dynamic
toggle menu
menu
vocabulary
1000+ books

equivocal
in a sentence

show 188 more with this conextual meaning
  • I am concerned about his equivocal reputation.
  • I am comforted by his unequivocal reputation.
  • I experienced a sentiment half of horror, half of remorse, for the crime of which I had been guilty; but it was, at best, a feeble and equivocal feeling, and the soul remained untouched.   (source)
    equivocal = of doubtful significance (not clearly and strongly felt in the normal sense)
  • The advantages are at best speculative and equivocal.†   (source)
  • Ofelia did not soften them: she was certain that Florentino Ariza, whose reputation as a pervert was known to everyone, was carrying on an equivocal relationship that did more harm to the family's good name than the villainies of Lorenzo Daza or the ingenuous adventures of Juvenal Urbino.†   (source)
  • He remained that way, wrapped up in himself, thinking about the bitterness of his equivocal pleasures until after the children had become tired and gone in a troop to the bedroom.†   (source)
  • His answers were restrained and equivocal; he could not and would not give a diagnosis on a patient he had never seen — but yes, this was possible and that not unheard of, but of course, nothing could be considered remotely material without physical and psychiatric examination.†   (source)
  • And again as my antennae went out, they relayed back the information that there was no evasion, nothing equivocal in what she was trying to say.†   (source)
  • Perhaps the most sweeping of his words, and certainly the least equivocal, were penned in 1847.†   (source)
  • Still without looking at them she made the change, correctly and swiftly, sliding the coins onto the glass counter almost before McEachern had offered the bill; herself somehow definite behind the false glitter of the careful hair, the careful face, like a carved lioness guarding a portal, presenting respectability like a shield behind which the clotted and idle and equivocal men could slant their hats and their thwartfacecurled cigarettes.†   (source)
  • I explained to my aunt that she ought not on any account to put herself in this equivocal and in any case rather peculiar position for a complete stranger; it might well turn out to have very unpleasant consequences for her.†   (source)
  • For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story.†   (source)
  • Mordred said, in his equivocal musical voice, that he could understand a fishwife, but not a fish mistress.†   (source)
  • More often that he knew perhaps thinking would have suddenly flowed into a picture, shaping, shaped: the long, barren, somehow equivocal counter with the still, coldfaced, violenthaired woman at one end as though guarding it, and at the other men with inwardleaning heads, smoking steadily, lighting and throwing away their constant cigarettes, and the waitress, the woman not much larger than a child going back and forth to the kitchen with her arms overladen with dishes, having t†   (source)
  • Nothing but a flash of the eyes and a single equivocal remark: beyond that, only his own secret imaginings, founded on a dream.†   (source)
  • But that sea-title may to landsmen seem somewhat equivocal.†   (source)
  • A blare of to the astonished scenes in equivocal terms.†   (source)
  • It was Sunday, always an equivocal day in the East, and an excuse for slacking.†   (source)
  • He is obliged to watch her treat his father in an equivocal and confidential manner.†   (source)
  • In fact, there was nothing equivocal about him.†   (source)
  • On his side the inclination was stronger, on hers less equivocal.†   (source)
  • That man had his heroic and his equivocal sides.†   (source)
  • We are too proud to admit of such particular attentions from a young man in an equivocal situation.†   (source)
  • Abiram, alone, formed a solitary exception to this state of equivocal repose.†   (source)
  • But he did not move from the doorway and returned my stare in an extraordinary, equivocal manner for a time.†   (source)
  • Johnson, the man who had chafed me raw when I first came aboard, seemed the least equivocal of the men forward or aft.†   (source)
  • His manner, when he said this, was so equivocal that Ro berta could tell he was merely lying to gain time.†   (source)
  • He recalled his own equivocal position in Belvedere, a free boy, a leader afraid of his own authority, proud and sensitive and suspicious, battling against the squalor of his life and against the riot of his mind.†   (source)
  • And it did not occur to Emil that any one had ever reasoned thus before, that music had ever before given a man this equivocal revelation.†   (source)
  • To-morrow morning I shall find my way to Coombe Tracey, and if I can see this Mrs. Laura Lyons, of equivocal reputation, a long step will have been made towards clearing one incident in this chain of mysteries.†   (source)
