-class twittery and working-class pragmatism into scenes prickling with ambiguity. ‘All My Friends Hate Me’ Review: Party Animals 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z They now reflect a world where acts of terror can happen anywhere and ambiguity over what to do about it is far more prevalent than actionable absolutes. No one wears a white hat in the uncomfortably real 'A Most Wanted Man' 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z How did you approach that ambiguity with the soundtrack? How ‘I May Destroy You’ Got Its Stunning Soundtrack 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z And yet, at the same time, that essential ambiguity of literature is neither arbitrary nor unclear. Is there any reason to read? 2012-06-08T00:00:00Z Schoenberg’s sumptuous textures elicited beautiful sounds from the players in a performance that, despite its sensuality, moved inexorably toward a finale of ominous ambiguity. Review | NSO program of music from Vienna strikes a chord — from Schoenberg to Beethoven 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z In the dark recesses of ambiguity, this “View” gets captivatingly, devastatingly blurry. The 1955 play topical as ever: ‘View From the Bridge’ revival storms into D.C. 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z The issue of human definition is clearly – to me – central to the work, and thus the ambiguity is crucial. In "Blade Runner," who are the androids and what do they dream of? 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z Wordlessness also lends itself to ambiguity, a vital tool, Ms. Lannaghan said: “At a time where being gay was still pretty undercover, there were all sorts of boundaries being crossed: gender, sex, politics.” London International Mime Festival: Wordless Physicality That Smashes the Glass Box 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z But “Lippy” refuses to traffic even in this kind of sensational ambiguity, though it doesn’t want for disturbing imagery. ‘Lippy,’ a Chilly Play From Ireland's Dead Centre 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z On the contrary, she's superb at freighting innocuous everyday banter with ambiguity and dread. Thrillers – review roundup 2013-04-06T11:00:01Z Despite a politically demanding time, it acts as if ambiguity and discretion were automatically virtues. 22 Art Exhibitions to View in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z I interpret this as a desire to retain a sense of mystery and ambiguity, and these are indeed powerful qualities of “Xenos.” Review | Akram Khan delivers a powerful indictment of war in ‘Xenos’ at the Kennedy Center 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z And she conveys alienation and ambiguity with instruments altered, muffled or played unconventionally in “Spectral Malsconcities” and “Unsettle.” Sharing an Intimate Musical Vision 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z The music at first blush can seem genially nostalgic — until you open your ears to its jolting unsteadiness and darker ambiguities. Review: A ‘Rake’ Takes a Treasured Spot in the Opera Season 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z Eileen Atkins, who also stars in the production, said the play’s ambiguity about which characters may or may not be alive keeps audiences guessing. Patsy’s, a Rat Pack Redoubt, Turns 75 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z Watson is especially thought-provoking on the topic of semicolons and the law, where ambiguity can lead to trouble. Sympathy for the Semicolon 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z The text, the confrontations portrayed and, especially, Honegger’s subtle music capture this Joan’s ambiguities. Review: In ‘Joan of Arc at the Stake,’ Beasts With Burden of Judging 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z But now, here on the backstairs, all ambiguity was washed away by this bad-parent insult. Napoleon on the Backstairs 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z The texts are elusive, acquiring disquieting ambiguity when juxtaposed with a video that Mr. Schramm created at Dr. Walker’s request. A Composer’s Final Work Contains ‘Visions’ of an American Master 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z This shoves the movie away from the narrative ambiguity of Flynn’s novel, in ways that may seem superficial but are actually profound. “Gone Girl”: A dark marriage drama becomes a “battle-of-the-sexes” debate 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z As Akhtar would have it, even the good guys live in a world of moral ambiguity. Review | In Ayad Akhtar’s play about Wall Street’s wicked ways, even the good guys live in a world of moral ambiguity 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z Only in the sense that it demands comfort with ambiguity and the end of certitude, and a certain faith in your own aesthetic compass. At New York Fashion Week, The Last Looks Are Diverse 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Kubrick