| 单词 | ambiguous |
| 例句 | “Lord Cardan told us to be more observant,” I say, hoping that the plausible confusion of an ambiguous command will help to explain the way she’s acting. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The writing was no longer an ambiguous syllabary mixed with logograms but an alphabet borrowed from the Phoenician consonantal alphabet and improved by the Greek invention of vowels. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z "I always feel lousy without shoes," I said with an ambiguous smile. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z My mother tried to explain, yet each time she did I found her explanations vague, cryptic, obscure, ambiguous, enigmatic and too fantastic to be believable. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z "Some things are just too unjust for words," he said, expelling a plume of smoke, "and too ambiguous for either speech or ideas. By the way, have you ever been to the Club Calamus?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The problem with dangling modifiers is that their subjects are inherently ambiguous and sometimes a sentence will inadvertently attract a reader to the wrong choice. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It was this complex and ambiguous inheritance that the Royal Society adopted when it wrote the word into its Statutes. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Instead, it represents an inquiry into class as Americans encounter it: indistinct, ambiguous, the half-seen hand that upon closer examination holds some Americans down while giving others a boost. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Kepler, whose attitude toward astrology remained ambiguous all his life, wondered whether there might be hidden patterns under lying the apparent chaos of daily life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z No surviving medieval plainchant reveals to us that a pulse was intended, and books of theory and instruction are ambiguous on the subject. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z We’re always told not to judge a book by its cover, but there is nothing ambiguous about these two. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Gottman has taught his staff how to read every emotional nuance in people’s facial expressions and how to interpret seemingly ambiguous bits of dialogue. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The ambiguous usages of Noah Biggs and Alexander Ross, discussed earlier, also follow the publication of Hobbes’s Humane Nature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The count decorated it according to his personal taste, with a decadent, ambiguous refinement that startled Blanca, accustomed as she was to country life and her father’s classical sobriety. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “You acquire more of these ambiguous secrets as you age, 3KM. Not less. Get used to them. Who can guess why I'm writing this word...” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z In Paradise Regained, which describes the temptations of Christ in the wilderness, his words are described as “ambiguous and with double sense deluding. ” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Where was my answer, the riddle of the oracle, the ambiguous utterance of prophecy? The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z I find I have a minor, ambiguous reputation, from the show in Toronto, and I am invited to parties. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Chopin’s rich and ambiguous harmonies, interwoven intricately between the hands, looked to the future, leaving behind the primary-colour certainties of Gluck, Mozart, Haydn and early Beethoven once and for all. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The nostalgia is the stronger and the more ambiguous because he is really ‘in quest of his own absconded self yet scared to find it’. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Out of sheer desperation I took a handful, also two ambiguous capsules that had a Drowsiness sticker but which I suspected of being antihistamines. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z 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 It set the precedents, established in palpable fact what the Constitution had only outlined in purposely ambiguous theory, thereby opening up and closing off options for all the history that followed. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z His connection to the Church was always somewhat ambiguous. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Consequently his letters had a certain ambiguous dignity calculated to catch at the imagination of a very special sort of reader. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z “I just don’t know how to handle it. 1 feel so ambiguous. What kind of wishy-washy person am 1 anyway?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But she drew Bloomberg slightly closer to her and gave him an odd, ambiguous little hug. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z And the prose in the memoranda of other officers was always turgid, stilted, or ambiguous. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The intended restricted uses of early writing provided a positive disincentive for devising less ambiguous writing systems. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Offsetting that virtue, Linear B was quite ambiguous. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I was convinced that one day, little old Persian me would get famous and I would get to play her younger, less attractive, somewhat ethnically ambiguous sister in movies. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Ethan finally chimes in with the most ambiguous of all emojis: the grimace. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z The uses of these telegraphic, clumsy, ambiguous early scripts were as restricted as the number of their users. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The term ‘the earth’ was, however, inherently ambiguous. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Others have concluded the planet is lifeless because a preliminary search for a particular manifestation of life has been unsuccessful or ambiguous. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Linear B was inherently so ambiguous that it remained restricted to palace accounts, whose context and limited word choices made the interpretation clear. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Technically, I replied with a very ambiguous emoji.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Many, including the French, offered various ambiguous versions somewhere between the two. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The Sexual Disorders and Gender Identity Clinic, which he founded in 1968, had become the foremost facility in the world for the study and treatment of conditions of ambiguous gender. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z They are as obsolete as the old anecdotes in which they played their puzzling, ambiguous roles, and we have no more need for the beasts than for the stories. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There are other words just as ambiguous as sixteenth-century ‘experience’/‘experiment’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Spencer’s argument is of course ambiguous—has to be ambiguous—as to just when the ‘lower and more servile state of the World’ came to an end. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Finally, an awareness of syntax can help you avoid ambiguous, confusing, and convoluted sentences. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z "Everything in lit is just too...ambiguous, I guess." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z His plan seemed so ambiguous and meaningless now, in front of these uniformed men. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z In this period the word ‘model’ is ambiguous: it can carry the modern meaning but more often it refers to a graphic representation, a plan or drawing. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Easley resisted the urge to say “Excuse me?” because the statement was not ambiguous in any way. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Luce felt that parents weren’t able to cope with an ambiguous gender assignment. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In cases of ambiguous gender, you looked at the gonadal tissue under the microscope. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Such a maddeningly ambiguous choice for that final directive— Travel securely. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z It was apparent right from the start that discovery, priority and originality were ambiguous and, at the limit, incoherent; and that these values conflicted with the obligation to check and check again before publication. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Everything else is ambiguous. Everything else is emotions and hunches. At least the facts you can cling to; the emotions just float away.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Early scripts were incomplete, ambiguous, or complex, or all three. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Is it based on a misdiagnosis of a legitimate problem, such as declaring that a construction which is sometimes ambiguous is always ungrammatical? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The syntax can be defective, convoluted, ambiguous; these are flaws that can be prevented by an awareness of the treelike nature of a sentence. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But when he realized what he was looking for, he was steered towards me, and I certainly agree this is what I do: I’m driven and interested and intrigued by ambiguous storytelling. Prometheus, an Epic Cinematic Puzzle: TIME Talks to the Screenwriter Behind the Secrets 2012-06-08T10:45:57Z A first impression makes the chorus a weighty, urgent, ambiguous frame around three irksomely unimportant tellings of a story that Mr. Taylor seems never to take seriously himself. Dance Review: Enigmatic Choreographer Tells an Enigmatic Tale 2011-02-23T23:22:28Z Barefoot in a billowing violet ball gown, Ms. Menzel, with her dark hair and sharp features, cut a strikingly ambiguous figure. Music Review: Idina Menzel at Carnegie Hall 2013-01-16T18:07:19Z Fertile’s delivery is an ambiguous miracle: both because of the large quantity of babies, and how Davis and Fertile perform an uncertain womanhood. The “Terrorist Drag” of Vaginal Davis 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z Behind a bare platform, austere photographic images were projected on a translucent screen, suffusing a stark black-and-white world in swirls of ambiguous gray. Music Review: In Philadelphia, an Operatic Portrait of a Stepmother for the Ages 2011-06-05T22:02:22Z But his relationship to the work was ambiguous. Recalling the Outlaw Eye of Dash Snow 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z These are creatures from uncertain origin whose interests are often ambiguous. HBO's "The Outsider" to "Wrinkles the Clown" – why the boogeyman is all over our TVs 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z The harmonic writing is piercing and precise; the mood ambiguous, at once pensive and restless. Music Review: Evolution, and a Definitive Endpoint 2011-05-15T21:30:31Z Elsewhere a certain fuzziness eliminates detail and makes the scale of the images — and thus the extent of the damage — ambiguous. Art Review: An Artful Environmental Impact Statement 2011-01-13T22:44:37Z “The original complaint relied on a series of hopelessly ambiguous French colonial decrees,” Sotheby’s said in a statement. Sotheby’s Accused of Deceit in Sale of Khmer Statue 2012-11-14T00:42:13Z Ever since “The Sopranos” ended on a slyly ambiguous note that kept viewers deconstructing it for weeks, shows with artistic ambition cannot come to a mere close. The Tv Watch: High Bar Has Been Set for the Finale of ‘Breaking Bad’ 2013-08-12T02:00:11Z She was the only person of colour in the company, and when they hired me, I took that spot … the ethnically ambiguous person of colour.” Got yourself an all-white panel? Just click on rentaminority.com 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z The ambiguous, inconclusive ending may be the biggest cliche of all. Joe Queenan's guide to sci-fi cliches 2010-10-21T11:00:00Z 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 Ruiz approaches the theme of finality as a riddle-upon-riddle involving assassins, a boardinghouse that begins looking like something from “The Shining,” and an ambiguous deliverance. ‘Night Across the Street’: a surreal, rewarding farewell 2013-04-25T20:44:45Z My character Baby seems extrovert and initially comic - but as the play proceeds he gets more ambiguous. Jez Butterworth's Mojo revived in West End 2013-11-14T10:54:32Z In life as in death, in other words, the king was dual, ambiguous, even paradoxical. Michael Jackson: King of hypochondria 2010-04-23T23:14:00Z It is neither exhaustive, nor definitive, but at least shows, I hope, how marbled and ambiguous darkness is. Darkness in literature: from the Bible to Joyce 2012-12-31T09:14:54Z Yet she also undermines her creations, so that the line between autobiography and fiction remains ambiguous. Theater Review: ‘A Living Documentary,’ a Solo Show at New York Live Arts 2014-03-07T23:19:35Z The denouement may be ambiguous, but the affection and discord rang true. The Carpetbagger: Adapting Big Questions for the Screen 2013-12-18T22:44:56Z Mr. King’s original, ambiguous ending is eliminated so that things can end on a more affirmative note. Television Review: ?Stephen King?s Bag of Bones,? on A&E - Review 2011-12-10T00:29:04Z He thrives on those oversize emotions mentioned above, channeling them into intentionally ambiguous pop documentaries that inhabit a nuanced middle ground between journalism and entertainment. Jack Abramoff, Eliot Spitzer: A tale of two swindlers 2010-05-06T16:01:00Z But they always manage to veer into ambiguous territory. Man of Steel?s Industrial Web, Mirroring Nature 2010-10-15T16:58:00Z In The Letdown, Audrey feels an ambiguous grief, compounded by her mother’s observation that abortion is “a very solitary experience”. Mothers who have abortions: what to do with TV’s third rail? 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z For Stephen – and the reader – life is an ambiguous journey. We Had It So Good by Linda Grant - review 2011-01-30T00:38:01Z It may have been the final act of defiance of a figure whose life and work remain unsettled, ambiguous, compelling and worthy of even more attention. He Was Born Into Slavery, but Achieved Musical Stardom 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z On a more ambiguous note, the research also found that women who read such rags see sex as less risky. Lady mags are empowering? 2012-09-14T23:45:00Z The Heartbeat production is ambiguous about whether she has actually committed suicide. A Radical Redo for ‘Madama Butterfly’ — to Save It? 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z Those qualities are there, most unambiguously, in his bad guys, including the Sheriff of Nottingham in “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves,” in addition to Gruber and the more morally ambiguous Snape. Alan Rickman never disappeared into a role. But that’s what made him great. 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z A. The main character, this Polish guy, was ambiguous, both hero and not hero. Oscar Nominees for Best Foreign-Language Film Discuss Work 2012-02-20T22:38:12Z Louis Dudek, a literary critic who focused on modernist poetry, once described Mr. Hine’s poetry as “a series of extremely recherché, abstract, contrived word forms, containing oblique and ambiguous philosophical essays and meditations.” Daryl Hine, 76, Poet, Editor and Translator 2012-08-25T03:43:30Z There are two sets of film clips of the 1944 original cast; they show, in particular, how much simpler, more obvious and less ambiguous the role of the Bride later became. Dance Review: Martha Graham Company in Old and New Works 2014-03-23T22:39:40Z Can his ambiguous reunion with a pair of identical twins he once liked, at their freshman-orientation sleepover in Ann Arbor, save him from that dismal fate? "Myth of the American Sleepover": An exquisite teenage dream 2011-07-22T23:30:00Z Invest more time, and you'll see plots and relationships unfurling slowly and organically, balanced storylines and a refreshingly grown-up and morally ambiguous take on the cases of the week. The Good Wife: a grown-up affair 2011-01-06T12:27:10Z The mood is wonderfully ambiguous, as is Mr. Shepherd’s pungent harmonic voice. Music Review: Santa Fe Celebration Includes New York 2011-08-12T22:22:50Z The serenade's gracious exuberance founders midway into melancholy, after which the mood remains darkly ambiguous. Stenhammar: Serenade in F Major; Ithaca; Florez and Blanzeflor; Prelude and Bourr?e 2010-10-07T21:20:00Z “Evidence is ambiguous, and scholars disagree,” the exhibition tells us. Critic's Notebook: Buffalo Bill Museum in Wyoming 2012-08-03T19:07:26Z “Androgynous fashion isn’t only about looking boxy, and flow and looking ambiguous,” they said. Beyond Androgyny: Nonbinary Teenage Fashion 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z You hear all possibilities in Schoenberg’s ambiguous, anguished and lyrically rapturous atonal music. Music Review: Who Killed This Woman?s Lover? And Other Elusive Operatic Issues 2011-03-27T22:01:56Z On Saturday evening at the Metropolitan Museum of Art the presence of some storied violins made blurry distinctions even more ambiguous than usual. Music Review: Daniel Hope and Karen Gomyo, Violinists, at Met Museum 2012-12-25T22:09:24Z But there’s a more pressing question: what exactly is at stake in the puzzle of Kafka’s ambiguous eye color? What Color Were Kafka’s Eyes? 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z Dully underlining points about Baker’s relationship with race, it’s more obvious and stolid than the ambiguous music. At Ojai, Peter Sellars Has a Personal Yet Global Playlist 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Many scholars now prefer to see Kaiser Wilhelm’s Germany and Franz Joseph’s Austria as ambiguous laboratories of modernity, where reactionary impulses collided with progressive ones. The Schorske Century 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z "Gorgeous and ambiguous and grips like a hallucination," said another. Top of the Lake a plunge into uncharted waters for BBC 2013-07-12T18:39:38Z In a statement, the artist said his installation was "deliberately ambiguous," adding that "no-one never really knows anyone sometimes, not even your family, your friends or your next door neighbour". Festival covers picture of killer 2012-08-09T14:51:25Z In Sestina, Elizabeth Bishop celebrates another grandmother and her ambiguous relationship with her granddaughter; despite the apparent closeness of the relationship, this is a poem of loss, saturated in tears. Poster poems: Ancestors 2010-05-28T13:48:00Z So at Hamiltonian he’s assembled actual photographs, ambiguous artifacts and a fictional organizational chart to illustrate his choice. In the galleries: The stars and planets align for ‘hyder flares’ 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z But Kraus’s tightrope walk feels more like an intentional aesthetic experiment: a way of placing her readers on simultaneously intimate and ambiguous terrain, making their footing unstable. This Female Consciousness: On Chris Kraus 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Gowar’s mermaid is this vividly realistic novel’s touch of magic realism, and its genuineness is teasingly ambiguous. The Malevolent Little Mermaid: Not Your Usual Fantasy Heroine 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z As it lifts and pivots through the action its purpose is as ambiguous as the plot, serving one moment as a conventional window, the next as the surface of a lake. The Turn of the Screw; BBC Proms 32, 35, 36 ? review 2011-08-13T23:06:02Z Provisionally called “The Custodian of a Man,” the work will be about the ambiguous relationship between a convalescing martial arts performer and his caretaker. ArtsBeat: Spalding Gray Prize Goes to Richard Maxwell 2014-01-13T17:59:52Z What begins to happen in “Giovanni’s Room” is that David starts to notice ambiguous responses, divided emotions, not only in himself but in others. The Unsparing Confessions of ‘‘Giovanni’s Room’’ 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z It remains a fascinating, thrilling, bewilderingly ambiguous evocation of life in Shostakovich’s Russia, life under Stalin: a world of terror, grief, camaraderie, triumph, hope and joy, but also of false hope, false joy. Review: ‘Shostakovich Trilogy,’ Where Joy and Grief Flourish 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Things improved on Saturday in “Present/s 2,” with Mr. Ratmansky’s “Souvenir” showing his brilliance at evoking narrative associations in subtle, ambiguous ways. Dance Review: Alexei Ratmansky?s ?Souvenir d?un Lieu Cher? 2012-03-05T23:31:27Z But it’s easily one of the most unsettling, ambiguous and unusual movie tableaus I’ve seen in some time. ‘Relic’ Review: A Haunted House and a Clouded Mind 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z But while operas from that era often use the chorus to superimpose a neat moral on the story, Sciarrino deploys the vocal ensemble to more ambiguous ends. An Opera Composer of Intimate Spareness Returns to Myth 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z Beneath that seemingly cheerful title lurks an ambiguous premise that begins with Mr. Hamm and Rafe Spall as men who find themselves in a cabin for unknown reasons. Jon Hamm Stars in ‘Black Mirror’ Christmas Special 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z Sexism hasn’t been vanquished, obviously, but it has splintered into more subtle, ambiguous channels. | Television: ?Pan Am,? ?Playboy Club? and ?Whitney? New on TV 2011-09-16T15:26:17Z The effect is beguiling and deliberately ambiguous, with color and pattern choices that play between continuity and contrast. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z As much as we need the law to be clear, the reality of life and death is often far more ambiguous. Is killing a fetus murder? 2013-05-17T20:11:00Z Fast forward 15 months and Shore’s brought his brand of ambiguous racial commentary to a show I just today learned existed: “Kocktails with Khloé.” Clueless Pauly Shore grills Khloé Kardashian on why she “dates black dudes” 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z “I kill only those who deserve killing, Jackal,” he explains to one of the series’ less ambiguous bad guys. The Punisher: was there ever a right time for Netflix's gun-toting vigilante show? 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Those examples may not be instructive because they remain ambiguous. Critic?s Notebook: Rihanna and Chris Brown Appear on Each Other?s Songs 2012-02-21T23:10:12Z There are also simple but ambiguous sequences of partnering, in which the one who does the supporting sometimes takes on the quality of an official, the one supported that of a prisoner or victim. Dance Review: Rachid Ouramdane?s ?Ordinary Witnesses? - Review 2011-10-12T21:30:36Z The songs conceal or completely disregard the signposts of pop, and they linger in dissonance and ambiguous tonality. Björk’s ‘Vulnicura,’ From Deep Within 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z But the show follows the triumphant template set by Frank Sinatra rather than the more ambiguous one imparted by Minnelli. ‘New York, New York’ Review: The Big Apple, Without Bite 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z She doesn’t know left from right or the difference between the words ambiguous and ambivalent. | Connecticut: A Review of ‘Venus in Fur,’ at TheaterWorks Hartford 2012-10-27T04:59:07Z Today, Franken is representative of the movement’s ambiguous and varied outcomes. Analysis | Five years on, what happened to the men of #MeToo? 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z They obviously meant for their Zuckerberg to personify the digital culture, as they signaled in the ambiguous title “The Social Network.” Trump, Jobs, Zuckerberg: We idolize jerks 2012-08-12T12:00:00Z But an investigation by the Crime Report shows that the standards and procedures that govern the activities of such civilian police volunteers are ambiguous and uneven across the country. ‘Your dad’s in jail’ 2012-06-26T16:33:00Z "Now and then" is, of course, an ambiguous phrase. Poem of the week: The Seventh Art in the Sanatorium by Heather Hartley 2010-11-22T13:27:00Z Still, the relationship was ambiguous: who was tracing whom? Dance Review: Elena Demyanenko and Dai Jian Collaborate 2014-02-16T21:32:46Z Moreover, if an anime character was drawn as racially ambiguous, “people rely on the most immediate sort of self-construct, which is their own face,” Lu says. Netflix’s ‘Cowboy Bebop’ reignites a debate: Is Jet Black a Black anime character? 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Sometimes he says it will definitely happen, other times a more ambiguous "if and when". Bloc head 2010-06-11T23:04:00Z David Lynch's ambient, ambiguous video called "" shows that the director knows as much about this crisis as the rest of us. Celebrities weigh in on the debt ceiling 2011-08-03T22:04:00Z What came out of his mouth was unmistakable, vintage Leonard - a crisply written narrative with lines of deadpan dialogue uttered by morally ambiguous characters. Author Elmore Leonard wins prestigious book award 2012-09-19T13:26:31Z The album’s watchwords are the refrain of “Your Reality,” a track that meshes syncopated, ambiguous synthesizer chords and a sighing string quartet: “Surreal but free — it’s your reality.” Sylvan Esso’s New Album of Electro-pop Challenges All Expectations 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z That film is at once a brutal deadpan comedy and a devastating anatomy of the ambiguous legacy of the Eastern European revolutions of 1989. Review: In ‘The Treasure,’ Digging for Something of Value in Romania 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z She is to the verge of tears what Kristen Stewart is to the bitten lip: a virtuoso of barely restrained and tantalizingly ambiguous emotion. | 'Letters to Juliet': Amanda Seyfried Helps Reunite Lovers in Verona 2010-05-13T21:17:00Z And as we learned in the book’s opening, he vanishes in “a final act that was utterly ambiguous.” Is Nicole Krauss’s new novel an act of literary revenge? 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z I agree with Mr. Morris, I was left in an ambiguous funk at the end. Beyoncé Unearths Pain and Lets It Flow in ‘Lemonade’ 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z That’s the tone of the album’s ambiguous and gripping title song. Rosanne Cash Takes the Long View on ‘She Remembers Everything’ 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Conner shares directing and lyric duties with librettist Stephen Gregory Smith, another busy Signature artist, and their interpretation of James’s famously ambiguous events leans toward a cycle of abuse. Adapting to the times: Mexican lovers, Irish terrorists and James’s ghosts 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z "My feelings on the matter are distinctly ambiguous, involving both a measure of agony as well as excitement," Deflem wrote in his academic analysis of the experience. The nature of fame: the Lady Gaga professor who became a global star 2013-05-25T16:52:49Z Speaking of “utterly ambiguous,” consider the other introspective story woven through the tale of Epstein’s disappearance. Is Nicole Krauss’s new novel an act of literary revenge? 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z The movies have since avenged that slight in a way that seems at least arguably Jamesian: They have paid his work the ambiguous tribute of their attention. Translating Henry James for the Screen 2013-04-28T03:43:13Z He says the ambiguous scanning rules and the national ID requirements amount to an overreach of the TSA’s authority. Travelers are less certain about the airport screening experience than they’ve been in years 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z I'm always interested in exploring things that are morally difficult, morally ambiguous, that don't have an easy answer. 'I felt I didn't deserve success' 2011-01-30T00:05:33Z Below, Seitz, the television critic for New York magazine, and Sepinwall, the chief television critic for Rolling Stone, talk about the show’s ambiguous finale, the nature of Chase’s recollections and more. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Deep Dive Back Into ‘The Sopranos’ 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z They are often word plays or otherwise ambiguous. A Diary From Inside the Gulag Meets Evil with Lightness 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z The psychopathic America of the Vietnam movies is gone, and soldiers are morally unambiguous, or less ambiguous, once more. Hanks and Spielberg pick their battles with The Pacific 2010-04-03T13:20:00Z While the actor is now confirmed to be a “Star Wars” bad guy, Russell’s role remains ambiguous. "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker": Knights of Ren, Keri Russell, Richard E. Grant roles revealed 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z The court disagreed, and a photograph from the time suggests that her racially ambiguous appearance placed her in the fissures of a hardening color line. As Her Music Is Reconsidered, a Composer Turns 135. Again. 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z That quotation from the Anglican priest William Ralph Inge, which begins the documentary "Kumaré: The True Story of a False Prophet," evokes the film's ambiguous exploration of religion, teaching and spiritual leadership. 'Kumaré': Director poses as a swami with unexpected results 2012-08-30T20:39:05Z As an exercise in style that draws a little on the classic Iranian cinema of Abbas Kiarostami but much more on ambiguous, erotic Western art film, it feels more jumbled and uncertain. Steamy lesbian sex -- in Tehran 2011-08-26T20:50:00Z Because of its first-person narrative method the import of the novel remains ambiguous, but the remark shows that Trollope wished it to be taken seriously. David Lodge: rereading Anthony Trollope 2012-12-14T22:55:04Z Artful references to Matisse and King Kong vitalise the backdrops, and the ending is delicately ambiguous. The best children's books: 2-4 year-olds 2010-05-12T07:00:00Z “The network’s approach was to tell a universal, ambiguous, cornstarch story about Asian-Americans resembling moo goo gai pan written by a Persian-American who cut her teeth on race relations writing for Seth MacFarlane,” he wrote. Eddie Huang’s Spiky Chronicles of Asian-American Experience 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z In 2013, Prince was at the center of a closely watched case that established a somewhat ambiguous precedent for determining fair use. After the Warhol Decision, Another Major Copyright Case Looms 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z Their standing as citizens of the nation remained ambiguous until after the Civil War and the abolition of slavery in the United States. A history of sanctuary cities: How Black Americans protected fugitive slaves 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z A graduate student moves to a new city to study Gothic nudes, “an ambiguous topic, whose greatest challenge would be one of consciousness: to view the naked human form as medievals did.” 8 New Books Coming in December 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z But dismissing women on the grounds of wearing the headscarf remained legally ambiguous or unchallenged. Companies in the European Union can ban headscarves: What will be the impact on Muslim women? 