The phrase "ambivalent characteristics" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe traits or features that exhibit mixed feelings or contradictory qualities.
Example: "The character in the novel displayed ambivalent characteristics, often torn between loyalty and betrayal."
Alternatives: "conflicting traits" or "mixed attributes".
She wanted to work with male surrogates for a change, and talking dummies, with their ambivalent characteristics — human and inhuman, child and adult, cute and nasty — struck her as a rich source.
A closer inspection reveals that the frog sequences marked xTG5 and xTG6 in Fig. 1f have ambivalent characteristics, and depending on the settings of alignment parameters could be also regarded as xTG7 and xTG3, respectively.
It expressed an ambivalent characteristic, say, feeling of flexible fur and that of upright of the building.
AMS fibre-reinforced cementitious composites had ambivalent post-cracked tensile characteristics between steel fibre reinforced concrete and ECC mixtures.
From observations of current direct tensile test, it was supposed that AMS fibre-reinforced cementitious composites had ambivalent post-cracked tensile characteristics between steel fibre reinforced concrete and ECC mixture.
To better understand the ambivalent effects of various corporate identity characteristics, four informal interviews with corporate CSR experts who participated in the survey have been conducted.2 The exploratory interviews provide some interesting thoughts about the results and could help in refining the hypotheses to stipulate further confirmative research.
Another characteristic feature of ED is the ambivalent and at times positive attitude towards some aspects of the disorder (e.g., Serpell et al., 1999).
This may be facilitated by the ambivalent status of epigenetic regulation of the characteristic transcription factors— Tbx21, Gata3, Bcl6 can have both permissive and nonpermissive marks even in differentiated cells 5, 69.
In the second case, the alternating focus on different patient characteristics prompted the presenter to acknowledge her ambivalent attitude.
Tchaikovsky, now Professor of Music Theory at the Moscow Conservatory, had already promised his Characteristic Dances to that ensemble but felt ambivalent.
