Molière, Furetière, and Boileau caricatured Scudéry as a pendant whose picaresque tales and inconclusive dialogues only masked intellectual confusion.
It is commonly regarded as the culminating achievement of Plato as a philosopher and writer, brilliantly poised between the questioning and inconclusive earlier dialogues and the less compelling cosmological speculations and doubts of the later ones.
The questing, inconclusive, often inscrutable dialogue between Faust and Mephistopheles is the crux of this one-act work, basically a meditation on the perennial themes of good and evil, light and darkness, knowledge and wisdom, the soul and the universe.
In spite of their inconclusive nature, in the aporetic dialogues the character Socrates maintains principles about morality that he seems to take to be fundamental.
The talks were inconclusive.
Today, Monro is probably best known for a curious little dialogue-poem, Overheard On a Saltmarsh, an inconclusive contest between a nymph and a goblin who covets her green glass beads.
"It's all very slow, and many, many times inconclusive, but the important thing is that there is a dialogue, and increasingly it is possible to call a spade a spade -- to go more directly to the issue," he said.
Certain dialogues, such as Of Lying, end on an inconclusive note; the disputants cannot agree as to whether lying is a universally evil act.
The film was a tough sell to the studios and the executives were concerned about the heavy amount of dialogue and the lack of action scenes, as well as the inconclusive nature of the story arc.