finally decided against using narration, opting for the ambiguity that was enraging to some viewers, transcendent to others. The Story of a Voice: HAL in ‘2001’ Wasn’t Always So Eerily Calm 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z The saint holds out his sword, perhaps to cut the fabric, but that first reading of the image doesn’t quite resolve its ambiguity. El Greco is focus of two U.S. shows on 400th anniversary of his death The linguistic ambiguity of Canon Law, along with the fact that very few Catholics bother to read it, means that belonging to the church is ill defined. Why millennials are abandoning the Catholic Church 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z Thus Hopkins' initially fascinating Father Lucas, an eccentric, semi- secluded exorcist growing weary in Rome, becomes less compelling once ambiguity is set aside. 'The Rite': Anthony Hopkins is an actor possessed in this cheesy thriller 2011-01-27T22:44:12Z There are so many things going on here which leaves considerable room for interpretation, and multiple readings given all the ambiguity. Alex Garland on birth as horror in "Men" 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z "People had to make their accommodations, and I think that Perkins-Valdez deals with those ambiguities of history quite well." 'Wench,' a novel based on a little-known aspect of slavery, due in paperback Tuesday 2011-01-22T01:10:05Z How did you approach bringing her moral ambiguity to the screen? ‘Kindred’ Creator Wants Viewers to ‘Question Their Assumptions’ 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z Otherwise the show always seems to be reaching for something — a complexity, an ambiguity — that it doesn’t support and doesn’t really need. Review: In ‘Dead to Me’ on Netflix, Widows Make the Best BFFs 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z He was probably aware of the sexual ambiguities that lay behind Hemingway’s macho façade. How Orson Welles’s “The Other Side of the Wind” Was Rescued from Oblivion 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z It had so much to do with the ambiguity about righteousness and points of view. Jeff Bridges Muses on Guns, Trump and Adoration for the Dude 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Andrew Lincoln did fine work signaling Rick’s ambiguity and anxiety without overselling it. 'The Walking Dead' Recap: Has Rick Lost His Hold on the Group? 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z Or, for that matter, any teasing ambiguities or subtleties that might raise exhibitionism to the level of temptation. ‘Funland’ at Museum of Sex Imitates a Carnival Visit 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z Together for the first time, these improvisational masters bring new twists and ambiguities to the meanings of lyricism. This week's new live music 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z It alternates with unfathomable ambiguity conveyed through the women’s thin smiles that are even more threatening than his male sitters’ grimmest expressions. Art: The Gloomy Brilliance of Lucas Cranach 2011-03-04T12:00:05Z Although Palpatine alludes to other Force dyads, he never explicitly states who or what he is referring to, an ambiguity that seems more like an unanswered question than a point meant to be intentionally vague. Force Dyads in "The Rise of Skywalker" 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z Mr. Veggetti honors the ambiguity of the poem by treating the two performers as sides of a single person. NY Phil Biennial Opens With ‘The Raven’ 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z But while phrases and sections of dance are conducted with rigor and energy, it builds up no ambiguity: We always know who these people are and where they’re at with each other. At the Joyce, a Rearranged Theater Brings Mystery and Orthodoxy 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z Its cinematography embodies the ambiguities in the story of an encounter between an elderly professor and a student moonlighting as a call girl. At New York Film Festival, Michael Haneke and Raúl Ruiz 2012-10-02T12:35:42Z His relish for ambiguity is taken as a challenge to those who would pin him down. Nicholas Hytner: With Shakespeare, the play is just a starting point 2013-04-12T09:01:01Z Nonetheless, there’s an odd ambiguity in this ending that radiates its influence and import back throughout the film. “Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising” and Greek Life 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z As the song goes on, the ambiguity of the whole thing becomes clearer. How Saul Williams found courage: “Prince and Bowie liberated me as an artist to be queer” 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z “That ambiguity has followed how south Asians have been characterised in the United States.” From Apu to Master of None: how US pop culture tuned into the south Asian experience 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z What matters to you is initiating