  • But his eyes, bluish-gray or grayish-blue eyes (a rather indefinite and equivocal color, much like that of distant mountains) had a curious, narrow, and, if you looked closely, slightly slanted shape, and right below them were prominent, strong, distinctive cheekbones—features not at all ill proportioned in his case, but really quite pleasing, although they sufficed for his schoolmates to award him the nickname of "the Kirghiz."†   (source)
  • Not noted by Billy, as not coming within his view, was the involuntary smile, or rather grimace, that accompanied Claggart's equivocal words.†   (source)
  • Their presence had made him diffident of himself when he was a muff in Clongowes and it had made him diffident of himself also while he had held his equivocal position in Belvedere.†   (source)
  • The clean sands, heaped on each side of the canal, seemed to wipe off everything that was difficult and equivocal, and even Port Said looked pure and charming in the light of a rose-grey morning.†   (source)
  • If I've got to represent an old fellow who's coming into a house of an equivocal character...The Manager.†   (source)
  • And at the same time noting his light gray suit, his new straw hat, his brightly polished shoes and the dark tan suitcase and (strange, equivocal, frivolous erraticism of his in this instance) the tripod of a recently purchased camera together with his tennis racquet in its canvas case strapped to the side—more than anything to conceal the initials C. G.—she was seized with much of her old-time mood and desire in regard to his looks and temperament.†   (source)
  • It probably had no real subject, but instead wandered about freely in intellectual realms, broaching this and that, but essentially it was aimed at proving in dismal fashion that all life's intellectual phenomena are ambiguous, that nature is equivocal and any grand concepts abstracted from her are strategically useless, and at demonstrating how iridescent are the robes that the Absolute dons on earth.†   (source)
  • But receiving from Sondra only the equivocal information that, since he was Gil and Bella Griffiths' cousin, and was being taken up by everybody because he was so charming—even if he didn't have any money—she couldn't see why she and Stuart should not be allowed to entertain him also, her mother rested on that for the time being—only cautioning her daughter under no circumstances to become too friendly.†   (source)
  • Whatever that equivocal young person's original design may really have been, or the design of which he might have been the deputy, certain it was from his manner upon these occasions, that he had wholly dropped it.†   (source)
  • But after slyly studying him at intervals, the old Merlin's equivocal merriment was modified; for now when the twain would meet, it would start in his face a quizzing sort of look, but it would be but momentary and sometimes replaced by an expression of speculative query as to what might eventually befall a nature like that, dropped into a world not without some man—traps and against whose subtleties simple courage, lacking experience and address and without any touch of defensive ugliness, is of little avail; and where such innocence as man is capable of does yet in a moral emergency not always sharpen the faculties or enlighten the will.†   (source)
  • Thus, all things considered, Haley, with rather an equivocal grace, proceeded to the parlor, while Sam, rolling his eyes after him with unutterable meaning, proceeded gravely with the horses to the stable-yard.†   (source)
  • He made a curious grimace — one of his strange and equivocal demonstrations — threw down his cue and followed me from the room.†   (source)
  • Elizabeth saw directly that her father had not the smallest intention of yielding; but his answers were at the same time so vague and equivocal, that her mother, though often disheartened, had never yet despaired of succeeding at last.†   (source)
  • At each corner of the table stood saucers, filled with a thick fluid of some what equivocal color and consistence, variegated with small dark lumps of a substance that resembled nothing but itself, which Remarkable termed her "sweetmeats."†   (source)
  • And the course is all the clearer from there being no salary in question to put my persistence in an equivocal light.†   (source)
  • I am sadly disappointed that you have not come before, for can I help anxiety about my own equivocal relation to you?†   (source)
  • Jos had always had rather a mean opinion of the Captain, and now began to think his courage was somewhat equivocal.†   (source)
  • This cell, with the exception, possibly, of some glass phials, relegated to a corner, and filled with a decidedly equivocal powder, which strongly resembled the alchemist's "powder of projection," presented nothing strange or mysterious.†   (source)
  • Thus grows up Fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and violence assault in vain.†   (source)
