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Discover LudwigThe phrase "ambiguous depiction" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an image, representation, or portrayal that is unclear or open to multiple interpretations.
Example: "The artist's work is an ambiguous depiction of modern society, leaving viewers to draw their own conclusions."
Alternatives: "unclear representation" or "vague portrayal".
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For the stage production we had imagined Young Men as an ambiguous depiction of soldiers and war.
I'm grateful to Tom Shone, who posts today in response to the distinction I drew yesterday between the bland simplifications of history that render the characters in "The King's Speech" more sympathetic, and the more ambiguous depiction of Mark Zuckerberg in "The Social Network" that's meant to challenge the audience to overcome antipathy for him.
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Opening track Angel of Death, about the atrocities committed by Josef Mengele, was at best ambiguous and the cover's depiction of life in hell is the stuff of nightmares.
Greatly revered in their native Norway, the two remain largely unexamined in tandem, though their shared depictions of psychologically fraught individuals, ambiguous love motifs, and complex interpersonal relationships make it clear that their parallel development was not simply a matter of common circumstances.
Riel remains an ambiguous and controversial figure in Canadian history, and Brown's depiction maintains that ambiguity.
An editor's ambiguous praise of Jackie at a launch party characterizes the depiction; "Our team is much stronger with you on it". The producers focus the majority of the screen time on Jackie's downfall at Viking, resigning after The New York Times credited her for acquiring speculative fiction about Ted's assassination.
"It's a very accurate depiction of the way agents operated in the morally ambiguous climate of the Cold War," says Beckner, who also created "The Agency," which received considerable CIA cooperation.
Zero's depiction in the series was intended to be morally ambiguous and depend on the perspective, appearing as a hero from one point of view and a terrorist from another.
He draws on classic imagery of madhouses and body snatchers to create a more ambiguous world of lost and battered souls, united for a couple of hours in a ritualistic depiction of a perversely satisfying tall story.
By providing insight into spatiotemporal stages of joke processing that rely on contributions of both hemispheres, our study provides a more nuanced depiction of a processing stream as it unfolds in time and engages a distributed network during integration of ambiguous meaning.
The depiction was uplifting.
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