Sentence examples for experience ambivalent from inspiring English sources

Parents of premature infants often experience ambivalent or negative emotions toward their infants and/or about themselves during hospitalisation and after discharge.

Some of the CHC-nurses in this study experienced ambivalent feelings regarding childhood overweight and obesity and there was a tendency by CHC-nurses to minimise the concern about overweight in younger children.

His reflections on his own fraternity experience, although ambivalent, are tinged with fondness.

Instead she talks to other "hidden children," now in their 60's, who describe their own ambiguous experiences and ambivalent feelings.

But, surprisingly, I find myself experiencing an ambivalent nostalgia for the unsophisticated past and a hope that Peekskill, in its new multidimensionality, will remember its hardscrabble dreamy-eyed misfits and continue to provide a solid foothold from which they may aspire.

His book is about the profoundly ambivalent experience of playing them — close readings (close playings?) mostly of big-budget action and science fiction titles for consoles like the Xbox and PlayStation.

Just ask Spike Lee, who at 61 finally received his first Best Director nomination for BlacKkKlansman, nearly 30 years after Do the Right Thing wasn't nominated for Best Picture or Best Director at the 1990 Oscars. Lee did get a nod for Best Original Screenplay that year, but the prize went to Dead Poets Society, and the experience left Lee ambivalent about awards.

Looking for an evolutionary based rationale of emotional piloerection, one might also speculate that the ambivalent experience of being moved or touched in response to the sublime may involve feelings of vulnerability or even imminence (Keltner and Haidt, 2003; Konečni, 2005).

Considering these ambivalent experiences, students must learn to leave this "mesh" and differentiate good from bad experiences in academic life.

Alice Walker's touching and provocative collection of autobiographical stories is filled with truisms -- Life is a mystery... love does not accept barriers of any kind" -- yet Walker is capable of surprisingly complex insights into the tenuity of desire and marriage, the saving grace of friendship and the ambivalent experiences of African-Americans since the civil rights movement.

For those patients who reported ambivalent experiences, cCBT was not rejected outright but was considered ineffective without greater external support and frustrating due to the lack of personalisation of material within the programme.