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"ambivalence" Definitions
  1. ambivalence (about/towards somebody/something) the fact of having or showing both positive and negative feelings about somebody/something

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" While Della is trying to work through her ambivalence, Macy helpfully explains that "ambivalence is just as evil as violence.
I used to believe that China was best approached with ambivalence, but in the last few years the ambivalence has faded into wariness.
The least extraordinary thing about the early republic was its ambivalence toward fraud, and the most extraordinary thing about our current, late republic is that this ambivalence still widely holds.
It wasn't really ambivalence — both ways were equally delicious.
Still others resolved their ambivalence by siding with their party.
Komeito's ambivalence, then, remains a major hurdle for Abe's ambitions.
Russell's desire for Evie, for all her ambivalence, is intoxicating.
The ape also shows the same ambivalence as a child.
All characters in this tableau are imbued with moral ambivalence.
I just did that with that Bibio album, Ambivalence Avenue.
Maybe because ambivalence is what he's embraced most of all.
Stephen Sondheim is the American musical's supreme artist of ambivalence.
If so, he might also bear Shakespeare's ambivalence in mind.
Ms. Harris and Mr. Booker have shown no such ambivalence.
And it reveals some of that ambivalence in the work.
America, by contrast, only had the bonfire of its ambivalence.
Turks are handling the economic crisis with ambivalence and humor.
Californians know all about outsider ambivalence toward the Golden State.
Camaraderie and an ambivalence toward winning contests permeate the culture.
It has sowed ambivalence and division among Asian ethnic groups.
She was also honest about her ambivalence in coming forward.
Boys frequently expressed ambivalence to me about their porn habits.
The ambivalence of the Trump administration has further spooked insurers.
And he expressed no ambivalence in his support for Clinton.
The scariest thing about that premonition is our ambivalence. Why?
The results may be uneven, but ambivalence remains a constant.
There's also, true to its core ambivalence, a lot less.
So there's always that ambivalence, always really powerful for actors.
Perhaps it's because Prohibition itself reveals a deep American ambivalence.
Here he was, caught in a middle ground of ambivalence.
Our culture readily demonizes parental ambivalence, never mind parental alienation.
He often expressed ambivalence about his part in the episode.
Last Friday, the State Department doubled down on that ambivalence.
But it's missing its predecessor's sense of ambivalence and helplessness.
But that ambivalence is not small feat on The Leftovers' part.
It's important to experience that "ferocious ambivalence," the threshold of freedom.
But fashion has always been the focal point of my ambivalence.
Maintaining this ambivalence is a difficult feat that Goldberg does well.
This ambivalence toward fraud, Bricker and others said, is no secret.
There is no award that magically eradicates a culture of ambivalence.
STUART That's a lot of ambivalence for one short paragraph, Stuart.
Still, the president himself continues to express ambivalence about the deal.
He has tapped into a deep American ambivalence about the world.
I'd written a piece for Elle that was about my ambivalence.
Ten minutes in, my feeling is closer to ambivalence than arousal.
Overall, I was terribly alarmed by the universe of moral ambivalence.
It also showcased the deep ambivalence Mr. Trump's visit has elicited.
But ambivalence has dominated San Diego's cool ocean breeze of late.
She is well aware of this division or ambivalence within herself.
"The light of ambivalence is a heavenly one," he once said.
Both are "often driven by an ambivalence about life," he said.
Her ambivalence always seemed healthy even when she herself was not.
A compulsively readable book that deftly grapples with maternal ambivalence. —T.
"; we disparage and deport those Appiah calls "the confessors of ambivalence.
It's an ambivalence I apparently share with lots of other Angelenos.
But the response from the wife signified more of a disheartening ambivalence.
In place of previous ambivalence, badges screaming "Bollox to Brexit" were everywhere.
But it often comes across as a signifier of ambivalence and shame.
The older I got, the more my ambivalence toward him set in.
My ambivalence toward having a baby itself is not, of course, uncommon.
The ambivalence regarding the election can be seen across the energy industry.
There were also signs of a long-standing ambivalence towards national politics.
Harris rang a bell of ambivalence that would echo throughout the night.
I know I am not alone in my ambivalence toward retirement savings.
A 2015 Marine Corps study is the latest expression of such ambivalence.
This painful ambivalence to our past extends down to me as well.
KM: Perhaps that ambivalence can be our version of an outer shell?
Literature to Bob Dylan this fall therefore produced a moment of ambivalence
Others, including manager Alex Cora, have expressed ambivalence about making the trip.
Mr. Chang has expressed some ambivalence about the possibility of cashing out.
Archer's ambivalence about everything, most of all himself, makes his insight credible.
That ambivalence can be frustrating, but I personally find it very empowering.
And unfortunately a general ambivalence by the population is letting it happen.
The responses have been wide-ranging: outrage, disappointment, and tone-deaf ambivalence.
But as the conversation continued, that ambivalence seemed to mask deeper concerns.
Now he wrestles with ambivalence for never having seen combat while serving.
Tribes who remained east of the Mississippi approached the war with ambivalence.
The underlying reasons are found in women's culturally learned ambivalence about power.
Let me say that with a name like mine, there is ambivalence.
Abe's nationalism is further complicated by its ambivalence toward the United States.
She admits her ambivalence about it but cannot deny its emotional impact.
But my ambivalence evaporated when I actually tried one of the exercises.
And yet I viewed her with a certain ambivalence in this setting.
And Harding's attitude toward his protagonist had shifted from admiration to ambivalence.
Ambivalence is a polite word for Stafford's feelings for her own family.
An energy lobbyist based in Washington said he understood the industry's ambivalence.
Ambivalence: The British psychotherapist Rozsika Parker wrote in "Torn in Two: The Experience of Maternal Ambivalence" about the pull and push of wanting a child close, and also craving space (physically and emotionally) as the normal wave of motherhood.
No matter how the vote comes out, British ambivalence will not go away.
In the end, though, ambivalence is the fate of nearly every movement. Going
I have come to believe that ambivalence about institutional stewardship is an ethics.
And maybe that perceived ambivalence was the whole goal of their strategic choreography.
I wonder — do you share some of your characters' ambivalence about mentor status?
Hoping the government will take care of them, they choose ignorance, or ambivalence.
It's a slightly awkward move that captures the moral ambivalence tormenting many Republicans.
The story of Mr Pence, in short, contains some religious and denominational ambivalence.
And so you can see how you get this ambivalence about working women.
This ambivalence began to creep in to all the areas of my life.
If this music proves too slight for some, blame its open-ended ambivalence.
It was a surprise announcement that Sony greeted (publicly, at least) with ambivalence.
What Camus and Daoud share, then, is a deep ambivalence toward their homeland.
Gil Penchina on angel investing, market timing, and his ambivalence to venture capital
Israel -- concerned by the outgoing administration's ambivalence -- reached out to Trump for support.
Thirty-eight percent approved either slightly or strongly, and 13 percent reported ambivalence.
On Twitter, some black women adopted a hashtag to express their ambivalence: #GirlIGuessImWithHer.
Their answers offered a welter of anger and joy, and ambivalence brimming over.
That helps drive his ambivalence and fuel a colossal case of survivor's guilt.
Can the French overcome their ambivalence about money to lure bankers from London?
But he also hinted at some ambivalence about the outcome of the trial.
"I think it is both exploitative and generous," Cooper says with frank ambivalence.
Long-standing research conducted by social psychologists has shown that ambivalence is stressful.
And you may feel better once you realize how common Christmas ambivalence is.
Communism was a bad memory, and its architectural legacy inspired, at best, ambivalence.
Still, the Israeli government has displayed some ambivalence in embracing the Palestinian residents.
The play concludes with a wordless morning after that glows with aching ambivalence.
Mr. DeHaan brings an air of curdled innocence that inspires an interesting ambivalence.
" This ambivalence speaks directly to the tone of the final season of "BoJack.
And his ambivalence speaks to a fundamental and growing problem for the union.
But she said that she felt lonely in her ambivalence at the time.
Their ambivalence devolves into panic as they find themselves fearing for their lives.
It's sort of what West Brom used to be, but with more ambivalence.
As Tweeten noted in the discussion afterwards, Incoming is a film of ambivalence.
His predicament underscored deep ambivalence among Americans, both Democrats and Republicans, on immigration.
On Thursday night, we got a hint of the ambivalence afflicting the President-elect.
This ambivalence deepens Ms. Simmons's art and keeps it from falling into simplistic agitprop.
My self-taught ambivalence about people showing up for me had become second nature.
But he also describes with disarming honesty his ambivalence about the work he did.
It shows a kind of ambivalence on Louise's part to the role of motherhood.
