Sentence examples for ambivalent when from inspiring English sources

Susanna was ambivalent when Meehan asked her to take over.

"Danish public opinion is very ambivalent, when it comes to Christiania," he added.

The British public was ambivalent when the taskforce was on its way to the south Atlantic.

Many slang terms are primarily derogatory, though they may also be ambivalent when used in intimacy or affection.

Americans are ambivalent when it comes to the role of labor and the working classes in society.

Perhaps that is what made me a touch ambivalent when I considered how I would have done the job myself.

He makes ambivalent faces when I ask how she's settled in.

But such hope must be tempered with the understanding that Western-style universities are ambivalent places when it comes to encouraging greater equality.

On Wednesday, however, Russia seemed to strike a more ambivalent note when Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov released a statement expressing cautious support for the draft resolution, but stressing that it is far from completion.

The vampire and the transvestite – both disturbingly ambivalent creatures when you think about it (the one half dead and half alive, the other half man and half woman) – enter each other's loneliness.

When body parts become artistic or domestic objects we find ourselves caught between repulsion and ambivalent fascination – especially when a skull is used as a drinking vessel.