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z The Finale was not as optimistic as it had been in Rome eight years ago, but measured, ambiguous and packing power. L.A. Phil brings new 'New World' to Asia 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z Lohan will play the role of Karen, an ambiguous secretary to a powerful Hollywood executive. Lindsay Lohan to star in David Mamet's 'Speed-the-Plow' in London 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z Sculptural and marvelously ambiguous in the power dynamics among Karen Brown, Ms. deLavallade, Mr. Solomons and Mr. Blake, it is a work you want to see again. Dance Review: Stage Presence Aplenty, the Better to Have Fun 2011-04-15T21:25:22Z Mamet’s early plays, Eustis said, are “tremendously morally ambiguous and complex.” As Mamet Returns to Broadway, His Claims on Pedophilia Get Spotlight 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z They range in tone from delirious to grim, and exhibit various attitudes toward the marvelous intrusions into the mundane which they recount: embarrassed and regretful, slyly ambiguous, reluctantly accepting, prosaic. 'Three Messages': Mexican stories of the fantastic 2012-02-01T19:23:08Z The big, ambiguous words that hold heavy in the conversation. Dates: finally, British TV is doing dating for grownups 2013-06-19T09:45:46Z Never has a message been so clear, or its implications so ambiguous. Weird suburbia: How atomic bombs and UFOs created modern America 2014-03-16T18:00:00Z Yet it is hard to imagine a more ambiguous portrayal of British technical triumph. The Boulting brothers: holy fools 2013-07-26T13:00:19Z Since the 1970s and women’s liberation the figure of the Husband has changed, and in today’s comedies of male sexual panic to be a husband is a more ambiguous state. FILM: Babies to Heroes: A Field Guide to Big-Screen Men 2011-07-27T12:00:10Z Friends and family will require a less ambiguous explanation. Perspective | Miss Manners: Replying to online birthday wishes 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z “The New Yorker Presents” is a bit of an ambiguous title. “There’s something ‘X-Men’ about it”: Alex Gibney and “Daily Show” alum Kahane Cooperman on “The New Yorker Presents,” their new mutant storytelling show 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z Angela in particular has been a highlight of season two, becoming a mantra-reciting corporate stooge in the belly of the beast, whose end goal is worryingly ambiguous, both for us and for her. Log off, Elliot: Mr Robot's female characters are the show's driving force 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z “I wanted to research an ambiguous topic,” the narrator says, “whose greatest challenge would be one of consciousness: to view the naked human form as medievals did.” In This Novel, Art Is the Key to Another’s Consciousness 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z Barely veiled by the somber setting, a marriage of Neolithic skeletons and contemporary fabrics by way of riffs on medieval armor, is a dully rote telling of this ambiguous story. Review: A Conductor Sets Munich’s Ashen ‘Parsifal’ Aflame 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z Hovering somewhere between the cast of extras and the main performers is the actress Nine Manthei, a little girl who acts as an ambiguous intermediary. Review: In ‘Amour,’ Putting a Palme d’Or Winner Onstage 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z And while it can sometimes feel like a rote regurgitation of postwar culture and its miseries, the ambiguous ending is something of a departure from those clichés. Review: A Rescue Operation Salvages Leonard Bernstein’s Final Opera 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z The rest of the duet, though, is far more ambiguous and interesting, especially when the woman performs with monumental inscrutability. Dance Review: Ridding a Moody Cunningham Work of Ambiguity, One Gesture at a Time 2011-02-14T23:29:10Z Other pieces in the show are less ambiguous. Review: Eye-catching ‘Here’s to the Future’ takes skeptical look ahead 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Pasolini’s Legacy: A Sprawl of Brutality “It is only at our moment of death that our life, to that point undecipherable, ambiguous, suspended, acquires a meaning.” Pasolini’s Legacy: A Sprawl of Brutality 2012-12-26T23:04:57Z The focus — and the most ambiguous part of the painting — is the man's hands, which are more elongated energetic streaks than naturalistically depicted palms, wrists and fingers. 'Noah Davis: Savage Wilds': Trash TV as elegant art 2012-08-02T20:17:14Z Few depictions of dance have ever been so multidimensional, or so interestingly ambiguous about the nature of the dance involved. 3 Exhibitions Where Art Melds With Dance 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z There are three boxes: male, female and ambiguous. For a Documentary on Intersex Lives, a Director Champions the Power of Activism 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z But Romeo Castellucci’s hotly anticipated staging of “Don Giovanni” was dreary, an unsatisfying mixture of naturalism with ambiguous symbols like basketballs and a meat slicer. After a Quarter-Century, the Queen of Salzburg Calls It Quits 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z The object’s associations are more ambiguous; it has become, perhaps, too potent a symbol. | To Have and To Hold 2014-03-06T14:00:39Z Coarse not godly, locked into dark, ambiguous spaces by a strict geometry then picked out of deep shadow by an oracular light, his models come straight off the street. Abroad: Caravaggio in Ascendance: An Antihero?s Time to Shine 2010-03-10T02:49:00Z He projects a fiercely uncompromising view of Elgar, racked and anguished in both the first and third movements, making the return of the opening march to crown the finale into a deeply ambiguous triumph. Elgar: Sea Pictures; Symphony No 1 2010-05-20T21:20:00Z Unsurprisingly, utopianism appears in Mr. Muresan’s art only in ambiguous forms. Art in Review: CIPRIAN MURESAN 2011-07-21T21:42:59Z Her lyrics — about desire, disappointment and distraction — are much less ambiguous. Hiss Golden Messenger’s radiant rhythms 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z There is nothing seriously controversial about Ms. Mohr’s work, which places the more regimental aspects of Army training beside the more fluid aspects of dance training but mixes the two enough to be thoroughly ambiguous. Dance Review: For Two Choreographers, Adventures in the Realms of Dreams and War 2011-03-08T22:28:26Z The rest of his story is more ambiguous. Orville Peck, a Masked Gay Country Star, Rides Into Brooklyn 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z This was a punchy, tightly played Fifth, an angrily grinning take on a work whose politics will always be ambiguous. Review: Beatrice Rana Plays Tchaikovsky at Human Scale 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z Spring Breakers is a glorious beast of a film, a morally ambiguous piece of pop art, a lurid trip with hallucinatory highs and ugly comedowns. Spring Breakers, a riotous take on modern America 2013-03-30T06:00:00Z And though he explained that the slippers he removed before dancing referred to his childhood, their meaning, like the feelings expressed in his dance, was both apparent and ambiguous. Dance Review: ‘Dance Taipei,’ at New York Live Arts 2013-05-06T20:20:17Z Constructed with an artfulness that suggests ideological complexity, the movie is finally too withholding and ambiguous to fully engage. ‘John and the Hole’ Review: Growing Pains 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z And the ambiguous ending doesn't help much either. Review: `The Leviathan Effect' disappoints 2013-03-19T15:50:20Z The uneasy accommodations of a corruptible young aesthete to an ambiguous social world might have resonances too with the turn-of-the-century novels of Henry James, with their moneyed but morally seedy milieux. The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst 2011-08-05T21:55:02Z The ambiguous tone of Chloe's actions on the slushy sidewalk, as seen from Catherine's lofty but curious viewpoint, starkly contrasts with the alluring explicitness of her movements and reflections back in that boudoir. 'Chloe': a darkly erotic tale about a test of fidelity 2010-03-25T21:37:00Z To me, her singing voice is clearly channeling the invented persona of a mid-century R&B or jazz singer, probably African-American, but the more you think about it the more ambiguous that gets. Did the Internet kill Amy Winehouse? The director of a heartbreaking new documentary on the rise and fall of a “digital girl” 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z She gives all her figures gray-toned skin — a color with ambiguous racial associations — and reduces bodies to geometric forms silhouetted against single-color fields. Obama Portraits Blend Paint and Politics, and Fact and Fiction 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z The cases that are prosecuted by schools tend to be much more ambiguous. Some Rules About Consent Are 'Unfair to Male Students' 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z “In Dreams” — which I imagine would make more impact in a smaller theater — is distinctive, touching, and ambiguous. Dance Review: Ballet Memphis and Ballet Arizona at Kennedy Center 2010-06-18T22:15:00Z The triumph of this movie is that the answers matter a lot, even if they are ambiguous. Movie Review: In Joe Swanberg’s ‘Drinking Buddies,’ Couples Face Tests 2013-08-22T20:54:18Z I feel I have to be upfront about Your Sister’s Sister slightly ambiguous ending. Your Sister's Sister A Smart, Unconventional Relationship Comedy 2012-06-13T18:21:27Z You feel she is on her way to becoming an important character in recent Southern literature, Harper Lee’s Scout grown into something ambiguous and unruly. Review: In Nell Zink’s ‘Mislaid,’ a Lesbian on the Run Masquerades as Black 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z But mycelial networks — what some mycologists call “wood wide webs” — can also amplify fungal, plant and bacterial interactions with more ambiguous results. Whether You’re Making a Meal or Cleaning an Oil Spill, There’s a Fungus for That 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z A cynical bunch, they've pretty much given up on ideas such as "right" and "wrong" and instead spend their time exploring in their work more ambiguous situations. TV highlights 27 December 2010-12-20T03:35:00Z The movie is seen through the eyes, the sensibility and the inevitably somewhat ambiguous life experience of Oliver from the year 2003. Beginners ? review 2011-07-23T23:05:49Z This is unsettling, but Simon and Burns’s version goes further, turning Roth’s subtly furious mock memoir into a seething, ambiguous allegory. Once Upon a Timeline in America 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z “China is very ambiguous,” said Jean-Philippe Béja, research professor emeritus in Chinese politics at the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris. ‘Museum Diplomacy’ as New Pompidou Center Opens in Shanghai 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Frazier, in her photographs of women at rodeos, explores an entirely different world, but with an equally strong eye for color and composition, and a knack for ambiguous social commentary. Twisted takes on summer wear at Winston Wächter 2013-07-25T22:41:01Z I know what the song is called, but the identity of its “narrator,” if we pretend it merits a close reading, is ambiguous: Maybe it’s Satan, maybe it’s the Other Guy. Sympathy for the devil: To overcome Donald Trump, we first have to accept that we created him 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z Both pictures depict ambiguous transactions — maybe collusions, maybe confrontations. Royal Nebeker: paintings explore the pull of Norway 2013-03-13T18:25:00Z Ditto the ambiguous legacy of Andrew Jackson, the American president whose enforced relocation of the Indians is viewed by many as a major blot on the nation’s moral escutcheon. Theatrical Stumbles of Historic Proportions 2010-12-10T16:02:00Z Despite her initial resistance, they share an ambiguous, tastefully staged dance of erotic engagement set to a disco beat. Review: In ‘Unseamly,’ a Woman Takes On an Apparel Tycoon 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z As he reached puberty and his ambiguous gender identity became more defined, he suggests he wasn't bullied so much as left to his own devices. Antony Hegarty: 'We need more oestrogen-based thinking' 2012-05-19T23:04:35Z In Southcliffe, the passage of time is articulated by the certainty of the shipping forecast, but the landscape and weather is wonderfully ambiguous. Southcliffe: the most harrowing drama on TV 2013-07-26T13:00:00Z He was kind of a little bit more morally ambiguous — and also more magical. "House in the Pines" thriller author on the "dark side of nostalgia" with a narrator no one believes 2023-01-21T05:00:00Z Mindful of the potential political fallout, deputy interior minister, Hector Villarreal, called the judicial order "ambiguous, confusing and dark", and began stalling over it. Mexican film ban attempt elevates Presumed Guilty to box-office hit 2011-03-07T19:06:06Z Narrative threads and character arcs tie seasons together, but within each hourlong episode multiple crimes come together, often in morally ambiguous ways. ?Southland? With Michael Cudlitz and Regina King on TNT 2012-03-16T16:10:35Z A wistfully dreamy Andante Sognando set the stage for the finale’s controlled fury, culminating in a tone of ambiguous triumph. Music Review: Yefim Bronfman Recital at Carnegie Hall 2012-03-25T21:50:22Z For the singer, it's a customarily ambiguous position. This week's new live music 2010-07-02T23:06:00Z Only a kind of ambiguous poetic justice appears to be visited on those responsible. Biutiful ? review 2011-01-27T15:00:01Z Parallels peddled by the band between their experience and the Stalinist showtrials are then illustrated with archive footage, to ambiguous effect. Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer – review 2013-06-13T11:02:19Z Are there threads you might come back to later, or was that a deliberate choice to leave some things about him ambiguous? ArtsBeat: Vince Gilligan of 'Breaking Bad' Talks About Ending the Season, and the Series 2011-10-10T03:07:01Z The agnostic groups of AA took out the words “Higher Power” from the equation, choosing to remain ambiguous about their own beliefs in what is helping them to recover and stay sober. My agnostic AA 2012-06-20T18:28:00Z “Artificial wombs — measurable, controllable — may be deemed vastly preferable to the flawed, unpredictable and morally ambiguous bodies and behaviors of flesh-and-blood women,” Hazard muses in response. The Womb Is a Miracle, and a Mystery 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z Seattle has long been a hub for such activity, which is also known by the ambiguous umbrella term “new music.” SOUNDbox kicks off this month, offering a platform to Seattle’s vibrant new-music scene 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z It seems you tend to be drawn to these characters who are a little morally ambiguous. Jesse Eisenberg opens up: "I think of myself as a basic, unremarkable person" 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z If you read further into the gallery caption or catalogue, this painting's attribution turned out to be ambiguous. The Virgin of the Rocks: Da Vinci decoded 2010-07-13T20:31:00Z I initially wanted to think that the showing of the “I want to buy the world a Coke” ad was ambiguous, that maybe that’s what Draper sees when he finds Nirvana. Mad Men's Message: You Are Your Job 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z He didn’t invent the archetype of the morally ambiguous grizzled guy set on rescuing or avenging a symbolic or actual daughter. This Summer’s Action Heroes Are Several Shades of Gray 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z This talented singer and pianist whose witty, hyper-verbal new show, “Pour Spirits,” opened at the Metropolitan Room on Thursday evening, is as mysterious as his program’s ambiguous title. Review: Eric Yves Garcia’s ‘Pour Spirits,’ a Taste of Musical Role-Playing 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z Because when it becomes ambiguous, what time is it? “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 At first glance a symbol of childlike hope reclaiming the wreckage, up close the story is more ambiguous; at the end of each garland the floats transform into crystal tears. Special Report: Contemporary Art: A French Artist's Solitary Path 2011-10-13T11:00:14Z And a tweet, with its two-hundred-and-eighty-character limit and predilection for oversimplification, is the very antithesis of the difficult, complex, ambiguous, ambivalent terrain of “Ulysses.” The Politicians Who Love “Ulysses” 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z Gesture is largely about communicating a specific meaning, whereas the meanings that emerge from dance are likely to be ambiguous. Dance Review: At the Joyce, Kate Weare and Monica Bill Barnes 2010-08-12T22:50:00Z Similarly, S-21 itself, a prison mostly devoted to the killing of Khmer Rouge by Khmer Rouge, has become the ambiguous genocide museum in Cambodia. Mass Murder Relies on People Like Us: An Interview With Thierry Cruvellier 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z When the ghost of Hamlet’s father appears on stage, Horatio’s words to him are beautifully ambiguous: “Stay, illusion!” he commands. The Ghost Story Persists in American Literature. Why? 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z Little Angel is a professor of literature, “the American,” “the Assimilator,” who struggles with his ambiguous place in the wholeheartedly Mexican-American de La Cruz family. A Novelist’s Exuberant Love Letter to a Mexican-American Clan 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z It's not really at all ambiguous, is it? Letters: Wuthering remarks 2011-04-03T23:05:07Z They are objects with ambiguous identities, suffused with anxiety – unheimlich, as Freud would say. Interior dark: two shows reveal visions of the unhomely 2010-06-16T10:07:00Z Again, it was an ambiguous melding of life, art — and ghosts. Coming Full Circle After a Pause 2010-10-03T02:00:00Z While “This Is My Land” is an observational portrait, “Two Years at Sea” is more ambiguous, somewhere between documentary and daydream. Ben Rivers’s ‘Two Years at Sea’ and ‘Slow Action’ 2012-10-07T05:03:01Z What young men should look for, Tillman argues, is not the potentially ambiguous absence of “no”, but the enthusiastic presence of a “yes, yes, yes” or affirmative consent. Carnality and consent: how to navigate sex in the modern world 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z Amused and horrified by her shrieks, he writes a slyly ambiguous review titled “The Orphan’s Voice,” which describes Marguerite’s sound as revealing “the human truth.” Review: ‘Marguerite,’ a Screeching Diva Clinging to Her Operatic Dream 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Yet perhaps the contemporary label was what released Ms. LeCrone into a welcome hint of drama, a poetically ambiguous hand-on-a-shoulder that she beautifully abstracted by repeating it with two trios of unequally mixed genders. Dance Review: From Emery LeCrone, Two Dances to One Bach Partita 2014-03-25T21:50:23Z The ambiguous sense that life had been here a moment earlier. My Thanksgiving panic 2012-11-22T00:30:00Z This is a disquieting and ambiguous movie in a classic US indie style. The Guardian first film award 2013: the shortlist 2013-01-21T14:07:51Z It's a nifty Hitchcockian premise that doesn't entirely deliver on its dark promise, but Rapace holds things together beautifully with a performance that treads an admirably ambiguous line between rationality and over-reaction. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2012-06-09T23:05:23Z It would be more exciting and more real – but also more ambiguous – than this nicely written but ultimately boorish and confected conspiracy tale. Take climate scientists to task, but avoid formulaic boffin-bashing 2011-02-11T18:19:34Z This version, in the dreariest Hollywood-remake tradition, turns a grim, morally ambiguous story into a fable of empowerment. ‘Miss Bala’ Review: Gina Rodriguez Finds the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z In hindsight, we realized, yeah, we should have been a little less ambiguous about what was coming. Seattle’s Ben Gibbard talks Postal Service live album, new Death Cab EP 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z As Colaizzo's clever, deliberately ambiguous plot twists and turns, facts may become lies and vice versa. Review: 'Really Really' is clever look at GenMe 2013-02-20T22:58:08Z All relations are ambiguous, as is the space. A Mesmerizing ‘India Song,’ Pulpy and Austere 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z Of course, putting yourself out there is a lot easier as a straight, ethnically ambiguous man, and I fully acknowledge that privilege. Midway Through His Year, Our 52 Places Traveler Answers Readers’ Questions 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z That ambiguous DNA connects the gunslingers of classic westerns with the urban avengers of the 1970s and then with the sometimes antiheroic superheroes of our own time. What I Learned About Democracy From the Movies 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z They also don't seem to agree about what the ambiguous term "director" really means. Who really made the Oscar-nominated "Waste Land"? 2011-02-24T12:45:00Z This ambiguous perceptual experience is akin to looking at the paintings of Ad Reinhardt, the Abstract Expressionist master of abstract geometries enmeshed in barely differentiated shades of black. ‘Chris Ofili: Night and Day,’ a Survey at the New Museum 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Martha, frowning with joy, marvelled at his authenticity, but there was another level of wonder as Ash – turning telesales agent for an ambiguous moment – schmoozed her into going for the deluxe package. Rewind TV: Black Mirror: Be Right Back; Vegas; Penguins: Spy in the Huddle – review 2013-02-16T22:45:01Z So, I have an ambiguous relationship to time. How to conquer our obsession with eternal life | Matt Haig 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z Really, the entire loan exhibition is composed of patches, odds and ends: funny old hats, bits of buildings, mixed-up paintings, ambiguous personalities. Art Review: The Spirit of Xanadu, Morphing Across Borders 2010-09-30T21:52:00Z I personally thought I looked very ambiguous in terms of any “type” of person. The Macklemore apology drops: ‘A “Jewish stereotype” never crossed my mind' 2014-05-20T04:00:00Z The Oscar-winning Taiwanese filmmaker changed a line of dialogue at the end of the movie so it was more ambiguous if Tang's character gave away the assassination plot. Tang premieres new film after reported China ban 2010-03-21T12:06:00Z “Funk is a feeling. It’s rhythmic, it’s movement, it’s tone color. Everybody thinks they know what it is, but I like to leave it ambiguous.” Bernie Worrell, keyboardist and songwriter for Parliament-Funkadelic, dies at 72 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Short and slight enough to be mistaken for a boy from a distance, Tan looks a lot like the ethnically ambiguous immigrant hero of “The Arrival.” Shaun Tan?s Wild Imagination 2011-04-23T04:30:02Z Can you give me an example of a film that succeeded in balancing a complicated, maybe morally ambiguous case with engaging storytelling? HBO Documentary Has Competition. These Women Don’t Seem Worried. 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z One of the biggest questions — whether her compulsions were inextricable from her creativity — remains ambiguous in the film. Cannes 2015: Amy Winehouse documentary screening gets warm reception 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z They look at a poem and ask, 'Is this right?', as if it's a puzzle you can unravel, but poetry is ambiguous and multi-layered. Poetry's future 2010-06-18T07:30:00Z The love songs are more ambiguous than they first appear. Erykah Badu: New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh | CD review 2010-04-01T14:35:00Z Here, a cast of five embodies a score of eternally lonely New Yorkers on a single day, accompanied by a five-member band that plays and sings in ambiguous counterpoint to their diverse encounters. Review: ‘New York Animals,’ a Musical About Intersecting Lives 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z One of the film's many strengths is the ambiguous nature of Mark and Cheryl's relationship - are they falling for each other? Let's talk about sex 2013-01-18T07:55:33Z Finally, Stephens takes us underground into a deserted warehouse where a nervous man is interrogated by a younger woman who trades in child-trafficking, though whether for sexual or adoptive purposes is left ambiguous. Wastwater - review 2011-04-05T23:30:12Z His Ninth has gotten more restrained and refined and more maturely ambiguous over the years. Dudamel and Beethoven — and Vin Scully — for the common man 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z I’m reading over our messages now and feel less crazy, because they still seem ambiguous even now that time has passed. Asymmetric love, part one: I'm going to tell him how I feel 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z His fictional universe, like the universe small children occupy, is a morally ambiguous one. Children's book author Jon Klassen and the morally ambiguous universe of hats 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Then Stephen King gave him the go-ahead to change his book, so Stanley agreed – and wrote a much more ambiguous script. Inside The Shining 2012-10-29T17:15:40Z The critical response to the film was mostly positive, though Roger Egbert wrote: "I'm usually fairly certain whether or not I've seen a good movie. But my reaction to 'Time Bandits' was ambiguous." How David Warner stole “Time Bandits” from the thieves 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z Those attendants are holding a space for the soloist, but it’s an ambiguous one: maybe a space of healing, maybe a cage. At Ailey’s Spring Gala, Different Kinds of Hope 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z There was the occasional dropped or ambiguous word, but that is true of all speakers on TV and radio, with the possible exception of Simon Russell Beale. When does subtitling risk becoming racially offensive? 2012-07-19T11:57:54Z Realizing that this was somewhat ambiguous, especially applied to a dish as laden with stuff as the brew of lambs’ snouts, ears, tongues, cheeks and eyeballs known in Turkey as kelle paca, I tried again. At Lokanta, Sheep’s Head Soup and Other Turkish Delights 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z The Magritte painting is ambiguous about this character’s emotional state; the dance is not. Pleasurable performance at Dance Place features late Anna Sokolow’s choreography Now that the trial is over, we’ll find new things to be ambiguous about, new venues where indeterminacy can serve as an alibi for the same old cruelty, and for its newer iterations. The Actual Malice of the Johnny Depp Trial 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z The politics and point of view of the term “Ballghazi” seem ambiguous, too. DeflateGate ... or Ballghazi? Will the new scandal suffix have staying power? 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z Cooper spoke with Salon about his atmospheric new film, his love of Edgar Allan Poe, as well as creating a mystery about the ambiguous line between life and death. "This film is Poe's origin story": "The Pale Blue Eye" director on his gothic whodunit at West Point 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z “I just think we’re all kind of getting to a place where – I don’t know, evolution’s a weird thing – we’re all becoming incredibly ambiguous … And it’s this really gorgeous thing.” Kristen Stewart told to stop 'holding her girlfriend’s hand in public' 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z I kind of enjoy it being purposely ambiguous, because it is about how these people figure themselves out in relationship to one another. Mike Mills’s ‘20th Century Women’ is ‘very long thank-you note’ to his late mother 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Grief over Ledger’s death may have been a factor, but there’s also something dramatically rich and tonally ambiguous about the character that responds to the alchemy of top-notch acting. Why Joker should win the best picture Oscar 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z Being ethnically ambiguous was also, it turns out, my superpower, blending into the streets of so many places around the world, walking home at night and not even getting a second glance from locals. In a Year of Perpetual Motion, Moments That Stopped Time 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z "A certainty that I don't have. I feel that there are things that are much more ambiguous." 'An Honest Liar' lifts the curtain on some Amazing Randi secrets 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z All the same, in ambiguous times, there’s a perverse ecstasy in watching the vagueness and vagaries of others embodied with such triumphant precision by a theater-drunk playwright and his players. Stoppard Classics, Reborn for an Age of Uncertainty 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z And there are the ambiguous nightmares that take Ben back to his Long Island childhood home and the beach nearby, the noise of cicadas and waves of the nearby ocean deafening. ‘Cicada’ Review: A New Relationship Buds as Old Wounds Reopen 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z I think because it is relatively ambiguous and unknown it doesn't seem too corny, which can be a problem with a lot of tattoos. 'I have a tattoo of Bruce Springsteen wearing 3D glasses on my leg' 2011-02-08T11:56:00Z And you’d prefer to let that remain ambiguous, rather than say what it is and spoil it for people? Sing Along With David Lynch on 'Dark Night of the Soul' 2010-07-15T14:50:00Z The album’s title track opens a more ambiguous channel to higher powers. Review | Did Chance the Rapper get boring? Or did we just get bored? 