Sentence examples for ambivalent character from inspiring English sources

The phrase "ambivalent character" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a character in literature or film who has mixed feelings or contradictory emotions about a situation or another character.
Example: "The protagonist's ambivalent character made it difficult for the audience to predict his next move, as he often wavered between love and hate."
Alternatives: "conflicted character" or "mixed character".

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Holtz did an incredibly nuanced job of bringing her terrifically ambivalent character to life.

He's a sexy yet sexually ambivalent character whose motives are interestingly hard to read.

A pulsing stream of images and ideas captures the deeply ambivalent character of the 1950's.

In the 1960s, the comedy western took on a sharper, darker, more ambivalent character.

It is both familiar and disturbing: Khan's take has given the image a brooding, ambivalent character.

An exploration of the magnetic and ambivalent character of Shylock in William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.

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She believes 100 percent in everything she's saying, which is kind of refreshing to find after playing so many ambivalent characters".

What saves the story from melodrama is Grisham's refusal to offer pat resolutions; he allows his ambivalent characters to remain so.

Hughes is too intelligent herself to pull off the spectacularly shallow voice of the model, a shiny, pop-culture figure quite unlike the shaggier, far more reserved, ambivalent characters with whom Hughes seems most at home.

But while "Carlos" often looks like an Hollywood-style action film, like "Che" and "The Baader Meinhof Complex," it also cannily employs some of the devices — including a sense of ambiguity and ambivalent characters — of the classic art cinema.

Her virtues and their matching, mirroring vices belong less to history than to the world of Scott Fitzgerald, and, like so many of Fitzgerald's haunting and ambivalent characters, she was deliberately arrested and incomplete.

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