How To Use Ambivalent In A Sentence

At the moment, the public has a rather ambivalent attitude toward science.
Mares which are in the ambivalent early stages of estrus or which are mistakenly in diestrus pose a clear safety threat in close quarters. TheHorse.com News
It was as impossible to be ambivalent about Diana as it is to be equivocal about going to war.
There is an ambivalent feeling towards rural workers.
Nations. yep, it's pretty quaint stuff, couched in terms of newness and normalcy, of foreigness and familiarity. it describes the music as modern and "swingy" and yet timeless, as being of universal appeal - they belong to everyone - and yet "from a single nationality." i wonder whether the universalist rhetoric was meant to appeal to non-jews or simply to jews ambivalent about their jewishness? or am i simply being naive about midcentury, metropolitan jewishness? it is interesting to me also that, apparently, zionist discourse had not yet divorced the term palestinian from any association with jewish heritage. Wayneandwax.com

Mr. Husain articulates a clear, unambivalent and positive assessment of the likely effects of globalization and liberalization on poverty.
He also said Mr O'Brien was ambivalent on the role of the banks connected with the consortium.
Banham called Los Angeles ‘autopia,’ but few contributors to Writing Los Angeles have an unambivalent relationship to its driving culture.
was ambivalent about having children
Such ambivalent cultures invariably breed an extraordinary sense of personal dignidad (deeg-nee-DAHD) or "dignity," and an unbounded need for this dignity to be respected, regardless of the cost to the individual, family members, friends or strangers. I would like to know about "The Culture"
In what follows, I explore the ambivalent nature of cannibalistic images in the Pitjantjatjara and other Australian Aboriginal life-worlds in light of its significance for the psychogenesis of the self.
Being ambivalent herself, Vowell agrees this might be what attracts her to Canada.
I wanted a book that showed us how ambiguous we are, or how ambivalent we are.
Now if the Gospel means anything at all it means that the Good News about God is unambivalent, that there are no ‘if's and ‘but's in God, God's love is unconditional.’
The first of these is aesthetic, the second political, but both inform her ambivalently negative attitudes towards still photography.
For the most part even the flintiest horseman and women in that neck of the woods are pro-choice, ambivalent at best about The War On Terror, and favor the decriminalization of drugs. Matthew Yglesias » Imagine If
Wasn't it possible that his sexuality was much more ambivalent than he had let on?
But all Americans would be much better off if Indians felt unalienated, and proudly and unambivalently Indian and American, just as the Frisians feel proud to be both Frisian and Dutch.
Clifford looks forward ambivalently to the day when such concerns will not be his.
He tentatively kisses the woman, who reacts ambivalently.
Bleuler has used the term ambivalent, thus comparing these individuals to a chemical element having two bonds and impelled to unite with two substances. The Foundations of Personality
President Clinton was totally unambivalent on that yesterday afternoon.
Bored and ambivalent is still the default setting for hipsters.
They are sometimes ambivalent, but that is a different matter altogether.
A detailed analysis of The Prince would be needed in order to unpick the ambivalent feelings Machiavelli had towards Cesare.
While it would be wrong to say the two firms are desperate, it would also be wrong to say they are ambivalent about the outcome of their bid attempts.
Equally, her mother is ambivalently viewed as both adoring protector and indulgent enabler of Lucy's habit. Knot of the Heart – review
It allows for a participation that, by virtue of simultaneous commitment to another religion, cannot be unambivalently wholehearted, and will inevitably exhibit some sign of restraint, even fragmentariness.
I watch Mariella in her simple, unambivalent and indeed prodigious dealings with men and can't help but thinking that an uncomplicated view of life and a basically optimistic character probably contribute equally to romantic success.
No issue illustrates this more vividly than the administration's designedly ambivalent attitude to the country.
Both husband and wife are undecided and somewhat ambivalent about having a child, or buying a house.
As a consumer I am more ambivalent.
In his ambivalent report, he notes that many national institutions are "unsalvageable."
Yet, as with all such situations, we feel ambivalent when we consider this factor.
She seems to feel ambivalent about her new job.
I don't think there's another band in existence capable of producing such an ambivalent reaction in me.
The lieutenant governor of the colony was an ambivalent, placative man named George Arthur, who might well have preferred that travesty of humaneness. The Song of The Dodo
And though there were plenty of strong opinions, much of the parish still seemed profoundly ambivalent about the protest.
But nationally speaking, even many enviros are ambivalent on the issue; as a whole, the green community has put forward no clear alternative plan of action.
Yet according to a 2003 survey conducted by a pro-choice organization, ‘only 30 percent of women were unambivalently pro-choice.’