Cruddas said at the time that clients had shown "complete ambivalence" to regulatory issues.
Superpower ambivalence — both when it comes to costumed heroes and nation states — is catching.
But the heart can't feign ambivalence for long when it knows its own desire.
"I have an ambivalence about awards in the arts, especially competitive awards," he said.
Polling on the overhaul has shown ambivalence on the part of the American public.
Turkey's Western allies began accusing it of clinging to ambivalence toward the Islamic State.
Seated before them, the president-elect did not disguise his ambivalence about The Times.
I am trying to follow what you are saying on that, but drug ambivalence?
Holidays have always been occasion for angst, ambivalence and sometimes, despite everything, genuine celebration.
For Stereolab, the dust that settles is in political jadedness; ambivalence masked as prosperity.
But there was one little nugget of gold buried in the sand of ambivalence.
In their angry, cascading comment threads, Make America Great's followers express no such ambivalence.
Coupled with the wall, though, it also symbolized the city's enduring ambivalence about immigration.
"Good Grief" still registers throughout as an affecting study of the ambivalence of bereavement.
Or is the indifference an unconscious manifestation of the author's lifelong ambivalence toward facts?
One of the two managers of Wellington, Edward P. Bousa, expressed ambivalence about 2008.
About his recovery from this injury four years later, Cameron feels a moving ambivalence.
Jenner's ambivalence regarding the app appeared to have an immediate effect on Snapchat investors.
We regular folks are complicated — tied in knots of ambivalence and befogged with uncertainties.
The desperate desire to bear children recurs but so too does ambivalence, even revulsion.
Some ambivalence is probably in order about the practice of publicly posting deposition videos.
"This ambivalence and deliberate obfuscating can create opportunity to win voters over," Smidt said.
As I recall these episodes, I feel ambivalence about having him on our trip.
They could be said to mask yet reveal Humphrey's painful ambivalence about his homosexuality.
"Heavy" is a gorgeous, gutting book that's fueled by candor yet freighted with ambivalence.
Oscar Wilde knew how to dramatize that ambivalence, no doubt because he lived it.
So hopefully I'll have more information — and less ambivalence — once I've heard him out.
How well that approach represents the ambivalence at the show's core is another matter.
But I don't think Lane is playing uncertainty or ambivalence in any conventional sense.
What makes it all so compelling, even heartbreaking, is Ms. Lucas's obviously deep ambivalence.
My husband thinks he's selfish and immature, so I'm not alone in my ambivalence.
Delivered in theatrical shorthand, finer shades of ambivalence in Ferrante's prose become baldfaced contradictions.
So any pretense that abortion is not killing is a signal of our ambivalence.
Most of it is harmless nonsense, and it's easy to be lulled into ambivalence.
"Shopping and …" by the H.I.V.-positive writer Mark Ravenhill matches its explicitness and ambivalence.
Many historians and others note that Russia lives with a certain ambivalence toward 1917.
King expressed ambivalence about the U.S.'s ability to deter Moscow from interfering again.
What was once enthusiasm and optimism has now mostly faded to ambivalence or cynicism.
But ambivalence and pockets of support were drowned out by some lawmakers' staunch opposition.
If there's been a theme for this season, it's arguably been ambivalence and indecision.
Trumpwave exploits a vulnerability in vaporwave: its ambivalence about the cultural detritus that inspired it.
Kardashian, who married Odom in 2009, has often spoken about her ambivalence toward being divorced.
But alongside that ambivalence towards foreign entanglements, he offered a message of altruism and exceptionalism.
Tweet," a duality that creates ambivalence towards the president, even among his strongest supporters. "Dr.
"This Is Acting" (Monkey Puzzle/RCA) "This Is Acting" declares its ambivalence with its title.
And even among voters repelled by her party's xenophobic baggage, there is an alarming ambivalence.
But the men's ambivalence about the densely packed neighborhood in upper Manhattan stayed with them.
"What pops up is ambivalence," explains Juli Fraga, PsyD, a practicing psychotherapist in San Francisco.
There is an ambivalence about the men who prevail in our most cherished national contests.
Milosz showed genuine ambivalence about the notion of a poet as a witness to history.
Korchnoi wears smoky dark glasses that we might call the transition-lenses of moral ambivalence.
Did his ambivalence on the fugitive slave issue make him a statesman or a sellout?
But she also admits to feeling some ambivalence about the attention the damage has drawn.
Gil Penchina on angel investing, market timing, and his ambivalence to venture capital Niko Bonatsos
The movie's first half has a conceptual lucidity that is later clouded over with ambivalence.
But his ambivalence is suggested by the room full of crucifixes that he secretly maintains.
Mr. McCullough, the Oakland resident who received a marijuana license in January, has no ambivalence.
President Trump's perceived ambivalence toward gun control could be tamping down firearms sales, analysts said.
Chief Justice John Roberts seemed to be the only conservative justice to have any ambivalence.
"Coward" recurs frequently, appropriate to a work in which people are often paralyzed by ambivalence.
The ambivalence of Franz's position begins with the first day of her year alone: Feb.
Indeed, he acknowledged that he had a volatile temperament and that it rarely provoked ambivalence.
And she allows the layers of ambivalence in this exquisite score to color everything onstage.
So how can the court get past its ambivalence and strike down clearly unfair maps?
The ambivalence that many residents of La Courneuve exhibited toward the presidential campaign was reciprocated.
She also voiced ambivalence about calls from Trump allies for the Tennessee Republican to resign.
In that unprecedented and uncertain historic moment, Nazarbayev opted for strategic ambivalence to gain time.
And he shows Arnold's ambivalence about letting others perceive the genuine fragility that he caricatures.
In contrast, the people I spoke with expressed a deep ambivalence about identifying as affluent.
They both loved the estate's security and relaxed atmosphere, but they also shared some ambivalence.
The show's handling of them has contributed to the overall feeling of ambivalence and lethargy.
His rhetoric contained degrees of ambivalence, deflection, and — above all — avoidance about Obama's signature achievement.
Square's images evoke the ambivalence accompanying proffered freedom, even with diplomas denoting rarefied academic achievements.
"You can't blame second-wave feminism for our ambivalence about wanting a kid," Richard tells her.
Ambivalence is seeping in about her authenticity and the power of her symbolism as a woman.
This ambivalence towards milk becomes even more stark when you think about our obsession with caffeine.
Mr Corbyn's ambivalence on Brexit seems to be driving many Remain voters to the smaller parties.
Voters' ambivalence toward established parties is often attributed to changes beyond the scope of domestic politics.
She even wears the perfect color — grey — to symbolize the ambivalence of her feelings for Steve!
Even in the northeast, a traditional Shinawatra vote bank, ambivalence towards Thaksin isn't hard to find.
In interviews with several #NeverTrump conservatives, VICE found a deep ambivalence toward the 2016 presidential race.
The book's title reflects her profound ambivalence about her decision to accuse her brother of murder.
None of the other women had children, by self-preserving design, and despite intense emotional ambivalence.
And knowing the ambivalence of that moment, they left it open-ended so she doesn't die.
Ambivalence can mean being torn between contradictory ideas, but for Juliet's grandmother Vita, it meant possibility.
Not too long ago, Jews were still well acquainted with the ambivalence of their American compatriots.
Ambivalence can cause major damage to an alliance whose deterrence value rests solely in its credibility.
Talking to Hammon, though, I was struck by her ambivalence about her role as a pioneer.
Until this weekend, Trump had expressed ambivalence over Mueller's testimony, leaving the decision up to Barr.
And there was little ambivalence about the demolition of the buildings, which were attractive but unimportant.
Initial U.S. government opposition to the coup was replaced by ambivalence and soon thereafter by acceptance.
I wonder if Mallory had a similar sense of ambivalence as he neared his own summit.
Still, Ella and Wesley both convey their hurt and their ambivalence toward Weston's power over them.
I wonder what would he say to America about its silence and ambivalence toward his death?
Haggard's ambivalence was emblematic of how many people felt at the time: sometimes hawkish, sometimes dovish.
Many voters expressed an ambivalence — "hold your nose and vote" — about their support of Mr. Menendez.
She applies a similar intensity to talk about how mothers hide their ambivalence about their children.
Fritzsche turns their surprise, ambivalence, enthusiasm or horror into far greater account than most other historians.
The profound rage, pain, ecstasy and ambivalence that Ms. Maxwell brought to the role was searing.
One thing Left shares with the financiers he routinely assails is a certain ambivalence about Trump.
Listen: Vagabon's songs feature mixed, elusive emotions: longing and ambivalence, displacement and stability, fear and hope.