  • California probably, next fall away from the loose adhesion which, in such a country as Mexico, holds a remote province in a slight equivocal kind of dependence on the metropolis.†   (source)
  • But there was less equivocal testimony, which the credulity of the assembly, or of the greater part, greedily swallowed, however incredible.†   (source)
  • Mr. Bulstrode asked, reprehensively, what the new police was doing; but a voice could not well be collared, and an attack on the effigy of the candidate would have been too equivocal, since Hawley probably meant it to be pelted.†   (source)
  • He had always felt the absolute impossibility of addressing that enigmatical man, who was, in his eyes, both equivocal and imposing.†   (source)
  • Though you must remember that she was forced into an equivocal position with the first man by an accident—that he was not so well educated or refined as the second, and that she had discovered some qualities in the first that rendered him less desirable as a husband than she had at first thought him to be.†   (source)
  • There is something equivocal in all the words in use to express the excellence of manners and social cultivation, because the qualities are fluxional, and the last effect is assumed by the senses as the cause.†   (source)
  • When Mabel, however, had got within a hundred feet of the fire, she trod upon a dried stick, and the trifling noise produced by her light footstep caused the Mohican, as Arrowhead had pronounced the Indian to be, and his companion, whose character had been thought so equivocal, to rise to their feet, as quick as thought.†   (source)
  • which the one, in the long lapse of centuries, might have exercised upon the other—it was this deficiency, perhaps, of collateral issue, and the consequent undeviating transmission, from sire to son, of the patrimony with the name, which had, at length, so identified the two as to merge the original title of the estate in the quaint and equivocal appellation of the "House of Usher"—an appellation which seemed to include, in the minds of the peasantry who used it, both the family and the family mansion.†   (source)
  • And you have derived pleasure from occasional tokens of preference — equivocal tokens shown by a gentleman of family and a man of the world to a dependent and a novice.†   (source)
  • In the case of a more conspicuous patient, Mr. Borthrop Trumbull, Lydgate was conscious of having shown himself something better than an every-day doctor, though here too it was an equivocal advantage that he won.†   (source)
  • The old man, in his turn, perceived the necessity of being more explicit, and of securing the slight and equivocal advantage he had already obtained.†   (source)
  • She knew that habit and opinions made great differences in such matters; but, in addition to the pain and mortification she experienced at being the unwilling rival of a wife, she felt an apprehension that jealousy would be but an equivocal guarantee for her personal safety in her present situation.†   (source)
  • He did, indeed, catch an inkling of illegitimacy, the history of Fantine had always seemed to him equivocal; but what was the use of talking about that?†   (source)
  • "On reflection, I must acknowledge that my situation here is somewhat equivocal," said Edwards, "though I may be said to have purchased it with my blood."†   (source)
  • The ambiguous nature of the situation and character of Mr. Edwards had rendered him an object of peculiar suspicion to the lawyer, and the youth was consequently too much accustomed to similar equivocal and guarded speeches to feel any unusual disgust at the present dialogue.†   (source)
  • No other change was made by his appearance, than a renewal of the threatening gestures, with, if possible, a still less equivocal display of their remorseless intentions.†   (source)
  • The veritable slang and the slang that is pre-eminently slang, if the two words can be coupled thus, the slang immemorial which was a kingdom, is nothing else, we repeat, than the homely, uneasy, crafty, treacherous, venomous, cruel, equivocal, vile, profound, fatal tongue of wretchedness.†   (source)
  • I meant that a man may work for a special end with others whose motives and general course are equivocal, if he is quite sure of his personal independence, and that he is not working for his private interest—either place or money.†   (source)
  • As he was on the point of mounting the staircase, he perceived, on the other side of the boulevard, near the deserted wall skirting the Rue De la Barriere-des-Gobelins, Jondrette, wrapped in the "philanthropist's" great-coat, engaged in conversation with one of those men of disquieting aspect who have been dubbed by common consent, prowlers of the barriers; people of equivocal face, of suspicious monologues, who present the air of having evil minds, and who generally sleep in the daytime, which suggests the supposition that they work by night.†   (source)
