Sentence examples for ambivalent affairs from inspiring English sources

The strange, or perhaps not so strange, fact is that as families have become more fragmented, their members more far-flung, their lives more frenetic, the Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner has come to occupy a larger place in movies, chronicling the very strains that underlie the dispersal and make family reunions such wildly ambivalent affairs.

That's the theory, but for cinephiles the Cannes film festival is an ambivalent affair.

But Jez Butterworth's play was not just a star vehicle but a richly ambivalent affair about a charismatic spellbinder who was also a tragic anachronism.

The divorcee's two-year solitude is disturbed by Eddie Bondo, a rifle-toting Wyoming sheep rancher some 20 years her junior, for whom "hating coyotes is my religion", yet who draws her into an irresistible, ambivalent affair.

"Compliance is an ambivalent function.

On one wall, a checkerboard of yellow, orange, red and green tiles from the Spanish company Porcelanosa suggests an abstracted New York skyline, a tip of the hat to Mr. Fishman's ambivalent love affair with the city to which he was transplanted in 1988, a 9-year-old with a funny haircut.

This ambivalent state of affairs would last until 1954, when the civil liberties faction prevailed, leading to the resignation of most of the anti-communist leaders.

The link between sexual and epileptic abandon is clear, and it is well used to illuminate her ambivalent response to the affair.

(We're ambivalent about ambivalence).

Harold is ambivalent about his closeted gay affair.

They have turned away from the cries for small government and liberty — about which they have always been ambivalent — to rekindle their love affair with theocratic Catholicism.