It's important to learn how to tolerate, and even get comfortable with the discomfort of ambivalence.
They struggled with their own disappointment, with frustration and ambivalence around what that hookup culture meant.
Opening on a note of quirky vitality, "Goldie" fades out on a sigh of bittersweet ambivalence.
But this time, I'm wading into new emotional waters, rethinking my lifelong ambivalence toward princess culture.
But, he added, the town's history as a den of vice has also created some ambivalence.
As I prepared to post the winner to Instagram, my own wave of ambivalence washed over.
On closer examination when it comes to Islamism, American ambivalence towards Islamism is on full display.
For this reason, a melancholy ambivalence can cling to even the most inspiring stories of leadership.
Perhaps the most American thing about the Jungle Books is the way they reflect that ambivalence.
There's his love-hate relationship with his own ambition, his ambivalence about his own complacent fans.
So there is a great deal of ambivalence in Kenny's work about human capacity and growth.
This year the artists maintained a polite decorum, even when explaining their ambivalence about the institution.
This woman doesn't — can't — fear what having a child will mean for her hard-won social and intellectual autonomy; she isn't concerned with the right to express ambivalence toward this oldest and strongest of binds — indeed, she perhaps views maternal ambivalence as a somewhat grotesque luxury.
Opinion polls in Britain consistently show high levels of ambivalence, ignorance and suspicion about the European Union.
Democrats in Congress have long been critical of Trump's seeming ambivalence toward other countries' human rights violations.
The root of the discomfort may be a feeling of ambivalence about what exactly these pictures portray.
This generation, once marked by ambivalence or inability to buy homes, has begun to reconsider its goals.
The public's ambivalence means that Uber has more opportunity than most companies to reshape its public image.
That Mr Gillespie refuses to fully embrace the president contributes to Trump loyalists' ambivalence toward his candidacy.
Underlying the political issue is a historic ambivalence about freedom of speech in the world's largest democracy.
Kaepernick's ambivalence toward our flag and anthem, specifically, also has plenty of historical precedent in American sports.
Even mainstream American continues to maintain a sense of ambivalence, for some even downright hostility, towards whistleblowers.
She confronts Troy about this — and his affair with Professor Hobbs — and is met with general ambivalence.
This only makes golf's striking ambivalence about the merits of joining the games all the more infuriating.
Ambivalence, apathy, rage, self-sabotage — all these other "ambition conditions" are the quirky relatives of impostor syndrome.
It was the sound of music critiquing its own historical situation by virtue of its sheer ambivalence.
Avoid waffling or attempting to communicate your ambivalence indirectly, which can lead to more confusion and heartache.
But in the same program notes, Mr. Palestine also expressed his ambivalence about the act of transcription.
He wanted their work to get made, whereas sometimes she suffered the classic ambivalence of an architect.
Its ending — which is both shocking and a little too neat structurally — has a deep emotional ambivalence.
" The source, who requested anonymity to discuss McGrath frankly, said, "There's still some ambivalence about her candidacy.
She also voiced ambivalence about calls from Trump allies for the Tennessee Republican to resign. http://bit.
But "Silk Stockings" is less seamless entertainment, in part because of its ambivalence regarding American show business.
The greatest fear for them is a filmmaker who has an ambivalence or hostility toward the audience.
But continued ambivalence, with polls narrowing, is tantamount to suggesting Clinton and Donald Trump represent comparable risks.
Their declarations ranged from incredulity to ambivalence, all finding nightclubs impossibly unappealing places to spend their time.
Sotelo's complicated ambivalence about men who "still love girls, but rarely admit it" is disturbing and authentic.
What you might notice is that all of that election-related ambivalence assumes a mostly progressive audience.
We are presented a portrait of marriage in its loneliness and awkwardness, a dense braid of ambivalence.
Span: You invent a category in your book for people with ambivalence about this role: the Nonos.
Books of The Times It can be hard for criticism to cohere when it's perforated by ambivalence.
I think this confusion reflects a deeper ambivalence about how we want and expect people to behave.
The ambivalence of belonging to a clan — and by extension, to a race of beings — is pervasive.
Yet there is an ambivalence and humor to the way Turks are handling the crisis so far.
Still, in the interview, Mr. Puigdemont professed ambivalence about his current leadership role and politics in general.
" And nothing so invites ambivalence for this poet as America: "It is not enough/To love you.
Why do you think fund-raisers often confront ambivalence when pitching the cause to big-name philanthropists?
But the cast is more than solid, and the characters they play are drawn with nonjudgmental ambivalence.
In 2016, the actor expressed ambivalence when asked if he'd lampoon then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Kawakami's characters, surrounded by discarded objects, update this ephemeral "Tale of Genji" ambivalence to the broken present.
I encountered that ambivalence from the two doctors I met in a coffee shop in downtown Taipei.
When they shun you with silence, ambivalence, and judgmental brush offs… just put the song out anyway.
His patients' ambivalence towards further intervention can be obvious before he even meets them face to face.
But many Google activists have come to share Mr. Lynd's and Mr. Gross's ambivalence about traditional unions.
Complicating matters, I frequently detect ambivalence in patients who tell me they want to die at home.
Until a week or so ago, the Republican Party greeted him with a conspicuous and profound ambivalence.
"There was at best ambivalence among California voters about their senator running for president," Baldassare told POLITICO.
Embodied with wonderfully delicate ambivalence by Ms. Lorrain, Philomena is the audience's surrogate in coming to consciousness.
Monique had recently married a man after a four-year engagement, yet her ambivalence about him persisted.
But there's a certain ambivalence in the catharsis Chee finds in How to Write an Autobiographical Novel.
When Democrats mobilized to stop Obamacare repeal (with help from Republican ambivalence and dysfunction), they actually stopped it.
Her ambivalence — her eagerness to be seen and unseen — is more interesting than pure enthusiasm could ever be.
I always feel a ferocious ambivalence: I want to be nowhere else; I want to be anywhere else.
Her parents, sisters and husband struggle on camera with their ambivalence about the holistic therapies she also undertakes.
Similarly so is the strenuous ambivalence about it all from Donald Trump and some of his media cheerleaders.
But we're not sure what her ultimate intent here is – and that ambivalence is frustrating rather than intriguing.
In an email to employees, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince expressed ambivalence about giving the Daily Stormer the boot.
As a fighting game fanatic, I was pretty surprised by the traditional eSports community's ambivalence towards fighting games.
And it suggests an ongoing ambivalence about what it means to be a girl in the first place.
At its most compelling, the book delves wholeheartedly into Obama's ambivalence about her status as a political wife.
False assumptions about the costs of funding America's overseas military presence could, in part, explain the public's ambivalence.
Even some law enforcement officials in Georgia expressed ambivalence about reaching back through the decades to impose punishment.
Real moral progress may involve studying the forms of doubt and ambivalence that sometimes attend acts of brutality.
Jerry Young, President of the National Baptist Convention USA, said white supremacy cannot be dismissed with moral ambivalence.
This ambivalence has irked Russia but has bought Belarus time to allow a real private sector to emerge.
This is the irony of Trump's ambivalence about McMaster: there should have been no question about his loyalty.
It is full of Tyler's signature virtues — domestic details, familial conflict, emotional ambivalence, a sharp sense of place.
Their ambivalence suggests they could turn against Mr. Trump if he does not deliver quickly on his promises.
In Britain, the colonial experiment is still approached with something akin to public ambivalence, tilting towards lukewarm approval.
The recordings include commiseration among colleagues, and ambivalence from engineers who vacillated between criticizing and defending the project.
Has there been any change in the ambivalence with which the rest of the country viewed New York?
Finally, the way you discuss sex and sexuality suggests some real ambivalence about whether sex is for you.
This scale shift renders the painting's productive ambivalence, as it plays between the human and the "natural" world.
Many Indians believe hijras have the power to bless or curse, and hijras trade off this uneasy ambivalence.
But it would be the nature of that impact to be felt only in conditions of overwhelming ambivalence.
Whether Europe can protect itself — again particularly with the Trump administration's ambivalence about NATO — is an open question.
Ben-Shaul, like the Daniels, felt some ambivalence about the form, even as he sought to develop it.
Indeed, evidence of Americans' ambivalence arose as pollsters found that the strike on Soleimani made them feel unsafe.
He now cunningly sidesteps the issue of marriage, concealing his ambivalence in a sea of "lip-deep" promises.
At the very least, it's impossible to watch "The Disappearance of My Mother" without a measure of ambivalence.
This zone of ambivalence is the natural habitat of the choreographer John Heginbotham and the artist Maira Kalman.
