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Перевод: equivocation

[существительное]
увиливание; уклончивый ответ; уклончивость

Тезаурус:

1. The two-facedness of the hypocrite is expressed not only by his privileged relationship to the audience in his dealings with others but by means of equivocation, a doubleness of language in which an innocuous level of meaning is visible to the dupe, sinister undertones to us.
2. War allowed no equivocation.
3. For Dews this equivocation over the epistemological status of his own discourse is a sign of an uncontrollable oscillation: "the shifting perspectives of Foucault's work", he writes, "do powerfully illuminate, but at the same time fall victim to, the contradictory processes which they address".
4. But dithering and equivocation could be fatal.
5. He devised an essay style of Spartan brevity, equivocation and impenetrability.
6. In addition, it might be noted that British fascism had not substantially changed the attitudes of Britain's major political parties and it could be argued that there was still much equivocation in government as to whether or not Mussolini or Hitler represented the biggest threat.
7. He cannot approach it by superimposing successive and ever more accurate (more informed) mental approximations to the real thing; he cannot name it, like an object, without fear of equivocation; but rather it lies here, in the moment through which he is passing, and the important thing is to see that.
8. In the brief soliloquy following Clarence's exit Richard keeps up the equivocation: "I will shortly send thy soul to heaven, /If heaven will take the present at our hands" (119 - 20).
9. Together with this unequivocal equivocation Mr Roberts did argue support for positive images, for freedom of the individual, for a wide definition of what constitutes a family, for civilised society; and he opposed discrimination in schools, the promotion of any kind of sexuality, and the introduction of paedophilia into the debate.
10. The evidence of uncertainty and equivocation in the way in which the laws of war have, or have not, been applied to the problem of nuclear weapons is plain enough.
11. Rothenberg, another psychiatrist to consider the question, reacts with similar equivocation.
12. The Frankfurt Assembly showed less the strength of the German middle class, more its vulnerability to the demands of the unpropertied and therefore its equivocation on the issue of democracy and its dependence on the armed power of Prussia and Austria.
13. For Merleau-Ponty no sublation could resolve Marxism s own division between its theory and the history of its practice, itself, he argued, an acting out of its theoretical equivocation between history as a process of natural necessity and history as the product of human praxis.