It is reminiscent of Susan Brownmiller's Against Our Will, the feminist anti-rape bible, which was ambivalent on the lynching of 14-year-old Emmet Till for whistling at a white woman.
A tough line with China could weaken America's alliance with Japan, which is deeply ambivalent about appearing to team up against a country it once occupied.
Mr Duncan Smith has stressed the value of NATO, the danger to it of Mr Blair's plans for a "European army", and the Tories' strengthened belief in the need for missile defences, about which Labour is ambivalent.
In other words, as he feels more trusting and open with you, he may be more forthright about some of the ways in which he is ambivalent about some aspects of the gender role he is supposed to embody.
By a first attempt to measure and map ecological embeddedness, the author intends to contribute to the operationalisation of the embeddedness concept, which is characterised as ambivalent, fuzzy and dynamic (see e.g., [Goodman, D., 2003. The quality 'turn' and alternative food practices: reflections and agenda. Editorial. Journal of Rural Studies 19 (1 7 1–7; Markusen, A., 1999.
The study is important because it bears on the nature of depression, a subject about which our culture is ambivalent.
However, the views about the legitimacy, value and likely efficacy of traditional therapies of those who decided to seek treatment within the folk sector (mainly first generation migrants) were often at variance with those of recipients of the treatment (mainly second generation), which were often ambivalent, sceptical and even hostile.
You have this vegetating ball of fibrous masses which eventually will form into what Blake calls Urizen, which is a sort of strange, ambivalent God-like figure.
Since the evaluation component of the study relied on self-reports, there may be a bias in the perspectives provided without observing men's actions in their relationships, families and communities after the intervention (Dworkin et al. 2013), which is useful to assess 'men's ambivalent attitudes toward gender equality and distance between concept and practice' (Ratele 2014, 511).
The former Journal managing editor Norman Pearlstine, who presided over the Milken coverage (which won a Pulitzer Prize), is ambivalent about Murdoch owning the newspaper; he respects the investment and business strategies he might institute, but of Murdoch's journalistic conscience he says, "That's the question.