To judge by Katie Roiphe's previous work, ambivalence and vulnerability aren't qualities that she holds in high esteem.
I suspect it also explains the ambivalence with which some Generation X women have greeted the #MeToo movement.
Some of these are centered on a native son's ambivalence about the patriarchal, agrarian society he comes from.
If the success of the challenge had come at the expense of other charities, ambivalence might be justified.
But those efforts have long been plagued by a deep cultural ambivalence toward both charity and working mothers.
Ambivalence, that peculiar mental habit of laughing while mad, remains the only possible, the ideal form of sanity.
My first impression from these conversations was that there existed a staggering level of ambivalence and absence of enthusiasm.
Normalizing ambivalence is crucial for those women who do wish to become mothers but aren't always thrilled about it.
China's press coverage of this latest launch was typical of the ambivalence that characterizes its attitude to North Korea.
His emotional arc throughout Creed II makes for a bittersweet complement to Adonis' own ambivalence about their shared history.
A stalling economy or another financial shock could well force the country's leaders to reconsider their ambivalence about privatisation.
The sun peeked out, then skittered behind clouds, with a make-up-your-mind ambivalence typical to Seattle summers.
"Ride Blind" is the perfect example of that because it expresses the ambivalence I feel about being a nomad.
Men are often the perpetrators of harm, through ambivalence or willful violence, and young, primarily female characters the victims.
"They have obviously had some ambivalence in their own lives, because they voted for it before," Franks said Wednesday.
Board of Education, a recent ruling when I was at Garrison, had been received with ambivalence across the nation.
Yet despite my theological ambivalence, I am turning somersaults to say Kaddish at three different prayer services each day.
Two weeks later, despite Americans' profound ambivalence to refugees, President Harry S. Truman issued the Truman Directive on Dec.
Of course there's ambivalence in trumpeting Prince Albert because what makes it exceptional is its aura of being undiscovered.
While his money is welcome and needed, there seems to be a certain ambivalence about Soros within Democratic circles.
Mr. Trump has shown ambivalence about Planned Parenthood, sometimes expressing support for its health-related services other than abortion.
Listen: Vagabon's songs feature mixed, elusive emotions: longing and ambivalence, displacement and stability, confronting fears and searching for hope.
In my experience, when women talk among women, our ambivalence or frustration is rarely about our roles as mothers.
The ambivalence of some American conservatives toward the EU is influenced by their disdain for its multilateral government structure.
This new popularity is met with ambivalence, though, by some of those who were there in the early days.
Today, there is still great ambivalence about making the fight against racism a defining issue in the 2020 election.
Despite critical ambivalence, on its first publication, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was a bestseller to rival Jane Eyre.
This is not a total surprise given the parallels between Russia and Turkey, with their ambivalence toward the West.
Fitting with her themes, Davis uses repeated beat panels to express hesitancy, uncertainty, or ambivalence, whether internal or situational.
I finally see the real ambivalence of the gift: Be someone who makes it to the post office. Sometimes.
It may be that he's staking out these positions to express his anxieties and ambivalence about having a child.
The "Wake Up, America!" rally shown on the cover of the Mid-Week Pictorial had no time for ambivalence.
Trump's blessing or even new ambivalence about Tillis could have cleared the way for Walker to pull the trigger.
When he continued to express ambivalence about the importance of getting married, she asked him to marry her herself.
As someone who loves Texas with a triple shot of ambivalence, I take no pleasure in spreading this news.
Nonetheless, their ambivalence about recognizing privilege suggests a deep tension at the heart of the idea of American dream.
But at that tumultuous time in race relations, the work was received with some ambivalence by the art world.
Strindberg's sexual ambivalence dissolves into something even more all-devouring in this landscape of stolen pasts and indeterminate presents.
The Flip might also help solve the problem of Trump's apparent ambivalence about victory, which many observers have noted.
There's some real ambivalence on his face, as if he wasn't sure the attack was worth seeing this carnage.
The backstory on the MULEs is interesting and points at a frustrating ambivalence that turns through much of Death Stranding.
So did my two straight friends with kids, both of whom had previously expressed tons of ambivalence about being parents.
She had told her boyfriend about our hospital romance, and her anxiety and ambivalence about our relationship became more acute.
Joe Lieberman, Gore's 2000 running mate, derided rivals Howard Dean for opposing the war and John Kerry for expressing ambivalence.
We know that DuBois eliminated 18 photographs of happiness and ambivalence, and retained the one that shows a broken family.
The ponderousness and ambivalence that hang over many of the "grown-up" entries in the genre are absent here; Shazam!
Even more than the Maybot's rigidity, the policy was driven by Britain's deep ambivalence about both immigration and identity documents.
The proposed listing of the quadruple-leveraged ETFs comes amid ambivalence on the part of the SEC about such products.
While Banksy's works are public sensations in Europe and the United States, the film shows ambivalence among many in Bethlehem.
It was "the era of permanent smirk, the knocking chuckle, of jokey ambivalence as a way of life," they wrote.
She believes that ambivalence played a role in her decision not to wear a ring during her 20-year marriage.
With no harmonic home to alight on, a line like "Comin' for to carry me home" took on painful ambivalence.
In this exegesis, Orr, the Book Review's poetry columnist, suggests that Frost draws on a particularly American ambivalence about choice.
Despite being a pioneer of electronic music, the composer Steve Reich has maintained a similar ambivalence throughout his long career.
I understand what Allison Benedikt is feeling, but that does not justify her solipsistic ambivalence about the anti-harassment campaign.
By intermission, Mr. Ellis's mood had shifted from deep ambivalence to giddy enthusiasm about the production, which opens on Thursday.
Christiani Pitts, who starred in the Broadway production of "A Bronx Tale," plays the role with a nicely wrought ambivalence.
In this narrative, ambivalence about having children, infertility, unplanned pregnancies or the decision to terminate them are imperfections, flaws, failures.
Ms. Stankevich, who is deciding whether to attend college outside Latvia, said she shared the ambivalence of many Russian speakers.
In only one building in Washington were Mr. McCain's legacy and achievements greeted with anything like ambivalence: the White House.
We have a round-up of some of those stories here, and they include ambivalence, joy and pumping in closets.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, have, at best, expressed an ambivalence on the issue of impeachment.
They often say they would like to be married before starting a family, but some express ambivalence about having children.
"Adios" shows furious arguments at sound checks and reveals the ambivalence with which some of the musicians viewed newfound fame.
I am bracing for a Trump presidency with a concern, mixed with ambivalence, and a healthy dose of cautious optimism.
The second reason -- which describes ambivalence more than outright support for a Sessions removal -- is simply resignation that's it's coming.
Unlike with, say, Ben Affleck, there's no tension or ambivalence between her being an actor and her being a star.
Facebook's ambivalence in applying editorial judgment to the information coursing through its site has repeatedly drawn the company into trouble.
But how the pages turn, even the ones padded with Grace's not entirely believable ambivalence over matters large and small.
So while the Tories have purged dissenting MPs and coalesced around Brexit, Labour radiates ambivalence on the election's central question.
His father is back in the States, and convention promises a lovingly described return, full of sweet struggle, savory ambivalence.
But she complained about Mr. Viafore's interest in pornography and group sex, and described her ambivalence as he was drowning.
These interludes dramatize ambivalence and they stand out, and so do her hard punch lines about sex, family and food.
He also had dealings with Jack, a slick pseudo-reformer whose natural ruthlessness is checked by a hint of ambivalence.
In just a few years Halley Feiffer has become one of our foremost chroniclers of female rage, ambivalence and devastation.
In just a few years, Halley Feiffer has become one of our foremost chroniclers of female rage, ambivalence and devastation.
To understand this ambivalence, it helps to understand where Clinton's feminism started, and where American feminism has gone since then.
The nearly even support suggests ambivalence in the industry between two rivals who have put forward wildly different energy visions.
They marveled at the price of a bottle of water — $5.25 — and the ambivalence of Islanders fans to their new home.
The reality for them is now very clear: Trumps apparent ambivalence to EU is a chimera for his hostility toward it.
The reason for these departures is Alphabet's ambivalence about how tightly it should manage costs, say people close to the firm.
Yuskavage now locates the ambivalence in the aesthetic awe of the painted scenarios that we know better than to believe in.
And he thinks climate change is a hoax, which suggests ambivalence towards fuel-efficiency standards and other drags on oil consumption.
While Democrats are often torn between their business-oriented contributors and their less affluent voters, the GOP shows no such ambivalence.
In February Ms Curtis co-wrote a report calling for a range of measures aimed at ending Pakistan's ambivalence towards terrorism.
Still, Mr Trump's ambivalence about allies is almost an invitation to think through the implications of an end to Pax Americana.