  • When this equivocal species of amity was established between the warrior of the prairies and the experienced old trapper, the latter proceeded to give his directions to Paul, concerning the arrangements of the contemplated halt.†   (source)
  • From a feeling that might have been, natural, and must have been powerful, neither of the friends, in their frequent and confidential dialogues, had ever trusted herself to utter one syllable concerning the equivocal situation in which the young man who was now so intimately associated with them had been found.†   (source)
  • But the balance had been turned against Lydgate by two members, who for some private reasons held that this power of resuscitating persons as good as dead was an equivocal recommendation, and might interfere with providential favors.†   (source)
  • There was a trifling air of better life in a tea-table and work-stand, as well as in an old-fashioned mahogany bookcase; but the chairs, the diningtable, and the rest of the furniture were of the plainest and cheapest construction, Against the walls were hung a few specimens of needlework and drawing, the former executed with great neatness, though of somewhat equivocal merit in their designs, while the latter were strikingly deficient in both, One of the former represented a tomb, with a youthful female weeping over it, exhibiting a church with arched windows in the background.†   (source)
  • Lydgate apologized for Mr. Wrench, said that the symptoms yesterday might have been disguising, and that this form of fever was very equivocal in its beginnings: he would go immediately to the druggist's and have a prescription made up in order to lose no time, but he would write to Mr. Wrench and tell him what had been done.†   (source)
  • Abner, the sentinel below, however, had been aroused from an exceedingly equivocal situation by the outcry; and as he had now regained sufficient consciousness to recognise the voice of the physician, the latter was admitted with the least possible delay.†   (source)
  • It was not easy to see these two men, except from the quay opposite, and to any person who had scrutinized them at that distance, the man who was in advance would have appeared like a bristling, tattered, and equivocal being, who was uneasy and trembling beneath a ragged blouse, and the other like a classic and official personage, wearing the frock-coat of authority buttoned to the chin.†   (source)
  • "You ar' not, then, of these parts by natur', friend," the emigrant continued, having in his mind the exception which the other had taken to the very equivocal word, which he himself, according to the custom of the country, had used for "baggage," or "effects."†   (source)
  • She and Jane would have been altogether cheered (in a tearful manner) by this sign that a brother who disliked seeing them while he was living had been prospectively fond of their presence when he should have become a testator, if the sign had not been made equivocal by being extended to Mrs. Vincy, whose expense in handsome crape seemed to imply the most presumptuous hopes, aggravated by a bloom of complexion which told pretty plainly that she was not a blood-relation, but of that generally objectionable class called wife's kin.†   (source)
  • "For my own part," said Paul Hover, looking about him with no equivocal expression of concern, "I acknowledge, that should this dry bed of weeds get fairly in a flame, a bee would have to make a flight higher than common to prevent his wings from scorching.†   (source)
  • They, who were of that equivocal age which admitted them to the hunts, while their discretion was still too doubtful to permit them to be trusted on the war-path, hung around the skirts of the whole, catching, from the fierce models before them, that gravity of demeanour and restraint of manner, which in time was to become so deeply ingrafted in their own characters.†   (source)
  • They admit of no equivocal construction.†   (source)
  • "I see," says he, "you have improv'd by being so long in the Assembly; your equivocal project would be just a match for their wheat or other grain."†   (source)
  • Questions which Clyde could do no more than ignore, or if not, answer as equivocally or evasively or indifferently as possible.†   (source)
  • Yet after a moment he exclaimed equivocally: "Well, gee, that's all right, too, Bert, for you, because that fixes everything without any trouble at all.†   (source)
  • A day or two afterwards, chancing in the evening promenade on a gun deck to pass Billy, he offered a flying word of good-fellowship, as it were, which by its unexpectedness, and equivocalness under the circumstances so embarrassed Billy that he knew not how to respond to it, and let it go unnoticed.†   (source)
  • What he meant by "everything would be fine" was not exactly clear— it became quite evident that his condition tended to create ambiguities, and he expressed himself equivocally more than once, seemed both to know and not to know, and at one point, apparently overcome by a wave of approaching devastation, he shook his head almost in remorse and declared that he had never felt this bad, never in all his life.†   (source)
