Sentence examples for ambivalent performance from inspiring English sources

It was a touching, entirely ambivalent performance.

Adding heft is a beautifully ambivalent performance by Rob Benedict as Laura's wistful brother-in-law, Paul.

Robin Weigert (Deadwood's Calamity Jane) gives an ambivalent, sympathetic performance as Abby, a sometime interior decorator living outside New York City with her divorce-lawyer wife of two decades and their two sons.

24 Rather, patients are often ambivalent about performance data and rely on their GP's opinion when choosing a hospital.

Staged on Broadway in 1981, when it ran for a mere 16 performances, this ambivalent collaboration between Mr. Sondheim and the book writer George Furth seemed, like many a problem child, to possess both glorious potential and a heartbreaking tendency to sabotage itself.

(We're ambivalent about ambivalence).

Her striking appearance and dramatic delivery, Holden's much-acclaimed performance as her ambivalent gigolo, and the performance of famed German silent-film director Stroheim all contribute to the film's status as a masterpiece of cinema.

And the movie ends on an ambivalent note: after a triumphant performance, the hero seems to walk away from the music industry, at least for the moment.

All of them voted for Obama but did not identify themselves as committed Democrats and were sufficiently ambivalent about the president's performance that Anderson deemed them within reach of the Republicans.

Its depiction of rendition is as uncomfortably ambivalent as Jessica Chastain's chilly lead performance.

Brando is lethally powerful, but I am ambivalent about Leigh's stagey, mad-eyed performance, often pitilessly inspected in closeup.