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z “It’s a strange, ambiguous love triangle that develops,” Gear said. Lost script reveals what Orson Welles really thought about Ernest Hemingway 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z We see what the women see when they come upon revealing pieces of evidence, but the meaning remains ambiguous—and scary. ‘Annihilation’ Review: Deep Thoughts, Genre Delights 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Even so, the outcome of that year’s tournament left the question of whether Ben, Julia or I was the best player in 2014 ambiguous. Arthur Chu to Matt Jackson: You’re a better “Jeopardy” player than me 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z The first volume of their story is called “My Brilliant Friend,” and who is whose brilliant friend remains ambiguous. Elena Ferrante and What Liking Is Like 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z An ambiguous “him” isn’t new to R. & B., or to pop music; many of Wise’s favorite divas—Brandy, Beyoncé—use devotional language to describe romantic love. Serpentwithfeet‘s Sensual Ode to Drama 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z There will be illegal and possibly immoral science experiments done to meet some morally ambiguous end. Blindspot: NBC’s big bet for fall lacks the Memento to take off 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z In the end, however, this shocker — contemporaneous with Henry James’s “The Turn of the Screw ” and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper ” — remains a chillingly ambiguous masterpiece. You’ve probably never heard of F. Anstey, but you know his work 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z The play revolves around an ambiguous relationship between a beekeeper and a physicist. Jake Gyllenhaal following sister Maggie to Broadway 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z It’s at once restless and meditative; and, true to the entire work, engrossingly ambiguous. Review: In This One-Man Opera, It’s All in His Head 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z The healthy competition among cable providers has enabled the presentation of characters who would have a hard time being in films because they are ambiguous or outright dislikable, complicated and sullied. Todd Haynes: ‘She said, there’s a frock film coming up, with Cate attached … It sounded right up my alley’ 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z The images, which pop up on quadrants of three low-def monitors, reveal the gallery and the player in an intentionally fragmented, ambiguous way. In the galleries: Hand Print Workshop celebrates two colorful decades 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z Motives and outcomes usually get deleted from the story, leaving the characters to float in ambiguous peril, and sometimes the character is you. Review | Dan Bejar is not here to comfort you 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z The name of her record company comes from a “Chappelle’s Show” sketch about a “racial draft” where culturally ambiguous celebrities get claimed by a single race. How Robyn, Pop’s Glittery Rebel, Danced Her Way Back From Darkness 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z The results: Those who performed the experiments under bright lights rated him higher on those aggression-related measurements, meaning they were more likely to perceive ambiguous actions as aggressive. The fastest way to reach a congressional budget agreement? Dim the lights 2014-01-12T17:00:00Z Forget the drunkenly pitched cereal campaigns and ambiguous plans for abortions that have become signature details of “Mad Men.” Television: Matthew Weiner Is Silent on ?Mad Men? Season Premiere 2012-03-07T12:55:00Z What Debussy did was to pull apart the epoxy-strength attachment those chords share and allow them to float, not entirely free from each other, but in a more polyvalent, even ambiguous relation to each other. John Adams on Debussy, the First Modernist 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z “Corsage” opens and closes with Elisabeth facing watery voids, ambiguous visions that speak to her desire for change, perhaps transcendence. ‘Corsage’ Review: A Queen in Quiet Rebellion 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z American Pop routinely rides an ambiguous line, though there’s no doubt that one way or another it’s almost always, aggressively, an art about appetite: about eating, drinking, lusting, getting, having. Pop Art International: Far Beyond Warhol and Lichtenstein 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z The film presents people who are ambivalent, ambiguous, and have flaws. "Black Box" filmmaker on making a plane crash thriller that requires you to listen closely 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z In fact, it's kind of ambiguous who or what the aliens are in this little vignette by Floria Sigismondi, who also directed "The Runaways." Interpreting the plot of Katy Perry and Kanye West's "E.T." 2011-03-31T22:32:00Z Detractors can respond that the lyrics are ambiguous or may not be sung from Swift's perspective. How Gaylor Swift conspiracists think like QAnoners 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z Whether Alm's hunter — his head entirely covered in some kind of deer-skull mask — intends to kill or coddle the little varmint he's grasping is ambiguous. 'Frozen!' at Vermillion — polar bears, scrunched-up deer and other critters 2012-10-17T18:32:12Z Inevitably, the evidence for many of these transactions is incomplete and ambiguous. The Watchers: A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I by Stephen Alford – review 2012-08-17T21:55:05Z What are the children being taught by this ambiguous relationship of their parents? No Sound, No Fury, No Marriage 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z The episode’s plot promises to be one that rewards longtime fans, too; Melinda Clarke is to appear as morally ambiguous dominatrix Lady Heather, a fan favorite. 'CSI' Finale to Reunite Marg Helgenberger, William Petersen 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z “It’s hard to write a character that dark and morally ambiguous,” he said. Magazine Preview: The Dark Art of ?Breaking Bad? 2011-07-06T12:20:00Z The production’s title is therefore highly ambiguous — in “Transition” . . . to what? Review | ‘City in Transition’ is an exhilarating journey across Washington through the eyes of Black artists 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z A group of actors — whose faces are covered and whose genders are ambiguous — change outfits, introduce brightly colored objects and interact with their flimsy setting. Last Chance: Emerging ?Young Israelis? at Lesley Heller Workspace 2010-08-11T22:45:00Z Other past experiences were more ambiguous, even unclassifiable, like the time I worked as the private philosophy tutor for an Oscar-winning film director. Private lessons for a famous male director: Was I complicit in this loaded workplace dynamic? 2019-09-14T04:00:00Z Arendt’s central obsessions — war, totalitarianism, genocide, mass migration and displacement, and the ambiguous nature of human rights — are at least as relevant as ever. Is Donald Trump a new Hitler? Hannah Arendt might argue that they’re closer than you think 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z Dwight didn’t look any happier about any of that on Sunday, spending most of the episode emotionally ambiguous at best. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7, Episode 3: The Ballad of Daryl and Dwight 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Indiana’s associations with the word “love” were ambiguous. Robert Indiana’s Best: A Mini Retrospective 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z These films’ ambiguous relationship to the Black Power movement may have disqualified them for inclusion in Listen! Black Power: American as apple pie 2012-10-17T16:28:00Z "If Cosby's interpretation is reasonable, and thus the language is at least ambiguous under these circumstances, he prevails." AIG must defend Bill Cosby against defamation lawsuits 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z By the time the deeply ambiguous masterpiece has run its course, every emotion is stripped away, leaving music of serene acceptance, dissolving into nothingness. Haitink's Mahler 9th makes superb season finale for CSO 2011-06-03T17:59:36Z It’s all quite over the top for a show that was so tightly orchestrated and morally ambiguous in its first season. 'Broadchurch' Season 2 Episode 5 Recap: The Center Collapses 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z "Promised Land" has its heart is on its sleeve and makes its pro-environment message quite clear, but it's in the looser and more ambiguous places that the film actually works. Capsule reviews of new movie releases 2012-12-31T20:48:08Z At quiet dynamics throughout the evening — like the brooding opening of the catacombs section of Respighi’s “Pines of Rome” and the ambiguous haze of Tania León’s “Stride” — the sound was glistening and lucid. After Decades, the Philharmonic’s Hall Sounds and Feels More Intimate 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z In the chromatic haze, Solange ponders questions and considers life lessons in a few ambiguous words. Solange Defies Pop Expectations on ‘When I Get Home’ 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z The evidence from the ten El Niño events in the past five decades suggests relatively modest and to some extent ambiguous, global price impacts. What this year’s El Niño means for wheat and global food supply 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z Their emotional states were so ambiguous, and I felt like I was reading their friendship, their affection for each other — like a brother-sister thing almost. When a Dance Collective Was Like a Rock Band 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z As Hobbs has argued, the mutability of racial self-identification open to racially ambiguous people “reveals the bankruptcy of the race idea” while “offering a searing critique of racism” and “disarming racialized thinking.” As Her Music Is Reconsidered, a Composer Turns 135. Again. 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z And that's I suppose why we left the leave-taking with Lois slightly more ambiguous, that she sort of pushed him away. "It's our foundation myth": PBS' "World on Fire" challenges the World War II narrative we know 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z This track is a relentlessly angular affair with spiky BVs, loud drums and ambiguous oriental noises. This week's new singles 2011-08-05T23:08:27Z “It’s a foggy shape, it’s temporary. I think it’s these ambiguous things that are interesting to me.” Breaking Glass and Gloomy Skies Inspire This Artist 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z We weren’t “geniuses,” and all that mattered was the ambiguous promise of whatever happened next. The Impulsive Life Not Chosen 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z Even though the energy and focus of “Bone River” are somewhat uneven, the last half redeems the slow start, and the characters are richly ambiguous. ‘Bone River’: an anthropological mystery on Willapa Bay 2013-01-16T23:08:47Z Is it representative of the overall problem, or are some instances of domestic turmoil more ambiguous? ‘Private Violence,’ an HBO Documentary on Domestic Abuse 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z It has something to do with the ambiguous gray of their coats, the deadpan dignity of their countenances, those skeptically raised eyebrows. Wegman, the Weimaraner artist, brings cheer to kids at Georgetown cancer clinic 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z This is largely due to the game’s ambiguous villain, Henry White, who looks like an over-dentated Ron Howard in the “Happy Days” era and whose true motives remain enigmatic up to the end. An adventure for the iPad 2012-07-25T19:27:00Z "People" may not be a classically great play, but considering the identifiable humans and ambiguous conflicts Lindsay-Abaire puts up there, it's indisputably good. 'Good People' a rock-solid portrayal of struggle at La Mirada 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Still, Catherine’s ambiguous welcome did not impede the flow of commerce or artistic influences. ‘Russen & Deutsche,’ at Neues Museum in Berlin 2013-01-05T00:57:53Z The violent incident is presented in ambiguous, deliberately confused flashbacks and is both comic and disturbing. Britain's best film directors show some early promise 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z Trying to perform a simple task puts him at odds with the secret police, ambiguous American officials and a Cuban beauty, Amaryll Cruz, who is as enigmatic as the island nation. 'Havana Requiem' is a legal thriller with spice 2012-05-08T13:50:08Z Still, Britten’s ambiguous music suggests that the characters are trying to understand what has just happened. Music Review: Chamber Music Society at Alice Tully Hall 2013-05-12T21:55:55Z By contrast, in “Notes on an Execution,” Kukafka aims to undo some of these conventions, including the preoccupation with dead women, in order to explore more ambiguous and ambitious terrain. ‘Notes on an Execution’ Isn’t Your Typical Serial Killer Novel 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z But it’s also an ambiguous, upbeat, finally rather moving story of self-delusion, madness and lost love. Harry ever after: tracing Daniel Radcliffe's evolution, from Potter to flatulent corpse 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z “The Leftovers” is a story about an ambiguous apocalypse. Review: ‘The Leftovers’ Has One More Cosmic Joke to Tell 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z That's what makes all the "get divorced" and "get therapy" responses a matter of bad reading, not just subjective interpretation of an ambiguous text. Have we forgotten how to read critically? 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z The agent ticked off a list of ambiguous and prying questions. The corner of Minnesota that’s there by mistake 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z In response to the Iranian letter, von Trier said Tuesday that his remarks were "unintelligent, ambiguous and needlessly hurtful." Iran slams Cannes for Von Trier Nazi ban 2011-05-24T15:33:24Z With their outdated glamour, eerie glow, ambiguous emotions and descriptive quirks, these paintings are undeniably rich. What to See in New York Galleries This Week 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z After a few months of ambiguous box-office results for stereoscopic movies, that’s a question Hollywood executives would love answered in the affirmative, because of the higher ticket prices they can charge. ?Classic 3-D,? Straight From ?50s, at Film Forum 2010-08-12T22:45:00Z "He is a stunningly economical and radical carver. This is too ambiguous." When is a Michelangelo not a Michelangelo? Perhaps in 'Vatican Splendors' 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z Opinions may divide about the ambiguous reveal at the end of the film, or about its extended "outro" coda, which arguably injures the unity of the single-take idea. The Silent House ? review 2011-04-07T14:00:00Z But the seeds of those ambiguous, shape-shifting and often nightmarish later works are clearly visible in “Blue Velvet” now, and its similarity to a classic American crime movie is deceptive. “Blue Velvet”’s mystery of masculinity: How David Lynch’s masterwork reshaped American consciousness 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z In 1994, Graham returned to Northern Ireland to make a series called Cease Fire, which is a contender – alongside his later book, American Night – for his most ambiguous body of work. Paul Graham: 'The photography I most respect pulls something out of the ether' 2011-04-11T06:00:06Z 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 Now they are something delightfully ambiguous and in between. A great year for live music: From Wilco to Eleanor Friedberger and Philip Glass 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z Its ending is radically ambiguous, the way life is. The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner – review 2013-06-05T15:01:59Z It doesn't have to be tacky or ambiguous. Andreas Scholl and Philippe Jaroussky: pushing the envelope for countertenors 2010-12-06T21:31:00Z The theme of this BBC Symphony Orchestra Prom, according to its conductor David Robertson, was "the notion of reflection and questioning", an accurate if ambiguous description. Prom 25: BBCSO/Robertson – review 2012-08-02T10:49:49Z Guests enter in a room created to look like the North, the home of the Stark family who are the closest thing to heroes in the morally ambiguous show. Game of Thrones pop-up bar opens: 'DC always was King's Landing' 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z They are ambiguous characters, and what intrigued me is never really knowing the truth. "They are both lying": Claire Denis on creating ambiguous tension between her "Stars at Noon" lovers 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z Though the last scene was somewhat ambiguous — and though TV demises aren’t as conclusive as they used to be — the actor confirmed that what viewers saw was Chuck’s death. ‘Better Call Saul’ Finale: Michael McKean on Chuck’s Inflammatory Act 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z Since 2009, Showalter has been making quiet and emotional folk music, beginning with Leave Ruin, a confessional yet ambiguous record born out of a bad breakup and a house fire. REVIEW: The Musical Reinvention of Strand of Oaks 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z What I discovered as I travelled was how ambiguous and contradictory the issue of writers and alcohol really is. What drives writers to drink? 2013-07-27T23:05:00Z Here, Hitler is not viewed as the personification of evil, but with an attitude of morally ambiguous fascination. Hitler film exposes India's interest in dictator 2010-06-25T11:46:00Z Poetry is perfect for this line of literary inquiry because it’s so opaque and ambiguous, and therefore subject to limitless interpretation. Obama’s Inspector Javert 2012-07-17T11:45:00Z During the class discussion, I referred to one of the two racially ambiguous female characters as “white.” Sexist Silences and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z In a paragraph or two, I’m going to describe how much I admired, with a few reservations, the show’s acrid, ambiguous, unsettling last sequence, which was, refreshingly, the opposite of fan service. Goodbye to “The Good Wife” 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Eater reports that an ambiguous email from the restaurant in December said Erales had left the restaurant "due to repeated violation of our policies and for behavior in conflict with our values." Controversial new "Top Chef" champion crowned amid harassment allegations 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z But neither are the writers and directors building a world of morally ambiguous characters in shadowy gray landscapes. ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ Season 1, Episode 7: Out of the Ashes 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z Ms. Loulaki, a New York artist born in Crete, is enamored of the choreographic potential of stringing together fragments of movement, gestures and emotions to create an ambiguous whole. Dance Review: Amanda Loulaki’s ‘Forested,’ at the Chocolate Factory 2014-04-12T01:15:52Z After an ambiguous modal beginning, it evolved into a series of variations on the Irish traditional tune best known as “O Danny Boy.” Pianist Frederic Rzewski, Del Sol Quartet perform at Library of Congress 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z Avis fills a more ambiguous role in her father's life, bragging to her sister that she's "the apple of his eye." Novelists Beverly Jensen and Joyce Maynard write about sisters 2010-08-25T23:20:00Z For the gifted women in that family, the legacy must have been an ambiguous one. Poem of the week: Time's Acquittal by Sara Coleridge 2011-01-10T10:49:35Z After her breakdown, Alice builds herself back up and yet even after a grand finale broadcast, the movie’s story ends on an ambiguous note. Toronto 2014: The crazy and sane with Kristen Wiig in 'Welcome To Me' 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Its "ambiguous charge of human feeling," writes Everett, "is the very stuff of Kipling's greatest stories". A brief survey of the short story part 41: Rudyard Kipling 2012-06-21T11:28:42Z In others the method is more ambiguous, especially in the most colorful and elaborate, in which the final patchwork of colors suggests a kind of interior of overlapping paintings, objects and wall hangings. Art in Review: Rebecca Morris 2011-01-06T22:09:45Z The result is a witty, nicely ambiguous variation on one of Crowley’s central fictional notions: There is more than one history of the world. Review | John Crowley continues an uncharacteristically prolific period with the singular ‘And Go Like This’ 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z Produced by Mendoza and Rusty Santos, who has worked with Animal Collective, the song is harmonically and spatially ambiguous, with harplike plucking, swooping electronics and vocals wafting in from all directions. SZA and Phoebe Bridgers’s Team-Up, and 8 More New Songs 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z The script is almost too ambiguous for its own good, though. Feeling guilty when the bomb goes off in ‘I Call My Brothers’ 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Deganit Shemy, the choreographer of “Hungry Kite,” a new dance that opened at the Chocolate Factory on Wednesday night, likes to keep things ambiguous. Dance Review: Deganit Shemy & Company at the Chocolate Factory 2012-06-22T21:21:15Z But as the years went by, the formidable technical skills and the mastery of preparation became even more perfect, while the subject matter became ever more ambiguous. David Hare: my friendship with Patrick Caulfield 2013-05-25T08:02:04Z The Bahamas-born, New Orleans- and D.C.-based artist is concerned with the likelihood of incarceration for disadvantaged men, and his worldview is morally ambiguous: The shank-wielding killer can be a hero. In the galleries: Anything but simplicity in these drawings 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z The long-running “Big Bang Theory” and “Bones” have lead characters with ambiguous autistic qualities. ‘The A Word’ Places Autism Front and Center 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z The Irish — mea culpa — have always been willfully ambiguous, unbearably self-conscious and, as O’Toole puts it, riddled with the “known unknowns.” His Life Was Too Boring for a Memoir. So He Wrote Ireland’s. 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z In Morrison’s only published short story, two women, whose races are left ambiguous, repeatedly cross paths, clashing each time they meet. Washington Post hardcover bestsellers 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z “A vague and ambiguous sign you've chosen to interpret in the worst way possible...” Restaurant slammed for 'revolting' Valentine's Day sign: 'That's so many levels of wrong' 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z He badged the book as a story, an ambiguous word ... Jesuit priest accuses Philip Pullman of waging war on Christianity 2010-08-12T14:18:00Z Herman Koch’s “Dear Mr. M” begins with an ambiguous revelation: “Dear Mr. M,” a nameless narrator writes, “I’d like to start by telling you that I’m doing better now.” Someone is stalking a famous novelist in Herman Koch’s ‘Dear Mr. M’ 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z I was looking to explore a very complex man who was flawed and equivocal and ambiguous, and I’m not big on judging my characters. Hilary Mantel talks about her Cromwell saga coming to screen and stage 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z The tone was as important as the content: disorienting and ambiguous, veering between detective procedural, soap opera, occult horror, black comedy, even slapstick. Damn fine telly: why everything is now ‘a bit Twin Peaks’ 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z This year’s conclusion seemed more uplifting, if ambiguous. ArtsBeat: Julian Fellowes on Viewer Criticism and ‘Downton Abbey’s’ Future 2014-02-24T03:30:09Z These iconically sized people of history, and the smaller, morally ambiguous people that are a part of the experience. From 'Game of Thrones' to the D.E.A.: Pedro Pascal on 'Narcos' 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z There’s no researcher’s distance between Ms. Mayet and the stories from her life, some of which are ambiguous, at least in the details she includes. When Disenfranchised Lives and American Ideals Collide Onstage 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z “A History of Opera” occupies itself for many pages with questions of genre and convention, of the ambiguous division between singing and speaking. Books of The Times: ‘A History of Opera,’ by Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker 2012-12-27T22:03:04Z No more so than with Cromwell, one of literature’s great ambiguous characters. Hilary Mantel’s Triumphant New Novel Brings Thomas Cromwell Across the Finish Line 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z “The greatest danger of nuclear war are these so-called smaller, tactical weapons on ambiguous delivery vehicles,” Weber says. Meet the nuke the U.S. keeps in Europe, waiting to not be used 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z We create “accumulated disability” in our children — “impairment of life skills and the ability to cope, adapt and function” — which is especially damaging in today’s “volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous” world. Tiger, Snowplow, Helicopter and Free-Range Parents, Listen Up! 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z Lurid and titillating, the film is full of perverse details of heinous crimes and marked by a seductively ambiguous bond that forms between the young agent-to-be, Clarice Starling, and the brilliant monster Lecter. Jonathan Demme, Oscar-Winning Director, Is Dead at 73 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z The word "tender" is nicely ambiguous, and takes us beyond bruised flesh to the emotionally tender spots. Poem of the week: City Boy by Peter Daniels 2012-05-22T15:23:00Z "I wanted her to try and capture their spirit, but I told her I wanted them to be ethnically ambiguous," she said. President's sister puts their mom in picture book 2011-04-12T11:13:09Z That's only one of several ambiguous gags surrounding Ronald, a buttoned-down, soft-spoken agent from St. Cloud, Minn., who is unmarried and mentions antiquing and community theater among his favorite leisure activities. "Cedar Rapids": "The Office" meets "The Hangover" in Iowa's sin city! 2011-02-09T20:30:00Z Too subtle or ambiguous, really, to become the stuff of legend. A lot of Americans believe in ghosts. But what do their ghost stories actually tell us? 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z Specifically, three years into the series were spent slowly building the tension between Jim and Pam, with the possibility of their union ambiguous the whole time. Five things we learned from “The Office” 2012-08-27T20:43:00Z During the premiere performance on Tuesday, it was in character when, rather than giving her solo a big finish, she simply walked off — an ambiguous gesture somewhere between hubris and humility. Review: Dormeshia Coasts on Her Tap Mastery in ‘Rhythm Is Life’ 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z However, we are struggling with how much we are obligated to “host” in situations where it’s ambiguous whether someone is visiting us or using us as a stopover. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Uh-oh, it’s time for the ‘as long as we’re being honest’ conversation 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z I’ve always thought that this gray wash was overdone: The Cold War was less ambiguous than le Carré’s fiction suggested. 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 The idea of the Force, central to the fuzzy theology of Star Wars, is disturbingly ambiguous. The return of Star Wars: an evil empire in Jedi clothing? 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z His thoughts on the subject are provocative, if a little ambiguous. The importance of good editing 2012-06-14T14:04:47Z Things are tense and tedious until a conflict erupts, precipitating heroism, atrocity or something more ambiguous. Review: ‘Neither Heaven Nor Earth’ Engages the Horrors of War 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z It’s questioning, doubting, and ends on an ambiguous note, with travelers jammed on a railroad platform, baggage piled, waiting. Review: ‘One-Way Ticket’ at MoMA Reunites Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Paintings 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z His recent leading man status is the result of a body of work that made him the poster boy for twisted, multi-layered, morally ambiguous heroic villains. At last action hero 2012-08-10T23:05:00Z His affect at the kitchen table was ambiguous. 'Masters of Sex' Recap: Do You Believe in the Romance That Is Bill and Virginia? 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z “It felt to me like it was important not to be ambiguous about that,” he said. When Some Rules Are Meant to Be Broken 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z Let me ask this the right way: The end of "Take Shelter" is very ambiguous, and I'd like to hear your opinion. Jessica Chastain: The dazzling redhead who's suddenly everywhere 2011-09-27T21:28:00Z As it progressed, the show posed thornier challenges for Sharon and Rob — right up to this season’s final and faintly ambiguous walk-off. Review | ‘Catastrophe,’ peak TV’s finest love story, drifts away as beautifully as it barged in 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z His touch, as always, was pellucid as he began with a reflective, exploratory, chromatically ambiguous piece. Music Review: After Hints Of Genius, A Muse Is Expelled 2011-01-17T22:30:26Z What’s best in this “Oklahoma!” is the morally ambiguous cue Fish develops so smartly from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s own narrative impulses. Review | A radical new Broadway ‘Oklahoma!’ says it’s not such a beautiful mornin’ in America 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z It’s as if the reality of Hatidze’s life and work, the practical relationships of filmmaking, were too messy and ambiguous for the filmmakers’ tidy hermetic schema. “Honeyland,” Reviewed: A Gripping, Frustrating Documentary About a Beekeeper’s Fragile Isolation 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z The relationship is ambiguous: Is the mother cradling her grown daughter? 2010-02-12T23:56:00Z This brilliance is ambiguous, for it seems to emanate both from the book and the old woman's person. The 10 best paintings for winter cheer 2013-01-12T19:05:00Z “The ambiguous is part of life — that’s the thing it’s worth making movies for,” he said. ‘Winter Sleep,' a Nuri Bilge Ceylan Take on Turkish Life 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Given the sparse records of the ratification debates and the ambiguous, conflicting evidence of the founders’ and ratifiers’ intentions, neither justice was willing to be bound by the hopeless search for a single “intention.” Scalia’s shameless political agenda 2012-10-01T19:53:00Z Yet there was room in “La Follia” for flair and drama, for Ms. Mutter’s haunting way of evoking a kind of unfinished, ambiguous mystery in music, as if she hadn’t quite finished considering it. Music Review: Anne-Sophie Mutter Returns to Carnegie Hall 2013-12-16T23:36:52Z Thus it dawns on Luke that Harlem needs a king less than it needs a hero, resulting in the Netflix series' morally ambiguous season finale. Forget civility: On “The Good Fight,” “Luke Cage” and “Dietland,” resistance means go... 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z Others are ambiguous – hence the lawsuits from collectors who get works disattributed. Spilling the soup on Andy Warhol's legacy 2013-07-24T15:28:48Z For all that is clear, even blatant, about Schwarz’s staging, there is much that is memorably, lyrically ambiguous. Review: A New ‘Ring’ at Bayreuth Does Wagner Without Magic 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z As the "war on terror" nears its 10th anniversary, the key question is maddeningly ambiguous – are we winning? Tonight's TV highlights 2011-03-21T08:00:02Z “Pharmaceutical labels may be written in an unfamiliar language, quantities can be ambiguous and quite often nature has a remedy that will bridge the gap until more conventional aid can be found.” The Getaway: Sick on the Road? Try the Grocery Store 2012-08-22T14:35:05Z They ended up creating such a compelling, unpredictable, sad and ambiguous character who was capable of so much damage — he was able to affect story on such a grand scale. ArtsBeat: Damian Lewis on the Season Finale of ‘Homeland’ 2013-12-16T17:50:30Z The ending of “Faust” is not exactly ambiguous. Music Review: A Review of the Metropolitan Opera?s ?Faust? 