Sentence examples for genuine ambiguity from inspiring English sources

You could argue that only a perverse reader would mistake my boss's nephew for my acupuncturist, but the point is that when you restrict the use of the serial comma solely to those instances where a genuine ambiguity exists, then every time you come to a series you have to stop and think.

In situations where there is genuine ambiguity about the annotation of a peak, the probabilities returned will give a measure that can be used directly by the analyst.

This is a real ambiguity.

That is to say, there are referential and quantificational uses of indefinite descriptions and these are a reflex of a genuine semantical ambiguity.

Genuine, familiar ambiguity poses no trouble for direct reference theorists: for them, the semantic value of 'Phosphorus', when that term is used for the planet, is just Venus.

She also joins forces with an actual detective, who is played with stubbly ambiguity and genuine heat by Ron Livingston.

Ms. Tuan's script addresses these matters with a genuine sense of the ambiguity they deserve.

"What people saw in candidate and President Obama," Poitier Revisited argues, "they had seen decades before in the Poitier persona: cool, eloquence, genuine warmth, exceptionality, and ambiguity of identity.

For no matter how much she begins to recline into a genuine examination of moral ambiguity, Sullivan always snaps back into that rather exhaustingly upright position: lying is naughty, and it harms the world.

Underneath the pop veneer there is nonetheless an ambiguity that only genuine art can convey.

Most political positions have a degree of ambiguity, a mix of genuine concern and raw cynicism.