Sentence examples for ambivalent response in from inspiring English sources

But the president's entreaties drew an ambivalent response in some European nations where the war is broadly unpopular among voters.

But the president's entreaties drew an ambivalent response in some European nations where the war is broadly unpopular among voters who question why it is being fought and whether it can be won.

Indeed, the effects of repetitive transcranial stimulation of dorsal medial prefrontal cortex suggest that the pre-SMA may be necessary to resolve conflict between responses (Taylor et al. 2007), including the conflict that arises when there are ambivalent responses, as in the free-selection of actions.

He is least likable when he self-consciously tries to provoke, as in his contrarian manifesto, "Against Joie de Vivre," or in his ambivalent response to Holocaust museums, "Resistance to the Holocaust".

"Since then, teen girls in film have become more complex and less one-dimensional, and invite a much more ambivalent response from the viewer - in Mean Girls [2004] we spend a lot of our time actually hating Cady Heron, the main protagonist," says Random Love.

"The Church has had an ambivalent response to the drug war and the incredible amount of violence going on in the country," says John Ackerman, Professor of Law at the Autonomous University in Mexico City.

Larry's confused, ambivalent response is nothing new.

Our report, "Defending Civilization," documents academe's disturbingly ambivalent response to the Sept. 11 attacks.

Yet even as pop culture provokes this ambivalent response, it blunts the reality of oppression.

When Mr. Bradley was given a chance in Monday's encounter at the Apollo Theater to say that Mr. Gore did not have the character to be president, he offered a typically ambivalent response.

The less appealing features of his career aroused an ambivalent response among those who found it hard to reconcile a man of such evident humanity and sensitivity with the competitor who in effect turned Formula One into a contact sport.