Sentence examples for ambivalent form from inspiring English sources

Bargu ultimately positions the weaponization of life as a bleak, violent, and ambivalent form of insurgent politics that seeks to wrench the power of life and death away from the modern state on corporeal grounds and in increasingly theologized forms.

Black America is constituted overwhelmingly by the descendants of people who were not only brought to the country against their will but were later inducted into an ambivalent form of citizenship without their input.

Brown focuses on "chronic violence, ambivalent forms of justice, and repeated recourse to heavy-handed repression" in an effort to explain the failure of liberal democracy in the French Revolution (1).

The other 35 percent have "insecure" early life attachments, which result in people who tend to be overly independent, clinging or ambivalent about forming close bonds with other people.

(Although Earle is ambivalent about many forms of private property, he believes wholeheartedly in owning guitars).

They were divided on their rationale for the decision, but a majority suggested they were ambivalent about other forms of digital surveillance, including location data from cellphone towers.

The movie seems deeply ambivalent about the very form it purports to reinvent.

Leaving China just ahead of the Communist takeover, Mr. Zao settled in 1948 in Paris, where his first sustained exposure to Western Modernist painting left him feeling ambivalent about the classical forms of landscape and calligraphic ink painting in which he had been trained.

The model captures purely positive and negative prejudice as well as some more subtle forms of ambivalent prejudice.

Formed in ambivalent relation to others, sexuality and sexual identity permeate the bonds of civilization and ramify throughout all social relations.

For those of us who don't find Sondheim's songs pretentious and unfeeling, it encapsulates the deeply felt Sondheim signature emotion in its fetal form: the aching, ambivalent and often thwarted desire to connect with someone.