One thing these books have in common is a general ambivalence about the time period their authors are largely identified with.
Tehran, Beijing and Moscow have stepped firmly into the vacuum created by America's distraction on one hand and ambivalence on another.
The ambivalence of many Republicans toward Trump as their party's brazenly defiant nominee will further compound the volatility of the electorate.
My ambivalence has never been about the idea that my liver will end up in Ben Affleck's body without my consent.
But anyone below that upper echelon is given room to breathe, which results in a strange ambivalence about American imperial overreach.
The secret to his majesty is that he was a square citizen, untroubled by ambivalence and having no use for irony.
Obama looms large over this generation, a symbol less of progress than of the fundamental ambivalence of being a black millennial.
Jewish millennials, by contrast, take their parents' youthful critique of America for granted but treat Israel with ambivalence if not disdain.
But despite the obvious economic benefits, the project has become a casualty of the ambivalence Mongolians feel about China's growing influence.
One study published in the Academy of Management indicated that emotional ambivalence signals to people that they're in an unusual environment.
Part of the issue is hookup culture, which promotes ambivalence and dominates the narrative about sex on college campuses, Freitas said.
This ambivalence regarding qualifiers of transness drives Vargas' interest in historical memory, as well as its institution par excellence: the museum.
This ambivalence is central to Visconti's work and is often described in terms of the supposedly contradictory facets of his personality.
Next, though, she turned to Judge Kavanaugh, with questions that seemed aimed at eliminating any possibility of ambivalence in his account.
Writers and readers are always subject to ambivalence and doubt, but you've elevated this uncertainty to a kind of religious awe.
Our homes now are fraught with the ambivalence that's rooted in the fundamental question of whether that was a good choice.
The same ambivalence infuses the ever-surprising sentences that fall from her mouth like jewels and toads in a fairy tale.
The film, which won a directing award and a special jury prize at Sundance this year, is a work of ambivalence.
These "thoughts," as they're called in the playbill's cast breakdown, are pestering manifestations of self-doubt, self-loathing, and sexual ambivalence.
When Arbus tells West, "You invented sex," it is with some ambivalence, ostensibly because the actress's brazenness is foreign to her.
With his skinny frame and his worried eyes, Mr. Twersky is an expert at conveying neurosis, ambivalence, self-doubt and cowardice.
Despite Mr. Trump's ambivalence, intelligence officials have said that Russian entities have continued to try to interfere in American democratic institutions.
Europe still harbors considerable ambivalence about getting too close to China, which talks more about open trade than it actually practices.
This sort of ambivalence, the worker said, was typical of how upper management dealt with their employees — especially the art handlers.
Now that you're getting serious about a long-term commitment, your ambivalence is locating itself in anxiety about his weight gain.
In fact, the overall tone of the memes boiled down to a kind of cheerful ambivalence about the prospect of war.
Merkel's comments jar with past remarks by U.S. President Donald Trump, who has expressed some ambivalence about a two-state solution.
So yes, France is currently living with a bizarre ambivalence wherein "liberté" and Dick Cheney have to share a bunk bed.
Manchin's ambivalence about running was clear in August, when he said that he doesn't "give a shit" if he is reelected.
Lopez herself has eagerly participated in the world's focus on her body, but she's also occasionally registered some ambivalence about it.
But like many people who find Amazon both convenient and worrisome, Ms. Smyth admitted to a certain ambivalence about its impact.
This unnervingly prescient Swedish dramatist, who lived from 63 to 1912, portrayed relationships propelled by an ambivalence that scorched and withered.
Can't sincerity and irony live in relational ambivalence, for minds that can handle a pinch, or even a punch, of complexity?
Bradley understands irony and sincerity as combatants, while Dufresne takes this pairing's "relational ambivalence" to another, tougher and more resonant level.
Finally, he starts to convey the ambivalence that "Who Killed My Father" also reveals in Mr. Louis's relationship with his parent.
But conversations with locals revealed an ambivalence toward the Americans — and a feeling of helplessness to stop the wheel of history.
It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness.
It was both surprising and refreshing to read about Hyman's nuanced ambivalence about an iconic work like Edward Hopper's "Nighthawks" (1942).
Lawrence has been vocal over the past few years about her increasing ambivalence with her role in the X-Men franchise.
Finally, we talk about where we want to see this game (or franchise, even!) go next, and our ambivalence about the Clans.
Maybe that's a good thing, because as a gay woman, I don't have the luxury of ambivalence when it comes to children.
If you look at the entire body of work, you'll see all my protagonists have such an ambivalence towards love and heartbreak.
As a mystery drama, "Our Mother's Brief Affair" never acquires much urgency, despite the fretful, fine-grained ambivalence of all the performances.
Within a few hours, Trump telegraphed ambivalence about the two issues that have defined his time in politics: China and the wall.
The point is the ambivalence, the inability to reconcile the subject matter depicted and what that content amounts to in our minds.
The clearest sign of the government's ambivalence came in 2008, when the economy took a turn for the worse and unemployment rose.
Obama held some degree of ambivalence toward the Saudis, and didn't give them totally free rein to do whatever they wished to.
Consequently, the text addresses the rise of a particular kind of online bigotry, where ambivalence acts as a veil for hate speech.
Maybe my initial ambivalence was a good thing, because it led to work and reflection — and the process of discovery was rewarding.
While diners everywhere have expressed ambivalence about the project — not everyone, strangely enough, wants to eat feces — the project has some strengths.
One option is to stay in Britain, with its bank-bashers, latent hostility towards the City of London and ambivalence about Europe.
What is always arresting in her use of the image is the power of her ambivalence, which never progresses or is resolved.
Amendment 4 enjoys the support of Andrew Gillum, the state's Democratic gubernatorial candidate, and the ambivalence of his Republican opponent Ron DeSantis.
It was the operas, with their difficult-to-pinpoint emotional ambivalence, that turned Mr. Morris on to Mozart as a young dancer.
The lyrics reveled in disorderly romances that were buffeted by lust, drugs, impulsiveness and ambivalence; she peppered them with four-letter words.
Regardless of our country's history or our ambivalence about the memory of slavery, we can choose to remember the enslaved — the forgotten.
Two characteristics come to the fore in relation to the global migration crisis: the first is confusion and the second is ambivalence.
The new season deals with the repercussions as well as the spies' growing ambivalence about the often coldblooded acts required of them.
Gillespie's title, "Custodians of the Internet," points to the ambivalence about the labor of content moderation that's shared by platforms and users.
Judging by interviews with Little Rock Rotarians, ambivalence around capital punishment might have something to do with Arkansas' difficulty finding volunteer witnesses.
Here the dominant conceit is Mr. Allen's well-documented ambivalence about California and the industry that has often seemed ambivalent about him.
Reading the novel illuminated my own deep ambivalence about booze: how much relief I felt at stopping, how thirsty I still felt.
" The song captures Cash's ambivalence about American glory and American sin: "But she's in pretty good shape for the shape she's in.
And the only thing clear is that, for now, voters are gripped by ambivalence and confusion that could yield unpredictable political results.
At one house, a woman answered the door and shared her ambivalence about legalized abortion, recounting how she had one years ago.
The question for you to confront is whether this crush reflects what I'll call "manageable ambivalence" or deeper misgivings about your engagement.
Moss and Yvonne Strahovski, who deserves more credit for her finely calibrated performance, perfectly convey the intensity and ambivalence of this scene.
In particular, Dr. Jessen, who has avoided speaking publicly about his involvement, expressed both pride in his actions and ambivalence about them.
They offer luminous hope that a new generation of talent in American theater is taking up Stephen Sondheim's mantle of exquisite ambivalence.
Despite those claims, several chaebols contacted by CNBC indicated they didn't encounter any such ambivalence when it came to sponsoring the games.
Her new album, "Over It," is unsettled and tired, full of slow-moving R&B that's thick with feeling but also ambivalence.
But they, too, worry about Mr. Trump's apparent ambivalence toward NATO and his seeming admiration of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
But policing other people's displays of affection, when your judgment may be colored by ambivalence about your own, is a bad idea.
Today, as my Google alerts feed me all things Meghan Markle, I struggle even more with conflicting feelings of ambivalence and awe.
Germans have shown deep ambivalence toward social media, worried that global companies fail to respect the country's strict laws protecting personal privacy.
It was thus a momentary relief when Mr. Trump said, "We strongly support NATO," backing off his earlier ambivalence toward the alliance.
But opposition, which partly reflected an ambivalence grounded in Britain's imperial past, stiffened as European leaders sought greater economic and political integration.
