Sentence examples for if ambivalent from inspiring English sources

Moore seems happy, if ambivalent.

Some party-switchers were supportive, if ambivalent.

The British, for their part, say they find the French cordial, if ambivalent, hosts.

As part of the once-formidable Iroquois Six Nations in western New York, Senecas occupied a significant if ambivalent place within the newly established United States.

Though, unlike London's English National Opera, it has never opted exclusively for opera in the vernacular, the company remains a frequent if ambivalent showcase for opera in English.

"The Lady with the Dog" is said to be Chekhov's riposte to Anna Karenina, his defence of illicit love against Tolstoy's harsh (if ambivalent) condemnation of it.

For one thing, Shulevitz is nothing if not ambivalent, and ambivalence is a sign of an interesting mind.

But the show would have so much more power and pain if these ambivalent friends claimed the foreground for themselves.

Americans are nothing if not ambivalent about celebrities who think their achievements in one field entitle them to be heard in another.

It was almost as if the ambivalent place in the world that Somalia held – a state only in name, a stretch of Africa heavily influenced by Asia – was reflected in the confusion these children experienced.

(She lets him light her daily cigarette). As it is, you clearly and soberly see their places in the judiciously arranged social canvas of "Caroline". But the show would have so much more power and pain if these ambivalent friends claimed the foreground for themselves.