2011-11-30T13:23:05Z We may be in a situation all over again where it's a little more ambiguous than I perhaps intended. Breaking Bad Q&A: Creator Vince Gilligan Talks the Finale, and the Future 2011-10-10T17:45:00Z In describing real taboos – nothing absurd about these – he forces us to consider ambiguous areas where harm is neither intended nor suffered. The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? 2010-04-26T21:00:00Z A lot about the story is purposefully ambiguous. 'Sunset': An engaging game about war's toll on a housekeeper 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z When he asked his dad why he had enrolled him in the acting class, the seemingly ambiguous response struck a chord. Tenoch Huerta Mejía and the Beauty of Representation in ‘Wakanda Forever’ 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z Someone had literally checked ambiguous, crossed it out and then checked female. For a Documentary on Intersex Lives, a Director Champions the Power of Activism 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z Additionally, AMC said over the weekend that Season 2 of its crime drama “The Killing” would begin on April 1, following an ambiguous and controversial Season 1 finale in June. ArtsBeat: 'Mad Men' Season Premiere Is Set for March 25 2012-01-15T17:05:58Z The question that I keep coming back to is: Was this ambiguous outcome a surprise? Just What Was on Trial in the Bill Cosby Case? 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z The title seems slyly ambiguous: the audience is supposed to wonder whether it belongs to Mr. Carell or to Mr. Rudd. Jay Roach?s ?Dinner for Schmucks? and All Its Meshugas 2010-05-03T21:51:00Z “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 We realised that real laughter was much less ambiguous than posed laughter – if someone is really laughing hard, it easy to understand what they are doing. Laughter on the brain: the science behind our sniggers 2012-07-03T16:43:37Z Jennifer Phang’s Advantageous, in which a single mother undergoes an experimental procedure to make herself look younger and more ethnically ambiguous, fails to merge intriguing concepts into a dramatically satisfying whole. The final frontier: how female directors broke into sci-fi 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z If we were to make a film about her it would probably be much more ambiguous. Carice van Houten: ‘I feel like my back is straightening when I become Melisandre’ 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z You mention that this World War II story is less ambiguous as far as we agree who the bad guys were. "It's our foundation myth": PBS' "World on Fire" challenges the World War II narrative we know 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z This incident is a crucial and ambiguous plot point within a fast-paced thriller predicated on numerous twists. “Jack Reacher”: Tom Cruise’s terrible timing 2012-12-18T09:44:00Z Whatever might pass for regret or nostalgia is rescued by Woolf’s respect for the ambiguous and the unknowable. Michael Cunningham on Virginia Woolf’s Literary Revolution 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z Searches for ambiguous terms began to look beyond the search terms for other related words. Google and the future of search: Amit Singhal and the Knowledge Graph 2013-01-19T21:59:00Z The second half vaults forward to 2008, when his niece Frida now 25 and between semesters at medical school, visits Pasha in Ukraine, or, “the land of ambiguous lung disease,” as she sees it. ‘Panic in a Suitcase’ by Yelena Akhtiorskaya 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z But it seemed better to be more ambiguous, to refer equally to a mood, a uniform, a kind of day, a kind of music. My Journey to Writing an Opera About Police Violence 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z People said to me, "'Capturing the Friedmans' is more ambiguous and I liked that about it." Director Andrew Jarecki talks of getting to know 'Jinx's' Robert Durst 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Whether you are smiling to acknowledge how important the job is or to indicate that you realize that your brother-in-law is exaggerating for effect should, Miss Manners cautions you, be ambiguous to everyone but yourself. Perspective | Miss Manners: Friend won’t accept jewelry gift 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z Some touches were ambiguous, like the wildly swinging lamp, which emitted such a bright light that several audience members complained it hurt their eyes. Music Review: Verdi?s ?Macbeth? at the Metropolitan Opera 2012-03-16T22:47:17Z Relationships ruptured by conflicting political beliefs and value systems fall into the category of psychological ambiguous loss, Boss said. Politics and conspiracy theories are fracturing relationships. Here’s how to grieve those broken bonds. 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z I ask Plaza how it feels to play a character whose gender seems so ambiguous. 'It's exhausting not being human' – the weird world of Legion's Aubrey Plaza 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z But it was never didactic, remaining as ambiguous as Britten’s sliding, diaphanous music, conducted by Leo Hussain. Critic?s Notebook: Where Opera Is Stretched Yet Unbroken 2011-07-05T21:30:26Z And so this brooding comedy of memory unfolds as a retrospectively played game of truth and consequences, though just what the truth is will remain ambiguous. Review: ‘Our Mother’s Brief Affair,’ a Play About Unmoored Lives 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Stark and ambiguous in the film, the ending in the opera is a sentimental moment for mother and daughter that softens what could have been a raw, taut depiction of war and its victims. Review: San Francisco Opera’s ‘Two Women’ Depicts War’s Horror at High Pitch 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z Wearing a striped pointed cap, this circus figure of ambiguous gender seems simultaneously skeptical and kind, rueful and understanding. Tip Toland’s cheery, startling ceramic ‘jesters’ hold court at Seattle’s Davidson Galleries | Art review 2012-11-16T23:21:05Z This spatially ambiguous background is pushed to the fore in the postwar period, and startlingly bright colors — especially fiery reds — are layered together with a palette knife for a smooth, dry, frescolike surface. Yasuo Kuniyoshi, a Modernist Often Overlooked, Gets a Smithsonian Retrospective 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z But other details that Salinger volunteers about himself at this time are ambiguous, if not fictitious. 9 Letters From Young J. D. Salinger Unearthed 2013-04-23T22:10:00Z In the Chandleresque "Gallathea", a private eye is hired by a femme fatale for an ambiguous missing person case; while Sherlock Holmes is channelled in "The Significant City of Lazarus Glass". Debut fiction roundup – reviews 2012-07-27T21:55:04Z Parson said the context of disco — “an ecstatic dance form that tips quickly into despair” — is intentionally ambiguous. Everybody Dance Now! ‘Here Lies Love’ Dictates Your Moves. 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z Because the placement of all these objects appear to be as significant as the items themselves, they all become terms in a single, all-encompassing visual language, supple and thought-provoking but endlessly ambiguous. Ablaze With Art: Thriving Galleries in Lower Manhattan 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z Kerry Washington plays one of the key protagonists in the show, a character who is ethnically ambiguous in the book. Attica Locke left Hollywood to write novels. Now she’s found success in both worlds. 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z It’s an ambiguous name, open to interpretation and possibility: the Studio. An Immersive Sound Installation at MoMA Introduces the Studio 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z She hints at Fallada's own ambiguous politics, but these need clarification to grasp his true project. Letters: Alone in Berlin is morally compromised 2011-01-11T00:04:00Z Made of gouache on textured sheets of handmade Pondicherry paper, these arresting works show male figures — self-portraits, in some cases — interacting with spiritual symbols in a variety of spatially ambiguous settings. Francesco Clemente Retrospective at Rubin Museum 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Other outlooks are more ambiguous, suggesting both macro and micro views. Review | In the galleries: An artist conjures images from oceans to a micro view of nature 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z The ambiguous humanity of zombies — the porousness of the boundary between us and them — is a staple of the genre. Review: ‘The Girl With All the Gifts,’ and an Appetite for Flesh 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Feelings around abusive dynamics are often complex and ambiguous, but that doesn’t lessen the impact in the lives of the victims. My inappropriate relationship 2013-03-24T01:00:00Z That quotation from the Anglican priest William Ralph Inge, which begins the documentary “Kumaré: The True Story of a False Prophet,” evokes the film’s ambiguous exploration of religion, teaching and spiritual leadership. Movie Review: Vikram Gandhi’s ‘Kumaré: The True Story of a False Prophet’ 2012-06-19T22:02:15Z The new literature of the long war consists of voices calling across that divide, and the truths this fiction tries to tell are complex, morally ambiguous and often contradictory. Veterans' new fiction adds needed perspective on war zones 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z One of those stories: an ambiguous assemblage by artist Eric Wesley of small, metallic tiles, like shiny, oversized Legos, whose ultimate form remains a mystery until the very end of the viewing. Public Fiction is collectively in Hammer Museum's 'Made in L.A.' 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z Conversations cut off at ambiguous places; significant glances might signal complicity or shared bewilderment. Review: ‘Quiz’ Has a Big Question but No Final Answer 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z In its day, Ibsen’s play was scandalous: For its German premiere, in Hamburg in 1880, the playwright retooled the ending by making it ambiguous whether Nora stayed or went. On German Stages, Women Take Control 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z It is “a drunken sexual encounter with ambiguous content that is supposed to mean nothing, and happen just once,” she writes. Hooking up as a core requirement: Casual sex in college isn’t optional anymore, “it’s an imperative” 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z At some point, the show has to stop obsessively excavating character and shift toward creating some kind of narrative resonance, whether that’s an ambiguous death scene, a happy ending or a Coke commercial. “Masters of Sex”: Still struggling to make sexy material into a compelling story 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z He pores over the evidence, such as it is — “dark surmises, grave suspicions, ambiguous phrases, obscure scraps of dialogue drawn from half-remembered phone conversations” — and he also gives vent to his own imaginings. Books of The Times: Power Struggles and Riddles, in Romance and Political Intrigue 2010-11-23T23:27:00Z But while the production is straightforward, the subject matter is just ambiguous enough to up the sex appeal. Here Are the 25 Best Songs of 2014 (So Far) 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z Levy’s conclusion is deliberately ambiguous, but it’s clear that her title is painfully ironic; the man who thought he saw everything in fact saw almost nothing. Review | In ‘The Man Who Saw Everything,’ Deborah Levy questions our notions of reality 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z The real spirit of the play finds its most disturbing and ambiguous expression in the turmoil that flashes in the eyes of Tanya, and even seems to shudder through her lean limbs, throughout the evening. Review: ‘Airline Highway’ Is a Portrait of the Underclass of New Orleans 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z “But I’d love to take a turn with somebody who is kind of ethnically ambiguous and just kind of turn it on its head. You know, force people to see them in a different light.” Tyler James Williams 'Would Absolutely Love to' Be the Next Spider-Man 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z The movie’s ambiguous scenes of these people from his former life bring the movie to a dead halt. Movie Review: ‘Arthur Newman,’ Starring Colin Firth and Emily Blunt 2013-04-26T00:31:05Z Instead he presents a more murky, ambiguous tale of the dangerous ideological uses to which literature can be put, by its champions and its detractors alike. Theater Review: At the Vineyard, Reading Can Be Hazardous 2010-05-20T04:12:00Z While some of these are for folks who have dietary restrictions and distinct health needs, others are simply marketed to the masses under the ambiguous guise of "health," when they're often really talking about thinness. On navigating the holidays after a life of disordered eating 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z First of all, the main character, this Polish guy, was ambiguous, both hero and not hero, and a very simple, ordinary man, not very good. The Carpetbagger: In the Sewers With 'In Darkness' 2012-02-03T20:40:13Z What’s more, “Whiplash” possesses an unexpected cultural resonance, engaging contemporary debates about education, coaching and the ways we nurture those ambiguous qualities called “excellence” or “genius.” “Whiplash” examines the line between education and abuse 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Even at its most wildly exaggerated, the staging focuses our attention on Miller’s writing at its ambiguous best. A smoldering 'View From the Bridge' turns up the heat at the Ahmanson 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z In the ’70s Mr. le Carré’s novels became yet more daunting: denser, more complex, more stubbornly ambiguous. Adapting John le Carr? Novels for the Movies 2011-09-18T00:03:03Z But the show remains ambiguous about who committed the crime. How the OJ Simpson Bronco Chase Affected the Kardashian Kids 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z That said, Keya is pretty clever, and Bhatt invests her performance with some verve, even making her motivations ambiguous as she bonds with Rachel in a few scenes late in the film. "Heart of Stone" stars Gal Gadot in a lackluster Europudding action flick 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z "There's a wonderful, almost ambiguous triumph at the end, which suggests it might not all be plain sailing. " New ENO maestro to be 'bolder' 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z Filmmaker Christopher Kahunahana's drama is ambitious and ambiguous, and that is what makes it so auspicious. "Waikiki" filmmaker: "Hawai'i is marketed as a paradise . . . but things are only getting worse" 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z It was an unusual event from the outset: a privately funded reception and concert of music by Russian and American composers, all based on an ambiguous premise. Perspective | The concert was about unity; the message was all Russian 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z “The Innocents” is, as it should be, mighty disturbing — both in a shocking, horror-movie way and in that queasily ambiguous Henry James way. Translating Henry James for the Screen 2013-04-28T03:43:13Z It’s difficult to look at this and other pictures in the series, because each photograph is a portal into a world of injustice, but the nature of the injustice is ambiguous. Angola Prison and the Shadow of Slavery 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z This stuff is ominous and ambiguous; we suggest not show. In knockout thriller "Catch the Fair One," a boxer infiltrates a ring of human traffickers 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Keenlyside tacked from sweetness to ominous vehemence; his emotions were precise, but the overall effect remained ambiguous. Music Review: Looking at Schubert and Finding Hamlet 2011-03-14T23:00:13Z Mr. Spratlan and Mr. Maraniss honor Calderón by adhering closely to the philosophically ambiguous play, considered the “Hamlet” of Spanish drama. Music Review: Overdue Debut for Lewis Spratlan Opera in Santa Fe 2010-07-25T23:29:00Z And, yes, we’re quite aware that some of these mysteries are meant to be ambiguous. Hollywood Mystery, Solved: 29 Movie Head-Scratchers Explained 2012-08-13T12:00:26Z You want to leave it a little ambiguous so people debate it. Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Vince Gilligan do a 'Breaking Bad' autopsy 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Instead, it’s both virtuosic and ambiguous, yielding more to chew on than most videos of its era or ours. Carrie Fisher and George Michael Were the Same in 1 Way 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z Ms. Gallace is still painting small landscapes, and they’re still ambiguous, but now each part of each image has its own character and is played against the others more clearly. Review: Maureen Gallace, Lynda Barry, and Louis M. Eilshemius and Bob Thompson 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z But Bertillon’s mug shots make for images of extraordinary, if ambiguous, psychological power. The Long Collusion of Photography and Crime 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z Now he cast his mind around towards "selling" the deeply personal yet ambiguous lyrics of "It's Not too Bad" and did so by tagging on a chorus surrounding a vague notion of the girls' home. The untold story behind "Strawberry Fields Forever" 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z The maid, in her uniform, is traditionally an ambiguous figure: a key player in her own secret theatre of power. Film review: The Maid 2010-08-26T22:09:00Z The ambiguous statues appear to raise questions about human life that go far beyond maternity and nurturing, Stephens said. Dark side of sculptor Henry Moore on show in London 2010-02-22T20:22:00Z Poison attempts are suspected at all times, sometimes with reason, and there are ambiguous visits from a talking deer, a blind man and what appears at one point to be a female Sweeney Todd. Court mystery, martial-arts action fire up 'Detective Dee and the Phantom Flame' 2011-09-22T21:17:07Z Or did he simply add another layer of could-have-been before returning us to the ambiguous status quo antipasto? ‘Bandersnatch,’ ‘The Sopranos,’ and the Myth of Certainty 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z It was a story so wrenching that Weiner dropped her usual happy resolutions for a more ambiguous ending. Weiner and fans bond at New York City reading 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z He is outside the summer idyll, yet his presence and its odalisque-like grace is essential to the ambiguous beauty that distinguishes DeCarava’s art. The Photographer Who Found His Power in Shades of Gray 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z The truth however, will be far less ambiguous: you do not care about their baby. I do not care about your baby 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z A momentous look back at the film, video, photography and installation work of an Irish artist renowned for his ambiguous take on cultural history. This week's new exhibitions 2011-08-19T23:09:33Z The exact threat is ambiguous, but let’s say the house doesn’t look cozy. Mia Wasikowska Is in for Some Scares in Latest 'Crimson Peak' Trailer 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Ma’s warm, dusky playing of this lyrical stretch was wondrously cushioned by the orchestra’s harmonically ambiguous atmospherics. New Concerto, New Leader: A Big Day at the New York Philharmonic 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z But the profound Shakesperean darkness is in The Tempest, a play played indoors, like all the late plays, and like them, full of ambiguous reconciliation. Darkness in literature: from the Bible to Joyce 2012-12-31T09:14:54Z He praises churches and religious art, but the best kind of religious art tells us nothing explicitly; but, rather, is multivalent and ambiguous. Museums: bland, academic and failing to speak to our souls? 2011-01-31T15:09:09Z And throughout, Mr. Daniels is vibrantly ambiguous — a beleaguered and terrified mediocrity, made larger somehow by a monstrous act, whose deepest motives remain obscure, probably even to himself. Review: ‘Blackbird’: The Past Returns, Taunting 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Earlier this year, Ms. Gilbert published a follow-up book called “Committed,” an anguished account of her ambiguous feelings about marrying her lover, called Felipe in the books. Family Matters: The Joys of Vicarious Divorce 2010-08-27T19:16:00Z Her “Water-Sky Rant,” as the score calls it, is perhaps the most overtly political moment of the hour-and-a-quarter-long work, but it’s ambiguous. ‘On Behalf of Nature,’ Meredith Monk’s Wild Side 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Though MacLachlan’s character’s fate at the end of Twin Peaks was left ambiguous, Twin Peaks needs him. The New Twin Peaks Needs Kyle MacLachlan 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z Played with unflinching precision by the Philharmonia, the performance was a reminder that it's one of Shostakovich's greatest and most Mahlerian achievements, full of strange, beautiful and profoundly ambiguous music. Philharmonia/Salonen – review 2013-05-17T15:50:26Z I didn't think the film was particularly ambiguous. The surreal manipulation of "Black Bear," a comic thriller with answers that "hover out of reach" 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z My dad was financially ambiguous and notoriously frugal, so I thought that if there even was one, it would be weird. My Father’s Death, an Envelope of Cash, a Legacy in Music 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z Here he creates a work the dancers can perform with a certain ease, but that doesn’t make up for his ambiguous artistic voice. Dance Review: Ailey II, ABT II and Taylor 2 at Joyce?s 1.2.3. Festival 2010-04-18T21:55:00Z But there's something very ambiguous about Elizabeth Holmes in terms of the why. Michael Showalter on American con artists: "We really are screwed if there's no such thing as truth" 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z She was particularly convincing, he added, in discussing “Rothko’s early political radicalism, his training under Max Weber, his ambiguous relationships to the Surrealists and his kinship with artists such as Milton Avery and Clyfford Still.” Dore Ashton, Art Critic Who Embraced and Inhabited Modernism, Dies at 88 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z Speaking of shaky, Barney George’s set design — which includes a stage-length vert ramp seemingly borrowed from a skate park and jagged rectangular panels lined up along the back wall — is frustratingly ambiguous. Review: ‘The Kite Runner’ Trips From Page to Stage 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z He replied, "I like that it's ambiguous, but Diana is definitely there throughout." Readers recommend songs about royalty: the results 2010-12-16T22:59:01Z The sound and music, by Sinéad Diskin, come and go, sometimes offering a sense of place, at other times leaving place ambiguous, universal. ‘Walking With Ghosts’ Review: Gabriel Byrne Roams His Past 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z In Scott Calhoun’s “Emperor Gum,” an enormous pale bubble jostles the canvas’s edges while ambiguous shapes and forms percolate within its translucent, skinlike expanse. Abstraction at Manhattan Galleries 2010-08-05T22:14:00Z As the season unfolded—ABC sent out the first four episodes to critics—I found myself returning to the scene, trying to dissect its ambiguous affect now that the show had doled out more information. This show flips all the scripts: A male prep school athlete, drugged and raped — and what happens next 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z There's an electric chair in the backyard, a frighteningly ambiguous representation of the "Jailhouse Rock" set. Elvis fan creates 'Graceland Too' shrine in Mississippi home 2011-07-19T23:00:46Z It’s an assertion he’s fond of repeating, but whether he means it as a boast, a guilty confession or a license to break the law depends on a shifting moral perspective that remains frustratingly ambiguous. Journey on race relations takes some wrongs turns in 'White Guy on the Bus' 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z The image was of a room, a little like a room at home, but spatially ambiguous, without dimension. An Art Critic Is First Inspired by Words 2013-08-14T22:01:50Z Often the only source of emergency cash is loan sharks, increasingly big business in Kenya, with borrowers signing ambiguous photocopied contracts and tying themselves into interest rates of 50% or more. Africa innovations: 15 ideas helping to transform a continent 2012-08-25T23:05:54Z Five minutes into it, she began to sing in a wordless moan that felt ambiguous, then more specific, as if she were trying to locate a secret vowel between “uh” and “oh.” Review | Kim Gordon’s tribute to Yoko Ono: Cool and screamy, with a guitar on your face 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z Dante leaves the story's ending horribly ambiguous – it seems that after the little boys died, the starving Ugolino ate them. From Dante to Dan Brown: how artists have portrayed the Divine Comedy 2013-05-14T15:44:06Z The tears are ambiguous: they may imply emotion, because deciduous winter trees are beautiful, but at the same time, eyes may water simply in response to brilliant sunlight. Poem of the week: Otterspool Prom by Peter Robinson 2013-02-18T11:19:21Z Humans, in other words, can judge the subjective, symbolic, ambiguous and narrative qualities of an artwork; machines can’t. Artificial Intelligence as a Bridge for Art and Reality 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Shaped sensitively by Mr. Gilbert, it took on a powerful narrative quality, like Schoenberg’s “Verklärte Nacht” updated, darker and more ambiguous. Review: The New York Philharmonic Highlights Nordic Works 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z “Stuck in this ambiguous pout,” Ms. Maricich sang of her mouth, or Ms. Lohan’s. Music Review: The Blow, Channeling a Tabloid Star at Joe?s Pub 2010-07-11T22:15:00Z He believes the Pennsylvania court’s opinion sends a warning to prosecutors that a defendant caught up in a prosecutor’s ambiguous decisions should not be harmed by them. Cosby DA: Chief judge’s TV interview ‘fuels’ misinformation 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z Grant Wallace Band, a quirky trio of conservatory-trained composers, followed with spidery original bluegrass songs, featuring ambiguous harmonies and high-lonesome yelps. Critic’s Notebook: A Hurricane Benefit in Chicago for a Brooklyn Record Label 2012-12-18T23:24:53Z Cumulatively, the drawings develop a quixotic character, performed by Weinstein-Murrow, and an ambiguous plot. Review: An engaging show of 'Meteorites' at Winston-W?chter 2010-12-16T21:53:12Z A violent, amoral but ambiguous parable that’s pored over by an online fandom looking for hidden meaning. TV for the fake news generation: why Westworld is the defining show of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z I don’t want to be that serious, I want to make a picture that’s ambiguous. | Q&A: Karen Knorr?s Photography Offers an Ironic Sense of Place ? Q&A 2011-11-02T22:32:13Z His biography is ambiguous, his musical style unclassifiable: no longer Classical but not yet Romantic, and looking ahead toward decidedly modern harmonies and rhythms. Music Review: Relishing and Playing With Reverberations of Schubert 2011-01-23T22:52:35Z “Nothing could be left to question or ambiguous.” In ‘Fauci,’ a big-screen portrait of a pandemic superstar 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z One of the problems with "Men" is that it is so ambitious and so ambiguous that it is easier to just let the film run its course and think about it later — if at all. "Men" is Alex Garland's glossy, gendered fever dream that bewitches as much as it befuddles 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z “Everybody was pretty shocked. No one really expected it to be that abrupt, I think, and that ambiguous,” Imperioli says. ‘The Sopranos’ creators look back at a TV show that slayed 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z In an article from 1957 in Archives of Criminal Psychodynamics, a social psychologist explained the risky, ambiguous nature of such exchanges: The Theory That Justified Anti-Gay Crime 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z The root causes here are a little more ambiguous, a cocktail of design flaws, human weakness and the development of self-awareness and free will. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 6: The Tipping Point 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z What the fragrance smells like is even more ambiguous. T Magazine: Think Ink 2010-10-26T16:05:00Z Appiah begins “The Lies That Bind” by observing that he, a man of ambiguous identity, is constantly asked, “What are you?” What Is Identity? 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z At the sudden and surprisingly ambiguous end of “Nixon in China” we hear Chou’s plaintive aria asking, “How much of what we did was good?/Everything seems to move beyond/Our remedy.” A Witness Sees History Restaged and Rewritten 2011-02-11T19:47:04Z Is there no such thing as certainty, only a never-ending collection of ambiguous choices? ‘Toy Story’ and ‘Robot Chicken’ Spawn Holiday Specials 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z Wenner’s homosexual drive, first expressed in “ambiguous horseplay” that got him arrested at the age of 12, was not fulfilled in what he considered a full-fledged “romance” until 1967, when he was 21. The Licentious Life and Times of Jann Wenner 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z Other postcards are edited with paint, correction fluid and scribbled ink, leaving mysterious, ambiguous half-images. Rachel Whiteread: Through the eyes of a child 2010-09-06T20:31:00Z McNaughton's 2019 painting "The Resistance," on the other hand, is a bewildering, ambiguous and skillfully rendered tribute to Goya's "The Third of May 1808," a work I would speculate that relatively few Trump fans recognize. Trump propaganda painter Jon McNaughton: "Greatest" artist of our time? 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z You weren’t even the only person I took for an ambiguous walk around the park. Asymmetric love, part four: the view from the other side 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z But Pakistan's eventual leaders mistrusted him because of his stance, and many of the elite seem ambiguous about his role in their national history even now. 2010-02-03T13:50:00Z His two assailants stand over him, but the semi-grisaille scene is ambiguous: It may all be a bad dream. Salman Toor, a Painter at Home in Two Worlds 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z Yet when they’re lining up suppliers and hiring local workers, they are anything but ambiguous. Being Gay Is Illegal in Many Countries. L.G.B.T.Q. Travelers Are Going Anyway. 