Sentence examples for ambiguous relation from inspiring English sources

Kitaj's semiabstract paintings feature brightly coloured and imaginatively interpreted human figures portrayed in puzzling and ambiguous relation to one another.

Often referred to as Romantics, they stood in an ambiguous relation to Goethe, one compounded of admiration and antagonism.

As compared with the Tractatus Theologico-Philosophicus, the Ethics, Spinoza's major philosophical work, bears a much more ambiguous relation to Jewish medieval philosophy.

Ms. Smith, whose exhibition "Realms" is installed at PaceWildenstein in Chelsea, has always been preoccupied with the themes of transformation and man's ambiguous relation to nature -- the raw materials of most fairy tales.

The delegation wanted to know how many other chairs there would be around the table and, if more chairs became necessary, whether they would be added to the table, in ambiguous relation to those already there, or placed in an unequivocally secondary tier around the periphery of the room.

Passivity has an ambiguous relation to subjectivity.

His ambiguous relations with the children lead to sexual awakening but also to dire tragedy.

But the state's ambiguous relations with him before the kidnapping, and its timidity now, make law-abiding Indians wonder whose side the state is on.

Washington also needs to insist on an end to the ambiguous relations between Pakistan and the Taliban, which have allowed fighters to cross the Afghan border and attack American troops.

It has returned neither to enthusiasm or full confidence — in part because of Germany's increasingly ambiguous relations with Russia, and regardless of Germans' appreciation of President Barack Obama in public opinion polls.

Taking advantage of their somewhat ambiguous relations with the Mughals and claiming to be the agents of Delhi, the Marathas often made partial claims on the revenues of these areas, as cauth and sardeshmukhi.