The phrase "ambivalent state in" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or condition where someone has mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something.
Example: "She found herself in an ambivalent state in her relationship, torn between love and doubt."
Alternatives: "conflicted condition in" or "mixed feelings about".
They felt trapped in an ambivalent state between a desire for status achieved through biomedical knowledge, technical skill and adherence to routines, and their professional perception of good care, which included marginalised nursing perspectives.
We live in a really ambivalent state about this, so I really wanted it to be horrifying but also a little enticing.
Hickenlooper could be described as an ambivalent leader of an ambivalent state.
The main actors fall into three categories: open revisionists, like Russia and the Islamic State; those ready to fight to protect a minimum of order, such as the United States, France, and Great Britain; and ambivalent states -- including key regional players in the Middle East, such as Turkey and Iran -- whose actions fail to match their rhetoric.
The contrasting distributions of yeast and plant recombination hotspots to mammalian recombination hotspots may reflect the differences in chromatin states they represent, the active state represented by the former versus more ambivalent states represented by the latter.
As earlier research indicated that erotic stimuli may elicit ambivalent emotional states in women (Laan & Everaerd, 1995a, 1995b; Peterson & Janssen, 2007), it is interesting in its own right that particularly the dyspareunia group seems to be characterized by a more pronounced ambivalence in affect concerning sexual stimuli.
Yunte Huang manifests an ambivalent attitude, stating that in the USA, Chan "epitomizes the racist heritage and the creative genius of this nation's culture".
pays ambivalent, tongue-in-cheek tribute to American movies.
Assistant attorney general Paul Wilson later distinguished emeritus professor of law at the University of Kansas conducted the state's ambivalent defense in his first appellate trial.
But few predicted that their fight would bring out so many ambivalent feelings among the voters, with so many states in contention at the end.