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z This isn’t a novel to be overlooked because it searches into the searing and ambiguous lives of those fighting through multiple combat deployments; it’s a novel about the world we actually live in. ‘The Knife,’ by Ross Ritchell 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z For a while, Walliams's status seemed ambiguous, meaning it was conceivable that he and Lucas could become an item. Strange bedfellows: comedy double acts 2010-12-21T21:30:09Z I guess McNaughton doesn't mean these paintings to be troubling or ambiguous, or at least not in the way they are. Trump propaganda painter Jon McNaughton: "Greatest" artist of our time? 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z There is God and there are the Huskers and sometimes their order of importance is, well, ambiguous. Jerry Sandusky’s guilty — and so are we 2012-06-25T13:59:00Z The result is charged but ambiguous; when it was shown alongside other work in Wall’s 2015 show at Marian Goodman, it appeared to address a theme of homelessness and migration. Israel and the West Bank, Through the Eyes of a Dozen Visitors 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z Gaps In some episodes, the time or location were ambiguous. Doctor Who: Every single journey through time detailed detailed by Information is Beautiful. As a spreadsheet 2010-08-20T17:11:00Z She said she thought twice before wearing a skirt to the office, “because it attracts ambiguous remarks” from her male colleagues. | Leg Work 2011-09-07T21:58:28Z At Christie’s, which opened the round of paintings sales early on Jan. 26, the message was ambiguous. Auctions: Bring on the Old Masters 2011-02-04T12:00:05Z On its 40th anniversary, which sees Rhino reissuing the recording and film in various versions, it’s as ambiguous as ever. “The Last Waltz” at 40: The Band and their classic movie speak beyond boomer nostalgia 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z Yeah, it is ambiguous and we thought that was quite important. My mentally ill sister 2012-06-02T00:00:00Z He points out Mr. Ramadan’s ambiguous comments about things like 9/11, the stoning of women in Muslim countries and violence against Jews. Books of The Times: Paul Berman?s ?Flight of the Intellectuals? 2010-05-02T21:52:00Z He looks up old girlfriends, suffers the ambiguous attentions of his party-girl neighbour and, in one hilariously painful sequence, finds himself on a double-date with blonde identical twins. The Salt of Life ? review 2011-02-14T17:17:31Z Mr. Shechter may be after something more ambiguous: the appeal and the danger of belonging. Dance Review: ‘Political Mother,’ by Hofesh Shechter, at BAM 2012-10-12T22:47:29Z He thought that if he was going to explore the nature of consciousness through his literature, then the work would have to be, like consciousness itself, fragmentary, ambiguous and always in flux. Is it time to rediscover Conrad Aiken? 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Many rank-and-file artists had been required to join Nazi organizations in order to remained employed, and the correlation of such membership to ideological commitment was often ambiguous. When Classical Music Was an Alibi 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Tricky's deeply ambiguous relationship with the violent posturing of hip-hop is rooted in this history. Tricky: 'I can still be really dark in my mind' 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z Their forms mostly comprise circles, scribbles and squares, but also a smattering of eyes, flowers, suns, pointy teeth and ambiguous suggestions of intestines, chairs or vertebrae. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in June 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z I was composing, yet not writing my own music, referring every decision back to Stockhausen's instructions, some of them quite ambiguous. The flat-pack Stockhausen 2010-07-12T21:00:00Z In the United Kingdom, it's our foundation myth because although most wars are more ambiguous, this one was particularly unambiguous. "It's our foundation myth": PBS' "World on Fire" challenges the World War II narrative we know 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z “But it’s also ambiguous on purpose, because we really see this as a partnership moving forward.” With Choice of New Director, the Met Gets a Scholar and a Showman 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z One could argue over their motivations as if they were real people; their actions were often ambiguous enough for viewers to debate. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 6, Episode 13 Recap: Life 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z More specifically, the show is about fixers who go in and out of morally ambiguous cases and make them all better by morally ambiguous means. How to Get Away With Murder Is Everything You Love In One Show 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z But the themes of loyalty, deception and the ambiguous allegiances of a double agent are once again at play. What if ‘Fauda’ Moved to New York? 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z Auden, hailed by Eudora Welty for “serious and complex” work, he wrote 18 novels driven by the gloomy, ambiguous detective Lew Archer. Can’t wait for “True Detective 2″? Dive into Ross Macdonald’s California noir masterpieces 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z As a writer she had an ambiguous relationship with her illness. Lisa Lynch obituary 2013-03-18T19:03:13Z Much more complex than a pro-choice or anti-abortion polemic, Weston's novel is the ambiguous examination of a woman whose actions inexplicably contradict her ethics. Dirty Work by Gabriel Weston – review 2013-06-30T16:00:01Z The ambiguous overall mood is at once inviting and ominous. New York Philharmonic’s Next Leader Gives a Taste of Things to Come 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z Again, the inspired music is powerfully ambiguous: thick-textured and harmonically luminous, yet agitated and eerie. What ‘The Death of Klinghoffer’ Could Have Accomplished 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z The results: “Political conservatism was associated with a lower threshold for categorizing racially ambiguous faces as black when it came to American, but not Canadian, faces.” Study: Liberals, conservatives see mixed-race people differently 2013-06-09T14:00:00Z The characters are flat, and the actors playing them seem as befuddled as the viewer about the ambiguous shades of good and evil from one scene to the next. NBC’s ‘Emerald City’ travels to a violent Oz that wants to be the next Westeros 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z His ambiguous affliction is one of the novel’s central mysteries and the abiding sorrow of Lady’s life. The trouble with the bad mother memoir 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z The thrillingly precise choreography powerfully suggests the emotions and thoughts behind the ambiguous verbal dueling; it’s a suspenseful, theatrical tour de force. On London’s Reopened Ballet Stages, a Focus on the Contemporary 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z She climbs fences, falls over in the rain, struggles with wrongly accused men of mystery and spends exhausted and morally ambiguous nights asleep without her hair or clothes ever suffering. My favourite Hitchcock film: The 39 Steps 2012-06-16T23:03:03Z His ambiguous harmonies, liquid touch and use of repeated notes and sustain create a slightly sacral quality. Melbourne jazz festival 2013: reviews and weekend highlights 2013-06-07T02:01:13Z The story lines are ambiguous, the moralities unclear. Video Game Review: Gears of War 3 - Review 2011-09-19T17:12:57Z Still the first person, for all its ambiguous charm, is better at obscuring things about its narrator — notably gender and madness — than revealing them. “Joseph Anton”: Memoir as noir 2012-11-05T21:58:00Z The city’s night lights were still on, though, making the time of day seem ambiguous and unreal. Fiction: “Double Take” by Jessica Francis Kane 2013-03-02T16:00:00Z Its final scenes are devastating, and also marvelously ambiguous, full of wonder, fury and cleareyed self-criticism. Review: In ‘The Florida Project,’ Enchantment in a Shabby Motel 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z As the most morally ambiguous figure, his discomfort in his own skin is obvious, and surprisingly well encompassed by the compromised stability of a voice that has seen better days; he carries authority nevertheless. Fidelio ? review 2011-03-30T18:45:01Z Not everything the internet treats as ambiguous actually is. Have we forgotten how to read critically? 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z One of the great symphonies, spanning some 80 minutes, it is also one of the most delicate, ambiguous in emotion and a minefield of potential interpretative wrong turns. RCO/Haitink – review 2012-05-22T17:10:53Z The film opens with a quote about the ambiguous line between life and death. "This film is Poe's origin story": "The Pale Blue Eye" director on his gothic whodunit at West Point 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z The United States Court of Appeals decided largely in favor of Mr. Prince, but left an ambiguous precedent for determining fair use. Copyright Case Over Richard Prince Instagram Show to Go Forward 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z “Malmkrog” may refer to the movie’s setting, but this too is ambiguous. ‘Malmkrog’ Review: Now You’re Talking 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z Like the opening Haydn piece, the Beethoven quartet begins with a few delicate, harmonically ambiguous measures. Music Review: London Haydn Quartet Brings Its Gut Strings to the Morgan 2014-01-22T20:26:03Z “The Opening Constellation” section proved particularly arresting, a celestial soundscape of gorgeous harmonies that became even more alluringly ambiguous in the ensuing “Romantic Constellation.” Review: For Roomful of Teeth, It’s All About the Polyphony 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z And there’s no doubt that while obsessing over our ambiguous relationship I spent more time in that dark place than I ever have before, or care to again. Private lessons for a famous male director: Was I complicit in this loaded workplace dynamic? 2019-09-14T04:00:00Z It's a critical truism to say that the best horror movies rely on a slow, ambiguous buildup, and scare you more with suspense and atmosphere rather than shocks or gore. "Insidious": "Saw" creators go back to horror basics 2011-03-30T19:45:00Z Her blunt yet ambiguous meditations on gender, class and language make her one of the few great artists to emerge from the Y.B.A. ranks, as the New Museum’s show, “Sarah Lucas: Au Naturel,” should demonstrate. Sarah Lucas, Unmasked: From Perverse to Profound 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z But since tweets often lack context and nuance, “things can come off as a little ambiguous and we want to be helpful in clarifying things.” Move Over, Wikipedia. Dictionaries Are Hot Again. 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z Again, I generally preferred its more ambiguous moments, when you weren’t quite sure what was happening, to its more traditional and explicit vignettes. ‘The Adults’ and ‘99 Breakups’ at the FringeArts Festival in Philadelphia 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z I felt similarly ambiguous about Thursday’s Rachmaninoff performance, and similarly unsure to what degree my reaction was objective. Brilliant soloist gives powerful, ambiguous performance 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z These papers don’t definitely state Daisy’s relationship with the president; parts of them, Linney says, were ripped up or burned, and what remains is ambiguous. Laura Linney helps pluck FDR’s confidante from obscurity 2012-12-07T21:00:28Z What is more interesting about the end of “Passing” is exactly how ambiguous it is. The Performance of Racial Passing 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z While progressives have long argued that allowing more money to flow into politics empowers plutocrats to ignore the will of the people, Ziegler shows that its effects have been more “ambiguous” than that. Abortion Politics, Money and the Reshaping of the G.O.P. 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z The past, then, is like the Sphinx with her ambiguous advice. Fareed Zakaria Looks at Life After the Pandemic 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z It was a question ambiguous enough to encompass both “How do I get this job someday?” and “Who the hell thought you should be on television?” Late-night tales: how a new crop of TV hosts is reinventing an old format 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z There’s a similar, nattering presence at work in Salman Rushdie’s memoir Joseph Anton, and it has a similarly ambiguous flavor to it. “Joseph Anton”: Memoir as noir 2012-11-05T21:58:00Z For example, a reference in the first draft to the leader’s “ambiguous” attitude under the occupation loses its qualifying adjective in the second version. How Paul de Man hid his past 2014-03-30T15:00:00Z The somewhat surreal exhibit reminds us of the artist’s gift for highly detailed but ambiguous storytelling. 2010-02-03T15:50:00Z The work’s content, in other words, is as ambiguous as its form. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z In his ambiguous tableaus, rendered in a visual style reminiscent of de Chirico or Balthus, with a wild palette of acidic oranges and yellows, horrible events have just taken place, or seem about to happen. Gabriel Laderman, Painter of Figurative Art, Dies at 81 2011-03-16T05:07:24Z The reverse of the Spider’s Stratagem, in which a son investigates his father’s life, this ambiguous view of terrorism failed to please the public and critics mainly because the crime is not solved. Bernardo Bertolucci obituary 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z But as objects they are among the most distinctive and ambiguous creations in the histories of sculpture, architectural model-making and the decorative arts. Fantastical Cityscapes of Cardboard and Glue at MoMA 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Whether those shows will be presented online or in person is left necessarily ambiguous. There’ll Be a Theater Season. But How and Where and When? 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Eventually, the two women freed themselves, only to embark on a duet in which the line between mutual support and mutual suffocation grew increasingly ambiguous. Review: Daffy humor and high artistry kick off Butoh festival 2011-06-04T16:45:05Z The release included an ambiguous “caution” that Castor “will reconsider this decision should the need arise.” Bill Cosby prosecutors take case to US high court 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z The festival’s work tends shortish in length, intimate in size, and darkish, ambiguous and poetic in mood. A Dance Steals the Show at an Opera Festival 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z Less ambiguous is that this trend will be here for awhile. 'Batman v. Superman': What DC's nine-movie announcement means 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Maybe that makes our questions about prevention less ambiguous. Perspective | The Astroworld tragedy is impossible to understand, even if you’ve spent a lifetime in crowds 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z Critics say enforcement of the consent decree has been complicated by what they call its ambiguous language. Live Nation Rules Music Ticketing, Some Say With Threats 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z As they envision it, the boundary between what’s occurring on that giant screen and what is happening in reality should always be ambiguous. ‘Network’ in an Age of Fake News and Fury 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Rudolph relies on the situations and confrontations to generate performances and images of a mysterious, disturbingly ambiguous stylization. What to Stream: “Afterglow,” a Melodramatic Spotlight for Julie Christie 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z War is hellishly ambiguous in this powerful, slow-burning parable, in which a Russian soldier is caught between the occupying Nazis and his own side, who suspect he might be a collaborator. This week's new films 2013-04-27T05:00:15Z There is nothing ambiguous about the situation, but since Miriam never pressed charges and Antoine is an otherwise upstanding fellow, the state in its wisdom decides that compromise is the fairest way forward. Review: In ‘Custody,’ a Father Terrorizes His Family 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z The power balance between audience and actor can be as ambiguous and difficult to gauge as that between prisoner and prison guard. Why prisons hold playwrights captive 2011-02-23T15:27:28Z “It shows her engaging a political discussion but also being ambiguous enough that it leaves the work” open to interpretation, he said. Tania Bruguera, an Artist in Havana, Has a Great New York Week 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z When a director sets Wagner’s “Ring” cycle at, say, the dawn of industrialization, it illuminates new aspects of a deep, ambiguous work. ‘La Bohème’: Should Opera’s Most Beloved Classic Be Changed? 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z It’s an ever-evolving succession of thick, harmonically ambiguous synthesizer chords, coalescing into a rhythm and pushing it aside, accelerating and falling apart and reconverging. Foo Fighters Begin a New Chapter, and 8 More New Songs 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z The series brings up hot-button issues and introduces morally ambiguous characters while incorporating gripping cloak-and-dagger elements — members of an anti-Russian resistance group communicate through an online video game, for instance. Need to Escape? Stream These 12 Great Foreign-Language TV Shows 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z The “Sopranos” finale was ambiguous and a bit of a shrug, but not puzzling; to me the “Lost” finale, in the immediate aftermath, felt forced and, well, a bit of a cop-out. 'Lost' Watch: Embracing the White Light 2010-05-24T15:28:00Z In 2010, with the dark and ambiguous Outliers, he added the New York City Ballet to the list. Ballet's rock star 2011-01-02T00:03:05Z Where the latter becomes a simple story of rebellion, "Diary" is more ambiguous. Sundance 2015: How 'Diary of a Teenage Girl' one-ups 'An Education' 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z Even the French title — “Les Revenants” — is ambiguous; the English loanword, “revenant,” means “one that returns after death or a long absence.” Review: In ‘The Returned,’ the French Zombie Drama Deepens 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Ms. Gilman’s caricatures of Layley’s sorority sisters are sharply funny; both Layley and Dylan are deftly characterized; and the play has a movingly ambiguous, if abrupt, ending. Review: ‘Desire,’ Six Plays That Second-Guess Tennessee Williams 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z “The ambiguous, questioning quality wasn’t being articulated. So I thought theater was an opportunity to do that.” His Play Is Set on Election Night. He Still Hasn’t Finished It. 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z But Mr. Althoff’s best efforts reveal larger, more ambiguous and dangerous worlds, full of life’s inescapable tensions, if not its sorrows. White Cube? These 3 Art Shows Buck Convention 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z But Ms. De Keersmaeker keeps the tone abstract, letting the duets — passionate, tender, violent, confrontational — suggest ambiguous emotions and resolutions. A Triumphant De Keersmaeker Takes Paris Opera by Storm 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z All the most alluring, addictive and ambiguous elements of American cinema, in about six seconds. “Blue Velvet”’s mystery of masculinity: How David Lynch’s masterwork reshaped American consciousness 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z That this was ambiguous enhanced the emotional resonance. Music Review: Afghanistan Veteran, Afghan Sounds 2011-06-19T22:09:51Z While Levine acknowledges the murky nature of most studies about piracy, the studies he does cite paint a more ambiguous picture than he lets on. Free Ride by Robert Levine ? review 2011-08-18T11:24:01Z But wouldn’t you scream if you were in a dark room and a large, ambiguous figure – like a shadow, really, but with heft – suddenly…. London Theater Journal: Screams! Thrills! Chills! 2010-08-04T20:31:00Z Songs like the less emotionally ambiguous “Sweet / I Thought You Wanted to Dance” are generally less impactful — Tyler thrives on discord. Tyler, the Creator, an Insider Forever on the Outside 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z But while the hero of “Happy Valley” is a police officer, each character’s morality is appealingly ambiguous. In Its Final Season, ‘Happy Valley’ Grapples With Healing 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z The film ends on an ambiguous image, devastating in its simplicity. Beyond the Hills – review 2013-03-17T00:05:37Z But a few came suddenly, like “Horizon,” which has a refrain that’s both declaratory and ambiguous: “Here is your princess, and here is the horizon.” Aldous Harding’s Songs Won’t Be Pinned Down. Nor Will Her Voice. 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Sensitivity, in contrast, involves a difficult, awkward, ambiguous encounter between two differently shaped bodies that are themselves ambiguous—and this meeting, this sensing, requires and takes place in time. The case for doing nothing: It's an intentional strategy, not a luxury or a cop-out 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z This bold and ambiguous work almost screams “major statement.” Music Review: Philadelphia Orchestra, With Nézet-Séguin, at Carnegie Hall 2013-01-18T21:50:44Z Pascal agreed that it’s meant to be ambiguous. A new hope for Star Wars on Disney Plus in ‘The Mandalorian’ 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z Hurston’s accounts of her childhood are by turns ambiguous and exaggerated. Cultured Traveler: Zora Neale Hurston?s Florida 2010-03-31T18:01:00Z Scale is ambiguous — shifting from cellular to cosmic, and back. Forrest Bess and Joan Snyder paintings shine in a show that gets past the dark history 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z The actual race of Mark and Debbie in the comic books was somewhat ambiguous. In ‘Invincible,’ a Young Hero Arrives for a Mature Audience 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z The dark side of history mingles with the supernatural in surprising and sometimes ambiguous ways in this anthology horror series. What’s on TV Monday: The Finale of ‘The Terror: Infamy’ and Franju’s ‘Judex’ 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z And there’s the modern chamber-music Björk, who chooses a family of instruments — on this track, six clarinets from bass on up — and writes gnarled, harmonically ambiguous arrangements for them. Björk Insists on Connection, and 11 More New Songs 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z She is powerful, morally ambiguous, and quite apart from that, also the kind of woman who responds to the line "I don't do anything on the first date" with the phrase "We'll see." Heroes of TV news 2011-07-15T23:04:00Z I don’t think that the distance is very great; Buñuel’s film is wilder and angrier, while Mazursky’s is more ambiguous, more documentary—and just as strange. The Limits of American Cinephilia 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Images of affection quickly and subtly turned ambiguous. A fiery tribute to female power: Ella Fitzgerald and Alvin Ailey dancers in ‘Ella’ 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z I mean, once you started asking questions about Irishness, it's actually much more complex and fragile and ambiguous than anybody thought it was. Fintan O'Toole on Ireland's transformation — and the reverse version now underway in America 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Her position is at best ambiguous; early in her career she embraced such ideas. Critic’s Notebook: Rei Kawakubo, of Comme des Garçons, Veiled Like Mona Lisa 2012-05-30T23:34:55Z His book has an ambiguous ending that would fit in an adult thriller. Young adult market opens up a new world for authors 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z I don’t know if that study had been replicated — it may have been a one-off — but it was nevertheless surprising to see, because it wasn’t ambiguous. Author Jennifer Senior: “Kids have almost no responsibility, and I find that unnatural” 2014-02-03T23:59:00Z You could also see Szapocznikow’s many changes of medium as a search for forms ambiguous enough to capture the sensation of passing time. New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z And Shanley makes things just ambiguous enough that the audience, too, is left unsure of the truth. New opera's success is beyond `Doubt' 2013-01-27T21:59:08Z It's kept teasingly ambiguous whether the analytical grad student regards his uninhibitedly vulgar co-worker as a date, or as data. Lost and Found – review 2012-07-29T17:00:00Z A mother takes leave of her son before he goes to war – or perhaps he is already dead, and she is grieving; Howard Barker's text is ambiguous. BBCSO/Volkov – review 2013-02-17T14:00:17Z When Cristela Alonzo is telling a story, she has a specific if ambiguous look on her face that somehow generates suspense: a smiling kind of wonder that doubles as exasperation. 5 Smart Comedy Specials From Veteran Standups 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z It was like that in the script — they were ambiguous. "They are both lying": Claire Denis on creating ambiguous tension between her "Stars at Noon" lovers 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z Pasha’s once crabby niece travels from Brooklyn to Odessa, “the land of ambiguous lung disease.” ‘Panic in a Suitcase,’ by Yelena Akhtiorskaya But Headey’s focused, complicated work has made Cersei something far more ambiguous — an admittedly cruel queen whose coronation evokes sadness at how much of herself she’s lost on the path to power. Lena Headey on Playing Cersei on 'Game of Thrones:' 'I Admire Her' 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z Or one of those unsettling, ambiguous ones that gnaws at you long after you’ve finished the show? 2020 reads like a TV script. So we asked screenwriters how it should end. 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z The second question will not be answerable for some time to come, and my Magic 8-ball makes ambiguous predictions. After Bernie, now what? To mean anything, the Sanders campaign must outlast its figurehead 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z He is attempting to re-imagine even the most loaded cultural signs, in an ambiguous imaginary world that can feel both liberating and ominous. Artist of the week 79: Andreas Hofer | Skye Sherwin 2010-03-18T13:04:00Z Everything was speeding up, becoming more commercial, more ambiguous, more of a spectacle. ‘Splendor and Misery: Images of Prostitution,’ Captures a Profession in Paris Through Artists’ Eyes 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z While the ending is deliberately ambiguous, the film offers a message of hope. Whoopi Goldberg teams with Extinction Rebellion for climate change movie 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z Fair warning, though: There is loss here, and an ambiguous ending. Are You a Dog Person or a Cat Person? Or Hamster, or Turtle, or ... 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z And if the ending of “The Light” is ambiguous it still allows — crucially — for the possibility that after assault, love is still attainable and deserved. Review: ‘The Light,’ an Unexpected Mix of #MeToo and Rom-Com 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z This was the year of the ambiguous ending, and if that drives you crazy, avoid Like Crazy, Meek’s Cutoff and this film. One More for the Road: Mary Pols? Top 10 Films of 2011 2011-12-30T14:20:36Z At once banal and mythic, these later images cast an ambiguous light back on the soup cans. Review: A ’60s View of Warhol’s Soup Cans, at MoMA 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z Joining NBC was CBS, ABC and a number of other news services that let the ambiguous group known as “critics” call the tweet racist. The media's "Made in America" problem: Trump creates racist controversy, gets free campaign coverage 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z Years after white rule passed into history, he occupies a similarly ambiguous position with regard to political power in South Africa. A life in writing: Andr? Brink 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z Though he leaves ambiguous what is triple about their thought, the implication seems to be that the striking thing about these artists is how they entertain several separate layers of thought. Paul Taylor: Return of the Beloved Renegade 2010-02-19T16:07:00Z We meet neither the perpetrator nor the victim of that crime, and its details remain ambiguous. Review: A Sex Crime Disarranges a Tidy World in ‘Something Clean’ 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, clarity is at cross-purposes with influence, which is powerful precisely because it’s ambiguous. A History of the Influencer, from Shakespeare to Instagram 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z In most productions, the particular conflict is left ambiguous; here Montana Levi Blanco’s shrewd costumes intimate that this is the Civil War. ‘The Skin of Our Teeth’ Review: A Party for the End of the World 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z Komen’s also been chastised for pouring its considerable financial resources into attacking other organizations that dare to use the its contentious, wildly ambiguous phrase “the cure.” The sad decline of Komen for the Cure 2013-06-07T14:57:00Z Pew, as the person is called, resists easy categorization — their gender and sex are ambiguous, and they hardly speak. 16 Books to Watch For in July 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z “Patriot” may be one of the best series out there, but it has gone under the radar for a number of reasons, starting with its ambiguous title. A spy like us: Amazon’s “Patriot” is the screw-up’s answer to TV’s super-agents 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z The curators establish its persistence by mixing early and late work throughout the galleries, so you see themes repeating over 50 years, ambiguous in mood and content, like recurring dreams. After a Tempest, Philip Guston Shines in a Show True to His Spirit 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z This is a gorgeous, timely and possibly profound human comedy, and if there’s no disentangling the medium from the message that’s because both are powerful and ambiguous. “Tangerine”: A gorgeous and timely human comedy — and one of the most important American films of the year 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Whether Carla shares his passion or is just using him as an exit strategy is a question the film leaves a bit too ambiguous. | 'The Square': Sin and Comeuppance in Film Noir From Down Under 2010-04-09T01:45:00Z There are a few interesting elements, but there isn’t much to differentiate it from every other cop show that wants its characters to be morally ambiguous. Shades of Blue – Jennifer Lopez's cop show is a criminal waste of her talent 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Lynn acknowledged that social norms do dictate who we tip, but those norms and the motivations behind them are often ambiguous. Should you tip your kid's camp counselors? The answer is tricky 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z Kina even gets an ambiguous romantic arc, with a Thai sex worker she hires for one last pre-op fling. In Four Audio Plays, No Stages but Lots of New Voices 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z With the security of the anthology format, that same viewer runs a far smaller risk of reaching an ending that would be purposefully ambiguous when producers angle for a Season 2 renewal. Review | What if more TV shows were anthologies? Viewers might be less overwhelmed. 