Sentence examples for ambivalent for a from inspiring English sources
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.
He was too ambivalent for a hero character; his first big song, "I Come to the Rescue," was fuzzy and didn't fit Mr. Sands's voice (it had been written before he was cast); and his Act II blowup at Lola — yelling that she wasn't beautiful as a man in women's clothing — was so meanspirited that it was unfathomable that the two would ever reunite.
While the set-up may be melodramatically contrived, weighing the cost of collateral damage – in this case, an innocent girl's life against the prospect of multiple terrorist deaths – the result is still impressively ambivalent for a movie that aims to make an impact in the multiplex market.
It was rather an ambivalent position for a journalist, but good for a novelist".
If nothing else, Belafonte has consistently chosen principle over pragmatism — which suggests that his endorsement is an ambivalent blessing for a politician.
In the earlier age range, speakers who stutter had a high incidence of OME and there was some ambivalent evidence for a central auditory deficit.
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).
Even some businessmen are ambivalent, for regulation can be a useful barrier to competition.
Perhaps most linguists would judge the latter answer to be correct (because an object can be kicked without the intent of propelling it to a goal location), but intuitions are apt to be ambivalent for at least one of a set of verbs such as dribble, kick, maneuver, move and transport.
The transfer of Slobodan Milosevic today brought joy and relief to some, particularly the young, angered others in its speed and stealth, and left many more ambivalent for their deep distrust of a Hague tribunal they feel is biased against the Serbs.
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.
