Sentence examples for intentional ambiguity from inspiring English sources

"intentional ambiguity" is correct and can be used in written English
It is used when a speaker or writer deliberately chooses phrasing or wording that is open to interpretation, often to ensure that different people interpret the message differently. For example, "The CEO's comments have been met with an ambiguous response" can be interpreted as either positive or negative.

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George W. Bush's intentional ambiguity about whether he's being intentionally ambiguous represents a subtlety of thought I hadn't expected from him.

"They have sort of grudgingly addressed about a third of the issues, and they remain trapped in intentional ambiguity," Mr. Brodsky said.

Yet in Twombly's case, there is a deliberate playing with audience expectation and an intentional ambiguity of meaning, which owes something to his early enthusiasm for the art of Paul Klee but also an influence of surrealism.

We think one of the things that's been the coolest about "Lost" is that there's a lot of intentional ambiguity, and there's a lot of room for debate and discussion.

Finally, the intentional ambiguity surrounding the details of the new interpretation provides the government with useful flexibility in deploying its forces overseas, but it also magnifies the potential for increased tactical and strategic risk at a time when regional security tensions are intensifying.

Lowe further explained the masks' intentional ambiguity.

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Readers may reasonably disagree whether Villasenor's intentional ambiguities, resolute lyricism and literary allusions are profound or merely precious.

Is that ambiguity intentional?

An example of what Reed calls industrial's "often intentional language of ambiguity" can be found in Laibach, a leather-clad Slovenian group whose name refers to the Nazis' term for their occupation of Slovenia.

Faced with inconsistencies in Socrates's views and methods from one dialogue to another, the literary contextualist has no Socratic problem because Plato is seen as an artist of surpassing literary skill, the ambiguities in whose dialogues are intentional representations of actual ambiguities in the subjects philosophy investigates.

But the ambiguity seems intentional.

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