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z And not just that: in two gorgeous motets the texts were in different languages — the religious in Latin, the secular in French — producing an effect that was remarkably complex and ambiguous. Music Review: Anonymous 4 at Corpus Christi Church 2013-05-13T21:59:59Z Brancusi occasionally completely ignored his sculpture, training his camera, for example, on a small leafing tree trunk in his studio to create a study in ambiguous textured shadows. Art In Review: CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI: ‘Brancusi: The Photographs’ 2012-05-31T21:30:38Z "They're often very ambiguous and sometimes the endings are quite gray, which I think sometimes is quite unsettling for people," she said. 'Black Mirror' brings its dark reflection of digital world to Netflix 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Call it category gaming or the ambiguous nature of art. Why the Emmys Can't Categorize Shows 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z Miss Manners would not worry about their being ambiguous, as it simply means they are doing double duty. Perspective | Miss Manners: Turns out, sibling 100 percent doesn’t want gift of DNA test 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z The prospects for a new movie were almost as ambiguous as the trilogy’s famously complex plot. ‘Matrix’ Reboot Said to Be in the Works, With Keanu Reeves as a Maybe 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z But I think, like most stories that we go back to, that it’s a little bit ambiguous. Jon Hamm Talks About the 'Mad Men' Series Finale 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z At the start, photographs of body parts, initially ambiguous, are screened on a large piece of fabric as fluorescent lights blink sporadically. Dance Review: Slovene Dancers Show ?Ways of Love? 2010-05-28T21:50:00Z The ambiguous gift of Eisenberg’s characters is that they never become fully acclimated to our planet, to its beauty or horror. Deborah Eisenberg Returns With Tart and Spiky Stories in ‘Your Duck Is My Duck’ 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z While the fate of their relationships is left ambiguous, these transient moments linger long after Leonardo has performed his last dance in front of the camera. ‘Sin La Habana’ Review: A Long Way From Home 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z It turns him from a lofty emblem into a fallible human being — vulnerable, ambiguous and, perhaps, easier to identify with. In ‘Our Terrible Country,’ Mohammad Ali Atassi Explores the Syrian Revolt 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z “He wanted to show that the classical procedure he found in Mozart or Haydn could fit a modern world, a more ambiguous world,” Mr. Botstein said in a phone interview. Does Brahms’s Obsession With Rhythmic Instability Explain His Music’s Magic? 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z The ambiguous ending of Also Sprach Zarathustra, based on Nietzsche's magnum opus, famously replaces the philosopher's vaunting certainty with something altogether more querulous, leaving admirers of both men to ponder this disparity's significance. LSO/Daniel Harding ? review 2011-02-13T22:01:02Z Say the wrong thing, or even an ambiguous thing that could be misinterpreted, and it’s goodbye, Oscar. Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet on drugs, disillusionment and playing father and son 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Longo, aware he now had a man both eager to hear his tale and with the skills to convey it, began spinning an ambiguous yarn. As 'True Story' weaves a web of ambiguity, whom can we believe? 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z What matters is that Killip recognised this moment of enormous, ambiguous presence. Deutsche Börse Photography prize show: mashups and moon walkers 2013-04-17T17:23:17Z Then, when North bid three no-trump, that was ambiguous. Bridge: From the Venice Cup Trials, Subterfuge and a Big Swing 2011-06-15T21:45:42Z It lies in the strangely blighted lives of many writers for children, and in the ambiguous attraction that small children held both for and for . Peter and Alice; The Low Road – review 2013-03-31T00:05:46Z Often I'm choosing things that are ambiguous and mysterious, and asking the viewer to put in a lot of effort. 'The mystery is enough': Susan Lipper on the Grapevine series 2010-10-13T11:07:00Z Both groups were given a packet of purposefully ambiguous information. Conspiracy craze: why 12 million Americans believe alien lizards rule us 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z It’s a real chicken-egg situation with both men: their respective shows leave it torturously ambiguous as to whether the wealth curdled their souls, or they sank to the requisite level to achieve it. New old money: why hating the super rich remains small screen gold 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z He kept both hands on the keyboard for nearly an hour, with pulsating rhythm and ambiguous tonal centers. Music Review: Honoring Heroes of Jazz, With Words, Silence and Improvisation 2010-06-25T23:44:00Z The film’s ambiguous ending, with Kong rising out of the ocean, led to a popular fan theory that an alternate ending was created for Japanese audiences, with Godzilla as the winner. When King Kong Accidentally Met Godzilla 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, the artistically ambiguous ending gives no explicit answer to the question. Fantasies for Young Readers, With an Eye on Today’s Fears and Divisions 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z A mischievous smile and ambiguous shrug imply that he doesn’t quite believe in this near-miraculous restoration of benevolent order, and perhaps we shouldn’t either. | 'The Winter's Tale': The Cool Ferocity of a King Inflamed by Jealousy 2011-07-24T22:32:50Z But the knotty, ambiguous elements of “The Staircase,” which clearly influenced many later crime documentaries and were even mined by a number of scripted dramas, are likely to linger in the viewer’s mind. ‘The Staircase’ on Netflix Revisits a Genre-Defining Trial 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Winter told Deadline the scene’s power lay not in leaving Tony’s fate ambiguous but in serving as a microcosm of Tony’s entire predicament as a gangster. David Chase always planned to end "The Sopranos" with Tony’s death, then changed his mind 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z As a kid, reading this book again and again and again, I felt a quiet flare of ambiguous promise when I considered Turtle’s trajectory. “The Westing Game,” a Tribute to Labor That Became a Dark Comedy of American Capitalism 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z A ruminative melodic line threads through this gentle work, unaccompanied at first, but increasingly enmeshed in murky, pungent, harmonically ambiguous chords and inner voices. Marino Formenti, Fully Engaged, at NY Phil Biennial 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z The technical means involve ambiguous harmonies and melodic lines that can sound childlike but are also wily about where they won’t touch down. Music Review: Wayne Shorter’s 80th Birthday and Legacy of Perpetual Flux 2013-06-30T21:30:21Z Leave everything ambiguous and vague, and fans feel like they've been conned. J.J. Abrams still smarts from "Lost" finale criticism 2011-08-04T23:05:00Z "I think people fantasize about a dating world where the rules and procedures are not ambiguous but that still has the illusion of choice," the writer Mikki Halpin told me. How "The Bachelor" hooked us -- again 2010-03-01T13:27:00Z From the start, race was ambiguous in her music. Teena Marie, ?Ivory Queen of Soul,? Dies at 54 2010-12-27T22:20:08Z She asked to hear it, and was amazed to discover a foreign sound world, craggy with dissonance and ambiguous in its unmoored harmonies. Recording As a Road To Recovery 2011-01-27T22:59:45Z So from the point of view of a certain audience segment, Superman isn't hip enough for a time that prefers its heroes more morally ambiguous. Zack Snyder at helm of new Superman movie 2010-10-04T23:06:00Z Olsen’s music resists easy sentiment, and “Big Time” ends on an appropriately ambiguous note. Angel Olsen Finds a New Gear in a Vintage Genre: Country 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z How do you diagram the film’s ambiguous relational dynamics? Mike Mills’s ‘20th Century Women’ is ‘very long thank-you note’ to his late mother 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Yet ambiguous claims involving spirituality and a sort of interpersonal energy transference are unsupported, and there’s an underlying implication that doubters are just spoilsports. Review: ‘The Doctor From India’ Pushes Nontraditional Medicine 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Regarding the vexed relationship between church and state, the founders rejected the European model of church-state marriage but never finalized a divorce, so this separation remains ambiguous. They’ll always lose the culture wars: The right loves fighting lost causes– but liberals keep winning 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z The Beethoven was taut, lean and superbly detailed, in the emotionally ambiguous adagio and the scampering finale above all. Prom 23: BBC Philharmonic/Noseda ? review 2011-08-02T10:18:20Z In an age of communication that is to relentlessly unsubtle, I’m backing the aubergine in all it’s adorable, ambiguous glory. Sexting: the ambiguous aubergine vs the anatomically accurate 'va-moji' 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z The measure's language is still ambiguous and it is unnecessary, given existing laws, Portnoy said. Hawaii Senate votes on Steven Tyler Act 2013-03-05T19:24:28Z But, ambiguous as that sounds, it is less ambiguous than the choreography. Dance Review: Paul Taylor Dance Company at David H. Koch Theater 2012-03-15T22:27:24Z The painting, with its ambiguous blend of fantasy and realism, is a transitional work but a brilliant one, partly thanks to a technical miscalculation. Artworks That Shine in New York Museums 2013-01-04T00:50:22Z Recalling his childhood, Macdonald tells of slipping into a “five-year walking sleep” after a troubling, if ambiguous, encounter with an older family friend. For Norm Macdonald, facts are just starting points for comedy 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z For the eight soldiers, the trip is an ambiguous experience, to say the least, since they also lost one of their men during the fight. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain – review 2012-07-06T21:55:09Z The problem with this strategy, however, is that each of these single measures is affected by more than one process and thus has an ambiguous meaning. Science doesn’t know everything 2013-06-02T18:00:00Z It was a symbol of Dudamel's musical maturity that there was no samba-style encore, leaving us with the ambiguous echo of Strauss's final bars. Sim?n Bol?var Youth Orchestra | Classical review 2010-03-24T21:45:00Z The final scene stomped on the accelerator right when it should have been easing off, before that ambiguous smile at the end, and the universe of possibilities contained within it. The 50 best TV shows of 2019: No 1 – Succession 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z We’re driven to find meaning in even the most ambiguous or inconsequential of exchanges. Does he like me? 2012-10-11T00:00:00Z “The Lunchbox” ends on a pleasantly ambiguous note, and a wise reminder: “Sometimes, the wrong train will get you to the right station.” ‘The Lunchbox’: A flavorful drama, set in Mumbai 2014-03-27T19:50:07Z He could make his orchestras shout, bustle and swing like Count Basie, but he also gave them Duke Ellington's sumptuous tone colours and ambiguous textures. Great moments in jazz: Charles Mingus's The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady 2010-09-06T15:46:00Z Fed pronouncements, by contrast, are purposely — and to some extent necessarily — ambiguous. Ben Bernanke’s ‘The Courage to Act’ 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z “Where is Petition City?” a man asks early in the film, which was made over more than a decade, culminating in the ambiguous civic triumph of the 2008 Summer Olympics. | ?Petition?: In China, You Can?t Fight City Hall 2011-01-14T00:04:43Z Instead he achieved the ambiguous fame of being known as one of the most underrated artists of his generation. Robert Goodnough, Painter Who Eluded Categories, Dies at 92 2010-10-13T03:57:00Z Hollywood has long ended films with deliberately ambiguous sequences. The Grey's hero, dead? Perish the thought 2012-05-31T08:53:21Z We know what characters on the show believe, but we often don't know the truth, because the camera either cuts away or uses ambiguous angles. Whose truth? On "House of the Dragon," what is unseen often matters more than what's onscreen 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z Professor Napier told me that “Totoro” illustrates an aesthetic that runs through the Ghibli catalog, and which tends to be more ambiguous and subtle than Disney’s. Our Favorite Magical Creatures Live at Ghibli Park, So We Had to Go 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z Particularly riveting is the black-and-white composition considering the concept of “the son of man” — an ambiguous biblical phrase sometimes referring to Christ and sometimes to humanity itself. Zurich, for a Song 2010-09-24T18:42:00Z Spears added three red roses to the caption, an ambiguous symbol reflecting either her support for the Democratic Socialists of America or perhaps her simple affinity for floral emoji. Celebrity Culture Is Burning 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z This music still isn’t easy listening, and the nature of the poetic drama in each piece remains arresting and highly ambiguous. Dance Review: Stripped Down to Black and White, Revealing Balanchine at His Core 2011-05-04T22:08:37Z It is deliberately ambiguous — this is what makes is so great. Short films, big Oscar hopes: Inside 4 Academy Award contenders for Best Live Action short 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z It's a visceral, expressive process that's sometimes just barely contained within the ambiguous architectural forms that he chooses. Artists build a skillful 'Architectural View' at Prographica 2011-11-10T22:23:09Z In her eyes a torrent of ambiguous colour surges past, gradually narrowing until it vanishes into transparency. Woman Fish by Dorothy Tse, translated by Nicky Harman 2013-03-21T13:24:10Z In a recent edition of her perfume-focused newsletter the Dry Down, the writer Rachel Syme observed that the feelings fall evokes are often intense and ambiguous. There's something about autumn: why do people love fall so much? 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z You will also find the ambiguous distances signaled by the titles of some of his previous books: “House Hunting,” “A Road Divided,” “Roaming,” “Between the Two,” “Outskirts.” Todd Hido’s “Intimate Distance” 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z Or The Wasp and the Caterpillar, directed by Daniel Fazio, stunning to gaze at but with an ambiguous ending. Witty or gritty? What ingredients make the best short films? 2011-01-14T16:29:46Z It is possible that the meaning changed in the intervening years, or that it was already ambiguous in the 18th century — “tongueing a woman” could refer equally to either action. The modern history of swearing: Where all the dirtiest words come from 2013-05-11T12:30:00Z 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 “They agreed to work toward complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, which isn’t just ambiguous compared to the multiple previous agreements involving North Korea, it’s also close to meaningless.” John Oliver calls deal between US and North Korea 'close to meaningless' 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z When Marvel initially told him about its idea for a TV series, Stan said, “It was straightforward and sort of ambiguous at the same time.” ‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’ Is Marvel’s Latest Double Act 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z It has, however, occasionally also yielded thornier and more ambiguous conflicts. Forget the theocracy, North Carolina 2013-04-03T19:57:00Z You can read the ambiguous ending as a suggestion that the cycle of violence may feed on itself eternally, or opt for a more optimistic interpretation. Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z They confront us with a problematic but beautiful central issue of ballet: its highly ambiguous sexism. The Ambiguous Sexism of Marius Petipa, Ballet’s Towering Master 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z And yet it’s ambiguous whether — as the program suggests — she’s representing the husband alone. Dance Review: Fringe Festival Presents Trinayan Dance Theater 2010-08-20T22:19:00Z However, once the nymphet is past those formative years, her role in the older man-younger woman relationship becomes more ambiguous. Time's finally up for Hollywood's Lolita complex 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z Mo Said She Was Quirky Negotiating the contrary emotions produced by the ambiguous, equivocal contours of her life is what occupies Helen throughout much of this curious and curiously compelling novel. Mo Said She Was Quirky by James Kelman – review 2012-08-01T07:00:02Z "Second, the language is ambiguous as to whether it covered a work published six years earlier." Comic writer's Ghost Rider copyright lawsuit revived on appeal 2013-06-11T16:01:03Z Style can and will do many things at once, be ironic, ambiguous, challenging, questioning, quicksilver. Ali Smith: Style vs content? Novelists should approach their art with an eye to what the story asks 2012-08-18T15:00:00Z And they often feature ambiguous relationships among the dancers, who pair up and partner with people of either sex, sometimes romantically, sometimes not. Sufjan Stevens and Justin Peck Make a Ballet About Respect 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z The image is richly ambiguous, since Sheppard isn’t fully in control. Only Connect: Finding a Way Into Kinetic Light’s ‘Wired’ 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z The original is hauntingly lonely and morally ambiguous. Kraftwerk at Tate Modern, night three: Trans-Europe Express 2013-02-10T11:36:08Z I think a morally ambiguous character is the most interesting type of person to play. TV on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe on using a "weird gaslighting technique" in new film "Ultrasound" 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z From its unsettling opening to its breathtaking conclusion, "Anywhere" exemplifies Lippman's strengths: compassion, intense prose and deep empathy for the snares of ambiguous emotions. New in crime fiction: Laura Lippman's 'I'd Know You Anywhere,' a new Arkady Renko mystery, and local debuts by Jeanne Matthews and Peter Lewis 2010-08-10T17:26:00Z That may even be why the famously ambiguous, cut-to-black ending of that HBO series still sparks so much debate seven years after it initially aired. JAMES GANDOLFINI: The Real Life of the Man Who Made Tony Soprano, by Dan Bischoff “You have a plan, you’re telling me exactly where things are going, and it’s not ambiguous. That was pure romance for me.” The Summer Romance That Never Ended 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z The two of them establish a difficult, painful and ambiguous connection. Movie Review: Paul Weitz?s ?Being Flynn,? Starring Robert De Niro 2012-03-01T22:37:28Z The characters were later given the more ambiguous moniker "Opposing Force." 'Medal of Honor' shooter game takes a bullet 2012-11-13T17:46:04Z He’s brawny, brainy, multiethnic and racially ambiguous, an action star who’s visually relatable to many international audiences at once–the movie star of the future. Vin Diesel: The Film Star Of The Future 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z I am certainly not suggesting that every motion picture with an ambiguous ending deliberately seeks to create the impression that the seemingly dead have somehow managed to survive. The Grey's hero, dead? Perish the thought 2012-05-31T08:53:21Z This is no 3D gimmick, but a subtle, shimmering and richly ambiguous mist of marks. Prickly customers: Martin Creed and Richard Wright in Edinburgh 2010-08-04T20:31:00Z I discovered little of interest but now my intimate information is stuck on a database forever, governed by an ambiguous privacy policy and getting shared with all number of third parties. What were we thinking? The worst trends of the decade – ranked! 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z Ms. Merkens, maximizing the contrast between the two, leaves that issue excitingly ambiguous. Dance Review: ‘Dido and Aeneas,’ From Mark Morris, at Mostly Mozart 2012-08-23T22:03:45Z The editorial in the Global Times newspaper, published by the ruling Communist Party's flagship People's Daily, said Ai engaged in "legally ambiguous activities" and that Chinese law "won't bend to mavericks." Chinese artist felt detainment coming, wife says 2011-04-06T15:35:10Z There are no lessons to be learned; even the plot remains stubbornly ambiguous. New York Premiere for a Long-Suppressed Opera 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z Happy/ambiguous/frustrating finale aside, it’s an undeniably brave and startling piece of work although it wasn’t always seen as such. My favorite best picture Oscar winner: The Lost Weekend 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Yet, in the film’s famously ambiguous coda we find he has become a mythic figure, a martyr to Manifest Destiny with some of the golden glow of George Armstrong Custer. DVD: John Ford?s ?Fort Apache? on Blu-ray From Warner Home Video 2012-03-25T01:23:02Z That means an emphasis on action, sex and eye candy, with proportionately less investment in nuanced character, ambiguous motivations, interesting language, irony, humor or subtlety of any sort. 'Marco Polo' leads Netflix into uncharted territory 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z All these suggestive, ambiguous images jostle together in warm disorder, intensely colored but inconclusive, proceeding endlessly with no clear direction, impossible to summarize or explain. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z That’s something I wasn’t really thinking about, but it’s important to understanding him, and it made it a much darker and more ambiguous kind of book. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Capturing the Elusive Robert Frank 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z Instead, her written opinion hinged on the language of the act, which she found ambiguous. Living near an airport could be toxic 2013-09-08T17:00:00Z The concert reached its first peak with “Despite and Still,” a psychologically probing, harmonically ambiguous late work dedicated to the soprano Leontyne Price. Music Review: Melissa Fogarty and Marc Peloquin at Bargemusic 2010-08-02T21:55:00Z There are plants that catch mosquitoes, mysterious and ambiguous things. Q&A: Frances Mayes on the Lure of Southern Landscapes 2014-04-24T17:45:21Z The more racially ambiguous the face, the more pronounced the results. Studied: When Color Is Reflected in a Janitor?s Outfit - Studied 2011-10-14T23:24:54Z Gilmore Girls is not The Sopranos, so there’s no reason for an ambiguous fade to black. Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life – six questions that need to be answered 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z The movie is based on James Lee Burke’s “Winter Light,” a terse, moody short story that’s an atmospheric, interestingly ambiguous meditation on masculinity and ethics that turns into a war of self-annihilating will. ‘God’s Country’ Review: A Solitary Woman Isn’t Left Alone for Long 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z In the same chapter, the Lord makes the ambiguous statement, “For if I will raise up seed unto me, I will command my people; otherwise they shall hearken unto these things.” Blood vows: Joseph Smith, Mormonism and the invention of American polygamy 2014-04-20T17:00:00Z Brice’s script is driven by questions about the nature of desire that are increasingly ambiguous. “The Overnight”: Jason Schwartzman and Adam Scott ask whose is bigger in this edgy all-night comedy 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z “We are in a time when what some call ‘sense-making’ has become a fraught, ambiguous enterprise,” said the writer Daniel Pinchbeck, an admirer of Bad Guru. A Pop Star Becomes a Guru 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z An ending that considers the mainstream explosion of these subcultures is ambiguous and offers surface-level analysis. ‘All the Streets Are Silent’ Review: Hip-Hop and Skateboarding Collide 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z As distastefully abusive as that premise seems, an undeniable chemical spark occurs between Dockery and Botto — enough to propel “Good Behavior” past the glut of stylish but mediocre cable dramas that feature morally ambiguous protagonists. Lady Mary as a boozy, floozy Southern criminal? Works like a charm. 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z Sometimes the music turns assertive and declamatory, with melodic ideas unfolding in thick, note-crammed, textured chords, harmonically ambiguous yet grounded. Music Review: Atlanta Symphony at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-11-06T22:13:48Z And the opera itself changes its already ambiguous meaning depending on the version you encounter. Is ‘The Bassarids’ an Operatic Masterpiece, or ‘Strauss Turned Sour’? 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z For all her enduring stature as one of Britain’s best-known, well-paid and most widely read authors, her relationship with the literary establishment was ambiguous. Fay Weldon, British Novelist Who Challenged Feminist Orthodoxy, Dies at 91 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z It's when Williams is the wife – clenched, resentful, quick-tongued, brimming with secret power – and Scott Thomas her ambiguous friend that the play becomes truly arresting. Old Times – review 2013-02-03T00:07:05Z But the results tended to be more eccentric and ambiguous than the equally poetic but decidedly rational films of contemporaries like Jean Renoir and Marcel Carné. Jean Grémillon Retrospective at Museum of the Moving Image 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z So many of us no longer care, as we should, about understanding ourselves and our pasts as complex and ambiguous. Are We Traveling the ‘Road to Unfreedom’? 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z The harmonies subtly thicken and thin; the emotions remain ambiguous, the mood meditative. In a Jam-Packed Weekend at Ojai, a Musical Family Gathers 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z But it is the first two dishes that send you into the night with an ambiguous twinkle in your eyes. Critic’s Notebook: Pete Wells Explores Korean Restaurants in Queens 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z Stark stories of harassment and abuse have also revealed how complicated it can be to navigate more ambiguous situations. Yoga Is Finally Facing Consent and Unwanted Touch 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z The pageantry and ambiguous gender identity of male cheerleading provided him with a kind of imaginative home. “They ripped him apart”: Searching for answers in the suicide of bullied teen Jadin Bell 2013-09-08T11:00:00Z The play’s settings are ambiguous and sometimes nonsensical: one scene takes place in the deserts of Bohemia. Incidental Music in ?Winter?s Tale? and ?Merchant of Venice? 2010-07-19T21:26:00Z “Playing such a deliberately mysterious and ambiguous character I found really challenging because you have to know there’s a lot going on, but you’re never invited into exactly what she’s thinking.” Blanchett, del Toro on the femme fatale of ‘Nightmare Alley’ 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z After a “series of ambiguous and casual interviews,” she accepts a three-month trial position, to the consternation of her publishing friends, who see the e-book start-up as the enemy. A Tech Insider Stylishly Chronicles Her Industry’s ‘Uncanny Valley’ 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z “It” seemed like a linguistic game, using ambiguous pronouns and referring to a life-changing event without providing a clear point of reference. Cass McCombs: Imagine Beckett as a Cranky Singer-Songwriter 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z While “Oil Tanker” is overwhelmingly dark, Sue Wrbican’s work shimmers with ambiguous beauty. Review | In the galleries: Intellectually engaging, visually striking and open to interpretation 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z The sense of ambiguous progress being made within a gathering timeless stasis is palpable. Golden visions from Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan | Dance review 2014-03-07T18:41:37Z "Before Midnight" - The final scene of 2004's "Before Sunset" was so romantic it drove moviegoers crazy - happily crazy - especially because it was so tantalizingly ambiguous. Capsule reviews of new movie releases 2013-05-22T20:03:14Z It is a trek that originates in failure, passes through frustration and concludes on ambiguous notes of sorrow, resignation and cynicism. ‘The Homesman’ Stars Hilary Swank and Tommy Lee Jones 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z For all the ambiguous peace this ending offers, a bitter undercurrent tugs: In America, especially Black America, ownership is fundamentally tenuous. Review: A New Opera Tells an Original Story With an Open Heart 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z They are not so much historical as archival: instead of giving us the imagined experience of an event, they offer the ambiguous traces that such events leave behind. How Archival Fiction Upends Our View of History 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z These dramatically isolate him in the frame while creating an ambiguous, narratively untethered point of view, as if we were peering at him from a catwalk. Review: The Architecture of Grief and Dread in ‘Foxtrot’ 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z Taken in 1920, it seemed a truly ambiguous image – abstract, yet at the same time an accurate record. Frieze 2012: my big art inspiration 2012-10-10T17:20:01Z In environments such as television commissioning or financial advisory, for example, the success of the “final product” is hard to foretell, and therefore the knowledge and expertise of the professional is inherently ambiguous. The class pay gap: why it pays to be privileged 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z It’s a satisfyingly ambiguous ending for a play that nevertheless doesn’t entirely satisfy. ‘Lost Lake,’ a Two-Character Play by David Auburn 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z The only print showing two naked women is ambiguous, with art historians uncertain whether it suggests mutual desire. When Japan Had a Third Gender 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z The work is deliberate in its pace and episodic in its structure, its characters ambiguous and unsympathetic. Opera Review: ?Khovanshchina? at the Metropolitan Opera 2012-02-28T16:32:53Z The final shot is at once perfectly clear and perfectly ambiguous, a reminder that some contradictions are more easily understood than resolved. In ‘99 Homes,’ a Man Buffeted and Then Manipulated in Florida’s Foreclosure Disaster 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z But the most intriguingly ambiguous character of the episode is Kirkman himself. ‘Designated Survivor’ Season 1, Episode 4: A Way Forward 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z “And I was like, why do I need to be ethnically ambiguous? Why can’t I just be Puerto Rican?” With ‘In the Heights,’ Anthony Ramos Finds Stardom on His Own Terms 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z As stories like these go, this stands as the surest, plainest, least ambiguous story imaginable. ‘Complicity’ Review: A Muddled #MeToo Drama 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Given this inspiration, to say The Shield was morally ambiguous would be something of an understatement. Box Set Club: The Shield 2011-08-23T11:40:27Z These fancy flourishes are all part of a dreamlike meditation on the myths and transformations of the American West that's both ambitious and ambiguous. Art band at On the Boards is a little cryptic, but still 'Awesome' 2010-04-23T20:21:00Z To get there they travel a meandering path through Italian Mannerism, French Neo-Classicism and what the Nazis called degenerate art — just about anything ambiguous enough to require viewers to think for themselves. John Currin has a way with awkwardness 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z It might almost be described as an episode of "CSI" written by Chekhov and filmed on the desolate steppes of rural central Turkey, which takes two and a half hours to reach its ambiguous destination. Cannes: Malick's "Tree of Life" wins Palme d'Or 2011-05-22T21:45:00Z It is one of Hume's characteristically ambiguous double images – duck-rabbit style – in this case deepened by the outer darkness surrounding the motif. Patrick Caulfield/Gary Hume – review 2013-06-06T06:00:05Z In contrast to the one-dimensional depictions on anti-immigration protesters as either heroes or villains, Okón presents a more ambiguous, open-ended picture. The border as muse: Two PST art shows look at flow of humanity between the U.S. and Mexico 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z A costume covered in cartoonish inflatable breasts, it’s an ambiguous infantile fantasy, at once absurd and terrifying. