Sentence examples for always ambivalent from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "always ambivalent" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a consistent state of having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something.
Example: "She felt always ambivalent about her career choices, torn between her passion for art and the stability of a corporate job."
Alternatives: "perpetually uncertain" or "consistently conflicted".

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Mahler, always ambivalent about attaching programmatic descriptions to symphonic movements, retracted those he originally devised for this work.

The Iranian opposition was always ambivalent about support from the Bush regime, which was seen (sometimes literally) as the kiss of death.

As observed by Judas, his "gifts" are always ambivalent - his status as son of God or mere cult-leader provocatively explored.

(That's not to say that retrofuturism is always ambivalent: "Star Wars" is, among other things, an upbeat retrofuturist response to the drug-addled sci-fi of the sixties and seventies).

I was always ambivalent about going to university, but no other paths were really suggested to me at my high school, so off I went to the University of Lincoln to study Journalism.

But that guarantee, always ambivalent, ended with the 1996 welfare overhaul, which encouraged states to make it harder for families to get public aid in an effort to promote work and deter irresponsible childbearing.

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Chomsky has always been ambivalent about evolution.

Britain has always been ambivalent about the European project.

Blaine has always been ambivalent about the fraternity of magicians.

I've always been ambivalent about and fascinated by Oxford.

RETAILERS have always been ambivalent about close-out items.

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