a dialogue that acknowledges the ambiguity of this particularly volatile issue. How to argue with your relatives about abortion: A few arguments that don’t work with pro-lifers and some that might 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z Here, Ray and Lawrence reclaim the words in the name of ambiguity. An Obsessive Listen to a Twenty-Five-Year-Old Album 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z But Everything Is Copy does manage to startle with its ambiguity. Here Are the Best TV Shows of 2016 So Far 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z There are two motifs in the play that, in combination, suggest its scope and its improbable combination of the clarity we all hope for and the ambiguity in which we mostly live. Theater Review: ‘Sorry,’ by Richard Nelson, at the Public Theater 2012-11-07T19:53:52Z She was drawn to the thickets of ambiguity and contradiction. The Critic Elizabeth Hardwick Was Very Tough on Biographies. Now Here’s One of Her. 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z “I was surprised it was treated differently. Lest there be any ambiguity, this statement clarifies my intention and feelings.” Woody Allen forced to clarify comments about 'sad' Harvey Weinstein 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z The subtle ambiguity of gray suits Adams’s mind as well as his eye, because life is never as simple as pure black and white. Sunlit Apocalypse: The Imperiled World of Robert Adams 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z Such characters are drawn in brisk, broad strokes, and with little of the complex ambiguity that fueled the later Harry Potter installments. Book Review: ‘The Casual Vacancy’ by J. K. Rowling 2012-09-27T05:00:00Z He didn’t care for metaphors: “They replace genuine uncertainty about the world with semantic ambiguity. A metaphor is a cover-up.” The Two Friends Who Changed How We Think About How We Think 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Tacked on to the poem’s original six books — out of the 12 Spenser planned — it’s a conclusion of startling ambiguity. Looking at Epic Poetry Through 21st-Century Eyes 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z The Sopranos taught Weiner about ambiguity “David Chase said to me: ‘Do you understand it? Mad Men: 11 things Matthew Weiner revealed about the finale 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z This kind of syntactic ambiguity sets off a burst of ethical questions: Where do the borders of a person, and her responsibilities, really begin and end? A Masterpiece That Requires Your Full Attention — and a Lot of Time 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z In a trim tuxedo, with hair slicked back, Walker looks strikingly like Marc Almond, bringing her own layer of gender ambiguity to proceedings. The Girl I Left Behind Me 2010-05-20T21:15:00Z One element devoid of ambiguity, albeit hazily painted, sends an enigmatic message: In the foreground, the dark silhouette of a woman apparently holding a baby rises above the lower edge of the composition. Contemporary Art Works of Often Subtle Beauty 2010-10-08T15:11:00Z Much of the discussion about the ending of "Beef" concerns the violence of the scenes leading up to it and the ending's ambiguity. What makes "Beef" so seductive? Understanding the intimacy of rage sheds light on that ending 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z There are layers of moral ambiguity and questions at every turn. ‘Cold Barrel Zero’: A fast-paced thriller with a final scene set in D.C. 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z This one is filled with ambiguity—who you should be rooting for. How Jeff Bridges built his fascinating body of work: “I tried hard not to develop too strong a persona” 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z In his illuminating book “The Ministry of Truth,” a biography of “1984” and its influence, Dorian Lynskey makes a persuasive case that the novel is structured in a way that heightens its ambiguity. How ‘Orwellian’ Became an All-Purpose Insult 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z He tapped into the ambiguity just below the surface. Music Review: Christian Tetzlaff With the Met Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2012-05-21T22:18:57Z In “Rogue Nation,” the gamesmanship of spycraft turns physical action into life-and-death chess matches and tests of allegiance in which the sacrifice of friends and allies lends a tense ambiguity to the derring-do. The Vacuum-Sealed Efficiency of “Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation” 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z What makes the work so haunting is its ambiguity, its dreamy elusiveness. Paul Taylor’s Canon: Flippant, Savage, Idyllic 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z We are always aware of a tantalizing ambiguity as to why these people commit the crimes they do. Theater Review: ?The Witch of Edmonton?: A Supernatural Subject with Human Urges 2011-02-04T17:00:53Z I