Sentence examples for a complex and ambivalent from inspiring English sources

Those are not the words of a Hollywood hero, but of a complex and ambivalent man.

Its mood of romantic despair is as thick as chicken fat; it runs on an extraordinary combination of sentimental sweetness and wild frustration, and few films offer such a complex and ambivalent view of family and its ties.

Ives's relationship to his father was complex and ambivalent, as Stuart Feder has shown in a variably convincing psychoanalytic biography, "Charles Ives: 'My Father's Song' " (Yale University Press, 1992).

His father's response to the Cultural Revolution was more complex and ambivalent.

But their attitudes are more complex and ambivalent than Brands allows.

The conflicting inclinations of his complex and ambivalent personality found expression in his sexual relationships.

He accused Baldwin of foregoing "the rich, complex, and ambivalent sensibility of the novelist" and acquiring the "thinness" of the polemicist.

And if we don't know what Dowell means when he calls Edward a "poor devil", what are we to make of him when he says something apparently genuinely complex and ambivalent: "I call this the Saddest Story, rather than 'The Ashburnham Tragedy', just because it is so sad, just because there is no current to draw things along to a swift and inevitable end.

Although participants reproduced the health prevention message, their viewpoint on health is more complex and ambivalent.

However, this changed perspective (from irritation to compassion) did not acknowledge the presenter's more complex and ambivalent feelings about the situation.

Making the time (which is not always easy) to explore the patient's view of their problems, including their thoughts about ADs [which are often complex and ambivalent (28)], and about alternative treatments, and their causal beliefs (which may differ from our own) is also important.