Liasson says that Bob Woodward's book depicted Obama as ambivalent toward getting into a long war in Afghanistan, but ultimately thoughtful in his decision-making process.
Tucson, as anyone who has been there knows, is a strangely ambivalent place: an urban sprawl of a million inhabitants, dropped into the dramatic beauty of a desert.
Or is he, just as plausibly in the political context of the time, a symbol of all-American gumption, meant to shame an ambivalent citizenry into supporting the Korean War? Whatever message it was meant to convey, "High Noon" was always a sort of meta-western, conceived by a group of filmmakers who had little or no previous experience with the genre.
Schumer had known she was going into ambivalent political territory, in a swing region of a swing state.
The child's attachment behaviors will be rated for classification into secure-B, or into avoidant-A or ambivalent-C as insecure-organized attachment qualities, according to the standard criteria described by Ainsworth [ 22], and for classification into insecure-disorganized/disoriented-D attachment qualities, according to the Main and Solomon [ 35] coding system.
He was – and this is sometimes ambivalent praise – a perfectionist.
Even today, with that ideological kinship gone, "a crude mixture of anti-Americanism and a bizarre romanticisation of Russo-German affinities" persists, says Heinrich August Winkler, a historian with an interest in Germany's ambivalent integration into the West.In theory reunification in 1990 anchored all of Germany firmly in the West, as defined by NATO, the European Union and shared values.
Hickenlooper could be described as an ambivalent leader of an ambivalent state.
He traces the process by which the states that did not secede evolved, in less than a year, from a deeply divided, intensely ambivalent and decidedly racist population into a genuine Union, united by the hope of creating a nation that would fulfill the promises of 1776.
In crisp prose from Ogawa and translator Stephen Snyder, the story expands into a (necessarily ambivalent) study of psychological and sexual dependency, with Mari floating around the hotel as her mother does her hair and tells her she's beautiful, while longing to be reunited with her lover for another session of degradation and pain.
