open-endedness

And that open-endedness was soon codified in an official name that told all: "the global war on terror", or GWOT.

America's permanent robot war | Tom Engelhardt 2011

They're not sure exactly what that direction is - and nor are we - but at least we're given a hopeful open-endedness.

Roya Rastegar: Sundance 2011 and the Sound of My Generation: Part I Roya Rastegar 2011

I think, you know, for us, part of when lyrics succeed is when they're able to have that sort of vague open-endedness where it could be applicable to a lot of different situations for people.

Mike Ragogna: Hymns, Harrows, Harvests & More: Chatting with John Hiatt, Gillian Welch and Umphrey's McGee's Joel Cummins Mike Ragogna 2011

"Because she doesn't have any mortal emotions like guilt, sorrow and remorse, so that open-endedness, as an actor, is pretty scary."

The Killing star Michelle Forbes: why I avoided watching Forbrydelsen 2011

I think, you know, for us, part of when lyrics succeed is when they're able to have that sort of vague open-endedness where it could be applicable to a lot of different situations for people.

Mike Ragogna: Hymns, Harrows, Harvests & More: Chatting with John Hiatt, Gillian Welch and Umphrey's McGee's Joel Cummins Mike Ragogna 2011

Making the case for science's open-endedness, Mr. Deutsch mounts a compelling challenge to scientific reductionism, which explains all phenomena in terms of their physical components.

To Err Is Progress John Horgan 2011

Yet Olivia Lichtenstein's stunning, unsentimental film about some of the surviving twins found a way of making the statistically insignificant emotionally highly significant, by lifting a trapdoor into the open-endedness of grief.

TV review: The Twins of the Twin Towers and George W Bush: The 9/11 Interview 2011

The new line of city-friendly bags introduced in Milan earlier this week by Moleskine—a company best known for its impeccably simple notebooks—is a return to that open-endedness of yesteryear, meeting the needs of the technology-laden professional without writing off mankind's centuries-old relationship with paper.

The City Bag, Perfected 2011

There's a type of flexibility or open-endedness for what these works could be.

With a Little Help, an Artist Shows His Metal Kimberly Chou 2012

These notes – that are written on index cards, it seems – are co-existent with spaces, the whiteness around and between the lines, that indicates open-endedness, indeterminacy, lack of closure, and no ultimate resolution.

A Bit of an Experiment « Tales from the Reading Room 2010