  • But the cause of death--unequivocally--was drowning.   (source)
    unequivocally = clearly and unmistakably
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unequivocally means not and reverses the meaning of equivocally. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • ...leaving me with no unequivocal answers about cheerleaders and their diet aids or...   (source)
    unequivocal = unmistakably clear
  • He was the one person I could count on, unequivocally, to say exactly what he meant, no hedging around.   (source)
    unequivocally = without ambiguity (in a completely clear manner)
  • These sentences, to sugar or to gall,
    Being strong on both sides, are equivocal:   (source)
    equivocal = unclear in meaning -- especially where opposing interpretations are reasonable
  • What an equivocal companion is this!   (source)
    equivocal = ambiguous or doubtful
  • His statement that the park was reserved exclusively for baseball had seemed unequivocal.†   (source)
  • It's hard to believe any water on earth could be so unequivocal.†   (source)
  • Mr. Traynor had indicated unequivocally that he wished to commit suicide.†   (source)
  • It started in Germany, arising as a reaction to the Enlightenment's unequivocal emphasis on reason.†   (source)
  • The sergeant demanded attention with an unequivocal gesture.†   (source)
  • These two sentences establish fairly unequivocally what he was alluding to.†   (source)
  • Your husband did not state an unequivocal no?†   (source)
  • The reports from social services were unequivocal.†   (source)
  • Love's the only thing in this world that is unequivocal.†   (source)
  • The method was Cain's, the informants unequivocal.†   (source)
  • Felicia del Pino is fortunate in that she knows unequivocally what she wants: another husband.†   (source)
  • Nothing told him unequivocally that Salander was innocent.†   (source)
  • And yet Qurong was blending these two icons, which stood in unequivocal contrast with each other.†   (source)
  • Their thick volumes contained unequivocal rules of grammar, which they could look up at any time.†   (source)
  • A black so definite, so unequivocal, it astonished him.†   (source)
  • But when all was said and done, Keith Clayton would be remembered by her with unequivocal gratitude.†   (source)
  • But the doctor's verdict was unequivocal: Agnes was going to have a baby.†   (source)
  • In the end it was as simple and as unequivocal as that.†   (source)
  • The code unequivocally states that stealing will not be tolerated.†   (source)
  • He said one brief, unequivocal word, "Ten," stood, and said good-bye.†   (source)
  • Plainly, unmistakably, unequivocally it was Nathan.†   (source)
  • The signature was unequivocal, but Lorenzo Daza could not believe—not then, not ever—that his daughter knew nothing about her secret lover except that he worked as a telegraph operator and that he loved the violin.†   (source)
  • Since the beginning of adolescence, when he had begun to be aware of his premonitions, he thought that death would be announced with a definite, unequivocal, irrevocable signal, but there were only a few hours left before he would die and the signal had not come.†   (source)
  • Unequivocally.†   (source)
  • She insisted on her unequivocal determination for them to remain together only so long as they were friends, without constraints or promises for the future, just like Sartre and Beauvoir.†   (source)
  • The answer seemed to be no. The subjects were also shown control segments of the three newscasters, as they talked about unequivocally happy or sad subjects (the funeral of Indira Gandhi; a breakthrough in treating a congenital disease).†   (source)
  • The results were unequivocal.†   (source)
  • The Others answered that question with an unequivocal no. So what does that make me if I give Evan the same answer?†   (source)
  • His love was unequivocal.†   (source)
  • When I'd questioned Gordon Samel and Ken Thompson shortly after they'd discovered McCandless's body, both men insisted, adamantly and unequivocally, that the big skeleton was the remains of a caribou, and they derided the greenhorns ignorance in mistaking the animal he killed for a moose.†   (source)
  • Some of them, emboldened by the violence of the past few days, stopped all men with long hair or beards, unequivocal signs of a rebel spirit, and all women dressed in slacks, which they cut to ribbons because they felt responsible for imposing order, morality, and decency.†   (source)
  • Susan Marie Heine has testified under cross-examination that Carl did not give your husband an unequivocal no answer regarding the purchase of these seven acres, Carl did not lead your husband to believe no hope existed for reclaiming his family's property.†   (source)
