This use of an ancient but now ambiguous symbol of peace, seen in front of a portrait of Gandhi, followed a scene of conflict and resolution.

Now she has become a more ambiguous symbol, of the power of opposition as an end in itself.

Ives's sacrifice of one career and his success in the other made him a potent but ambiguous symbol.

By the end of the movie, she has become an ambiguous symbol of the troubled spirit of Mother Russia after the fall of Communism.

Inside they scream their lungs out at ice hockey games, cheering the speed, ferocity, and violence, making hockey an ambiguous symbol of Canada.

It's tough to blame Ettore Nova for looking uncomfortable in the role of Jokanaan; the production turns him into an ambiguous moral symbol, speaking incongruous lines.

Yet, we shall be able to make our best defense of it in proportion as we recognize and value its use of ambiguous symbol and paradoxical statement.

"Waiting for a Miracle (for Nina and John)," made two years later, recapitulates this field as a barren, emotionally charged place, overseen by a pair of ambiguous symbols in red and black that suggest a miracle of the vegetable variety.

Pick up original hand-stamped stationery with your choice of potent, yet ambiguous, symbols - a muscled arm, a leaking faucet, an ostrich plume - or invitation cards and posters with spry commedia dell'arte figures, by local artists.

We gird ourselves for offense and defense, or sheer playfulness, with a thousand ambiguous symbols.