The phrase "ambivalent thoughts" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when expressing mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about a particular subject or situation.
Example: "She had ambivalent thoughts about moving to a new city, excited for the adventure but sad to leave her friends behind."
Alternatives: "mixed feelings" or "conflicted thoughts".
Indeed, I was aware of them as a kid, and can say honestly that in the 40 or so years I've been involved with them, I have had very few non-ambivalent thoughts about contests.
Life is "doubt in action" for McElroy, and his fiction's unusual qualities are shaped by an ambivalent attitude toward thought as it takes its faltering steps from uncertainty to uncertainty.
All dark desires, untamable impulses, ambivalent feelings and contradictory thoughts would then be considered failures of the outside world, imperfections in the social order that could be controlled or legislated away.
In the course of hospitalization, the patient was calm, slightly depressed, once becoming ambivalent about his delusional thoughts but after each of his wife's daily visits reassured about their correctness.
(We're ambivalent about ambivalence).
About her daughters Leda has ambivalent and often sharply hostile thoughts.
Well, our thoughts at this moment were ambivalent.
Making the time (which is not always easy) to explore the patient's view of their problems, including their thoughts about ADs [which are often complex and ambivalent (28)], and about alternative treatments, and their causal beliefs (which may differ from our own) is also important.
Memories of suburbia, questions of integrity, thoughts on time passing and portents of decline fill the ambivalent anthems on Arcade Fire's third album.
I see his point but I still felt ambivalent, so I asked scholars and practitioners of Vodou to share their thoughts [full disclosure: I have personal connections with everyone interviewed from the Vodou and Harvard communities].