  • Little by little she had been discovering the uncertainty of her husband's step, his mood changes, the gaps in his memory, his recent habit of sobbing while he slept, but she did not identify these as the unequivocal signs of final decay but rather as a happy return to childhood.†   (source)
  • Was that unequivocal?†   (source)
  • In the days that followed, on the verge of madness, he wrote her countless desperate letters and besieged the maid to take them to her, but she obeyed her unequivocal instructions not to accept anything but the returned gifts.†   (source)
  • They spoke on behalf of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce, the Japanese-American Citizens' League, and the Japanese Community Center, and their pledges, said the Review, were "prompt and unequivocal," including Mr. Uyeda's promise that "if there is any sign of sabotage or spies, we will be the first ones to report it to the authorities."†   (source)
  • But he was so determined to find out the unequivocal facts regarding Fermina Daza's health that he returned to the Parish Cafe to learn them from her father, just at the time of the historic tournament in which Jeremiah de Saint-Amour alone confronted forty-two opponents.†   (source)
  • But I would, one day, or so I told my mother the fitness queen, as soon as all the people on whose behalf I worked tirelessly were absolutely, unequivocally rescued.†   (source)
  • Ang Dorje's reply was a quick, unequivocal "No" — perhaps because none of Fischer's Sherpas were there to share the work.†   (source)
  • She'd been unequivocally supportive this morning nonetheless, and as he waited for the referee to blow his whistle, he knew he was playing as much for his sister as for himself.†   (source)
  • It was unequivocal.†   (source)
  • He was unequivocally committed to bringing to bear on this matter the last reserves of his considerable skill, developed over countless hours in many continents, having saved too many lives to count.†   (source)
  • In it the Communist leader states calmly and unequivocally that the president's proposed naval blockade is "a pirate act."†   (source)
  • If the Clave will sign over all the powers of the Council to me and accept my unequivocal sovereignty and rule, I will stay my hand.†   (source)
  • My father was unequivocal.†   (source)
  • Total, unequivocal sterilization is extremely difficult to achieve in practice and is almost impossible to verify afterward.†   (source)
  • He was tired, and he was drunk, he now knew unequivocally that he was drunk, and one should not call one's daughter in such a state, especially when trying to instill her with confidence about his ability to provide for her.†   (source)
  • A Declaration of Rights, following the Preamble and preceding the Constitution itself, stated unequivocally that all men were "born equally free and independent"—words Adams had taken from the Virginia Declaration of Rights as written by George Mason—and that they had certain "natural, essential, and unalienable rights."†   (source)
  • The reasons were still unclear, but the results unequivocal: space could affect reproduction and growth.†   (source)
  • He even wondered if knew as much as his boys, but he did know how to count and this was unequivocally strike three.†   (source)
  • Milkman searched his memory for some white person who had shown himself unequivocally supportive of Negroes.†   (source)
  • The men on Bryn Shander's hill were battered and wobbly with exhaustion, yet the grim set of their jaws told the remaining monsters unequivocally that they would fight on to their last breath.†   (source)
  • "If this horse keeps working, his coffin bone will rotate until it punctures his sole, and then you'll lose him," I say unequivocally.†   (source)
  • Tappan further assured him that statements would be made letting the press know unequivocally that the man's involvement was in no way an endorsement of the abolitionist cause.†   (source)
  • But the photo was unequivocal: Rosemont's long bay muzzle hung therein the picture, just a wink ahead of Seabiscuit's.†   (source)
  • Meantime, from his flagship, Admiral Molyneux Shuldham (who had replaced Admiral Graves) sent an urgent, unequivocal message to William Howe: not a ship in the harbor could remain unless the rebels were removed from their position.†   (source)
  • She believed, unequivocally, everything we told her: that she and Fiona would be all right here, among these strange animals, in a loop abandoned by its ymbryne.†   (source)
  • But it is at least a great comfort to hear his lordship declare so unequivocally that it was all a terrible misunderstanding.†   (source)
  • The decision was Washington's alone and he promised unequivocally "to exert myself to the utmost to frustrate the designs of the enemy."†   (source)
  • Bublanski held that there was reason to wait at least for results of the technical examination of Bjurman's apartment before the investigative team committed itself unequivocally to one approach.†   (source)
