During the talks, this ambiguity provoked great rancor; even today, the conservative Frankfurter Allgemeine commented in a front-page editiorial that the talks had involved a "heady mix of blackmail, rainmaking, political miscalculation and myopia".
Hunt said he wasn't ruling that possibility in or out, an "ambiguity" that provoked Burns to remark: for the existing leader of the PCC to be even contemplating being the leader of the new body risked not being the fresh start demanded by the public.
— and that ambiguity is designed to provoke conversation.
There is no ambiguity here; no thought of challenging or provoking the audience's taste.
On the one hand the show, with its unequaled longevity and worldwide fame, educated audiences to be palliated by pageantry, special effects and brash sentimentality rather than provoked by well-constructed narrative, musical originality and emotional ambiguity and depth.
Is it possible that what harms us might come to restore us?" It is that very ambiguity that James B. Freydberg, one of the show's producers, said provoked such strong emotions in audiences, particularly during the talkback sessions.
But Washington has maintained a policy of "strategic ambiguity" about how far it would go to defend Taiwan, especially if Taiwan itself provoked the mainland.
Mindfulness was engendered, for example, by the curiosity provoked by the art, as well as by the group-based exploration of alternative interpretations arising from the ambiguity inherent in artworks (for elaboration on mindfulness, see Langer, 1989, 1993).
But the sense of a "morbid" civilisation came not from a concern with the war itself, but with many other ambiguities and paradoxes provoked by fears for the economic future, the possibility of political radicalism, eugenic anxieties about the health of an "imperial people", and realisation that the empire's days were possibly numbered.