But the girl appears to be beset by powerful ambivalent feelings as she looks at the wolf resting beside her.
Paintings of women are divided into "women in public," "weeping women," "virgins and mothers" and "ladies," reflecting the diverse, almost ambivalent way they were viewed during Spain's antihumanistic Counter-Reformation. The Burden of Spain
Because adjudication is dispositive the attitude of states towards compulsory jurisdiction is conspicuously ambivalent.
Given who we are, our national day should be laid-back, low-key, and - yes - ambivalent about our progress.
The representation of Silver as quiet and unresisting, however, suggests McCrumb's ambivalent attitude towards political resistance against an oppressive state.
Wilful, purposeless, ambivalent cruelty seems to have been a major theme of the rudderless summer government.
Hence, the hitherto morally ambivalent or neutral word daimon acquires an almost exclusively evil connotation in the monotheistic context. DEMONOLOGY
Prefaces are almost always, paradoxically, afterthoughts, and as such they both enact ambivalence and orient the reader ambivalently. The Times Literary Supplement
Although the Catholic Gobineau initially espoused monogenesis, he later leaned towards polygenesis and ended up ambivalent on this issue Race
I have long been of two minds about the word ambivalent. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
We might feel ambivalent about picking up a book about a woman's struggle with breast cancer.
I think you maybe meant to say "Tilda Swinton was the the only gleam of light in the ambivalent putrescence of bad acting, choppy 'plot,' and butchered source material of 'Constantine.' After the Relapse
He himself had an ambivalent relationship with the Almighty, invoking Him in moments of crisis and forgetting Him the rest of the time. THE GOSPEL MAKERS
The melodies could sometimes be stronger, but King's lyrics and delivery convey an arresting spectrum of ambivalent emotions.
Clearly, the preface is ambivalent; the critique of enthusiasm with which the preface begins undermines its polemic, and vice versa. _Alastor_, Apostasy, and the Ecology of Criticism
By being simple, straightforward, unambivalent, single-minded, can-do, we will achieve some moral and practical control of the world.
The effect is a much more ambivalent and less fixed positioning of subjectivity.
Insecure styles are hallmarked by features of instability, including ambivalent behavior, preoccupation, avoidant responses, and a lack of cooperative communication in the mother-child pair.
Society is ambivalent about recognising that elderly people have a legitimate wish to continue to express their sexuality in physical ways.
That was ambivalent enough to intrigue Democratic worriers.
Although the first researcher, Dr Ray Hyman, remained ambivalent, the second, Professor Jessica Utts from the University of California at Davis, concluded that psychic phenomena were indeed real.
This literary trend is reason enough to call into question the conceptual alignment between the personal and the political informing Faulkner's ambivalent responses toward miscegenation.
Both were deeply but ambivalently bonded with their male sidekicks and, to both, women were simultaneously a lure and a threat.
Both mediator and androgyne, living on the margin of the female collective, Ahmed / Zahra is a complex character whose place in the tale proves to be ambivalent, to say the least.
And Heidegger was ultimately ambivalent about losing his way in the cosmopolis.
Kocher, who often casts herself as a migrant, displaced from all possible homes, appropriately closes the volume on this ambivalent note.
And too many people who call themselves its friends are only ambivalently committed to its security. Israel's Predicament
In some ways they have coveted each other, and yet the economic relationship between the two remains ambivalent.
To the extent that the freedom of prelapsarian man survives the fall - and Milton is ambivalent about this - so does his end, which is not to found and hold office in republics, but to serve God out of the care to please him.
His mind, always ambivalent about the whole business, had been entirely made up by what he had experienced on the Eastern front. IN LOVE AND WAR
Dyer's mystical demonism accounts for the ambivalent, exhilarating, and uncanny dimension of his architecture.
So the chaotic sea has an ambivalent character as well, like the sea, its visible expression.
Their attitude to Hale is ambivalent at best and I suspect that it is actively hostile.
Most such clients are deeply ambivalent about their homosexual attractions.
A hetero Chicago hood, to his embarrassment, finds himself falling for this ambivalent androgyne.
Like many in the documentary, he's a good talker - these were films, after all, with reams of dialogue - but I think I prefer the Easy Riders Raging Bulls version of Friedkin when he was unambivalently immoral.
However, he has been ambivalent on the military budget, overall.
Shakespeare's ambivalently comic treatment of power, sexuality, and repression belongs very much to the early years of the Jacobean period.
The foregoing discussion should establish the ambiguous, ambivalent, problematic, yet intriguing position of rhetorical studies within the academy.
