Improving the validity of the instrument, along with clarifying measurable goals and progress indicators, promises to overcome some of the ambiguity, pulling individual stripes into bands and the bands into a full form the colors of international health.
Brandon and Kevin, now de-facto brothers, are both present at the third shooting, and there's some thrilling ambiguity as to who pulled the trigger.
All of which is a long way round of saying that Kathleen Winter's first novel, "Annabel" — a No. 1 best seller in Canada — is absorbing, earnest and in many respects quite beautifully written, but as often as it tries to fly into the open space that gender ambiguity creates, it is pulled back by convictions and assumptions that contradict, and deaden, its richer aspirations.
"But the hard edge of Norse mythology, the unforgiving, die-in-battle-to-get-to-Valhalla mindset, the moral ambiguity, and finality of Ragnarök really pulled at us".
And, I thought, there's not another dramatist living who could pull off the kind of ambiguity he exercises so exquisitely here.
These are all traces of the cartel operation, but Ayer doesn't pull the strands of the story together, an ambiguity that I assume is intentional.
Social historians talk about Chicago's "ambiguity," a reflection of its location in the middle of the country, pulled between the Wild West and the Cultured East, between rough-and-tumble stockyards and black-tie nights at the opera.
The disagreement is complicated by ambiguity about what House Republicans will do -– GOP leadership has already had to pull a bill because conservative members didn't think it sufficiently threatened the Affordable Care Act.
Ambiguity around ambiguity is forgivable in an unpublished poet and expected of an arts student on the pull: for a professional comedian demoting himself to the role of 'thinker', with stadiums full of young people hanging on his every word, it won't really do".
If Jones had had the ability to infuse that kind of scene with ambiguity and multiple layers of meaning, perhaps it would have been less jarring, but she couldn't pull it off.
