Sentence examples for ambivalent for from inspiring English sources

Even some businessmen are ambivalent, for regulation can be a useful barrier to competition.

Sather, the official said, has appeared ambivalent for months about trading for Jagr.

Told to mispronounce the word "ambivalent" for comic effect, he kept pronouncing it correctly.

His first official album, "Thank Me Later," was curiously world-weary and ambivalent for a young-money coming-out party, and on his recent singles, that vein of self-pity has curdled into woozy, dissipated self-loathing.

One is mark-to-market accounting where it is ambivalent, for example endorsing the idea that banks be allowed to shift assets into loan books where they need not be written down immediately.

The art evoked here is ambivalent, for the Muse lures the characters in contradictory ways: telling stories liberates them, since words release emotions, yet it simultaneously stifles the original, gloriously undivided source.

All Is Lost represents another kind of purity for Redford, one that he thought he left behind when he gave up painting for acting, one that he rediscovered when he began directing in the 1980s, but that he rarely found as an ambivalent actor-for-hire for studios that just wanted him to look good and little else.

Vincent is determined to kill her in spite of his ambivalent feelings for Max; for at the end of the day, he is an assassin for hire, not a person who lets emotions get in the way of his mission.

There is ambivalent evidence for a lower prevalence for arthritis among African-Americans [ 29- 31], and we further adjusted our analyses for self-reported race (0: Caucasian [referent], 1: African-American).

It was rather an ambivalent position for a journalist, but good for a novelist".

Mr. Lieberman criticized both Dr. Dean for opposing the war and Mr. Kerry for offering what he described as ambivalent support for it, saying that that could undercut the party next year.