Those sentiments are a far cry from her early years when she had an altogether more ambivalent attitude towards her singing.
He has fairly ambivalent feelings towards his father.
To say that councillors are ambivalent about the idea is an understatement.
The party's position on nuclear weapons is deeply ambivalent.
We noted earlier the ambivalent consequences of the entente policy pursued by Lord Lansdowne, Balfour's foreign secretary, and between 1905 and 1914 by Sir Edward Grey for the Liberals.
This last sentence is proleptically ambivalent: exactly who is lost, the father or the son? The Times Literary Supplement
Now, she was more ambivalent, not sure she wanted to expose herself to that dangerous, charismatic man. THE GOSPEL MAKERS
Obama soon will take the bully pulpit while millions of frustrated people wait for “change”, somehow missing the overt silliness of the overuse of a term intentionally ambivalent as to outcome. The Obama Conundrum: Progress and Protest in the Face of Reality
Maybe his contradictory impulse to both risk and protect Maggie, which represents his ambivalent, unacknowledged rage towards his daughter, has brought the shadow into existence.
Biologically, suntans - and dark-pigmented skin in general - tell another, more objective story: that human beings have an ambivalent evolutionary relationship with the sun.
Newspapers previously ambivalent to him are now grudgingly behind him.
A surprisingly ambivalent entry in a genre that's usually brain-dead, Reggie Rock Bythewood's Biker Boyz mines intelligence by recognizing the contradictions inherent in its milieu.
He feels rather ambivalent about his role as teacher.
As producers, their views will be more ambivalent, depending on whether they work in sunset or sunrise industries.
After all, the English have harbored equally ambivalent feelings ever since the 13 colonies became a nation.
Telegraph/Times readers were more ambivalent, however, and our small sample of Guardian readers preferred the press by a big majority.
It may seem isolating, but many people are ambivalent about the death of an intimate, says Jean Miller, a thanatologist at the University of Rhode Island.
He has an ambivalent attitude towards her.
Unlike Great Gram's inflexible and resolutely unambivalent tales, Gram's story is about the difficulty of recollection, the fluid quality of experience, the changing nature of feelings.
Women often have a rich emotional life but struggle to express their needs and wants in clear, assertive, unambivalent, functional ways.
I must have acquired ambivalent attitude towards women from her.
I wanted a book that showed us how ambiguous we are, or how ambivalent we are.
His chirrupy letters to Hofmannsthal make no mention of the trauma he was going through, namely that the text was triggering deep anxieties deriving from his own ambivalent attitude towards his parents.
He has an ambivalent attitude towards her.
He said that he knew of many parents who supported his stance although there were others who disagreed or were ambivalent.
Many members of the parish were profoundly ambivalent about the protest.
With her memory of the past, their aunt serves as the instrument of a gendered return to their ethnic roots carried out in strongly ambivalent terms.
Society is ambivalent about recognising that elderly people have a legitimate wish to continue to express their sexuality in physical ways.
His stage plays, however, have all been placed in a contemporary setting, in which the myth-making is not nearly so straightforward, and the tone characteristically hovers ambivalently between celebration and satire.
Women who are ambivalent about the permanence of the procedure should be counseled to strongly consider another contraceptive method.
We have been, as devoted readers can attest, mostly ambivalent on the marriage issue.
I reject totally any statement by the opposition that we have in some way been ambivalent.
Your column gave me a lotta laughs, but I'm also ambivalent over the whole anti-bullying curriculum.
They have not dissociated themselves from the ambivalent statement emanating from last week's funeral.
An unambivalent critic of trash, she has said: ‘There is a moral obligation not to turn readers off with hyped, second-rate work.’
Although the Catholic Gobineau initially espoused monogenesis, he later leaned towards polygenesis and ended up ambivalent on this issue Race
OK I've been known to drop ambivalent, but I have never said fulgent or supercilious! Amen to intellectualism!
She seems to feel ambivalent about her new job.
I would recommend an unambivalently dismayed response; anything milder will dilute your position. Times, Sunday Times
But elements of a more ambivalent, productive, associative approach to signification also exist within feminist psychology.
But elements of a more ambivalent, productive, associative approach to signification also exist within feminist psychology.
Furthermore, management needs to provide clear and unambivalent boundaries to the efforts of the engineers to ensure the technological innovations and ideas stay focused and attainable.
In mid-August, before she joined the Republican ticket, Ms. Palin accepted a speaking slot at the Republican National Convention, but did so ambivalently, telling the aides planning her travel schedule she wasn't planning to stay long. New Portrait of Palin as Governor
Many members of the parish were profoundly ambivalent about the protest.
