The Smallville version of Lex is first introduced as a morally ambiguous character, who walks a fine line between good and evil.

When Sumerian cuneiform was adapted for writing Akkadian, this was ambiguous because both words were written with the same character ( conventionally transcribed KUR, after its Sumerian pronunciation ).

Although many tropes of space opera, such as spaceships, robots, galactic empires and aliens are present, the series is primarily noted for its strong character interaction, ambiguous morality and pessimistic tone.

Mutant Enemy approved the story, even though IDW did not have rights to a Buffy-only character like Halfrek, because of her importance to Spike's backstory, on the condition that the story's timing was deliberately ambiguous.

The second verse is about a sexually ambiguous character named " Loretta Martin ", who " thought she was a woman, but she was another man.

The book establishes many of Wimsey's character traits-for example, his interest in rare books, the nervous problems associated with his wartime shell-shock, and his ambiguous feelings about catching criminals for a hobby-and also introduces many characters who recur in later novels, such as Parker, Bunter, Sugg, and the Dowager Duchess.

Agoracritus-miracle-worker and / or sausage-seller: The protagonist is an ambiguous character.

The most revealing – and yet most ambiguous – clues to Hnefatafl lie in a series of riddles posed by a character identified as Odin in disguise ( see Gestumblindi ) in Hervarar saga.

If the input files contain lines beginning with the separator character, the output columns can become ambiguous.

* Tweener in professional wrestling is a character who is portrayed as being morally neutral or ambiguous

The character of Egill is highly ambiguous.

Then the character was revived in 1995 as a supporting character in the pages of X-Man, but details are ambiguous due to murky writing and conflicting editor decisions.

Agent X replaced Deadpool with a similar protagonist, while including ambiguous hints as to the nature of his relationship with the original character.

One ambiguous scene written by Gaiman was interpreted by some to suggest that Queen Titania was the mother of the comic's main character, Timothy Hunter, which ensured that the character would return when the mini-series became an ongoing series.

This series, written by an assortment of writers, but primarily penciled by Jim Balent, generally depicted the character as an international thief ( and occasional bounty hunter ) with an ambiguous moral code.

This God appears to be distinct from the more ambiguous, universal ' God ' character that appeared in " Godfellas " and " Bender's Big Score ", who may or may not have been representative of the Gods of all religions, and / or a machine.

As his coalition moved to the right after 1934, Vargas ' ideological character and association with a global ideological orbit remained ambiguous.

* Originally, it was Whistler, an ambiguous demon played by Max Perlich and first seen in the Buffy episode " Becoming, Part One ," who was to be a supporting character in the spin-off series starring Angel, but instead, the character of Doyle was created with similar character traits.

In the film, Pat meets Chris, another gender ambiguous character played by Dave Foley.

However, the signature of the two additional dimensions is somewhat ambiguous due to their infinitesimal character.

The legal status of drug formulations originally sold between 1938 and 1962 — before FDA approval was required — was ambiguous.

The name ' Nepali ' is ambiguous, as it was originally a pronunciation of Nepal Bhasa, the Tibeto-Burman language of the capital Kathmandu.

Although originally of the same ambiguous relationship to canon, the characters it introduced would reappear in the canonical Angel comic books to come later.

Also, his species is ambiguous ; although originally and often portrayed as a young canary, he is also frequently called a rare and valuable " tweety bird " as a plot device, and once called " the only living specimen ".

( Note that in the 1913 draft of the novel EM Forster originally had Aziz guilty of the assault and found guilty in the court, but later changed this in the 1924 draft to create a more ambiguous ending ).

How, then, does one determine the original " meaning " of an originally broad and ambiguous phrase?

The term algebraic stack is somewhat ambiguous: it originally meant Deligne – Mumford stack, but now usually means Artin stack.

The poem is also ambiguous in attributing Helgi to the Ylfing, Yngling and the Völsung clans, which suggests a merging of originally unrelated traditions.

The flap is of ambiguous origin, but probably was originally intended to reduce abrasive wear to pants.

Sagan says the episode originally " didn't end quite so ' happy happy ;'" it had a more ambiguous ending.

Such ambiguous exercises compound confusion by making it worse compounded, and they are sometimes expanded until the cream of the jest sours.

