Even where the constitution makes an apparently unambiguous claim, the reality is almost invariably more complicated.
Yet the sense of artifice of action that's grafted onto naturalistic settings and situations solely for the purpose of the ideas that it unfolds and the images that it yields challenges the sensibilities of viewers accustomed to an unambiguous measure of reality or of fantasy.
But the inherent uncertainty of quantum measurements means that it is impossible to infer an unambiguous description of "reality as it really is," he says.
For Yankees fans it was a bitter dose of reality, delivered in unambiguous terms.
But it is quite another to treat this reality as an unambiguous social and political good.
Although each has a different take on a different war, their arrival reflects a social climate in which war is an ever-present reality, and the unambiguous hero, so long out of fashion in popular culture, has made a spectacular comeback.
As a result, the ostensibly unambiguous numbers hide a more ambiguous reality.
Painter's message to the world is unambiguous.
"Film and literary theory show that it is a myth that video evidence is an unambiguous, objective, conclusive, singular and clear reproduction of reality," Professor Wasserman wrote in a 2009 paper on the implications of video recordings for civil rights litigation.
Rossellini's unflinching depiction of harsh social and physical realities goes hand-in-hand with expressive performances (it's the film that made Anna Magnani an international star) and melodramatic turns: for Rossellini, a clear view of the world implied an unambiguous morality as well.
