Sentence examples for ambivalent reaction from inspiring English sources

These words may provoke an ambivalent reaction.

You could tell as much by the ambivalent reaction to the Los Angeles imbroglio from education researchers and reform advocates.

This utterly unsentimental Italian novel focuses on a father's struggle to cope with his son's severe disability and his ambivalent reaction to his child's limitations.

But it was much better than the sum of its parts, and writer Charlotte Jones somehow managed to cram in wonderful portrayals of pompous vicars, long rich lives regretted, the optimistic misery of 20-something love and, interestingly, a teenage girl's ambivalent reaction to a (male) teacher's apparent paedophilia.

But his ambivalent reaction belies a complicated, stormy saga about wartime heroism and domestic strife, about a strange governmental complicity in keeping one prisoner's status a virtual secret, about satisfaction at an achievement duly acknowledged and a simultaneous bitterness that will not fade.

Its chief executive, Clyde Oden (who boasts an MBA as well as a string of medical qualifications), presides over a growing empire that includes a bank, a black business "expo and trade show" and a community centre complete with a credit union, a café and a school.WATTS Health Systems is a result of America's ambivalent reaction to riots that took place in 1965 in the Watts district of Los Angeles.

The ambivalent reactions she provoked are evident in the two representations of her in fiction.

One change for 2015 has already inspired ambivalent reactions from fans and fighters: the U.F.C. announced, on December 1st, a new sponsorship deal with Reebok.

Nonetheless, the seemingly incandescent wedding of Ms. Clinton and Mr. Mezvinsky has churned up ambivalent reactions among the nation's almost six million Jews.

Karla Soyer-Stein New York Correction: September 3, 2005, Saturday A letter to the editor in Science Times on Tuesday responding to the Aug. 23 Cases column, about men's ambivalent reactions to watching their wives give birth, misspelled the writer's given name.

The block print at right, showing a woman's and a man's ambivalent reactions to the newspaper headline "War Ends," accompanied a moving remembrance by a classmate, Ruth Luberoff, about her brother, an World War II Army pilot-in-training who died in an accident.