Sentence examples similar to prevailing ambiguity from inspiring English sources

And there was everything I'd liked in the work of Higgins or Leonard or Pelecanos: the inventive dialogue, the characters etched in shades of grey, the prevailing mood of moral ambiguity and profound cynicism as to the motives and efficacy of the forces of law and order.

Its mournful ambiguities anticipate the prevailing elegiac, even despairing tenor of the Arsenale.

For English names we follow prevailing usage, but sometimes adopt novel names to avoid ambiguity.

"I am going to stop watching/reading/listening to the news". Resolvers offer many reasons for this their sadness about "the way things are in the world right now," their frustration with political polarization or journalistic moralizing but the prevailing malady seems to be our collective allergy to ambiguity.

Thus, even accepting Ratliff's argument that subsection (d)(1)(A) is ambiguous, the statutory provisions she cites resolve any ambiguity in favor of treating subsection (d)(1)(A) awards as payable to the prevailing litigant, and thus subject to offset where the litigant has relevant federal debts.

Perhaps the prevailing climate mattered.

Is that the prevailing view?

The voters are prevailing.

And, at present, quantity is prevailing.

He added that uncertainty was still prevailing.

A prevailing sloppiness reigns.