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z But I was pretty ambiguous as a kid. From the grime MC to the model: five men on what masculinity means to them 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z What they’ll find in its permanent collection is a monument to a movement and, secondarily, to a man, in a display that focuses on difficult, sometimes ambiguous historical data more than on pure celebration. 50 Years After Dr. King’s Death, New Lessons for Today 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z The songs were atmospheric with ambiguous tonality, drawing chuckles along with hushed curiosity. Review: Julia Holter and the Spektral Quartet in the Ecstatic Music Festival 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Semi-lurid, morally ambiguous — or confused — management consultancy comedy is no doubt supposed to leave you feeling slightly dirty, and does. 20 notable TV shows set to debut for the midseason: from sitcoms and serial mysteries to Betty White as prankster 2012-01-12T19:24:42Z The objective here is more ambiguous, and the tone less frisky and more guarded. Critics? Choice: New CDs From Sarah McLachlan, Devo and Tom Petty 2010-06-13T21:44:00Z I tried to look at roles that are different and have some complexity, that are ambiguous, contradictory. "It's very complicated": Salvador Dalí biopic delves into odd and kinky relationship with wife Gala 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z His modal vocabulary, flecked with pentatonic and other outré accents, could be profoundly ambiguous — sometimes stark, as in “Job,” a ballet in all but name, and sometimes discomforting, as in the otherworldly Sixth. Vaughan Williams: Complicated, but Not Quite Conservative 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z Here, it is ambiguous whether the nosebleed is caused by paranormal force, sheer terror, or both. The unstoppable rise of nosebleeds in cinema 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z As the ambiguous protagonist, Jackman has "squelched his urge to ingratiate" himself to the audience, Brantley wrote, but the performance nevertheless has an "understated power." Hugh Jackman opens 'The River' on Broadway to sharply divided reviews 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z "Promised Land" has its heart on its sleeve and its pro-environment message is quite clear, but it's in the looser and more ambiguous places that the film actually works. Review: `Promised Land' doesn't dig deep 2012-12-31T20:37:09Z The Bride, a self-described “ethnically ambiguous” New Yorker who works with trauma survivors, has a series of destabilizing encounters in the days leading up to her wedding. 4 Writers to Watch This Summer 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z It is an impressively nuanced and ambiguous piece of work, and its strength lies in the delicate understanding of subtle shifts in power in the Cape Colony's teetering ecosystem. Philida by André Brink – review 2012-08-16T07:00:02Z In his new pieces, birds — filling the sky, perched with ambiguous intent — symbolize people caught up in the events. Four Artists to Watch Now 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z What follows is structurally ambiguous, but includes staggering degrees of violence in partnering: on several occasions one dancer hurls another to the floor with alarming force. Dance Review: Rebecca Lazier’s ‘Coming Together/Attica’ Evokes 1971 Riot 2013-06-18T19:55:59Z Everybody in Olondria and in the Tea Islands, which I write about in “A Stranger in Olondria,” if they showed up in our world they would be considered ethnically ambiguous. Sofia Samatar on the many influences on her fantasy novel, 'The Winged Histories' 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Maybe that’s because, compared with other icons of national identity, it is ambiguous and ambivalent. Perspective | Maybe it’s time to admit that the Statue of Liberty has never quite measured up 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z They are terse and acrobatic, scriptural and bawdy, vividly descriptive and enduringly ambiguous, never far from either a riddle or a punch line. An Appraisal: Leonard Cohen, Master of Meanings and Incantatory Verse 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z Other sequences are more ambiguous, like those involving Prentice's friend Speight, for whom all cats, male or female, are grey in the dark. Matthew Bourne's Play Without Words; Dance GB: The Olympic Project – review 2012-07-14T23:05:34Z “Its final scenes,” he wrote, “are devastating, and also marvelously ambiguous, full of wonder, fury and cleareyed self-criticism.” What’s on TV This Week: ‘The First Lady’ and ‘Abbott Elementary’ 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z While the Hero’s relationship to evil is relatively straightforward — he’s against it, though occasionally tempted by the corrupting perquisites of power — his relationship with women is ambiguous and almost definitively unfulfilled. FILM: Babies to Heroes: A Field Guide to Big-Screen Men 2011-07-27T12:00:10Z She says that Heinecken was the sort of artist who liked to keep his work ambiguous enough to leave things open to interpretation. Object Lesson: Robert Heinecken's filtered television at the Hammer 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z The ambiguous ending eerily conflates the death of a deer and "Tom's" death with the "different Mary's" of the ballad, and the one executed. How Tom Sleigh, Marilyn Hacker, Deborah Landau, Cecilia Woloch bear witness 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z This is a morally ambiguous place for us to be. PBS' "Guilt" examines what happens to estranged brothers after they finally bond over killing someon 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z Rooster is a '60s holdover, with ambiguous virtues and obvious flaws. This season, Broadway flouts its grit (and some glitz) 2011-06-03T18:24:03Z “Pew,” her most recent novel, tells the story of a mute, racially ambiguous and seemingly genderless individual who shows up in an unnamed Southern town, unsettling the community. She Never Existed. Catherine Lacey Wrote Her Biography Anyway. 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z As with Hangman, it alludes to but doesn't directly address an intriguing and ambiguous theme: performers who don't live up to certain standards, or who don't fit in with them. Candoco Dance Company - review 2010-10-12T21:15:00Z The true nature of the mystery remains ambiguous through most of “13 Reason Why,” and that carrot-and-stick element of the plot is a prime motivation to gorge on one episode after another. Love will tear us apart: Netflix’s “13 Reasons Why” is brilliant but not for the emotionally tender 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z That she is free to minister only to them and is not responsible to a domestic life actually puts her in a long line of preachers with similarly ambiguous lives. "Oprah: Gospel of an Icon": Worshipping at the church of Oprah Winfrey 2011-03-13T18:01:00Z Or is it all more ambiguous and confounding, an unresolved emptiness as hard as a rock? What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z “Vague and ambiguous language causes hypnotic trance states,” he said, a point that might help explain some political slogans and mission statements. You Are Getting Sleepy. When You Wake Up, You Will Be an Improv Star. 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z But these figures seem designed, in a way I haven’t seen before, to mirror the ambiguous tensions of Oppenheimer’s personality. The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Imagined Through His Collisions With Others 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Even when whistleblowers do face opposition, fictionalized films depict them in a less ambiguous light. Why 2019 has been a big year for the big screen whistleblower 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z This novel doesn’t try to get quite all of it in, but it’s rich in the ambiguous history of the New World metropolis that is its noisy, clamorous setting. This New York Love Story Subverts Its ‘Happily Ever After’ 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z I find if you slam something left of field up against what you need to do as an actor, it can create something slightly more ambiguous. Cate Blanchett and Cindy Sherman: Secrets of the Camera Chameleons 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z I feel really ambiguous about the psychology of people trying to do good in the world. Alexei Sayle: How?Stalin stole my?childhood 2011-08-11T20:00:02Z Here’s an ambiguous sentence for you: “Because of the agency’s oversight, the corporation’s behavior was sanctioned.” Inside the topsy-turvy world of contronyms 2013-04-07T20:00:00Z No, there was a very ambiguous, shapeless idea that Dan might be but I think they probably decided … they must have known early on. Penn Badgley: 'Gossip Girl was an endurance test' 2013-05-02T19:22:46Z It's one of rock's most profound and ambiguous albums, and its performance is a triumph. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band – review 2013-06-16T10:39:05Z You begin to see ambiguous, illusory depths and distances. Milton Resnick Exhibition at Mana Contemporary 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Live, the work felt more ambiguous and less structured: The performances provided two different flavors of thrill. Review: Yarn/Wire Provides Two Flavors of Thrill 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z It's likely that the mod revival barely 10 years later was much less ambiguous about all this, the flag now being an emblem of Great British Music. Why we're all flying the union flag 2012-06-21T18:31:56Z In other crucial ways, though, the meaning of Pasolini remains undecipherable, ambiguous, suspended. Pasolini’s Legacy: A Sprawl of Brutality 2012-12-26T23:04:57Z As tap dancing became more popular, it held an ambiguous relationship with American racial politics. It’s got that swing 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z The 1979 Three Mile Island disaster—where “a plumbing problem, a stuck valve, and an ambiguous indicator light” led to a nuclear accident—serves as a prismatic example. ‘Meltdown’ Review: Flirting With Disaster 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z These men, Mr. Dundervill and Benjamin Asriel, serve as mysterious intermediaries throughout, cycling through a series of movements before directing the audience upstairs to find a more ambiguous tableau. Dance Review | Walter Dundervill: ?Dear Emissary, ... ? - A Trip Through Time and Fashion 2010-03-12T23:02:00Z The murder is portrayed in a particularly stark manner: an ambiguous longshot that keeps us guessing. ‘Stranger by the Lake’: Death, desire shape artful gay thriller 2014-03-06T20:19:35Z Dray is an excellent and conscientious storyteller, taking care to alert us when the historical record is spotty or ambiguous while still offering vivid specifics wherever he can. When Jim Crow Violence Came to a Small New York Village 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z There had long been talk of a possible Sopranos sequel – left possible by the ambiguous final shoot-out scene – which would probably have been made for cinema. How James Gandolfini reinvented the gangster for The Sopranos 2013-06-20T16:07:49Z In the sixth episode of that season, “Guest,” Nora meets the author of a book about contending with “ambiguous loss” who admits his work isn’t well-written, but just presents a comforting idea. The end of “The Leftovers” leaves us to contemplate what remains, and what we have 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z Most remaining hunter-gatherer groups have been brought under the jurisdiction of a modern state and to some degree assimilated, so the record of human aggressiveness is more ambiguous. Did Capital Punishment Create Morality? 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z The image is a classic specimen of both artists’ ambiguous national vision: black and white; advancing and retreating; the sky’s open possibility made painful, and somehow more real, by whatever lies beneath. Ralph Ellison and Gordon Parks’s Joint Harlem Vision 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z It was fascinating stuff, based on facts, and presented a people who have developed a third gender category to accommodate their ambiguous offspring. Jeffrey Eugenides reveals details of Middlesex follow-up 2010-07-16T10:34:00Z These parallels suggest a kind of collaboration between person and place, as if the individual and the room together created a space for the body, in all its ambiguous beauty, to live. Transgender Portraits and the Things a Body Won’t Tell 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z It's an ambiguous piece: the reason it's so scary is because you don't really know what's going on. Benjamin Britten: a top 10 2013-01-09T19:30:01Z Things get more ambiguous in the film’s framing story, however, as it gradually dawns on Susan that this unsavory reading material may itself be a passive-aggressive act of revenge against her. Nocturnal Animals caps off Hollywood's year of toxic masculinity 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z In other words, it's the ambiguous acts who have often felt the most free to sing in unambiguous terms. Ricky Martin and what it means to be a gay pop star in 2010 2010-04-01T20:45:00Z If the film remains true to this trailer, it represents a truly tragic lost opportunity to celebrate an ambiguous and excitingly transgressive figure, whose tragically short life was filled with incident. Freddie Mercury biopic trailer: killer Queen or queerwashed cop-out? 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z In this ambiguous ending, "I May Destroy You" becomes the story of an individual's disintegration and rebirth. "I May Destroy You" ends with a revolutionary "ego death" because the other options would be a lie 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z The Dreyfus Affair material is essential for many reasons, the least being to gauge how politically ambiguous Julie Manet’s circle was at that time. Letters to the Editor 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z Her montage of film fragments illustrates and sometimes poetically belies the interviewees’ recollections, evoking the ambiguous and unresolved contours of collective memory. ‘What We Left Unfinished’ Review: Spectres of History 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z "I wanted to write a more morally ambiguous character," Clark says. Marcia Clark on how her new book is different than the old Marcia, Marcia, Marcia 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z Everything, from the oxymoronic title to the characters' lack of a clear identity is ambiguous and elliptical. Tender Napalm ? review 2012-05-18T11:30:57Z Not that Kent seems to believe there is much to be ambiguous about. The Turn of the Screw; BBC Proms 32, 35, 36 ? review 2011-08-13T23:06:02Z Ilda Mason, who plays Francisca, lists her race as Hispanic/mixed/ambiguous on an online profile that says she speaks Spanish and performed on two seasons of “Dancing With the Stars” in Panama. Backstage: Famous for a role be never played 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z Its 98 speakers — placed on stands, chairs and walls throughout the 55,000-square-foot hall — will alternate enveloping aural effects with ambiguous narratives. The Week Ahead: July 29 — Aug. 4 2012-07-30T13:57:52Z The logistics and intent of the moment are still ambiguous; Ms. Jackson publicly apologized. Sorry, Ms. Jackson: You’re Underrated. ‘Control’ at 30 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z Parke began photographing visually ambiguous vignettes as inspirations for painting, and only recently decided to exhibit the originals. Review | In the galleries: Powerful messages that require few words 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z It’s a tour de force, dazzling in its mosiaclike application of color and maddening in its ambiguous approach to mob psychology. Art Review: Dana Schutz at Neuberger Museum - Review 2011-10-06T23:56:06Z He called for “a complete and total shutdown of Muslims” entering the country, later substituting a more palatable but ambiguous “extreme vetting” policy to quell the furor over his unconstitutional immigration ban. Muslim in America under President Trump: We will endure this 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z But I realized that the work was too ambiguous and I did need to add some other imagery to drive the message home. Building Type: Keith Krumwiede's satirical jolt for the earnest world of architecture publishing 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Every angular theme, scampering pizzicato line and densely ambiguous chord received its due, and the quartet did nothing to prettify Webern’s most aggressive writing. Music Review: Chiara String Quartet Plays at Le Poisson Rouge 2010-04-29T21:02:00Z “Homeland” has always tried to live dramatically in that ambiguous space. ‘Homeland’ Showrunner Declassifies the Series Finale 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z Like their date, it was both playful and romantically ambiguous. He wanted snarky. She was sunny. He was still charmed. 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z Egypt's controversial new constitution is ambiguous about what counts as free speech. Egypt's Jon Stewart? Al Bernameg is a political satire to rival The Daily Show 2013-03-06T08:00:00Z It and “Wolf Hall” are parts of a planned trilogy about Thomas Cromwell, the powerful and ambiguous chief minister to King Henry VIII. Hilary Mantel Wins Second Booker Prize for Tudor Saga 2012-10-16T21:21:40Z The International prize has a more ambiguous and elastic rubric. The damnable task of being a Man Booker International prize judge 2011-03-30T14:46:06Z Every event is ambiguous enough to be at home in a myth or koan. Chloe Aridjis’s “Sea Monsters” Is a Hypnotic Narrative of Disenchantment 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Specifically, “conservatism was associated with a lower threshold for categorizing racially ambiguous faces as black,” the researchers report. Study: Liberals, conservatives see mixed-race people differently 2013-06-09T14:00:00Z Your films focus on these intense stories about intense people, who occupy morally ambiguous territory or have even committed criminal acts, and take an incredible amount of investigation into what makes these people tick. "That is the David Carr way": Erin Lee Carr on writing fearlessly on grief, addiction and her father 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z Yet his ending is also ambiguous enough that it may leave some readers unsatisfied. He Courted Me Through My Favorite Novel 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Even when a film is as aggressively ambiguous and nonsensical as Kubrick's The Shining, audiences still want an objective truth. Was Stephen King right to hate Stanley Kubrick's Shining? 2013-04-06T07:03:01Z And later, as she seemed, maybe, to be miming some moment of distress, the ambiguous sounds he contributed from his laptop — an Italian train station? Dance Review: Simone Forti and Charlemagne Palestine Reunite at MoMA 2014-04-15T21:31:12Z “Third” took a turn for the dark and strange; while Chilton’s gift for crafting indelible tunes remained, his lyrics took on deeper, more ambiguous and disturbing shades. Concert review: Big Star 'Third' at Park West 2013-06-29T06:37:00Z “He may solve the crime — or commit it,” he said of one such ambiguous hero. Elmore Leonard, Who Refined the Crime Thriller, Dies at 87 2013-08-20T14:28:20Z Rather, she tells Klosterman that she prefers to keep things ambiguous. 5 fascinating insights from Taylor Swift’s Chuck Klosterman interview that aren’t about Nicki Minaj 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z McDonough doesn’t quite buy that: “I believe Al’s life is far more ambiguous, chaotic and unsettled than the clichéd happy ending usually reported.” Rock ’n’ Roll, Between the Covers 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z According to Matthew Affron, the Philadelphia Museum’s curator of modern art, that evidence was judged too ambiguous to justify an experiment apparently at odds with Duchamp’s original intentions. Now You See Him, Now You Don’t: Duchamp From Beyond the Grave 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z But the more time you spend tracing the relationships embedded in her work, the more all-encompassing the ambiguous, plaintive declaration “What Is Psychedelic” becomes. Aura Rosenberg’s Seriously Playful Art of Collaboration 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z She concludes, “I am let in until,” deftly leaving the ending ambiguous and thereby conveying a feeling of uncertainty — perhaps her own, perhaps representing the collective fear of displacement. Poems of Exile, Introspection and Self-Discovery (Cicadas, Too) 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z One harrowing section around the 2001 release of the album and film “Glitter” jumps from family-member manipulation to detox facility to corporate malfeasance and beyond, but still feels frustratingly ambiguous. Mariah Carey, Elusive No More 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z Perhaps, but satire doesn’t necessarily get you home dry, especially when it’s ambiguous. Bad Sex in Fiction Awards ceremony celebrates 24th year 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z The spaces are ambiguous and the imagery diffuse, but experience of the work is fully immersive. First U.S. show for German woodblock artist is delectably disorienting 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z At the same time the relationship between the two women was ambiguous. Dance Review: 104 Degrees of Spirited Dancing 2010-11-21T23:04:00Z In the ambiguous tense of that verb, “read,” past and present for a moment collide and intermingle. Illuminating the Past, One Precious Book at a Time 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z But it is possibly the one most reliant on ambiguous plot twists. Review | Sex games in the afternoon, anyone? Harold Pinter knows how to write the rules. 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Like so much else in this archly ambiguous film, the extent of these powers and why they’re to be avoided is never explained. Review: ‘One & Two’ Exposes Dangers of Trying to Control Teenagers 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Still, the Academy tends to favor inspiring stories about struggle and triumph, not examinations of darker subjects with ambiguous conclusions. Why the Academy Seems to Get Documentaries Wrong 2012-01-22T02:03:03Z Similarly, the oysters that Dr. Thompson brings the Chisolms one evening, fresh from the town market, are ambiguous in gender. Life with a medical condition that once changed lives permanently 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z There, you could hear what was lacking in “Perú Negro”: ambiguous exuberance, Janus-faced passages that misdirect and provoke, both inviting and impenetrable, forever irreconcilable. Review: The Rising Star of Conducting Arrives in New York 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z Wagner’s works are as ambiguous and ambivalent as we are, pulled between the desire for freedom and the desire to be led and commanded. Wagner’s ‘Lohengrin’ Uses the Word ‘Führer.’ Keep It There. 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z Participants in the experiment watched one of four different ambiguous videos in which two teenage boys fought over a sheet of paper as a teenage girl sat sending text messages on a nearby park bench. Your move to the big city may be your last 2013-12-27T17:00:00Z It was an interesting, ambiguous answer—as though he didn’t distinguish between people and things. When Walter Hopps Met Andy Warhol and Frank Stella 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z What is new, apparently, are the ominous yet ambiguous pronouncements of Dennis Davern, captain of the yacht on which Wood was last seen alive with husband Robert Wagner and her "Brainstorm" co-star Christopher Walken. Review of Natalie Wood's death ignites curiosity 2011-11-19T05:26:17Z The opera expanded from a central funeral scene, and charted a path toward a difficult, ambiguous reconciliation for the members of the estranged and troubled family. ?A Quiet Place? Of Dysfunction And Dystopia 2010-10-22T08:06:00Z Viewers who are already skeptical of fracking are likely to find gratification in the film’s sentimental, studiously ambiguous conclusion. Movie Review: ‘Promised Land,’ With Matt Damon, Directed by Gus Van Sant 2012-12-27T23:24:39Z She was fascinated by how morally ambiguous the characters and their actions were. With ‘The Searcher,’ Tana French Ventures Into New Territory 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z The experts call this kind of loss “ambiguous grief” or “unconventional grief.” Are You My Husband? 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z There are many moments of chilly, flowering, ambiguous beauty. In Praise of Beach House 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z He certainly did not invent male androgyny or “gender-bending,” but he pushed those signals further, and into more ambiguous territory, than anyone else in pop music. Rebel, alien, cynic, dreamer: David Bowie’s chimerical genius, and cultural importance, go way beyond pop music 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z He creates meanings that are deliberate but also ambiguous and open to interpretation. Alex Garland on birth as horror in "Men" 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z Looking at it — and at other similarly ambiguous, minimalist mug-shot shirts — it’s hard to tell where the wearer’s loyalties lie. There’s no Trump mug shot, but there’s plenty of Trump mug-shot merch 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z That’s a great benefit to both the articles and the reader — but not to the Invite’s perennial contest to misinterpret ambiguous headlines. Style Invitational: Mess with our (or anyone else’s) heads 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z We discussed why I feel guilty watching; mesmerized by something that's morally ambiguous. Is Woody Allen a Great Filmmaker? Discuss 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z "Field Gray" gives Kerr a chance to address some knotty, ambiguous questions of loyalty and duty in wartime. Crime fiction: lingering shadows of World War II in three new suspense novels 2011-04-06T23:05:04Z The books are morally ambiguous, and at times the glut of florid nastiness makes them sound worse than ambiguous: frivolous. Nazi Comb-Overs 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Hulu has ordered a second season of the series, one that will continue Offred’s story beyond the novel’s abrupt and ambiguous ending. We Live in the Reproductive Dystopia of “The Handmaid’s Tale” 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Redd ended up being the best part of the bit, as he alternated between telling the audience that Ms. Winfrey was and was not running, based on the ambiguous statements Ms. Jones was making. ‘Saturday Night Live,’ With Help From Old Friends, Skewers ‘Morning Joe’ 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z Incurably restive, ambiguous and valiantly struggling toward a new level of maturation. Haruki Murakami’s ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage’ 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z “When they needed someone racially ambiguous — that’s what they called it — that was always going to be me.” Chrissy Teigen graces cover of People’s ‘Beautiful Issue’ 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z It spans the years 1965 to 1989, and its mood is restless, experimental and dark; the somber black-and-white palette and ambiguous, shadowy shapes reflect periods of depression and, in later works, terminal illness. Jay DeFeo 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z The unruly glissandos that open the tightly constructed piece herald myriad textures and sounds, from microtonal clusters to fierce, harmonically ambiguous scales. Music Review: The JACK Quartet Plays Bryant Park 2013-07-28T19:41:00Z This book would be shorter had its author ruled out ambiguous cases. Books of The Times: What Befits a Leader in Hard Times? An Intimate Knowledge of Insanity 2011-08-10T21:05:51Z Control, of course, is what we lack at a time of ambiguous and daily evolving governmental guidelines, as well as of the enforced passivity central to sheltering in place. We’re Holding Tight to Our Good Luck Talismans 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z And although the end feels a bit too tidy by comparison - despite a final shot that's intentionally ambiguous - it also has an emotional impact that will sneak up on you. Review: Naturalism key to `Your Sister's Sister' 2012-06-12T00:46:06Z Certainly she's meant to stir an ambiguous response in a viewer — the only hint of inspired complexity in this film. 