am referring to its ambiguities, its contradictions, its connection to the richness and freedom of our inner lives, to beauty and pain, and its ability to speak to confusions within and without. Perspective | In postponing Guston exhibition, the National Gallery and three other museums have made a terrible mistake 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z It's in his moments of pause, his conflicts of thought and his movements toward ambiguity, that we see a fine critical mind at work. Jonathan Lethem on his new mega-literary, meta-literary collection 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z There’s no ambiguity in his pro-book stance, but it’s hard to speak out against one’s parents. David Levithan’s New Middle Grade Novel Tackles Book Banning 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z The audience is entitled to wonder if some of the ambiguity and restraint of Hausner's film was contrived to get official permission for these sequences, but even that possibility has its own subversive fascination. Film review: Lourdes 2010-03-25T22:25:00Z The music opens out from a lone strummed guitar to full band, with harmonic ambiguity built into the chords. The Playlist: Shawn Mendes Shows His Scars, and 9 More New Songs 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z Where the playwright gives too much away on the page, the director cleverly fosters ambiguity in service of a more potent reveal. Review: In ‘Power Strip,’ a Syrian Story Both Bleak and Striking 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z Other composers reveled in similar ambiguity: music that suggested some arc of understanding, while also observing the persistent notes of friction in a relationship. Review: A Pianist’s Inheritance Inspires Little Masterpieces 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z This is not just a matter of seeking out gray areas or mapping ambiguities. An Appraisal: A. O. Scott on Philip Seymour Hoffman 2014-02-03T17:36:07Z At one point, we even get an egregious scene with simultaneous dialog resolving the two separate plots -- it is always preferable to go with truthful ambiguity rather than striving for neat racial equivalencies. Review: Too much noise, not enough truth in Whoopi Goldberg's musical 2011-04-10T18:02:10Z But the script, by Mr. Dekker, spirals into a muddle of ambiguity, leaving only the imagery and the performances to save the movie. Review: For ‘Jack Goes Home,’ Cue the Horror Soundtrack 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z That unrelenting ambiguity is what drew me back to the book earlier this year. The Alternative Facts of Samuel Beckett’s “Watt” 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Fenn’s doggerel had seven times seven types of ambiguity, enough to keep an estimated 100,000 fortune hunters poring over it for a decade. Review | They all think they’re Indiana Jones in ‘Chasing the Thrill,’ a tale of a real-life treasure hunt 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z Ying appears again, briefly, near the end of the book, but none of the relationship’s ambiguity is resolved. The Mysterious Frontiers of Can Xue 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z Sexual identity, like last names, is something they discarded with their old clothes — another ambiguity they ask the world to accept. Mirror Images in the D.J. Booth 2011-01-05T23:22:41Z That may be rational, but it's also dramatically reductive, erasing the teasing ambiguities of Henry James's novella and Myfanwy Piper's libretto, and putting only a rather banal case-study of Victorian female hysteria in their place. The Turn of the Screw - review 2010-10-06T13:30:00Z Tremendous skill can extinguish the ambiguity in music, making everything visible — and everything visible can be scrutinized. The sound and the fury of Kendrick Lamar at the Kennedy Center 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z But there was an intriguing ambiguity between the Le Roy excerpts and the personal material also performed. Xavier Le Roy’s ‘Retrospective’ at MoMA PS1 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z “It’s that moral ambiguity which I think is truer to life. That sometimes we can be a little bit mean.” Keira Knightley: ‘I used to try to be sensible and good and professional’ 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z “Playing with the magic ambiguity of masks represents an occasion to recover the creative roots of our being alive,” the Gucci press release read. Gucci puts on masquerade catwalk as Milan Fashion Week opens 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z The stylistic ambiguity is precisely the point – it gives the project an instability rare for veteran artists with distinctive voices to project and loyal fans to satisfy. Costello, Roots an uneasy alliance 2013-09-13T21:08:00Z "There is a rare subtlety and ambiguity about the piece," says the Telegraph's Charles Spencer, "a mixture of comedy combined with something far darker that resists easy explanation or