The phrase "ambivalent picture" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation, feeling, or representation that has mixed or contradictory emotions or interpretations.
Example: "The film presents an ambivalent picture of love, showcasing both its joys and its challenges."
Alternatives: "mixed portrayal" or "conflicted representation".
Former inter-sectoral surveys have drawn an ambivalent picture of real options usage in general.
Hume's explicit reflections on Newton's writings and character reveal a more ambivalent picture than commonly thought: Hume shows respect, even admiration for Newton's achievements, but he also expresses reservations.
For example, she aims to defend an ambivalent picture of the culture portrayed in Jennie Livington's 1991 film Paris is Burning which documents the drag ball competitions of various 'houses' in New York City, held by mostly black and latino/a queer men, transsexuals, and queens (1993, 121 140).
With regard to patient satisfaction, there was a mixed and ambivalent picture, but satisfaction tended to be higher in the hospital-at-home groups.
This ambivalent picture is also reflected by our genetic interaction experiments between RSK and ERK mutants, which did not provide a conclusive answer about the relationship between RSK and ERK with respect to pre- and postsynaptic functions.
In the 60s and 70s, Hollywood had helped shift country music (often condescended to as redneck blues) into the cultural mainstream, giving it an ambivalent political resonance in pictures such as Bonnie and Clyde and Five Easy Pieces.
(We're ambivalent about ambivalence).
Only further studies with recombinant antitumor IgG vs IgE antibodies will give a definite picture about the ambivalent role of eosinophils in cancer.
Stay away from books that paint an unrealistically rosy picture or that make ambivalent feelings seem unacceptable.
The film received ambivalent reviews.
Ever since the late 1990's, critics have been belittling hip-hop's big-money talk as vulgar materialism, but perhaps Hansberry's ambivalent, unsentimental play will help complicate that picture.
