Sentence examples for from ambivalent from inspiring English sources
Elizabeth Gaskell identified her "sensations of perpetual nausea and ever-recurring faintness" but since, at that time and indeed until the middle of the last century, doctors thought morning sickness was psychosomatic - resulting from ambivalent feelings about becoming a mother - it could have been politeness that caused Brontë's doctor to write TB on her death certificate.
The various candidates to succeed Daley have ranged from ambivalent to outraged on the meters issue.
As time has passed, public opinion has turned from ambivalent about the presence of witchers to largely negative, and due to their propensity for violence and their unnatural mutations, they are viewed with a degree of mistrust.
A full treatise on the reasons for and history of the opposition is beyond this paper, but suffice it to say that opposition ranges from ambivalent to extreme.
If Yahoo's demise stemmed in part from being ambivalent about technology, perhaps Microsoft's error stemmed in part from being ambivalent about ad sales: we couldn't get the senior execs interested enough to intervene.
As some reviews have noted, it takes cues from similarly ambivalent Facebook drama The Social Network.
But not even an overrule could keep Davenport from her ambivalent appointment with the top ranking.
Edvard never relented, despite reading "The Shadow" – on his deathbed Andersen was still thirsting for affirmation from this ambivalent friend.
The Radcliffe Committee said that much of the difficulty in arousing the public toward the dangers of Communist infiltration arises from "the ambivalent attitude" of the government.
Apart from the ambivalent nationalist response to the second world war, the other episode that has most tantalised Scottish writers in recent years is the unexplained death of the fringe nationalist figure Willie MacRae in 1985.
For John Kerry, the risks are less obvious but no less real: running a campaign that focuses the voters' gaze solely on the president's manifest failures will probably run into resistance, especially with the voters he most needs to win over, those from the ambivalent middle.
