"The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way."

Ambiguity, Writing

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"The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way."

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"Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity."

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"It was easier to deal with Tennyson when he was fighting me; but having him on my side was frightening, because now I didn't know who the enemy was."

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"In sum, every pore of his being oozed one thing okay, FINE. Every pore oozed two things. The first was irrelevant. The second was dangerous."

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"If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious."

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"The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes."

Aldrich Ames, American Criminal

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"Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with."

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"The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way."

Stephen Rea, Irish Actor

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"Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be."

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"The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood."

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"As if violence could make light. Maybe violence could make light."

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