Allegiances shift, and brutal acts are committed, as Mr. Buffard conjures up scenes of rape and torture in which the morality of perpetrators, witnesses and even victims seems ever ambiguous.
Well-known general concepts of soil behavior and general chemical categories (solubility, molecular size, and functionalization) were again called upon, but were related to an ever ambiguous notation of "organic matter".
In order to understand this, it is important to grasp that, for Heidegger, inauthentic life is characterised by chatter – for example, the ever-ambiguous hubbub of the blogosphere.
In "Cricket, Spider, Bee," Ms. Ruehr embellished three Emily Dickinson poems with vivacious rhythms and smart, colorful orchestration; performed in a seamless sequence, the works formed a satisfying arc, with mild dissonances complementing Dickinson's ever-ambiguous tone.
Mozart's great and ever-ambiguous opera offers serious research into the resiliencies and frailties of the human heart: in this case, two pairs of lovers who are induced to exchange partners through deceptions conceived by a fifth party.
Or recall the 2001 episode of "Sex and the City" in which Charlotte -- still on her first marriage -- got flack from Carrie and crew for quitting her (ever-ambiguous) job at the art gallery in order to become the perfect homemaker/wife/mother-in-training.
But as the years went by, the formidable technical skills and the mastery of preparation became even more perfect, while the subject matter became ever more ambiguous.
And Brian De Palma -- well, Brian De Palma at his spellbinding best and cynical worst is still wiring joy buzzers under the audience's seats, constructing feverishly hallucinatory and fiendishly lucid halls of mirrors in which who's watching whom becomes an ever more ambiguous, ever more precarious proposition.
The poetry of Mr. Ratmansky's vision here is very striking: no Snowflakes were ever more ambiguous, and they have been given pouncing jumps, spinning arcs, and insistent gestures that make us feel we're in the land of Hans Christian Andersen's "Snow Queen".
Don't take to heart their resentment or their ever-changing, ambiguous responsiveness.
According to Kaye, Columbo epitomized a new type of star that has been ascendant ever since: sexually ambiguous yet seductive, blurring boundaries between sex and race.