Now, she was more ambivalent, not sure she wanted to expose herself to that dangerous, charismatic man. THE GOSPEL MAKERS
The survey found 56 percent of Republicans were either ambivalent or unexcited by his candidacy.
In this context, Mabey's weeds - spiny restharrow, pellitory-of-the-wall or Martin's ramping fumitory - are playing a typically ambivalent role. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Are the people who spoke and who continue to speak forms of joual and franglais, or English, not just such ambivalent travelers, existing between languages and identities, in the split temporality of the performative?
And do we have an ambivalent fascination with them--awe at their accomplishments and disgust at their misdeeds, an antonymous schadenfreude, as it were--that somehow enables us to justify our failure to achieve in the way they have? She's the Boss
They were more ambivalent about Montesquieu - a magistrate in the parlement of Bordeaux, a feudal lord living in a moated castle, and an apologist for noble power.
But elements of a more ambivalent, productive, associative approach to signification also exist within feminist psychology.
This leaves Silla alone with her newly acquired brownstone as well as her guilt, and Selina with the task of coming to terms with strong, ambivalent feelings toward her mother and her own West Indian American heritage.
This disparity in social attitudes is certainly reflected in the ambivalent feelings held by retired people.
We can do the right thing and give them a fair shot at becoming full members of the only family they really know and love: the American family who must, however ambivalently, embrace them. Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco and Carola Suarez-Orozco: The Education of Michelle Obama
As an instinctive fence-sitter, I have recently found myself ambivalent on most of them.
The party's position on nuclear weapons is deeply ambivalent.
And I'm one of those who's ambivalent about the issue -- on the one hand, I'd love to see more women in the F&SF TOC, on the other, it does look as though the ratio of women in the slush is the same as women selling ... and it's often a matter of editorial taste, which is something GVG is very honest about, publicly, and I really respect that, but on the other hand ... Ccfinlay: Gender Redux
One line indicates the boundary that separates all the important yin/yang relations, while the other line is ambivalently both the horizontal road that traverses the boundary and the vertical road linking the above and the below. The Bushman Way of Tracking God
Are the people who spoke and who continue to speak forms of joual and franglais, or English, not just such ambivalent travelers, existing between languages and identities, in the split temporality of the performative?
Public perceptions of charismatic evangelists tend to be ambivalent.
But there's something about this film's churn of goo and grit that lingers ambivalently, difficult to digest. Butter – review
In practice, we have managed to do better than our ambivalent attitudes suggest.
The two communities are bound together in a powerful and in Duelke's account ambivalent relationship.
Equally ambivalent were local attitudes to the wholesale billeting in Sussex of regular troops and other county militias during invasion scares.
Tough love also on the menu for the press, about which Humphrey was ambivalent, especially as the Daily Mail doorstepped his neighbours, looking to dig up dirt on him. Hugh Muir's diary
Bernarda Fink seduced us all with her sensuously exhaled Shéhérazade, her velvet mezzo timbre allied to clear and idiomatic delivery of Tristan Klingsor's ambivalently erotic texts.
A key theme of his latest work is the spread of murmurs of apocalyptic marvels and of ambivalent savior-cum-charlatan figures on the horizon.
The Dalai Lama’s comments underscore his determination to pursue a conciliatory approach towards Beijing, despite what he described as the ambivalent and contradictory messages by China. Dalai Lama Urges Patience In Dealing With China
It was also conjectured that individuals with high levels of anxious/ambivalent attachment would seek to maintain an extremely close relationship with their families because of fear of abandonment.
However, the anti-hunt lobby believes that John Prescott's unambivalent words during his closing address last Thursday to the Labour party conference give a clearer indication of senior ministers' intentions.
And in itself it's part of the American heritage, something that echoes with Jefferson's always ambivalent and frequently dilettantish attitude toward political violence. Archive 2009-08-01
At the very least, men generally assume their ambivalent feelings are normal.
Nicholson remained fairly ambivalent about the thought of having a son, mainly, he explained, because of Anspach's attitude.
Not surprisingly, therefore, our attitude to mobile phones is ambivalent.