Walen says "gender ambivalence" keeps people from recognizing that men frequently experience eating disorders — they just often manifest differently compared to women.
Such music is a natural vehicle for the torturous ambivalence of falling in love as young, brooding artists steeped in mortal thoughts.
Others stress the shared status of women as they relate, with ambivalence, to their friends and family members of the same gender.
It's a place where you can process the ambivalence that comes with domesticity, or gain power over it, or excise it completely.
Beyond Game of Thrones, Stranger Things, and The Witch, characters across all genres have shown an unexpected capacity for ambivalence this year.
We eventually meet Caitlin, whose growing insecurity and ambivalence as her composition draws so much attention is nicely etched by Ms. González Norvind.
Tech-bro posturing aside, the real Silicon Valley has more ambivalence about technology's increasingly dominant place in our lives than you might expect.
His ambivalence caused confusion: in some polls before the referendum, almost half of Labour voters said they did not know the party's view.
"Buried Child" is as effective a portrait as exists of the profound, torturing ambivalence with which we all regard where we come from.
That ambivalence curdled into hatred in some sections of the Tory party as the EU acquired more of the trappings of a state.
The fact that Tom Rob Smith, who wrote the episode based on material from Maureen Orth, chose to portray this ambivalence is significant.
And they've responded to Infinity War in a variety of ways: frustration, ambivalence, or amusement at the gags and references they don't follow.
Goldberg's critique is multipronged and, as such, revels in an ambivalence that is refreshing for acknowledging how the questions at stake are complicated.
This strategy has led many western curators to feature Lin in important surveys of "feminist" art, despite her own ambivalence about the term.
Campbell's triumphant rendition of this Jimmy Webb-penned soldier's lament, released during the height of Vietnam, further reflected the singer's ambivalence about war.
Among people ages 15 to 24, that percentage rose to 39 percent, with about a third expressing ambivalence and only 26 percent opposed.
The 97-2 vote reflects the broad concerns on Capitol Hill over Trump's seeming ambivalence about the alliance and his commitment to it.
But Mormons are considerably more conflicted about his mad-as-hell message — and their ambivalence could cost the candidate in Western swing states.
Their feelings toward regulation of the web are often muddied by broader trends of political ambivalence toward the actual mechanics of the web.
I have been both open about what became my support for her in '08, and about my ambivalence about her going into 2016.
A former Royal Caribbean employee who spent two decades working on cruise ships expressed ambivalence about the unusual nature of on-board romance.
Still, the public has embraced a number of "hafu" athletes and television performers in Japan, although their popularity can disguise an underlying ambivalence.
If such an all-in-one approach sounds like it might generate ambiguity and ambivalence, well, that's appropriate to the subject at hand.
Ms. DeVos called Mr. Trump after he expressed ambivalence about the rule to senators, according to two people with knowledge of the conversation.
That ambivalence toward Biden stands in stark contrast to the enthusiasm of 2016, when African Americans formed the core of Clinton's winning coalition.
The Betty Boop-era cartoon becomes a striking visual metaphor for the AIDS epidemic, suggesting bystanders' ambivalence towards the gay community in crisis.
Normally, this sort of stance — a notch more hostile than a celebrity's typical ambivalence toward nosy reporters — would make for an uncomfortable interview.
May's deal but otherwise maintained his ambivalence over Brexit as part of his strategy to buy time and come out ahead, observers said.
With every book, with every question, with every overt display of ambivalence and disgust, he was affirming to us that we were contenders.
The international community, despite its ambivalence to Mr. Trump, will have to support the American president in holding the North to these obligations.
Yeah, so this is one of the crazy things about the Freedmen's Bureau Medical Division, which is, it was founded in utter ambivalence.
"I thought that perhaps the ambivalence about the two major candidates might lead people to hold their ballots this year," Mr. Gronke said.
In her 2004 nude self-portrait "Feeling Me," Elinor Carucci looks away with riveting ambivalence as her husband's hand touches her pregnant belly.
The uneasy coexistence between horse-drawn carts and development says a lot about Senegal's ambivalence toward its rural past and its urban future.
The pastors "played successfully with ambivalence" as they delivered messages that were designed to restore self-understanding and self-respect, Mr Cazarin says.
Trump's apparent frustration with the state of limbo comes as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell continues to signal ambivalence about starting the trial.
I share my own ambivalence, however, because I know countless executives, administrators, and other kinds of leaders have been through similar thought processes.
He voted against Manchin-Toomey in 2013 and 2015 and expressed some ambivalence earlier this past week when asked about expanding background checks.
Instead, it inhabits a landscape where the petty and the momentous are practically indistinguishable, and even the strongest feelings are muddied with ambivalence.
In that tradition, the Black Earth Ensemble mingles Afrocentrism with an ambivalence to genre, and delivers messages of empowerment with an activist's audacity.
Young people were at it again on Saturday night in Denver, Colorado, with their loud music, unneighborly behavior, and sweeping ambivalence towards authority.
Also, learning the stories of women who came up with ingenious ways of expressing their ambivalence about marriage, from Amelia Earhart, who wrote this incredibly ambivalent letter to her husband on their wedding day, to Lucy Stone, who published a proclamation of her ambivalence about marriage and its gender inequities and had the pastor at her wedding read it out loud.
Uber has become an essential service in Silicon Valley, but most of its riders use it while battling through a distinct sense of ambivalence.
The stated motive of the book is as "prophylactic," and in the course of writing it, her ambivalence transforms into determination, if not certainty.
Ambivalence and pain can be found on either side of this gulf, and Cody doesn't suggest that either place is an inherently happier one.
The Framers were political scientists with no existing model for electing a president and tremendous ambivalence over what they wanted out of an executive.
Ms. Sichel, who received the diagnosis just before her daughter started kindergarten, is shown dealing with her ambivalence about the traditional therapies she undertakes.
There are a host of reasons for ambivalence on the part of foreign powers and their varying degrees of support for the insurgent forces.
WOKE doesn't try to clamp down on a single definition of the eponymous term but demonstrates the reward of confronting faults and exploring ambivalence.
He is not the only person in the incoming administration to have expressed ambivalence and a lack of urgency about reining the spending in.
So far, this ambivalence is not seriously weakening the support among the Han and, for the government in Beijing, that is all that matters.
That reflected the deep ambivalence of a wounded party towards renewing an arrangement that since 2013 has squashed its identity (and its vote share).
This is connected to her investment in the energy and meaning of space, one in which absence does not equal silence or imply ambivalence.
A mix of uncertainty, chaos and ambivalence is how industry insiders attending the American Wind Energy Association's annual conference last week in Anaheim, Calif.
Some therapists believe that preferring long-distance relationships could reflect a fear of commitment, a reluctance to share, or an ambivalence about one's partner.
And in this super male-dominated society, the evil witch is also women's fears and ambivalence and fantasies and desire about their own power.
In pockets of the world not yet on its frontlines, there is still doubt or ambivalence -- even from the highest offices in the land.
Don't believe the lukewarm reviews, which may in part have been caused by reviewers' ambivalence to the streaming platform, as opposed to theatrical releases.
Judge Gorsuch might view a patient's ambivalence and withdrawal of consent for ongoing treatment as suicidal intent, but the courts he criticized did not.
I was suddenly transported to days and nights when my first association with men's bodies in real space and time was pleasure, not ambivalence.
An ambivalence about Cuba's dance heritage is expressed more intensely in the choreography of George Céspedes, one of Danza Contemporánea's most prolific homegrown talents.
Senator Bob Corker, Republican of Tennessee, gave voice to the unusual ambivalence that many members of Congress have expressed since they passed the bill.
If you act like money doesn't matter and instead keep the focus on your ambivalence about the car, you turn the normal situation around.
But there was always an ambivalence — Iraqis were caught between the American occupation, with all its horrors, and the corruption of their own rulers.
" This is why Biller labels her work both erotic and anti-erotic: "an ambivalence that you don't see in men's work quite as much.
I asked Smith if he thought his ambivalence towards bed frames had anything to do with being a man, as so many women allege.
Often, these relationships disintegrate into ambivalence or resentment, typically climaxing in an affair—which serves as a psychological release valve from the emotional pressure.
On Reddit, an active nootropics community shares tips and research, and its members have watched the mainstreaming of their interest with ambivalence and intrigue.
That may sound impossible, but Baker and Harris, both in their early 30s then, exerted a magnetically charged ambivalence that seemed to defy physics.
Despite some local ambivalence about Guyton's artistic merit, his bona fides have been more readily accepted elsewhere in the country and, especially, in Europe.
Mr. Clinton said that abortion should be "safe, legal and rare" — a nod to public ambivalence about the procedure that today's Democrats won't make.