  • If the Senate shall advise and consent to his appointment, effectual care shall be taken in his instructions that he shall not go to France without direct and unequivocal assurances from the French government, signified by their Minister of Foreign Relations, that he shall be received in character, shall enjoy the privileges attached to his character by the law of nations, and that a minister of equal rank, title, and powers shall be appointed to treat with him, to discuss and conclude all controversies between the two Republics by a new treaty.†   (source)
  • He had been told unequivocally that though there were plenty of women doctors in the Kingdom, they wore abayas, and rarely if ever treated men.†   (source)
  • He states unequivocally that any missile launched by the Cubans or Soviets will he considered an act of war and that the United States will reciprocate with missiles of its own.†   (source)
  • He'll be a descendant of David, a king and a warrior, a judge, and a great leader ....but he'll also be firmly, unequivocally human.†   (source)
  • The normal process was the reverse, but he believed that in her case there were such transparent mental disturbances and such an unequivocal forensic psychiatric assessment that he was left with no alternative.†   (source)
  • We would emphasize that we cannot say unequivocally that she is the killer, but circumstances dictate that we question her immediately to ascertain what knowledge she may have about the murders in Enskede and at Odenplan.†   (source)
  • Though he praised Pollard's riding early in the race and his courage in handling the defeat, Otis, who knew Pollard as Jack, was unequivocal in his assessment of blame.†   (source)
  • A lifetime in a Southern family negated any possibility that he could resign from the school under any conditions other than unequivocal disgrace.†   (source)
  • He was calmer but, she knew, still deranged; curious, she thought, how in this present pacified form of his derangement he seemed no longer so frightening and menacing, despite the unequivocal menace of the cyanide capsule six inches from her eyes.†   (source)
  • I saw my roommate marching resolutely toward the train, dazed, in the same resigned, unequivocal walk that had carried him through the regiment.†   (source)
  • Again, throughout this entire charade I really can hardly believe the actuality of what is happening, simply cannot accept the fact that after her absolutely breath-taking overture, all those unequivocal invitations and blazing come-hithers, she is falling back on this outrageous flimflam.†   (source)
  • Like most people, Sophie rarely remembered dreams for long in vivid or significant detail, but this dream was so violently, unequivocally and pleasurably erotic, so blasphemous and frightening, and so altogether memorable, that much later she was able to believe (with a touch of facetiousness which only the passage of time could permit) that it might have scared her away from thoughts of sex all by itself, quite aside from bad health and mortal despair ... After leaving Emmi's room she had made her way downstairs and then fallen into a heap on her pallet.†   (source)
  • I, and again I, and again I. Clear, firm, unequivocal, there it stands, my name.†   (source)
  • He only stated his unequivocal opinion of herself, her actions, her house and her new friends.†   (source)
  • There was behind his scowling quiet eyes, something strange and fierce and unequivocal that frightened them: besides, he had secured for himself the kind of freedom they valued most—the economic freedom—and he spoke as he felt, answering their virtuous reproof with fierce quiet scorn.†   (source)
  • Clear-cut and unequivocal am I too.†   (source)
  • More words from Jacky were necessary—words unequivocal, undenied.†   (source)
  • He no longer stares down the illness with a hostile eye; he is a biased and hardly unequivocal foe.†   (source)
  • The unusual sounds were unequivocally though still faintly audible.†   (source)
  • She did unfeignedly and unequivocally regret the inferiority of her own playing and singing.†   (source)
  • They were left in their gore, unequivocally butchered corpses.†   (source)
  • He had to repeat the part about the bodies being sent down by bobsled and once again asserted unequivocally that he knew it to be true.†   (source)
  • In failing thus to state plainly and unequivocally the legitimate demands of their people, even at the cost of opposing an honored leader, the thinking classes of American Negroes would shirk a heavy responsibility,—a responsibility to themselves, a responsibility to the struggling masses, a responsibility to the darker races of men whose future depends so largely on this American experiment, but especially a responsibility to this nation,—this common Fatherland.†   (source)
  • But perhaps that is why we do not call him mediocre—precisely because he felt that in some way or other such an unequivocal reason was lacking.†   (source)
