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...u believe is the most important matter in life. In a morally troubled world, how powerful a hold does religion have? Are you confused about religious ambiguity, love of money, love of power, sexual immorality, art? Reading The Brass Bed and other Stories may help, then again it may just raise more questions....

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... Traditionally considered a coming of age story, it is an adventure tale of superb atmosphere, character and action, and also a wry commentary on the ambiguity of morality—as seen in Long John Silver—unusual for children's literature then and now. (Summary from wikipedia.org)...

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...THE GIST: THE HIDDEN STRUCTURE OF THE DHAMMA Foreword: The Vipassananāvādā 1 The Meaning of ‘Buddha’ 1.1 The Ambiguity of Tradition 1.2 The Death of Myth 2 The GIST 1​—​Three Strata of Early Texts 2.1 Before the Buddha 2.2 The First Discourses 2.3 The Gāthā Theory 2.4 The Earliest Collection 2.5 The First Abhidhamma 2.6 Some...

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...S: Why do we need to describe the prior-natal aspect of logic? FL: The ambiguity of logic definition lies in the lack of distinction between conce... ...r reflect in a nuanced way what we know –and what we don’t, including the ambiguity involved in interpreting evidence for an idea. Thus in neutrosoph... ...e were about the more radical forms of the older dialectical logics. Does ambiguity regarding the proper interpretation of evidence really affect th...

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...returned to their seats. Then, after the performance, he cornered him in the ambiguity of a "maybe" which a strong will could distort to affirmation. ...

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... sufficed for the flash of a wild question. Was not Mrs. Creston dead?—the ambiguity met him there in the short drop of her husband’s voice, the drop ...

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...le, Bath, and elsewhere. It was likewise successful as a print publication, though it also aroused controversy about its levelling politics and moral ambiguity. Anne Plumptre, who translated Kotzebue's play as The Natural Son, wrote (perhaps not disinterestedly as the production of Inchbald's work effectively precluded the production of her own) that Inchbald had transform...

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...d a tad easier. She struggled to square her concept of honesty with the moral ambiguity of his job. He was just so inscrutable, always hiding his fe...

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...st for the Survival of the Fitter, in order to escape a scarcely ambiguous ambiguity. But the use of the word “Sur- vival” should have sufficed to ind... ...w words, words to express new ideas and new relationships, words free from ambiguity and encumbering associations. But the ne- ologisms of the street ... ...al pat, and just as the British sceptic in orders will achieve triumphs of ambiguity to secure the episcopal see. And their reason for submission will...

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... Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin but uncertain where.’ His growing sense of this ambiguity made him less swift to condemn, but no less stimulating in counse...

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...use of the compound or fractional date, viz, the preven- tion of a capital ambiguity or dilemma, now enjoins its omis- sion. For in our day, when the ...

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...be important to both parties and the actual facts must be shrouded in some kind of ambiguity (Allport and Postman 1947, p. 33). Interestingly, both... ...f ambiguity (Allport and Postman 1947, p. 33). Interestingly, both importance and ambiguity are key variables in the Howard-Sheth model of buyer be... ...ct's importance to a consumer motivates him or her to attend to advertising, while ambiguity in the promotion's message stimulates further search fo... ...n the promotion's message stimulates further search for information to clarify the ambiguity. There is a remarkable tendency to recall the message ...

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...standing alone, even if applied to a specific institution, except to avoid ambiguity : young people's societies, the high school at Lemont, local ...

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...rnal of the Siam Society 61, 53–62. — 1974. Tolerance and Intolerance of Ambiguity in Northern Thai Myth and Ritual. Ethnology 13, 1–24. — 1976. Th...

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... topics and it represents a mathematical model of uncertainty, vagueness, ambiguity, imprecision, undefined-ness, unknown, incompleteness, inconsist...

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...ommunities in a government), and “city” much less. And therefore, to avoid ambiguity, I crave leave to use the word “commonwealth” in that sense, in w...

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...le you may have this day been a guardian angel.” Lucy was surprised at the ambiguity of his language, and, with a feeling of artless and unaffected gr...

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...f cavalry or a slow and stub- born advance of foot. There could be no such ambiguity in Burns; his work is at the opposite pole from such indefinite a... ...d. Well was it for Knox that he succeeded no better; it is under this very ambiguity about Deborah that we shall find him fain to creep for shelter be... ...- ness to the Reformation. He should have been the more careful of such an ambiguity of meaning, as he must have known well the lukewarm indifference ...

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...d gentleman, and quite like an urbane adventurer; smiling with an engaging ambiguity; cocking at you one peaked eyebrow with a great appearance of fin...