Members of Radiohead publicly expressed ambivalence about the honor and booked a tour date in South America on the night of the induction ceremony.
More than Richard Coyle, who brought a brooding ambivalence to the same part in London, Mr. Miller's Lamb blazes with ambition and class resentment.
But there are concerns that the proposal pointed at growing ambivalence toward a spike in non-European immigrants, especially those coming from Muslim countries.
For some, this book will read like an anthem to choosing the single, family-free life; for others, the story is clearly about ambivalence.
Unfortunately, the alert did not exactly have its desired effect: It instead inspired jokes about ruby slippers and related displays of ambivalence on Twitter.
Though oat milk's ascension has demonstrated that anything is possible, the document itself reveals ambivalence about whether whale milk is the way to go.
The book also has a new poignancy in light of what we know about its author's own ambivalence about her status as a woman.
And without ambivalence they devour any wild meat — squirrel, grouse, elk, deer, bear, European dove — no matter the route it traveled to our kitchen.
Ambivalence will be met with cries of "It'll never be enough!" and accusations that we won't stop until there are hangings in the street.
She applied her own "historical ambivalence about marriage" just as she was arriving at the age when her friends were pairing off around her.
The sound was lo-fi; the lyrics were about desire, rejection, humiliation, rage, ambivalence and the rocky seas of sex; the concept was meta.
Part of why people have a hard time dealing with ambivalence is that it's uncomfortable to feel two opposing things at the same time.
But there's probably a simpler reason behind the ambivalence: When we make these jokes, we're not thinking too deeply about what they all mean.
Her life and work illuminate women's ambivalence toward female power, and their uncertainty about whether that power should celebrate the feminine or reject it.
Some of the ambivalence may be due to Trump's $28 billion bailout which would likely need to be eliminated if the trade war ended.
Spanberger's ambivalence about caucus meetings was not going to stop her from attending the one that Pelosi announced would be held at 4 p.m.
That's the story she should have pursued — connecting her own lifetime of ambivalence and restriction around food and her body to a larger narrative.
In Ms. Abrams' favor, though, is the fury toward Mr. Trump, particularly from women and minorities, and ambivalence about him from some wealthy suburbanites.
Instead of boilerplate reactions to brutal life events, Daum was willing to express her ambivalence in the face of subjects as heavy as death.
Viewers who grew up with the "Scream" franchise, or with the toothless array of "Saw" films, will doubtless fidget and sigh at such ambivalence.
A pro-Trump group briefly launched an ad campaign criticizing Heller for his initial ambivalence over the GOP's plan to repeal and replace ObamaCare.
Eastwood has always had a stubborn libertarian streak, and a fascination with law enforcement that, like Jewell's, is shadowed by ambivalence and outright disillusionment.
Although none are moderates in the traditional left-right sense, their ambivalence on the defining issue of the day cost each of them dearly.
Yet I'm left with more ambivalence: Lichfield comes across to me as a likable guy who leads a smart and engaging publication and conference.
Mr. Beale brings a haunting ambivalence to Prospero's relationships with these fairy-tale figures, and with his daughter, Miranda (a ravenously curious Jenny Rainsford).
With some ambivalence, I took him to a well-regarded (and expensive) tutor to help him prepare for the Specialized High School Admission Test.
In the revival, Rory seeks closure from both of them about the role she's played in their lives, and has to settle for ambivalence.
McConnell noted to reporters that "one of our presidential candidates" had over the weekend expressed "seeming ambivalence" about former KKK grand wizard David Duke.
She is the author of Authentic™: The Politics of Ambivalence in a Brand Culture and the forthcoming Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny.
And that ambivalence has found its way into the Star Is Born memes, many of which either celebrate this musical drama or mock it.
Among the more mild of them are doubt and ambivalence, since they are indigenous to interiority, which is, after all, an arena for muddling.
And Chee is willing to immerse himself in this ambivalence, to explore fully how writing his autobiographical novel both wounded him and healed him.
Her pensive expression suggests an ambivalence towards or yearning for a collective past, tucked away in details like the heaped family photographs and Essence magazines.
Actor Amy Poehler of NBC's "Saturday Night Live" and "Parks and Recreation" believes she has found the solution to your love and career woes: ambivalence.
One of her self-portrait pastels, set in a pleasing teal background, records the ambivalence of gender normativity and the de-sexualization of human body.
Most importantly, our society's ideas about mothers getting to choose whether they work outside the home—though still a source of ambivalence—have undeniably evolved.
Iraq's election results were a transparent reflection of a national ambivalence, torn between optimism at defeating ISIS and the scepticism bred during years of war.
He'll be even less popular if his opponents mention his documented history of sexist behavior, not to mention his incoherent ambivalence about the MeToo movement.
Some echoed the ambivalence expressed by Colin Kaepernick, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback who has been kneeling during the national anthem, and who said Mrs.
While the decision to turn down that high-paying job came with loads of self-doubt, ambivalence, and stress, I'm certainly glad I did it.
"There remained a profound corporate ambivalence toward advertising as the means for Facebook to become a real business," David Kirkpatrick wrote in The Facebook Effect.
"People who normally vote Republican are in a terrible state of ambivalence right now," said Tim Chambless, a political scientist at the University of Utah.
Parker's stadium-ready sensibilities allow his lyrical themes of confusion, ambivalence, and regret to feel not only digestible, but totally immersive despite their complicated emotions.
"Firewatch" belongs to a genre that's sometimes called the "walking simulator" — a label that designers have adopted with a mixture of ambivalence, irony and enthusiasm.
But that ambivalence is at odds with teaching students to communicate about consent, and presents a paradox that she says universities need to contend with.
He's done so despite seven seasons of intermittent appearances — and he's done so while having to juggle The Walking Dead's ambivalence toward his character's nonviolence.
Top NATO officials begin two days of meetings today in Brussels, their last before Mr. Trump, who has expressed ambivalence about the organization, takes office.
In their nostalgia for a premodern society, they reveal his ambivalence — perhaps tinged, yes, with shame — toward czarist might and the progress of Russian history.
By the time The Last Jedi's credits roll, the ambivalence is neatly resolved and each side ends up in its corner again, light versus dark.
And in the character of Vittoria, whom Ms. Birnbaum embodies with vigor and a high ponytail, he has created, with obvious ambivalence, a singular antiheroine.
In several of his writings, Freud associates neurosis with ambivalence, a word that, to him, signifies the simultaneous presence of two antithetical, equally strong emotions.
WASHINGTON — A Senate hearing on nominees for two top environmental posts on Wednesday quickly turned testy over the Trump administration's ambivalence on climate change science.
Outside, though, as the fog of fiction wears off, the real world seems to have gotten suddenly darker, incapable of fine distinction, inhospitable to ambivalence.
Her songs embrace mixed, elusive emotions: longing and ambivalence, displacement and stability, seeking a home and leaving it behind, confronting fears and searching for hope.
This kind of spotlight is unprecedented for deep-red Arizona, but so is the ambivalence of the state's likely voters, and the polls prove it.
Ambivalence about freedom (America's core value), unmerited over-confidence in the state to govern wisely and forfeiture of individual responsibility do constitute an existential threat.
Yet NATO is now confronting its own challenges, whether it is the seeming ambivalence of President Trump toward the alliance or an increasingly provocative Russia.
If pressed, he would admit to a profound ambivalence about the actual act of selling, though he loved the narrative qualities that good retailing requires.
To which I plead guilty, while also confessing a measure of ambivalence about "The Whistlers," an ingeniously structured, engaging and witty display of filmmaking skill.
Kempowski's sympathy for the suffering of his characters and his acknowledgment of the attendant destruction of their civilization are diffused by a fine-grained ambivalence.
My patient deserved an evaluation by a physician like Dr. Shavelson, not someone like me, with no training in this area and ambivalence to boot.
As the party holds its annual conference in Liverpool, the spotlight is on what leader Jeremy Corbyn — known for his ambivalence toward the EU — thinks.
For more than 22009 years he made photographs, drawings, paintings, sculptures and assemblages, and collected artifacts (commercial signage, bottle caps, gourds), that reflected this ambivalence.
Let's put away the ambivalence of the NFL fan towards PED use for a moment —Who cares, they're all physical and genetic freaks hitting each other.
And the apparent contradiction between Croft's sexual appeal and her sophisticated persona would spawn two decades of cultural ambivalence about what kind of character she was.
Europe is in a fragile place right now, a situation exacerbated by Trump's apparent ambivalence to its future and easy readiness to criticize leaders like Merkel.
