DAVID DENBY: Boy does it ever, and "Million Dollar Baby" with its ambiguities of ambition and guilt the Clint character is practically imploding through the entire thing.
DAVID DENBY: Boy does it ever, and "Million Dollar Baby" with its ambiguities of ambition and guilt — the Clint character is practically imploding through the entire thing.
Of course, Schama uses the subtitle "Belonging" with full knowledge of its ambiguity, since it names a hope that was to be frustrated in most of Europe.
What made the "Sopranos" ending unique, if not original, was not the absolutism of its ambiguity but the clarity of its choice.
Yet the Mafia is a political as well as criminal system, and Cosa Nostra has, for a generation at least, been more weapon than enemy of the byzantine Italian state, with its curious ambiguity of being at once rotten and robust.
The whole statement in all its ambiguity becomes one of the reflection on the impotence of the poetic language to affect the historical — the unfolding of history, the ordering of the city.
Sopranos creator David Chase has been asked to explain his big cut-to-black ending repeatedly for a decade now, and rightly insists that its beauty lies in its ambiguity and lack of closure.
Its alleged 'neutrality' is one of the main reasons of its pervasiveness, but also of its ambiguity, showing latent controversial implications, which are progressively emerging in critical planning theory.
In contrast, an ambiguous word bears its ambiguity directly—simply in virtue of having multiple meanings.
Crucial to the operation of this paradox and fundamental in its ambiguity is the figure of Greece, the universal alibi and cultural predicate behind national-cultural consolidation throughout colonialist Europe.
