grey area

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an intermediate area; a topic that is not clearly one thing or the other

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In life one should never give in, surrender oneself to mediocrity, but rather move out of that grey area where everything is habit and passive resignation. One has to grow the courage to rebel. Rita Levi-Montalcini

What I dislike about movie culture is that it often presents a parable of our problems - but the issues are all straightforward and the people are either nice or they're not. In real life, everyone falls between those perimeters, but not many American films operate in that grey area. Julian Fellowes

As patients flood hospitals and intensive-care resources dwindle, health care workers could step into a grey area where they must choose between caring for the patient before them, and considering the greater good of society as a whole. Source: Internet

An interesting case is that of Scala – it is frequently written in a functional style, but the presence of side effects and mutable state place it in a grey area between imperative and functional languages. Source: Internet

All the activity fell into a regulatory grey area. Source: Internet

If, by chance, this firefighter was to say ‘I don’t really want you to shake my hand’, there’s no real grey area there, is there? Source: Internet

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