The phrase "ambivalent ideas" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe thoughts or concepts that have mixed or contradictory feelings or attitudes towards a subject.
Example: "The author presents ambivalent ideas about the impact of technology on society, highlighting both its benefits and drawbacks."
Alternatives: "conflicting thoughts" or "mixed feelings".
What is a picture or a novel that is not of character?" If you read the rest of that essay, you'll discover many more delicate, thoughtfully ambivalent ideas about the importance of character.
For example, ambivalent ideas about domiciliary oxygen therapy in one study indicated perceptions that it fostered greater independence, but on the other hand there were concerns that the technology could induce dependence on its use [ 16].
Her attitude toward the material is ambivalent: the ideas are liberating, yet inflexible, cruel, and misogynist.
She is ambivalent about the idea of self-promotion.
"I was ambivalent about the idea at first," she says.
Michelle Cahill insists that she and her colleagues are "not ambivalent about the idea of phonics instruction".
Mrs Thatcher was ambivalent about that idea because it meant that Britain would have to give up its nuclear deterrent, too.
But Mr. Unger, a 60-year-old Harvard law professor, also sees the people of Brazil as ambivalent about the idea of becoming a great country that "would open a unique path in the history of the world".
He was not the only filmmaker interested, and like the others he approached both Mr. Krakauer and Christopher McCandless's parents, Walt and Billie, who were understandably ambivalent about the idea of a movie based on their son.
In an essay for the retrospective the Swiss curator Theodora Vischer wrote that in both making and exhibiting his work Dieter was deeply ambivalent about the idea of completion and wanted to "record not an exclusive moment but a moment that endures," a process "that remains embedded and suspended in time".
Yet his work is ambivalent, probing the idea of what constitutes a community: that same square also witnessed the only moment when a counter-crowd manifested itself, yearning for a secular country and calling for the release of city spaces from the church's domination.
