Sentence examples for ambivalent personalities from inspiring English sources

This fragmented, antiheroic play with its shifting perspectives and ambivalent personalities can always startle with its modernity.

As expected, the most common disorders in the sample were related to interpersonal problems (dependent, narcissistic and antisocial), along with one belonging to the group of ambivalent personalities with conflicts (compulsive).

The conflicting inclinations of his complex and ambivalent personality found expression in his sexual relationships.

Bernard, a vigorous and ambivalent personality, was in the first place a man of religious practice and mystical contemplation, who, at the end of his dramatic life, characterized his odyssey as that of anima quaerens Verbum, "a soul in search of the Word".

Murakami is also known to channel his artistic alter ego, Mr. Dob, who "[morphs] its own form, and whose ambivalent personality shifts from friendly to fierce, seemingly at will," according to a gallery description.

I select the upside-down smiley face, a commitment to my ambivalent, sarcastic personality.

To elaborate: In every audience there are always three personalities; friendly, ambivalent and unfriendly.

(We're ambivalent about ambivalence).

But Ms. Donovan's outgoing personality masked an ambivalent relationship with her mother, Margaret, and an isolated childhood spent with grandparents.

It's a heavy, ambivalent confessional, but Green's precocious personality and distinctive flow manage to keep it fired up.

And "Salvage" allows characters who have been only tantalizingly glimpsed before to step into their own as full paradoxical personalities, including Ms. Plimpton's passionately ambivalent Natasha, Mr. Hamilton's amiably alcoholic Ogarev and Jason Butler Harner's deliciously nonjudgmental Turgenev.