Ms. Ripley was never merely ambivalent; in any given moment, she was overwhelmingly multivalent.
Americans have been ambivalent in different ways: a majority wanted the war, but not blindly and deliriously; then, as years passed, a majority wanted the war to end, but not in complete revulsion.
Brain science, Eagleman believes, provides the final frontier in our understanding of our own littleness and contingency: the realisation that consciousness is not the centre of the mind but a limited and ambivalent function in a vast cosmological circuitry of non-conscious neurological functions.
Anthony Andrews plays the upright but sexually ambivalent lawyer; in a thoughtful interview, he said The Letter is the only play he knows where what is not said is more important than what is: in those silences lie all the things that could not be spoken aloud in 1928.
Current research indicates that women who are actively trying to conceive, those trying to avoid pregnancy, and those that are ambivalent differ in a range of characteristics such as age, parity, importance of motherhood, self-identifying a fertility problem, relationship satisfaction and economic hardship [ 72].
These are likely to be niche sources of power, thanks to problems getting land and their high cost.As for nuclear power, India's attitude has long been hyperbolic on paper and ambivalent in practice, despite striking a civilian nuclear deal with America in 2005.
On his return to India, The Guide was published; the book is the most representative of Narayan's writing skills and elements, ambivalent in expression, coupled with a riddle-like conclusion.
This "Holy Order," ambiguous and ambivalent in ultimate purpose, nevertheless mustered a profound resistance to the whole way of life represented by industrial capitalism even while wrestling with ways of surviving within it.
The Frenchman has been a little too ambivalent in his reaction to all the transfer speculation and publicly demanded the signing of more star names only yesterday.
