Sentence examples for ambiguous intent from inspiring English sources

The review continued to comment on Beck, saying that his mix of goofy piety and ambiguous intent helped the album.

Workplace incivility has been defined as "… low-intensity deviant behavior with ambiguous intent to harm the target, in violation of workplace norms for mutual respect.

It is also possible that the more medically severe self-injury reported by adolescents with a prior suicide attempt in the current study represents 'trialing' of suicidal behavior (i.e., an episode of self-injury with ambiguous intent) when existing attempts to manage distressing experiences (e.g., engagement in multiple problem behaviors) are no longer effective.

Marlene Dumas's work is rather cold and dispassionate: images of childhood and prepubescent sexuality that are deeply ambiguous in their intent.

Sometimes a law's intent is ambiguous -- consider the tax code, for example -- and one's best course is to stick to the letter of the law.

Sprinkle them sparingly throughout your conversation to make your flirtatious jabs a little sweeter and to make the intent behind ambiguous sentences a little clearer.

The intervention targeted third to sixth grade children and had a positive impact on their interpretation of peers' intents in ambiguous situations.

A combination of instruments, some military and some non-military, choreographed to surprise, confuse and wear down an opponent, hybrid warfare is ambiguous in both source and intent, making it hard for multinational bodies such as NATO and the EU to craft a response.

However, suicidal intent may be ambiguous; this can be reflected in the ambivalence towards death sometimes reported by individuals engaging in attempted suicide and NSSI [ 19].

Exactly what Arzner's overarching intent was as an ambiguous auteur and as a public personality given to butch poses with her young, pretty actresses, is ultimately hard to define, as Judith Mayne suggested in her 1994 study "Directed by Dorothy Arzner".

Trump's statements on Chicago's violence have been ambiguous, leaving observers to discern his intent, or, as Kellyanne Conway has suggested, to discern what is in his heart.