And just as people are stopping on their journeys to consider Mr. Higgins's mural and moral, a growing number of artists are attempting to capture, if not the wisdom of age, the complicated and ambivalent sentiments it inspires.
Deirdre Sargent, whose husband was deployed to Iraq, e-mailed editors of the News Tribune of Tacoma, Wash., that the photo left her "shaking and in tears for hours". She added: "It was tacky, unprofessional and completely unnecessary". Babbitt's mother, Kathy Hernandez, expressed ambivalent sentiments.
Such practices demonstrate deeply ambivalent sentiments regarding the significance of maternity such that, often, women found themselves cycling between two divergent positions.
Investor sentiment was ambivalent in Asia on Tuesday, signaling that rate cutting by the U.S. Federal Reserve may be losing its magic after having been resorted to frequently in recent months.
And on the left pro-secularist and anti-clericalist sentiment is also frequently ambivalent about Islamic building projects.
Sadly, though the current fixation of national debate is still the "Ground Zero Mosque," public opinion polls indicate that American sentiment towards the bomb has become ambivalent, and most recently, dangerously lukewarm -- something I discussed in my piece last week.
Robert Buch shows that the spectacles of suffering conjured up in these texts are deeply ambivalent, available neither to cathartic relief nor to the sentiment of compassion.
As Republicans try to put the Bush presidency behind them, many feel deeply ambivalent about the man who has occupied the Oval Office for the past eight years, and that sentiment was evident on the convention floor on Tuesday evening.
Bellow's fiction is ambivalent, at best, about family life, tending to see it as tragicomic theatre, in which tender sentiment gets crowded out by distortion, avarice, and humiliating pettiness.
Vocabulary: rallied, raw, fundamental, constitutional, blockading, ambivalent, ensconced, incremental, stealthy, establishment, platform, ascendancy, plank, reaffirmed, incest, defuse, personhood, fetus, ceded, broader, epiphany, decisive, sentiment, overarching, reproductive, unobjectionable, partial-birth, extremism, notification, renders, vacancy Extension Activities: 1.