In contrast to omnipresent weak AI, genetic engineering is minimal and very ambivalently regarded (so much for across-the-board optimism). [GUEST REVIEW] Athena Andreadis Reviews Shine: An Anthology of Near-Future Optimistic Science Fiction, edited by Jetse de Vries
An ambivert sounds like a cross between ambivalent and pervert, but it's someone who has both extrovert and introvert personality traits. NCBlogs
OK so David Davies avoided humiliation but I remain ambivalent/mystified by the whole by-election. The Newmania surveillance satellite
The JJ crew are reassuringly ambivalent to Britney Spears e.g. “fabulously chic” and Britney Spears are antonymous … ouch. PICS OF ERIC BANA TIME TRAVELING
Still, some guidebook contributors remain ambivalent about the role they play. Mexico By the Book
Battle has always been unpleasant; the poor bloody infantry and their families were probably at least as ambivalent about fighting the Punic Wars as they might have been about storming Iraq in 1991. Cheers And Jeers
Society is ambivalent about recognising that elderly people have a legitimate wish to continue to express their sexuality in physical ways.
There is an ambivalent feeling towards rural workers.
His assessment of the future of composition in America is ambivalent.
In most cases physicians prescribed requested medicines but were often ambivalent about the choice of treatment.
Today, one would look to the novel as the vehicle for this ambivalent and bifold struggle.
They are sure to find something ambivalent about your sexuality and an unflattering anecdote about a nun.
But in Britain and the US many people feel ambivalent or antagonistic towards the mainstream popular resistance.
Now, she was more ambivalent, not sure she wanted to expose herself to that dangerous, charismatic man. THE GOSPEL MAKERS
Usoltsev portrays him as an ambivalent ironist—modern in outlook, aware of the corrosion within the Soviet system, a little pedantically legalistic, even, at times, democratic in outlook, but careful to hide any incorrect attitudes in public and skilled at ingratiating himself with his superiors. The Return
Harry's relationship with his mother was classified as ambivalently attached.
Once concentrated in Colombia, a close U.S. ally in combating drugs, the cocaine business is migrating to nations such as Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia, where populist leaders are either ambivalent about cooperating with U.S. antidrug efforts or openly hostile to them. Cocaine: The New Front Lines
Wayward performances and an ambivalent attitude towards his score markings must be challenged.
As a whole, they have no official candidate slates, have not rallied behind any particular national leader, have little money on hand, and remain ambivalent about their goals and the political process in general. The contradictions of the Tea Party
Equally ambivalent were local attitudes to the wholesale billeting in Sussex of regular troops and other county militias during invasion scares.
Add to this canon of ambivalent new chroniclers of the dream of America, Dinaw Mingestu, who was born in Ethiopia, immigrated to the United States as a child, and educated at Georgetown University, where somehow he managed to avoid taking any of my courses. From Dinaw Mengestu, A 'How To' With Few Answers
Ambivalent about the generational identity problem slot he's been in, Turpin talks about the future with disarming frankness.
But the relationship between counterculture environmentalists and technology was always ambivalent.
Is it wrong that while I celebrate, quietly, ambivalently, his weaning, I mourn the growth, the movement toward his independence from me that this weaning represents? Needful Things | Her Bad Mother
The admission that past Americans harbored ambivalent and confusing attitudes about nature seems too untidy for the doctrinaire.
That the public might be ambivalent is not surprising, given how confusing the actual events have proven to be. What the Bailout Polls Really Tell Us
We are both somewhat ambivalent about having a child.
Although the conclusion is not an unambivalent "yes", this book shines a harsh light on the efficacy of this industry.
The king himself provoked the severe limitations on his power by the ambivalent attitude he displayed towards the Revolution.
She remained ambivalent about her marriage.
However, while respondents evinced strong preference for having a say in their choice or party candidates, they were more ambivalent about how much autonomy MPs should have from their party once they arrived in parliament.
We are both somewhat ambivalent about having a child.
Much of what Kerry offers unambivalently is simply not realistic.
To me, this is an example of our somewhat ambivalent attitudes towards medical care in general.
Somewhat ambivalently, therefore, they endorsed the technique. Times, Sunday Times
Chutra seemed ambivalent about the perpetually gathering crowds.
That essay was decidedly ambivalent in tone and John Clute, who prefers the more scholarly sounding term fabulation, noted that ‘slipstream’ had inappropriately derogatory connotations. What Is Slipstream?
There is an ambivalent feeling towards rural workers.
The party's position on nuclear weapons is deeply ambivalent.
I know it pains him that he hasn't seen me grow up and that, now, I seem ambivalent about our relationship.
I'm actually starting to feel positive about the upcoming test, as opposed to mildly ambivalent.
The postcard can be thought of as an ambivalent object, produced between spatial and temporal locations, between seriality and personalization.
In this context, Stowe's strategy to incite readerly outrage by means of a powerful physical empathy created through shared pain emerges as a profoundly ambivalent endeavor.
And though there were plenty of strong opinions, much of the parish still seemed profoundly ambivalent about the protest.

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