Sentence examples for ambiguous grey from inspiring English sources

He is fond of poetry and of his dog, Empson (an ambiguous grey colour).

Rather, the smoke in some previous elections came out an ambiguous grey, prompting the decision for the last conclave in 2005 to use a more reliable method based on chemical ingredients.

According to the artists, their shops operate in an ambiguous grey area in terms of their legality, one that presently does not represent a pressing burden for the big studios.

Although most medical definitions of pedophilia define it as a disorder pertaining to a sustained sexual interest in children, some researchers think there's an ambiguous grey area as to whether a person is actually a pedophile if they have not actually acted out their desires.

The commonest self reported long-term health problems in this study could be explained by the socioeconomic environment in which migrant workers are living including working long hours under pressure, poor working and living conditions or being trapped in an ambiguous grey social zone.

Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi Jonathan Cape £12.99, pp192 Marjane Satrapi's comic-strip autobiographies are in black and white, but the stories she tells are ambiguous and grey.

Those epidemiological characteristics of relatively low (yet uncertain) severity and high transmission (especially in children) meant that the A(H1N1 pdm09 pandemic fell within the ambiguous or "grey" zone for scientific advisers and decision makers.

Given the number of peaks of ambiguous origin (grey slices, Figure  4D-I), we have not found evidence to conclude that a modern maize hybrid substantially rejects more microbes from soil as sources of endophytes than ancestral plant genotypes.

Arm-in-arm on pointe, willowy and knowing, they echo the sexually ambiguous "girls in grey" in Bronislava Nijinska's Les Biches (1924).

We hypothesised that dogs tested after experiencing the rewarding event, and in a presumed post-consummatory positive affective state, would be more likely to judge visually ambiguous stimuli (intermediate grey cards) positively, compared to dogs in the 'Neutral' treatment.

In the judgement bias tests the quails were in addition to pretrained cues exposed to three ambiguous cues (shades of grey intermediate between the positive and negative cue).