Sentence examples for ambivalent it from inspiring English sources

The Mexican public is understandably ambivalent; it wants violence reduced but not at the cost of empowering nihilist warlords.

Any choreographer would be ambivalent: it is painful to consider that a life's work will disappear, but it is also hard to think that it will be diminished by inexact performances, as fuzzy as fourth-generation photocopies.

But China's position is ambivalent: it is committed to tackling global warming, amid soaring carbon emissions, but it is also a developing country, with much growing to do (see article).Whose carbon is it anyway?European countries, led by manufacturing powers such as Germany, France or Italy, are already spoiling for a carbon-tinged trade fight with China.

"Most ex-presidents are really ambivalent; it's a great load off their shoulders, but they're also on the outside looking in, and they really miss it," said James P. Pfiffner, a professor of public policy at George Mason University.

Except — leaving aside the insinuations that adoption is a means to an end rather than its own joyous experience, and that women who become easily pregnant are never ambivalent — it's not true.

When he does characterize Jews at prayer, the result is ambivalent: "It's only the Christians who bow their heads and shut their mouths in their houses of prayer.

He is frantic for intimacy with others, but ambivalent about it when it comes - is it love?

Some miss it (Russia), some are ambivalent about it (Moldova, Kazakhstan), and some are thrilled it's gone (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania).

The Cowans found that the average drop in marital satisfaction was almost entirely accounted for by the couples who slid into being parents, disagreed over it or were ambivalent about it.

At one point she says: 'I write as I would like the world to be.' And the ending is ambivalent; is it invented or is it real?

AMERICANS love college sports, but lately it's easy to feel ambivalent about it.