Sentence examples for ambiguous triumph from inspiring English sources

A wistfully dreamy Andante Sognando set the stage for the finale's controlled fury, culminating in a tone of ambiguous triumph.

In ambiguous triumph, Sullivan was restored to her office, which is where I met her in early August, at a large table surrounded by university memorabilia and a shelf of books related to her discipline, sociology.

"Where is Petition City?" a man asks early in the film, which was made over more than a decade, culminating in the ambiguous civic triumph of the 2008 Summer Olympics.

And the rondo finale transfixed the audience with its breathtaking virtuosity in conveying the music's ambiguous sense of triumph and equally fervent proclamation of joyous abandon.

Under such circumstances, "an ambiguous sentence is a triumph," Mr. Nadas noted.

And it's partly due to the nature of the transition: less final triumph, more ambiguous denouement.

The show suggested that while marital relationships might be overtaken by cynicism or disappointment, boredom or infidelity--all laid out for our delectation by a biting score in wittily sketched scenes--the characters shared an ambiguous but oddly certain triumph over desperation and compromise.

The best Conan stories end not in triumph but in an ambiguous, almost melancholy recognition that righteousness is scarce, perhaps even irrelevant.

Whether this is to be taken as a triumph or a tragedy is ambiguous, and has already occasioned interesting debate.

Still, the Academy tends to favor inspiring stories about struggle and triumph, not examinations of darker subjects with ambiguous conclusions.

That account, while denied by American officials, could turn what had at first appeared to be a diplomatic triumph for the United States into a darker, more ambiguous tale.