  • Which does not mean that if he had not had a cold, his gaze would have been clear and unequivocal, because that was not how things looked on the inside—and however ordinary he might be on the inside, things in there were also very murky, confused, uncertain, and only half-sincere.†   (source)
  • Frau Chauchat appeared at breakfast in a flowing open-sleeved lace peignoir, and stood there at attention— having first slammed the glass door—and charmingly presented herself, as it were, to the dining hall, before proceeding in her slinking gait to her table; and her attire suited her so splendidly that Hans Castorp's neighbor, the teacher from Konigsberg, expressed her unequivocal enthusiasm.†   (source)
  • It is possible that the reader may be inclined to see only such expressions, that is, cheery and common ones, as fitting and proper for the emotional life of a person like Hans Castorp; but we would like to remind the reader that as a young man of reason and conscience he could not simply "delight" in watching and being near Frau Chauchat; and since we must know, we can unequivocally state that had this word been suggested to him, he would have shrugged and cast it aside.†   (source)
  • times themselves, despite all their hustle and bustle, provide him with neither hopes nor prospects, if they secretly supply him with evidence that things are in fact hopeless, without prospect or remedy, if the times respond with hollow silence to every conscious or subconscious question, however it may be posed, about the ultimate, unequivocal meaning of all exertions and deeds that are more than exclusively personal—then it is almost inevitable, particularly if the person involved is a more honest sort, that the situation will have a crippling effect, which, following moral and spiritual paths, may even spread to that individual's physical and organic life.†   (source)
  • A human being lives out not only his personal life as an individual, but also, consciously or subconsciously, the lives of his epoch and contemporaries; and although he may regard the general and impersonal foundations of his existence as unequivocal givens and take them for granted, having as little intention of ever subjecting them to critique as our good Hans Castorp himself had, it is nevertheless quite possible that he senses his own moral well-being to be somehow impaired by the lack of critique.†   (source)
  • He was bright enough to meet the demands of a modern secondary school without overtaxing himself; in fact, under no conceivable circumstances would he have been willing to do that, no matter what the goal—not so much out of fear that it might be painful as because he saw absolutely no reason why he should, or to put it better: no unequivocal reason.†   (source)
  • Franz complimented Albert, who looked at himself in the glass with an unequivocal smile of satisfaction.†   (source)
  • That he had been from the time of Greenhill Fair until the fatal Christmas Eve in excited and unusual moods was known to those who had been intimate with him; but nobody imagined that there had shown in him unequivocal symptoms of the mental derangement which Bathsheba and Oak, alone of all others and at different times, had momentarily suspected.†   (source)
  • "The thing is but a trifle, and what you may often see if you tarry long among us," returned the scout, a good deal softened toward the man of song, by this unequivocal expression of gratitude.†   (source)
  • For when the defendant's claim for costs had been satisfied, there would remain the friendly bill of Mr. Gore, and the deficiency at the bank, as well as the other debts which would make the assets shrink into unequivocal disproportion; "not more than ten or twelve shillings in the pound," predicted Mr. Deane, in a decided tone, tightening his lips; and the words fell on Tom like a scalding liquied, leaving a continual smart.†   (source)
  • Your meaning must be unequivocal; no doubts or demurs: and such expressions of gratitude and concern for the pain you are inflicting as propriety requires, will present themselves unbidden to your mind, I am persuaded.†   (source)
  • What might have been the consequences with one of Judith's known spirit, as well as her assured antipathy to the speaker, it is not easy to say, for, just then, Hutter gave unequivocal signs that his last moment was nigh.†   (source)
  • The citizens reflect upon their present position and remember their past influence, with the melancholy uneasiness of men who suspect oppression: if they discover a law of the Union which is not unequivocally favorable to their interests, they protest against it as an abuse of force; and if their ardent remonstrances are not listened to, they threaten to quit an association which loads them with burdens whilst it deprives them of their due profits.†   (source)
  • Notwithstanding his professional pride, Cap would have gladly followed; but he did not like to exhibit so unequivocal a weakness in the presence of a fresh-water sailor.†   (source)
▲ show less (of above)