Sentence examples for complex and ambivalent from inspiring English sources

Hansen demonstrates the complex and ambivalent nature of ordinary township life.

His father's response to the Cultural Revolution was more complex and ambivalent.

But their attitudes are more complex and ambivalent than Brands allows.

Those are not the words of a Hollywood hero, but of a complex and ambivalent man.

The conflicting inclinations of his complex and ambivalent personality found expression in his sexual relationships.

He accused Baldwin of foregoing "the rich, complex, and ambivalent sensibility of the novelist" and acquiring the "thinness" of the polemicist.

The gaiety and naturalness of Haydn's music held less appeal to the Romantic era of the 19th century, however, when dark, complex moods and ambivalent emotions were being explored in music; although many of his symphonies and quartets were performed with some frequency well past 1850, by the end of the century they had all but slipped from the repertory.

Loki the god has been described as "a staggeringly complex, confusing, and ambivalent figure".

And when we remember that God will dig a rib out of Adam's wound in order to create the beautiful, the golden Eve, we realize how complicated, how complex and how ambivalent, Milton's little image is here at the beginning of the poem.

The public's reactions to the events of the last two months have been so extreme and apparently contradictory that they have sent social scientists back to the drawing boards, providing them with a real-life, real-time laboratory in which to measure the complex and often ambivalent relationship Americans have with their government.

Anderson's oils on canvas are also intellectually sophisticated, physiologically complex and psychologically ambivalent.