Taken together, these titles arguably stand for a bold new wave of British filmmaking: cinematically confident, generically tricksy, compelled by disturbing, ambivalent subject matter.
23 The choice of perspective is an ambivalent subject, 27 so we analysed total societal costs versus total healthcare costs.
Hamblyn doesn't take up the more ambivalent case of Wordsworth, whose preface to "Lyrical Ballads" proposed that modern poetry take up scientific subjects, but who also wrote: "We murder to dissect.
Among Mr. Gold blatt's virtues as a photographer -- what distinguishes him from a propagandist -- is his refusal to telegraph or beseech, not because he is morally ambivalent toward his subjects but because reality, when you live in a complicated situation, is never easy.
For exactly that reason, the public is highly ambivalent on the subject.
British viewers have been ambivalent on this subject, as on most features of this beautiful, intelligent, imperfect show.
Yet people seem ambivalent about the subject here, as in much of Russia, where a varnished rendering of Soviet history's bloodiest episodes has begun taking hold.
Mr Rothkopf is anything but a crank, and he is right when he says that, these days, the most influential people around the world are also the most global people.He is also admirably ambivalent about his subject.
Poems, such as "What I expected was", about acknowledging personal limitation, "I think continually of those who were truly great", an early paean to celebrity, and "One more botched beginning", in remembrance of old friends, will surely find a niche in anthologies.Mr Leeming has written a concise and interesting account of Spender's life, but he seems ambivalent about his subject.
At first he dismissed the notion, hoping to follow the example of his older brother by managing an Indian rubber plantation; but his father, who had heretofore been ambivalent on the subject of acting, all but demanded that young Laurence embark upon a stage career.