Obviously, a satisfactory answer to the third question is imperative, if the argument is to get under way at all, for if there is any possibility of doubt whether the patient's tactual sensitivity had been impaired by the occipital lesion, any findings whatsoever in regard to the first question become completely ambiguous and fail altogether, of course, as evidence to establish the desired conclusion.

It is true of the rhythmic pattern in which the beat shifts continuously, or at least is continuously sprung, so that it becomes ambiguous enough to allow the pattern to be dominated by the long pulsations of the phrase or strophe.

While Renaissance artists sought nature to find their style, the Mannerists looked first for a style and found a manner. In Mannerist paintings, compositions can have no focal point, space can be ambiguous, figures can be characterized by an athletic bending and twisting with distortions, exaggerations, an elastic elongation of the limbs, bizarre posturing on one hand, graceful posturing on the other hand, and a rendering of the heads as uniformly small and oval.

Eco ( 1993 ) notes that Genesis is ambiguous on whether the language of Adam was preserved by Adam's descendants until the confusion of tongues ( Genesis 11: 1-9 ), or if it began to evolve naturally even before Babel ( Genesis 10: 5 ).

This ambiguous terminology is usually clarified by context.

Though the origin is ambiguous, the draughtsman of the charter issued by Æthelstan used the term in a way that can only mean ' wide ruler '.

Additionally, Elihu's first spoken words are a confession of his youthful status, being much younger than the three canonical friends, including a claim to be speaking because he cannot bear to remain silent ; it has been suggested that this interesting statement may have been symbolic of a " younger " ( that is to say, later and interpolating ) writer, who has written Elihu's sermon to respond to what he views as morally and theologically scandalous statements being made within the book of Job, and creating the literary device of Elihu to provide what seemed to be a faith-based response to further refute heresy and provide a counter-argument, a need partially provided by God's ambiguous and unspecific response to Job at the end of the book.

The conservative nature of these changes underlines the fact that Protestantism was by no means universally popular – a fact that the queen herself recognized: her revived Act of Supremacy, giving her the ambiguous title of Supreme Governor passed without difficulty, but the Act of Uniformity 1559 giving statutory force to the Prayer Book, passed through the House of Lords by only three votes.

* The Interviewer ( played by Chris Morris ): conducting real interviews with celebrities such as Andrew Morton and Jerry Springer, Morris confuses and mocks his subjects with ambiguous and odd questions.

The boundary with Iran was firmly delineated in 1904, replacing the ambiguous line made by a British commission in 1872.

" Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell " that their " ambiguous choice " was " dictated by a sort of conscientious scruple at assuming Christian names positively masculine, while we did not like to declare ourselves women, because ... we had a vague impression that authoresses are liable to be looked on with prejudice " Charlotte contributed 20 poems, and Emily and Anne each contributed 21.

Definitions can go wrong by using ambiguous, obscure, or figurative language.

The islands had no native trees when discovered but there is some ambiguous evidence of past forestation, that may be due to wood being transported by oceanic currents from Patagonia.

The word Gaelic by itself is sometimes used to refer to Scottish Gaelic and is thus ambiguous.

Other examples of heads of state in parliamentary systems using greater powers than usual, either because of ambiguous constitutions or unprecedented national emergencies, include the decision by King Léopold III of the Belgians to surrender on behalf of his state to the invading German army in 1940, against the will of his government.

The above grammar will be declared ambiguous by a LALR parser generator.

Because MIT has used many licenses for software, " MIT License " is considered ambiguous by the Free Software Foundation.

Based on the tradition set by Nichiren the relationship between the government, major other Buddhist schools and Nichiren-temples remained to be ambiguous though.

A statement of Eratosthenes attributed by Strabo to Pytheas, that the north of the Iberian Peninsula was an easier passage to Celtica than across the Ocean, is somewhat ambiguous: apparently he knew or knew of both routes, but he does not say which he took.

It can be an ambiguous term especially as the displayed resolution is controlled by different factors in cathode ray tube ( CRT ) and flat panel or projection displays using fixed-element arrays.

Projective tests assume personality is primarily unconscious and assess an individual by how he or she responds to an ambiguous stimulus, like an ink blot.

In those two languages, the name flauta is ambiguous, as it can mean any kind of transverse flutes, a recorder, or different other types of wind blown instruments, like the pan flute and some instruments used by the descendants of native peoples of the Central and South Americas ( with varied degrees of influence of European instruments ).