Sentence examples for ambivalent emotion from inspiring English sources

JACK JOHNSON After a pair of albums that plumbed ambivalent emotion and electric instrumentation, Jack Johnson returns to mellow form with "From Here to Now to You" (Brushfire) recorded at home on the North Shore of Oahu, with sunset breaks for surfing.

On the one hand, a neuromarketing experiment based on the facial recognition of emotions of 10 subjects, when physical attributes and economic information of a technological product are exposed, shows the prevalence of the ambivalent emotion of surprise.

Vietnam, of course, is different, a war the United States lost, and which engenders ambivalent emotions among voters.

Its authors, and editor Lee Gutkind, deserve credit for being unsparingly honest about doctoring, about decision-making, about their own ambivalent emotions.

And as I examined its cunning styling — the minuscule waistband that so ably exaggerates the fullness of bust and padded hips — I was filled with ambivalent emotions of recollected pleasure and stern reproach.

David A. Wolfe, a senior scientist and psychologist at the Center for Addiction and Mental Health at the University of Toronto, said that in situations of long-term sexual abuse and threat to life, victims inevitably develop complicated and ambivalent emotions toward their abuser in order to survive.

The psychoanalytic explanation of Sigmund Freud speculated that the horror of incest derived from the combination of ambivalent emotions toward one's immediate family and repressed forbidden desires to commit sexual acts with family members of the opposite sex.

The gaiety and naturalness of Haydn's music held less appeal to the Romantic era of the 19th century, however, when dark, complex moods and ambivalent emotions were being explored in music; although many of his symphonies and quartets were performed with some frequency well past 1850, by the end of the century they had all but slipped from the repertory.

The real-life Felt, who died in 2008 at the age of 95, harboured "ambivalent emotions of pride and self-reproach" about his actions for more than 30 years, according to the Vanity Fair reporter who unveiled his identity in 2005.

Arriving back to Jasper's well-trodden Icefields Parkway, (the highway that connects Jasper with Lake Louise) after conquering 50km of icy wilderness stirs ambivalent emotions among most skiers: tiredness mixed with relief tempered by a new appreciation for the natural world and how it can make you feel invigoratingly alive.

Although different, they share the same ambivalent emotions, confusions and concerns".