Sentence examples for ambivalent notion from inspiring English sources

Cook noticed that despite his thin physique, there was still a certain softness to him: "There was this still quite raw and close to the surface aspect of himself which had to do with being the fat boy, or chubby boy, that people laughed at, that no one knew quite where to put, and who had a deeply ambivalent notion of being loved or not".

Portnoy's Complaint did not simply undermine our sense of what happiness is or might be--by transgressing bourgeois norms, underlining ambivalent notions of sexual respectability, and so forth.

These examples reflect the culture of the school system, which focus on academic outcomes and are somewhat ambivalent about the notion of play-based learning and the need for caring and nurturing relationships to support learning.

When Federer was securely atop the tennis world he was ambivalent towards the notion of a rivalry with an opponent five years younger than himself.

(This is doubly inappropriate since Ibsen was, in fact, highly ambivalent about the whole notion of feminism).

However, some men were more ambivalent toward shifting gender notions and some even adamantly resisted engaging in discussions over gender equality.

(We're ambivalent about ambivalence).

Gollum was so interesting to me because he's morally ambivalent and I love the notion of a quest that is to lose something.

But it also leaves me feeling ambivalent.

So, our feeling was ambivalent.

Many philosophers have found the notion of hermeneutic indeterminacy very unsettling, and even Quine seems to have been ambivalent about it.