Sentence examples for ambivalent work from inspiring English sources

The concert opened with Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin, an ambivalent work that preserves musical tradition even as it mourns their inevitable change.

Written in 1862, when he was already very ill and increasingly at odds with the European musical establishment, it's a beautiful, ambivalent work that takes Much Ado About Nothing as the starting point for a meditation on youthful idealism and musical uncertainty.

Truth be told, as a society we have been ambivalent about work hours as long as — well, as long as we have been a society.

When I asked the artist directly how his show engages with these issues, he replied, "Some people are ambivalent to work's creative aspiration and reduce art to a commodity with financial up-side.

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Allen can be literal-minded about his thematic polarities, but, in this movie, he has put actors with first-class temperament on the screen, and his writing is both crisp and ambivalent: he works everything out with a stringent thoroughness that still allows room for surprise.

And though biographers say Fitzgerald was ambivalent about working in Hollywood, he certainly wanted to find success here.

Carter's vast abstract canvas left me feeling ambivalent, as his work often does.

Scholes has a newspaper column and is a TV pundit but he is ambivalent about the work in front of the cameras.

Hence the ambivalent attitude at work in Plastic Beach, which both cautions about ecological damage yet retains some faith in the planet's ability to turn adversity to its advantage.

"Perhaps if you were part of a culture that actually felt less ambivalent about mothers working, and had a system of child care in place where it was okay for mothers to work, I think you would automatically feel less guilt and pressure to spend more time with kids," she said.