'Conan the Barbarian': Remake empty shell of sword-and-sandal journey 2011-08-18T17:52:07Z "This is an award with a funny name, you know - 'special achievement in filmmaking' - it's a little bit ambiguous," he said. The Carpetbagger: A Gala of Stars and Bleeps 2013-01-09T15:00:30Z Afraid to give himself away due to his accent, he must navigate not only uncertain streets of Belfast on his way back to his barracks but also a world of ambiguous allegiances and murky motivations. Yann Demange goes for bold in Northern Ireland-set feature debut ''71' 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z There's a South African, too – a pilot played by Rob Hersov, the vice-president of a private aviation firm – but his role is more ambiguous. Fantastic Mr Fox recap: Wes Anderson reworking well worth another look 2013-06-28T16:00:37Z But what makes this work so striking is how powerfully it brings out the ambiguous violence of all image-making, Ms. Yago’s as much as Courbet’s. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z The 1983 setting gives rise to some Cold War politicking, foreshadowed by scenes behind the Iron Curtain, in East Berlin and Poland, and culminating in the peculiarly ambiguous destruction of the entire world’s nuclear-weapon stockpile. The Empty Astonishments of “X-Men: Apocalypse” 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z They spent the summer of 2009 debating – back and forth – over the fraud clause, and whether it was ambiguous or clear. My father had a lifelong ticket to fly anywhere. Then they took it away 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z “Never Look Away” traffics in all kinds of thorny, ambiguous material: It’s about family secrets, psychological misdirection, the sometimes uncanny harmonies between artifice and reality. ‘Never Look Away’ Review: A Lush Adventure in Sex, Politics and Painting 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Wadsworth makes the ending more ambiguous, with one couple seemingly reconciled but the other not. Review: Collaborative `Cosi' scores at Juilliard 2012-11-15T16:05:08Z "One," an emotional ballad with dark textures and ambiguous lyrics, was a watershed song for U2. A U2 documentary that's not pretentious 2011-09-16T23:30:00Z On the contrary, the more ambiguous the prints become, the stronger their impact. David Hammons, Body and Soul, at the Drawing Center 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z But lately I have had guys who will make plans with me and then be ambiguous about the details. Are my dating habits too 'old fashioned' for Tinder? 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Hurried readers may not have realized that “grotesque head” did not refer to the ambiguous human mask at the bottom of the ring. An Auction Brings to Light a French Collector With an Eye for Ignored Beauty 2010-05-28T12:00:00Z I think the death in the film is nicely ambiguous. Willem Dafoe on painting Van Gogh’s shoes: “It’s his attempt to paint the soul of something” 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z The other women reappear, mirroring her, caught in the same eddies: an ambiguous image of female solidarity. Review: Pushing 100, the Martha Graham Dance Company Leans Into Youth 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z Whenever I find myself coming up against what feels like a stereotypical situation or character, my impulse is always to try to make it more ambiguous. Chabon on race, sex, Obama: “I never wanted to tell the story of two guys in a record store” 2012-09-20T15:25:00Z Reality is profoundly ambiguous, modern physics tells us. Off the scale: why Gerhard Richter towers above the artists of today 2010-11-22T14:51:00Z He called this character “an ambiguous ambassador,” and, in a series he called “East Meets West,” posed him—posed himself—in front of various icons of touristic America. Tseng Kwong Chi, an “Ambiguous Ambassador” to Life in America 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z “The natural and domestic worlds are unified on the flattened surface of the image,” he wrote in an e-mail, “however, the ambiguous, obscured figuration suggests a shattered world.” This Curator?s Rule: Go With What?s Amazing 2010-08-13T23:10:00Z Cox and Arquette have, from the first announcement of their separation, been candid about its ambiguous nature. Courteney Cox's messy, relatable estrangement 2011-04-14T19:30:00Z “You get the idea that it’s a soul, but the director intentionally left it ambiguous.” The Live-Action Birth of ‘Ghost in the Shell’ 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z En route to their ambiguous destiny, the travelers get lost in a mist-shrouded forest, where they are plagued by allegorical and possibly supernatural visions. "Season of the Witch": Nicolas Cage's ludicrous medieval mashup 2011-01-06T02:02:00Z The problem is that readers seem less inclined to accept characters that are morally ambiguous. Novels don't need to be 'nice' 2010-10-19T10:46:00Z Look, it’s our old friend “ambiguous identity” again! Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z I went back to school thinking that things between us were more ambiguous than ever. Modern Love: Love Delivered, Prematurely 2011-06-30T20:54:42Z It works like a charm, for one, and it isn’t ambiguous at all. ‘The Witches’ Review: A Tale of Mice and Women, Toil and Trouble 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z The sequel is not as ambiguous and open-ended as the original. ‘I’m Too Old to Be Scared by Much’: Margaret Atwood on Her ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Sequel 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z It would have been daring to draw out more the oppression and ambiguous feelings of the black stevedores and showgoers. Music Review: Can?t Help Seeking That Middle Ground in ?Show Boat? 2012-02-29T23:43:57Z The posthorn solo that stops the gambolling scherzo in its tracks was short on its ambiguous mix of nostalgia and eeriness. Berlin Philharmonic/Rattle ? review 2011-02-24T08:53:46Z Which feels a fairly apt summation of where we are with this sophomore season of True Detective, a more ambiguous and, to many, a weaker affair than its predecessor. True Detective season two, episode four recap – Down Will Come 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z “Wild Grass” uses a portentous narrator and includes ambiguous interior monologues. | 'Wild Grass': Alain Resnais?s Film of Anarchic Imagination 2010-06-24T23:40:00Z Indeed, all the characters, including the righteous Yun Ling and the wise Aritomo, are slowly revealed to be morally ambiguous, compromised by actions that haunt them. The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng - review 2012-08-24T21:55:01Z I’d never thought of myself as someone suspect or strange or ambiguous. The boy I used to be: The world would look at me and see Leslie — they don’t know I’m really Peter Pan 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z Luce was so friendless and ambiguous that Mr. Brinkley is often at arm’s length from his subject. Books of The Times: Alan Brinkley Tells Henry Luce?s Story in ?The Publisher? 2010-04-19T21:35:00Z The work could stand for Prototype as a whole: vibrantly theatrical, genre-blurring, unusual in its techniques, eclectic in its musical style and politically charged — if also, in this case, politically ambiguous. ‘Toxic Psalms,’ in the Prototype Festival, Explores Ethical Choices 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z The selection illustrates how sensual and enigmatic, how deliciously ambiguous abstract photographs can be, given the medium's innate illusionism. 'Light, Paper, Process' an inventive subversion of photography 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z “Each era determined not only how racially ambiguous men and women lived, but also what they lost,” Hobbs writes. A Tale of Racial Passing and the U.S.-Mexico Border 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z There’s something very lovely about how ambiguous it is. “The stories about masculinity that excite me most are written by women” 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z Or, say, you can consider the ambiguous pleasures of the trial in Paris in 1956, to determine whether to allow the republication of four novels by the Marquis de Sade. Paris, home of the avant-garde 2011-03-26T00:05:47Z The ambiguous last image is a roadside sign that reads “Paying Taxes Means Participation.” ‘Highway Patrolman’ Bends the Thin Blue Line 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z To ascertain meaning from such powerfully ambiguous novels requires a measure of readerly improvisation. Elusive leaps of grace and daring: Rachel Cusk's 'Kudos' 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z It’s ambiguous whether its backdrop is a landscape or seascape, yet it’s utterly direct in conveying an unmoored state of mind. September gallery highlights: From Antarctic ice to apocalyptic flames 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z Even some of the guardians themselves have a more ambiguous history than the movie allows. Movie Review: In ‘Rise of the Guardians,’ Childhood Naïveté Wins 2012-11-20T22:29:12Z But both scenario and choreography are more interesting than that: they leave it wholly ambiguous about whether she ever returns his love. Arts & Leisure Preview: Story Ballets, Still Romantically Inclined 2010-08-04T22:16:00Z “So many of us no longer care, as we should, about understanding ourselves and our pasts as complex and ambiguous,” she writes. 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z The Female Eunuch is an example of the ambiguous role testimony plays at this interface. The Female Eunuch, 40 years on 2010-11-20T00:06:00Z "It's fairly ambiguous, there are several possibilities. It's called 'Happy End'. It might be a happy end, it might be an unhappy end." King of Cannes Haneke could get record third Palme d'Or with "Happy End" 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z Typically, the whole thing is rounded off with an elegantly shot montage, and an ambiguous closing shot that will have fans debating right up until next season. TV highlights 12/06/2012 2012-06-11T19:00:03Z The tone of the show is ambiguous, but in the end, it feels celebratory. Review | The 1980s New York art world was cynical and crass. Should we be honoring it? 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z Like a lot of “Illmatic,” the album on which it appears, the song is discreetly ambiguous. The Eternal Greatness of Nas's 'Illmatic' 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Opposite the leather sofa where I sat was a suite of works by the artist Dan Colen, pieces as vaporously ambiguous as a Rorschach test. Paging Dr. Samantha Boardman, for My Mental Health 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z While ambiguous art can be alluring, in the words of Sigmund Freud, "sometimes a cigar is only a cigar". Young arts critics competition 2010: the winning entries 2010-10-20T22:00:00Z But the process of deciding what the Forum should do about items with more ambiguous histories is likely to be a messier endeavor. A Long-Awaited Museum Opens, With Agony and Ivory 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z Foster wrote his songs to be ambiguous about slavery. Is Stephen Foster's song "My Old Kentucky Home" pro-slavery or anti-slavery? 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z “I had teachers tell me, grow your hair out, change the way you speak, so you can be more ethnically ambiguous,” he said. With ‘In the Heights,’ Anthony Ramos Finds Stardom on His Own Terms 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Were you frightened by the initial ambiguous threats that North Korea made? James Franco and Seth Rogen Talk About ‘The Interview’ 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z Here, Sheffield's impressively spacious S1 Artspace takes the idea further, providing the venue for four installations based on the whole idea of the gallery as a stage set, each with its own ambiguous inventions. This week's new exhibitions 2011-07-29T23:10:59Z “The TV version gives the material what it requires while never taking away the striking images, ambiguous characters and exciting story: everything needed to suck you in.” Sex, Drugs and Crime in the Gritty Drama ‘Babylon Berlin’ 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Still, the measured usage of audio clips over blurs of color swirling in water – some on frayed fabric, some liquid and ambiguous – anchor the production in a sense of steadily rising angst. Beyond sex trafficking and sashes, HBO's chilling NXIVM docuseries "The Vow" proves a cult's power 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z Using such techniques he came up with something that was much more ambiguous, a dramatic framework that was far removed from opera as it had developed over the last three centuries. Interview: Salvatore Sciarrino - 'My problem is I want to change the world' 2013-07-15T15:17:00Z The film is a slow-burner: a study in loneliness and alienation, whose unexpected ending and ambiguous aftermath require us to reassess all that has gone before. Easier With Practice ? review 2010-12-02T22:05:00Z I was happy for the ending to be ambiguous and difficult, because life is ambiguous and difficult. Rob Delaney on Writing While Grieving and the Real Work of Comedy 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z The ending of the play, which must remain a secret, is purposely ambiguous. Reaching toward the light in 'The Night Alive' 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Forming a sort of napping ridge of flesh, they’re an ambiguous mix of languid and withdrawn. High jinks and mysteries from Seattle sculptors Takamori, Wicklander 2013-02-28T23:47:25Z “Thank you for showing me that I can be grown, and I don’t have to be jaded,” he sang, the “you” left ambiguous. Serpentwithfeet‘s Sensual Ode to Drama 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z This movie is an ambitious, ambiguous paean to that state, and a promising first feature. ‘End of the Century’ Review: A Vacation Veers Into Existential States 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z It’s an ending that’s as ambiguous, in its way, as the infamous finale of “The Sopranos.” 'Mad Men' finale recap: There's no place like om 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Sexual identities are ambiguous, and the atmosphere tense with obscure ritual. The Most Incredible Thing ? review 2011-03-27T00:05:25Z There are instances when even though it goes against everything you believe, it’s important, Zauner said, to create an ambiguous space for things. When Her Mother Died, She Found Solace at a Korean Grocery 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z What "Serial" reveals is a subculture where what counts as "justice" is often ambiguous and where America's criminal justice system operates in way that is far from ideal or fair. True crime and punishment: “Serial” creators on the dark and difficult truths of their third... 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z The final assemblagelike composition of perpendicular elements of wood and metal is completely ambiguous in terms of its actual size, weight, function, orientation and vintage, although it resembles one of Irving Penn’s elegant, white-ground images. Abstraction at Manhattan Galleries 2010-08-05T22:14:00Z It was left wonderfully ambiguous, which is a testament to the intelligence of the team behind this show. ‘Insecure’ Season 1 Finale: Great Expectations 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z But while the young Barbra had wrung some ambiguous melancholy out of the song — as if still scarred by the unhappy days — Vanessa’s take was bright-eyed, triumphant and more than a little sly. The competition for Miss America 1984 was business as usual — until everyone got a look at Vanessa Williams 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z “They are either completely restless, in a romantic, antiheroic manner,” he continued, “or, on the contrary, totally introverted — which you might call an ambiguous space, or rather, for me, an oblique space.” Hedi Slimane, Designer Turned Photographer, at the Top of His Game, Again 2011-11-09T23:26:41Z There was otherworldliness, too, in the hovering harmonies he loved: the hypnotic modal patterns he picked on guitar and the ambiguous jazz chords that could lead in multiple directions. David Crosby’s 15 Essential Songs 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z Even if the episode is initially ambiguous, the film as a whole could have been even more powerful without the foreshadowing. Olivia Colman is magnificent in the mysterious "Lost Daughter," which hooks you and doesn't let go 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z But with my solo voice it was ambiguous. Susan Philipsz: Sonic boom 2010-12-07T21:30:00Z While the turkey does not find this meal to be an ambiguous experience, it is for people like me, refugees from Vietnam and survivors of a war that killed three million Vietnamese people. Feeling Conflicted on Thanksgiving 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z One of the reasons I so enjoy fiction is that, like life, it’s so morally ambiguous. This Week in Fiction: Jensen Beach 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z Though at times too intent on explaining itself, “Incarnations” also explored more ambiguous terrain, notably in a monologue by the postmodern dance pioneer Yvonne Rainer. Reviews: Colliding Particles, a Grim Duet and Channeling Martha Graham 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Posters of goats hang on the walls of Bangane, goats with rakishly wavy black hair and an ambiguous twinkle in their eyes. Critic’s Notebook: Pete Wells Explores Korean Restaurants in Queens 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z That blend of close-knit emotional bonds and ambiguous menace recurs in a number of forms here. A Métis Woman’s Husband Disappeared — or Did He? 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z Behind this craziness, however, is an Expressionist urgency, and it is here where Bauschism grows most ambiguous and troubling. Dance Review: Tanztheater Wuppertal Revives Pina Bausch’s ‘1980’ in London 2014-02-17T22:50:55Z Finally, the novel’s ambiguous ending leaves the reader to muse — or to fume — over what really happened here. ‘Temple Grove’: war over Olympic Peninsula’s old trees 2013-05-22T23:10:19Z The conclusion was going to be as ambiguous as the ending of the series itself. So ?Lost? Is Over: Now What?s to Be Found? 2011-01-28T14:32:47Z Atmospheric spaces are inhabited by a visual vocabulary of ambiguous signs, florid emblems, daubs, spillages and filigree embellishments. This week's new exhibitions 2012-05-18T23:05:00Z Brandon Washington and Mr. Johnson, wearing only dark briefs and laced boots, soon break from strict spatial patterns for muddier, more ambiguous partnering. Dance Review: Burr Johnson at Danspace Project 2012-06-03T21:30:53Z But he argues that until the underwear bomber incident, there was still an “ambiguous, ambivalent balance” within the administration on how to deal with counterterrorism, a balance that then tipped toward a harder line. Review: Charlie Savage’s ‘Power Wars’ Dissects Obama’s Evolution on National Security 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z It's tantalising, ambiguous, swerving between a dreamscape and its opposite: the certainty of military orders. Anne Boleyn; Danton's Death; The Prince of Homburg 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z They are also both using figurative art to construct allegories, Beckmann’s ambiguous and disturbing, Ziegler’s clear and reassuring. Artworks labeled degenerate in Nazi Germany are N.Y. hit He could recite a thousand vague rumors and poorly documented examples with ambiguous interpretations, and it wouldn’t salvage his thesis. Is aggression genetic? 2012-05-28T22:00:00Z In fact, Haley’s testimony about the Tribeca Grand incident is far more ambiguous than that. Harvey Weinstein jury wrestles with evidence of his contact with accusers 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z "These are dramatic drawings with distorted perspective: he creates highly ambiguous spaces," said Kierkuc-Bielinski. Piranesi works drawn together in London for first time since 18th century 2013-02-14T18:13:07Z It's an ominous final image, but equally, considering how keen The Returned was to show us those other attacks in lurid detail, it feels a little ambiguous. The Returned recap: series one, episode four – Victor 2013-06-30T21:10:00Z Her lyrics are interesting, too: fluid, ambiguous, hard to decipher, they mix up gangsta talk – "Some some some I murder" – with patois, London slang, silliness, personal observation. MIA: 'I'm here for the people' 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z They employed a framing device based on the book's often-overlooked appendix, resulting in a more ambiguous telling of the classic tale. In a new era of surveillance and doublethink, '1984' takes to the stage 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z In “Impeachment: American Crime Story,” which premieres Sept. 7 on FX, the offenses are more ambiguous. ‘Impeachment’ Focuses on the Women Behind Clinton’s Scandals 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z And yet, it fascinates because it is so ambiguous. Bewitched: Salvator Rosa's satanic art 2010-04-14T11:58:00Z The authenticity of her sightings of the Virgin remains ambiguous, but there’s no doubting her determination to create a sanctuary for women beyond the reach of men. Review | In Lauren Groff’s hands, the tale of a medieval nunnery is must-read fiction 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z Our ambiguous slide into moral relativism has left us all at sea. Review | Chuck Klosterman tries to make sense of our absurd reality in ‘Raised in Captivity’ 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z But Kleist's play is infinitely more subtle and morally ambiguous than that. The Prince of Homburg 2010-07-27T23:24:00Z Verdi's characters, however, are always multifaceted and often ambiguous. Maestro Verdi, your Art must not die 2013-05-03T16:00:01Z That, it seems to me, is the ambiguous realm we must continue to appreciate — and legally defend. Perspective | Alan Dershowitz claims a fictional lawyer defamed him. The implications for novelists are very real. 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z Many pages are word-free, yet the images invite lingering attention, and not just to speculate on their sometimes ambiguous meaning. When David Lost His Voice by Judith Vanistendael - review 2012-05-25T21:55:08Z Yet some critics argued that his work was disjointed and ambiguous. Is it time to rediscover Conrad Aiken? 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z He said that it didn't bother him if "Bashmet adores the president," but his ambiguous justification of the adoption ban took things too far. Artists' spat over Putin joins a Russian tradition 2013-02-03T10:01:13Z Indeed, some of Ms. Scott’s deliveries are meant to bind ambiguous relationships, presenting the challenge of conveying intention without misleading the recipient. We Are Saying It With Flowers. Loudly and Repeatedly. 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z Then there was this ambiguous closing line: “It’s like a fairy tale.” Editing Donald Trump 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z Huppert ultimately gets her revenge, but the extent to which she herself engineers it is left ambiguous. How the 'rape-revenge movie' became a feminist weapon for the #MeToo generation 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z Malls are an ambiguous blend of public and private space — open to all in theory but inaccessible to many in practice. ‘Meet Me by the Fountain’ Takes a Tour of the Mall 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z But put across in a slightly more ambiguous way. A Minute With: Bastille on success and 'lack of cynicism' in U.S 2014-02-12T21:06:24Z The protagonists are car thieves turned action heroes, who are mostly black, Asian, Latina or racially ambiguous. Obama Understood the Power of Art. And He Wanted You to Get It, Too. 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z But an unease persists and grows through it all, as Francisco turns into a slippery, morally ambiguous figure. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z It takes a disturbing, ambiguous film and reduces it to the comforting expository contours of a biopic. ‘Jason and Shirley’ Reimagines the Making of a Landmark Documentary 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z Whether Mr. Brod defied Kafka’s dying wish is yet another ambiguous aspect of this tale. A Yearslong Battle Over Kafka’s Legacy Ends in Jerusalem 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Stavrakopoulou's not hedging her bets, accusing people of faith of "seeing in the Bible what they want, even though texts are much more ambiguous than they like". Tonight's TV highlights: Bible's Buried Secrets 2011-03-22T00:05:01Z Mr. Jones’s choreography was integral to the mixture of African myths that comprised the ambiguous narrative. Operas by Black Composers Have Long Been Ignored. Explore 8. 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Innovative, unflinchingly mature and richly imagined, it is driven by fascinating, finely nuanced characters navigating a fantasy world of dark political intrigue and ambiguous morals. Video Game Review: Exploring Moral Consequences, the Obvious and the Unintended 2011-06-21T21:39:34Z If that’s a little ambiguous, this isn’t: One had more purpose and eloquence than the other. Dance Review: Insects Flee, and Kitty Seeks Revenge 2011-05-22T20:58:11Z They leave room for only the most ambiguous optimism. Music Review: Britten’s ‘Rape of Lucretia,’ Presented by Mannes Opera 2013-05-12T21:58:05Z Governments have always been wary of the arts because they're wayward and ambiguous and because they deal with feelings rather than facts. Richard Eyre: arts cuts will result in cultural apartheid 2011-02-15T12:53:26Z The figure they used to test study participants' perception was called the "ambiguous horse-seal" and was created in 1968 by the Psychonomics Society. Viral optical illusion has some seeing donkey, seal or something else 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z The composer Val Jeanty worked a turntable to create a sinister, ambiguous mood, but “The Way It Was” stayed within a rather narrow emotional register. Dance Review: Kyle Abraham, Samantha Speis and Marjani Fort? at Danspace 2012-03-23T22:04:11Z During rehearsals for the 2012 premiere in Montclair, Mr. Little recalled, the ambiguous but utterly devastating event at the heart of the story felt far away — if not unthinkable, then at least hypothetical. ‘Dog Days’ Is Centerpiece of Prototype Festival 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z It matches the thick curtain that has been pulled back and tied to the picture’s edge, a wood structure or frame of ambiguous location. Review: ‘Sultans of Deccan India,’ Unearthly Treasures of a Golden Age, at the Met 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Yet this apparently simple “solve” remains, across the whole of this HBO eight-parter, ambiguous to the end – and possibly even beyond it. The 50 best TV shows of 2016: No 5 The Night Of 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z What it says about Hitchcock is more ambiguous. Review: ‘The Green Fog,’ a Salute to Hitchcock’s San Francisco 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z TIME: There are a lot of morally ambiguous characters on the show, including yours. Christopher Meloni on His 'More Wolf Than Human' Slave Catcher in 'Underground' 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z Speaking to the camera, he’s an ambiguous character: a tough bureaucrat, possibly a reformer. Review: ‘Bolshoi Babylon,’ Russia’s Famed Ballet Troupe in a Scandal’s Glare 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z Their roles seem ambiguous, to say the least. Review: LoftOpera Stages a Rarity, With Lingerie 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z Tequila gets its name from the town of Tequila in Jalisco, Mexico, but the etymology of the word is much more ambiguous, according to the National Resource Center Canada. National Tequila Day: 5 fun facts about the celebrated spirit 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z Her characters are ambiguous, difficult and often unpleasant. Home Fires by Elizabeth Day – review 2013-03-14T17:00:01Z It’s after this letdown that The Master turns more ambiguous. The Master Mystery: Solving Paul Thomas Anderson’s Many Riddles 2012-09-24T12:00:35Z Campbell’s invitation results in lush, high-resolution imagery and intriguingly ambiguous narratives. Can art help fight climate change? These 4 Seattle-area artists think so. 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z The family meshugas is set in motion by a father's dying wish to his sons that is more maddeningly ambiguous than it should be. Larry David's play 'Fish in the Dark' thinks too small-screen 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Made in the mid to late 1960s and never before exhibited in the United States, they feature hard-edge sine waves, circles and stripes with hypnotically ambiguous effects. 2 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z In mood, his work is almost always ambiguous: The loudest moments in “Joy Boy,” mostly a delicate pitter-patter of a piece, might just as easily be cries of pain as joy. A Long-Lost Composer Is Raised From the Dead 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z It doesn’t exactly expect the opposite, either, and its ambiguous attitudes are, I think, part of the reason for the Girls backlash. From Tony Soprano to Hannah Horvath: What Does a TV Show ?Want? You to Think of Its Characters? 2012-04-18T17:05:00Z The melodies are songlike even at their most ambiguous, and Mr. Kimbrough uses his bright, percussive touch to keep them grounded. Playlist: Inside a Troubled Mind and Mideast Musical Theories 2010-03-25T19:46:00Z “Television audiences are ruthless — look what happened to ‘The Killing,’ ” he said, referring to the AMC drama that alienated many viewers with an ambiguous season-ending episode. Arts & Leisure: Damian Lewis of ?Homeland? on Showtime 2011-12-09T21:13:41Z The ambiguous Iris Murdoch fights back against Kar's female stereotyping, and succeeds in looking intense, lonely, beautiful and desperate, even though she is leaning on a cosy candlewick bedspread staring at a heap of manuscripts. Portraits of the artists 2011-03-05T00:07:22Z And were you worried about engaging an audience with such ambiguous and elusive characters? A Q&A with Stoker Director Park Chan-wook 2013-03-05T17:12:51Z Mr. Lennon was saying something he sincerely felt; in Mr. Johanson’s case, it’s ambiguous. 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What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z In its spareness, its unwillingness to clarify or expand, its ambiguous evocation of the satanic, the book itself seems buried in the ground. A Mystical Healer, Her Ailing Crush and the Desire That Undoes Them Both 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z The talented Jonasson backs up two months to portray — with the precision of Harold Pinter — two complex marriages whose outcomes are not at all ambiguous, this being a crime novel. Review | Summer escapes: Five new thrillers and mystery novels offer welcome distraction 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Over in the American Wing, in Gallery 764, Thomas Eakins’s “The Artist’s Wife and His Setter Dog” is, in its ambiguous way, a tribute to a female artist, too. Got an Hour? See the Met These 4 Ways 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Debate is going on now about the objectionable presence of characters who are morally ambiguous. 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