Opacity has grown with complexity.

She lives in comfort.

Torture and the Politics of Ambiguity

Sami lived a comfortable life.

Sami wanted a comfortable life.

Depending on the severity of fracture, a person can begin to use the arm if comfortable with movement and no pain results.

Education in an Uncertain World

Basically you believe in complexity, but not in ambiguity.

It was a very comfortable game in Mexico City. Have a look.

I found the suites capacious, the sofas commodious, the sandwiches copious.

For the era, it offered a relatively quiet, comfortable passenger cabin and showed signs of being a commercial success at its 1952 debut.

In the end, the politics of ambiguity may fail Rumsfeld all those high resolution photographs from Abu Ghraib are anything but ambiguous.

There is no easy or socially comfortable way to accomplish this.

The vast majority live in comfortable dwellings that contribute to their quality of life.

What are the ingredients? Imagination, playfulness, novelty, curiosity, mystery.

But complexity is not the only reason for obscurity.

Such an approach will require that each side exercise broad restraint and live with the ambiguity of working with a strong adversary to manage profound differences.

But I didn't want to argue semantics with these boys, so after a very long, uncomfortable pause, I said Yes, yes, I do. I feel very loved.

Over the past year, however, the shroud of mystery has begun to drop.

We would therefore like to avoid conceptual ambiguity in the Protocol.

Myth 2 Energy efficient buildings are uncomfortable.

That is a convenient international ploy, but it leaves the sources of bilateral discord unattended.

But just how comfortable were all those past certainties, anyway?

Pakistan is now at a crossroads, facing an uneasy moment of truth.

And, over time, uncertainty concerning the latter question has risen to an uncomfortable level.

Mystery is important. You fall in love with somebody who's somewhat mysterious, in part because mystery elevates dopamine in the brain, probably pushes you over that threshold to fall in love.

Syria may pay a heavy price for that ambiguity.

Moreover, DNA has acquired a certain mystique in popular culture.

Every man has a right to life and this means that he has also a right to make a comfortable living.

But the new way of conducting asymmetrical warfare does raise uncomfortable ethical and legal issues.

Prime ministers will be able to rule full term with comfortable majorities.

I was expecting a comfortable life and that they would provide us with help, he says.

Ultimately, what gives rise to abuses such as occurred at Abu Ghraib is a policy of deliberate ambiguity concerning how to handle detainees.

The reasons behind moving the prisoners between the two locations remain unclear.

This part of the ecological footprint is a convenient measure of our literal footprint on earth.

And, sometimes, they actually say things that are uncomfortable but true, and that need to be said.

To them, it appeared that a determination would have to be made as to whether the provisions of a special treaty were consistent with the draft articles, which could give rise to a degree of uncertainty and conflicts of interpretation.

The Treaty is especially ambiguous where it uses the language of constitutions.

The role of GFPs tends to be ambiguous and ill defined.

There was general understanding that ambiguities could provide a possible basis or excuse for manipulation by the powerful.

What about Athens? Mediterranean climate, but in the sun it was not comfortable. They didn't perceive comfort.

This is a strong charge, especially given the huge uncertainties that central banks and treasury officials have been facing.

Understanding the intentions of Iran s leaders is not as difficult or as ambiguous as some believe.

Writers have, over several generations, insisted on the uncertainties which beset the topic.

But lavish subsidies today simply enable an expensive, inconvenient, and often environmentally deficient technology.