Sentence examples for uncertain readings from inspiring English sources

Its uncertain readings cause the scribe to offer footnotes to such perplexing references as "the Ministry of Rupture and Inflammation" ("Could this be the Ministry of Culture and Information?") and to such obvious errors as occur in the well-known song lyric that details how the nation's leader moves from house to house and "fucks us into bed".

Wildcard characters can be useful, for example, in identifying cognates made obscure by affixes and vowel weakening, inconsistencies due to irregular orthography, and variations on account of word inflection as well as for discovering potential emendations for uncertain readings.

There are strained performances, weird empty stretches where the gags are supposed to go and some frankly very uncertain line-readings.

"Uncertain Disease: Nostalgia, Pathologies of Motion, Practices of Reading". Studies in Romanticism 49 2 (2010): 197-227.

Under the direction of a film-maker who speaks little English, Doherty and Gainsbourg give flat performances, their speech uninflected, their line readings uncertain.

It is uncertain why these readings appear to tap into different aspects of skin color, but one possibility is that b* is more sensitive to skin color among those with long-term exposure to UV rays [ 27].

It's not just that every voice is different that pitch and blend can vary disastrously, that memory is fitful and sight-reading uncertain, that there are too many sopranos and not enough basses but that we hear things differently.

Mr. Faggen, who worked on the notebooks over a period of five years, provided symbols throughout the text that indicated where he deemed words illegible or where his readings were uncertain.

This includes loci of ncRNAs and loci of pseudogenes, loci of transcripts of uncertain coding potential (55) and predicted open-reading frames in intergenic space (56).

Reading Chabon, I'm carefree; reading Mitchell, I feel cautious, uncertain.

After excluding four accessions having uncertain provenance, we report the arithmetic mean of four instrument readings of nuclei, ±standard deviation, for 77 accessions, increasing reported genome size estimates for Anthurium spp. by 33 species and 9 cultivars (Table  1).