analysis." What to say about ? The Late Middle Classes 2010-06-04T10:00:00Z It favors empathy over momentum and ambiguity over conclusion. Review | ABC’s striking ‘American Crime’ returns with heavy tales of human exploitation 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z "The Wisdom of Perversity," however, is not about these ambiguities; it is a tale told in black and white. Rafael Ygelesias' 'Wisdom of Perversity' works its way under the skin 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z There’s some Graham Greene in the shifting moral ambiguities in “Peacekeeping.” Review: Mischa Berlinski’s ‘Peacekeeping,’ a Portrait of Haiti 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z What kind of suspense writer would be so reckless as to invoke Henry James’s masterpiece of terror and ambiguity and expect to see her own work do anything but suffer in the comparison? Review | Think you’ve read every twist on the nanny-in-distress novel? Ruth Ware adds a new wrinkle. 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z And now that we’ve gotten an “In a Lonely Place” ending, suffused with ambiguity and melancholy, it’s worth explaining the connection between “The Night Of” and the 1950 noir classic with Humphrey Bogart. ‘The Night Of’ Finale: In a Lonely Place 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z And at the very end the film ventures into the territory of ethical ambiguity. Raavan: Scandal over a Bollywood King Kong 2010-06-24T04:35:00Z But reality nonetheless finds interesting reflections on screen, where even apparently simple stories can be full of ambiguity and contradiction. Film: They Grow Up So Quickly, Don?t They? 2010-07-09T04:31:00Z Unfortunately, the New York Theater Ballet staging rid “Septet” of as many ambiguities as possible. Dance Review: Ridding a Moody Cunningham Work of Ambiguity, One Gesture at a Time 2011-02-14T23:29:10Z The ethical ambiguity of Szmul’s role as Sonderkommando — a “gray zone,” as Primo Levi described it, victim verging on perpetrator — is expiated to a degree by an act of self-sacrifice. Book review: ‘The Zone of Interest,’ by Martin Amis The ambiguity of his position says as much about his poignant inchoate searching as it does Ms. Hogg’s lack of interest in storytelling conventions. ‘Archipelago,’ a Drama by Joanna Hogg 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z But opacity, ambiguity, and the risk of slipping off-message are all carefully and blandly avoided by the movie’s lack of aesthetic self-questioning. The Mild Controversies of “Dear White People” 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z “The Good Wife” had an unusual maturity and moral ambiguity for a broadcast drama; now “The Good Fight” has the expletives to match. Review: On ‘The Good Fight,’ a Lawyer Claws Her Way Back to Normal 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z In any case, for Mr. Ligon, who embraces the logic of ambiguity, heroism is as contingent a category as history, race and gender. Art Review: Messages That Conduct an Electric Charge 2011-03-10T23:09:03Z Fine literature tends to explore the messy ambiguities of existence, and stump speeches — both real and fictional — want no part of ambiguity. Review: ‘Now and Again’: A vibrant novel about the Iraq War and the homefront 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z The possible narratives in the early rounds are far too lacking in the ambiguity required to host such a coming together. The avant garde's got talent. As John Cage proved 2011-01-10T16:33:04Z I’m not wielding the cudgel of post-structuralist theory here; the ambiguity I’m talking about is more like common sense or ordinary understanding. How do we watch Woody’s movies now? 2014-02-08T17:00:00Z Personally, I preferred the smash burger, because the crispness makes up for the lack of juicy center, and there's no ambiguity around the cook time, or fussing with a meat thermometer to avoid freezing centers. The absolute best way to make cheeseburgers 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z I tried to explain that direct communication is the best communication so there is no room for ambiguity.” On the Front Line of Campus Sexual Misconduct 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Goldberg examines the political themes of the Haggadah, at one point recounting the moral ambiguities of holding a Seder in an Israeli army prison camp that held members of Hamas and Fatah. A Thoughtful New Translation of the Haggadah 2012-03-09T22:54:09Z A game offers freedom within a limited system, reducing ambiguity amidst real life's chaos, while still affording the player a sense of control. Should we be playing video games now? 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z He wants viewers to identify with their ancestors, allowing them to ponder the prevalence of moral ambiguity, human willpower and plain dumb luck in shaping the past. Tom Hanks on 'Pacific' HBO Series, World War II, History 2010-03-04T23:55:00Z |
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