The phrase "ambivalent and a" is not correct and usable in written English as it is incomplete and lacks clarity.
It could be used in a context where you are trying to describe a feeling or attitude that is mixed or uncertain, but it needs to be followed by a noun to make sense.
Example: "She felt ambivalent and a bit confused about her decision to move."
Alternatives: "ambivalent and uncertain" or "ambivalent and conflicted."
For one thing, Shulevitz is nothing if not ambivalent, and ambivalence is a sign of an interesting mind.
Schroder's account of the events is complicated and nuanced, and the novel is absorbing, with a propulsive plot and a narrator who is charming, ambivalent, and searching — a man driven by love who understands that love cannot save him.
Seth also possessed some typically dualistic marks of a mythological character: his action, as well as his personality itself, was ambivalent; and, as a typical trickster, he was also capable, at times, of constructive action in the cosmos.
The majority of those interviewed remained ambivalent and took a pragmatic approach, identifying ways in which financial incentives could both facilitate and impede the mother's relationships.
"Why are we so ambivalent and accepting of a problem that also takes up 50% of police time?" she said.
He traces the process by which the states that did not secede evolved, in less than a year, from a deeply divided, intensely ambivalent and decidedly racist population into a genuine Union, united by the hope of creating a nation that would fulfill the promises of 1776.
And as she sits here in the condominum she shares with her husband, Earl, a retired litigator, on this sunny day in winter so many decades later, this 5-foot-2-inch woman of 71 with cheerful blue eyes and a bubbly personality recalls all the ambivalent and repressed feelings at having a sibling with a disability that marked her life for so long.
At a "round-table discussion" -- remember, this wasn't an official hearing -- one ambassador after another criticized the Foreign Relations Committee for America's ambivalent leadership and a law that pays $926 million in American arrears, but only if the United Nations takes steps to eliminate waste, a condition many diplomats consider unwarranted micromanaging.
Mr. Pipes constantly urges us to think the worst of Lenin, even where the evidence is quite ambivalent, and often gives us a one-sided gloss.
