Sentence examples for an ambiguous relation from inspiring English sources

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

Passivity has an ambiguous relation to subjectivity.

Yet, as an emerging public, DIYbio relies on an ambiguous relation to institutionalized science, and might be turned into a transfer of materialities and temporalities from public domains to science.

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

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.

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

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.

Towards the end of the book, Rosenzweig once again taking up Meinecke's Fragestellung considers Hegel's ambiguous relation to the idea of the nation state.

In the Analects, the ambiguous relation between ren and li poses the problematic of how we are to understand the relation between cultural norms and practices on the one hand and that part of morality that appears to transcend any particular set of norms and practices.

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.

The decision to send this young woman to a 90-minute meeting in an increasingly dangerous part of western Baghdad, with representatives of a Sunni political party that had ambiguous relations with insurgents, was a terrible mistake, but not an incomprehensible one.