He states that his presidential ambitions for 1996 are "ambiguously definitive, or is it definitely ambiguous".
With his rasp, his greying hair, his physical grace and his hypnotic eyes, Clooney belongs firmly in the tradition of Humphrey Bogart, Robert Mitchum, Lee Marvin and Robert Ryan: a man (not a girly-man) in his 40s (not his teens), ambiguously heroic (not unambiguously super-heroic), and exuding an emotional and sexual authority not seen since vintage Sean Connery.
What's painfully apparent from all this is that it's summer in Tehran, which in recent memory has meant a renewed push by hardliners who control the disciplinary forces to redeploy the morality police in larger numbers to keep tabs on those who stray from the ambiguously defined public dress code.
The small print declares, ambiguously, that these impostors were "cellared in Canada", but they are otherwise indistinguishable from the real thing.
Had Mr Eugenides constrained himself to the tale of a pseudohermaphrodite (genetically of one sex but with ambiguously developed genitals), his novel might at least have shed some light on the psychology of gender.
This spacecraft has used not radar, but an instrument called a neutron spectrometer, which looks for ice less ambiguously by picking up telltale signs of hydrogen, one of the elements water contains.In this section An idea that clicked Prospects for lunar prospectors Quiet, please.
He may tone down the rhetoric on what he ambiguously calls "sovereignty" (he refuses to say "independence") after re-election.
There was no doubt about the intended target of his comments, but they were phrased ambiguously enough to save Mr Thaksin's face.Outsiders might squirm at the idea of a constitutional monarch chiding an elected prime minister.
YESTERDAY I described my pleasure at the discovery that someone had coined the word "snowclones"; but it might have been more timely to celebrate "crash blossoms".A crash blossom is an ambiguously worded newspaper headline, as in "Violinist linked to JAL crash blossoms".
Though groping towards an implicit recognition of Israel, Hamas's leaders have talked too ambiguously.
The Lisbon treaty ambiguously says that EU leaders should propose the candidate, "taking into account" the result of the European election.
