Sentence examples for ambivalent experience from inspiring English sources

His book is about the profoundly ambivalent experience of playing them — close readings (close playings?) mostly of big-budget action and science fiction titles for consoles like the Xbox and PlayStation.

Looking for an evolutionary based rationale of emotional piloerection, one might also speculate that the ambivalent experience of being moved or touched in response to the sublime may involve feelings of vulnerability or even imminence (Keltner and Haidt, 2003; Konečni, 2005).

Alice Walker's touching and provocative collection of autobiographical stories is filled with truisms -- Life is a mystery... love does not accept barriers of any kind" -- yet Walker is capable of surprisingly complex insights into the tenuity of desire and marriage, the saving grace of friendship and the ambivalent experiences of African-Americans since the civil rights movement.

Considering these ambivalent experiences, students must learn to leave this "mesh" and differentiate good from bad experiences in academic life.

For those patients who reported ambivalent experiences, cCBT was not rejected outright but was considered ineffective without greater external support and frustrating due to the lack of personalisation of material within the programme.

And it is just these ambivalent emotional experiences that are commonly found to be indicated by piloerection.

She has been ambivalent about this experience, insisting mostly that it had not affected her, but in an unguarded moment she admitted to Observer Sport: 'You never forget.

Ms. Kristel was ambivalent about her experience making the films; they allowed her to travel and opened doors for her as an actress, she said, and it was hard not to be proud of a film that so many people had seen.

Although Joshua Canada is ambivalent about his experience at Taylor University, he returned there for graduate school and now serves as an adviser to the Black Student Union at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California, where he is also a residence director.

Parents of premature infants often experience ambivalent or negative emotions toward their infants and/or about themselves during hospitalisation and after discharge.

GP responses were more ambivalent, as they experienced both positive and negative effects.