Sentence examples for ambivalent life from inspiring English sources

D'Eon's ambivalent life, which paralleled the world of the onnagata - the male kabuki actor trained to perform female roles - has inspired from this work's four co-creators a series of meditations on gender and identity, with its style ranging from Japanese kabuki to the court of Louis XV.

Fittingly, for a story with so ambivalent a life spark, the main action in "Christine Falls" begins "long after midnight" in a morgue, in "the shadowy dark of the body room".

Like Tony Soprano, Miguel is ambivalent about his life.

Holtz did an incredibly nuanced job of bringing her terrifically ambivalent character to life.

Etched onto a silicon disc for transport on the EchoStar XVI, a telecommunications satellite, these pictures are a Golden Record for our time — replacing the humanism of that Carl Sagan NASA project with a deeply ambivalent narrative about life on Earth.

In that spirit, here's a list of products that ought to make easy-to-use gifts for the technologically ambivalent in your life.

He came to the night-life industry after volunteering for a conservation group and working as a snowboarding instructor, and he seems ambivalent about living ostentatiously.

Sexually ambivalent in his private life, Fellini revealed in Satyricon a preoccupation with obesity, mutilation, and hermaphroditism that many found disturbing.

His writing about it is ambivalent and ironic, like adult life itself.

But it sounds as if your electronic gentleman is ambivalent about meeting in real life — or married or just killing time before his 4 p.m. conference call.

Bellow's fiction is ambivalent, at best, about family life, tending to see it as tragicomic theatre, in which tender sentiment gets crowded out by distortion, avarice, and humiliating pettiness.