Sentence examples for ambiguous power from inspiring English sources

Therein, of course, lies their ambiguous power.

She also looks beneath the official myth of genius and caretaker to get at the darker, more ambiguous power dynamic between Stein and Toklas.

In general, politics are wryly understated, as in Gabriele Di Matteo's portraits of nude world leaders and Lennon Jno Baptiste's paintings, which set ambiguous power emblems -- a papal crown, a kneeling Geronimo -- afloat on fields of festive modernist abstraction.

His "Collected Poems" has the same moving and ambiguous power that he ascribed, in an early poem, to yet another fountain, this one in "Caserta Garden": A childhood by this fountain wondering Would leave impress of circle-mysteries: One would have faith that the unjustest thing Had geometric grace past what one sees.

His "Collected Poems" has the same moving and ambiguous power that he ascribed, in an early poem, to yet another fountain, this one in "Caserta Garden": **{:.break one} ** A childhood by this fountain wondering Would leave impress of circle-mysteries: One would have faith that the unjustest thing Had geometric grace past what one sees.

But Bertillon's mug shots make for images of extraordinary, if ambiguous, psychological power.

But this is, of course, Bowie at his best – bringing ambiguous art power into the pop mainstream.

White God works as an ambiguous satire of power relations generally: eventually the lower orders will rise up.

But several of the objects, including a statue of the infant Krishna, are specifically Indian and the velvet covering gives the work a tantric cast: black is the skin color of the goddess Kali, a figure of ambiguous, often destructive power.

Mr. Shinn's impeccably observed dialogue captures the ambiguous play of power in all of Kevin's relationships, with Jen and Nick (both fellow performers and, to some degree, competitors); with a friendly but unreadable casting director and a glib television interviewer (both well played by Donna Hanover); and especially with John, whose paternal interest in Nick is edged with sabotaging nastiness.

The complex and ambiguous struggle for power in Yemen, too, offered further proof that the idea of a democratising wave sweeping through the Middle East was a little too simplistic.