My work suggests that that's not all that was happening in female impersonation and cross-dressing—that there was ambivalence and dissociation, as well as desire.
The shocking sight of a muddy, foul-smelling camp in the heart of rich Europe has come to symbolise the continent's ambivalence to the refugee crisis.
In the end, my ambivalence about #MeToo jokes continues, but hopefully more comedians can follow the steps of Mulaney and Kroll when crafting their own jokes.
So, with all this ambivalence, even among NATO members, it is time for the Trump administration to take a firm and direct position on this conflict.
As encouraging as the growing ambivalence about executions is, however, the region suffers from enormous numbers of extra-judicial killings in which the authorities often participate.
But speaking to delegates and protestors over the past few days, I've found ambivalence more common among the Sanders delegates, even those not ready for Hillary.
Given that this ambivalence has long been common in the black community, perhaps the backlash to Kaepernick's protest should be more baffling than the protest itself.
Jimmy Carter, who entered the White House the year after the Church Committee exposed alleged abuses by intelligence agencies, expressed deep ambivalence about the CIA's methods.
Khalil and Maria are going to be the focus of the narrative even though their story—of passing, of racial ambivalence, of conflicted identity—isn't new.
Morgan Stanley, meanwhile, said it ended the uncertainty on its leadership but added that there remained "ambivalence" on the shape and direction of its investment bank.
But at the same time, there was a lot of anti-Yale sentiment, especially in New Haven where I'm from, so there's some ambivalence about that.
While Donna and June were beaming, toothy and unwrinkled, from television screens, maternal ambivalence was jumping from diaries and letters to published memoirs and magazine articles.
The ambivalence of this statement marks the man who made it, and not, ironically, President Obama, as the commanding code switcher in chief of contemporary politics.
His use of that language in "The End of Eddy" is freighted with an ambivalence that animates the book and gives it a devastating emotional force.
He accepted expensive gifts from his future killer despite his confusion about where all that wealth came from and his ambivalence towards his long-distance boyfriend.
If one didn't know any better, one might suspect that his tepid admonition of the Charlottesville antagonist may be have been the result of political ambivalence.
In all the ways the relationship between Alan and me was different — more complicated, more extreme — we lived with an ambivalence that's present in many families.
Of the works in New York this week, "Come Jump With Me" is the most direct in its dissection of, and ambivalence about, modern Israeli nationalism.
The president called into Brian Kilmeade's Fox News Radio show, where he was asked about the GOP senator's ambivalence about the escalating trade dispute with Beijing.
Reframing the album to center on death does a disservice to the life that animates this music, the energy, the craft, the delight, and the ambivalence.
But the rise of social media means that anyone who writes online about any aspect of maternal ambivalence risks a barrage of trolling or sneering condescension.
Virginia Woolf had a complex, fascinating relationship with Sigmund Freud, who introduced her to the idea of ambivalence, and gave her a narcissus as a gift.
I picked it up and gave it to her, then thought how foolish I had been, but she thanked me and smiled ruefully, understanding the ambivalence.
Maybe it speaks to a puritanical ambivalence about pleasure: The seedy surroundings allow you to simultaneously have your cake and feel bad about eating it, too.
Walter BlanchardHouston To the Editor: It is important for those close to a suicidal person to understand an important phenomenon addressed in David Brooks's column: ambivalence.
Rather than tracing the familiar arc of the hero's journey, the film plumbs Mr. Bauman's ambivalence about being noisily celebrated as a patriot after the atrocity.
Mr. Friedman is marvelous in evoking a rational man being steadily consumed by a cancerous guilt, while Ms. Dunagan's shrewd performance fully justifies his jagged ambivalence.
The social atmosphere was now sown with frustration, skepticism and ambivalence, intermingled with growing anxieties over the war and uncertainty regarding the future of the nation.
These may have been wanderings on "side roads," as Mr. Posen put it, or there could have been a much deeper ambivalence about his own work.
But our darkest drives, and our most conflicted joys, and our sometimes hard-won ambivalence about concepts like family and community and country don't just disappear.
Indeed, two themes run through this book: the hard-won autonomy of the one girl in the boys' club and her ambivalence toward the feminist movement.
With its opulent original production design and intricately drawn studies in ambivalence, "Follies" is an unlikely candidate for re-creation in a quick-take anthology show.
The director's cut reflects that, and it's deliberately more repetitive: Dani and Christian keep having the same conflicts, and keep stepping back and giving into ambivalence.
There's a lot of ambivalence, however, about whether a straight, white man would be a satisfactory nominee: 38% say yes, 21% no and 40% are unsure.
Collins truly understands her characters in all of their ambivalence and complexity, and she shows how respectability politics governs many of their lives, with devastating effects.
Morris's ambivalence extends right to the vocal mix, which obscures her, and the arc of the melody, which gets thickened but never builds or finds resolution.
Despite voters' ambivalence to the tariffs, a 59 percent majority say imposing tariffs on aluminum and steel will make those materials more expensive for U.S. businesses.
This whole situation seems to underscore modern Sega's ambivalence toward its own classic history, where it's something to be appreciated and acknowledged, but not necessarily cared for.
My ambivalence emerges out of my struggle to articulate my autonomy in the midst of institutional power and along the private-public-institutional spectrum I work within.
Later, when my partner started sleeping with a friend of a friend, I was no more equipped to sort through my mess of emotions (sadness, ambivalence, relief).
The results served to underscore Wall Street's ambivalence surrounding the lithium sector as concerns about market oversupply of the white metal offset bullish expectations for electric cars.
Film noir has dozens of definitions, and often it's uselessly associated with femme fatales, drunken detectives, and moody cinematography, but if there's one essential ingredient it's ambivalence.
But his ambivalence resonated: Octave Mirbeau defended Vallotton's pessimism against charges of aggression and arbitrary negativity, describing it as a pessimism in sincere search of the truth.
But these books also raise the question: How much ambivalence is surmountable, and how much is so much it'll kill you if you try to climb over?
This ambivalence is often to be seen in the EU. The club fears a loss of legitimacy, and so tries to assemble it from the top down.
Maisel a different show, the tension between Midge's ambivalence about motherhood and adhering to the cultural pressures of her era would make for a fascinating dramatic arc.
This time, Labour is expected to favor remaining within the European Union, despite the ambivalence of its new leader, Jeremy Corbyn, who voted to leave in 1975.
Some of the ambivalence, he said, may stem from the fact that even when treatments restore some consciousness, patients may still be left severely impaired and bedridden.
Cutting against the magazine's exuberance—but also propelled along by it—is a heretical strain of ­gimlet-eyed, anxious ambivalence about who will pay for the future.
This is where the creative genius of Abramovic, Hirst, Koons, Prince, fuck it, Scooter Braun really exists: an aloofness that belies an unstoppably productive, arguably evolutionary ambivalence.
This ambivalence among even his admirers suggests Thaksin's political influence in military-run Thailand could be flagging despite a new publicity blitz by the self-exiled billionaire.
From a contemporary perspective, looking back, it's clear that in the early modern period, the evil witch [represents] men's fears and ambivalence and fantasies about female power.
Even those who celebrate without ambivalence the city as it exists today should not overlook the real suffering that followed the crisis in the 1970s and 1980s.
Following the notoriety of Gacy, Hollywood exploited our deep ambivalence about clowns via a terror-by-clown campaign that shows no signs of going out of fashion.
Progressives, when asked about our fiscal situation, have correctly taken to pointing out the Republican Party's fiscal hypocrisy and the press' ambivalence about certain kinds of spending.
Mr. Ganis defines Kevin's ambivalence about his move to law school, as doubt begins to chip away at the idea when he becomes excited about Lil's work.
Residents expressed concerns about racial bias in shootings by officers and many show ambivalence about whether calling the police will ease situations or not make a difference.
Mr. Hiddleston, whose style doesn't tend toward leading-man swagger, relays Pine's ambivalence over the violence he has to commit but doesn't have much else to play.
Ambivalence because in many cases, migrants are viewed as an existential threat to the societies they pass through and the societies where they seek safety and support.
It would be difficult to find anyone – NASCAR official, fan or media member – who looks on Stewart and the litany of incidents throughout his career with ambivalence.
Leaving the Community I relate to Guinevere Turner's ambivalence in calling the "communities" in which she grew up, the Lyman Family, a cult ("The Others," May 6th).
Tamara, someone else who knows what she wants and how to get there, has the benefit of enough ambivalence to give her pause but not to paralyze.
Many Democrats but especially Republicans, long since weary of Mr. Trump's impolitic handling of the duties of his office, offered only passing criticism of the president's ambivalence.
Finnish Artist Marja Saleva explores her ambivalence towards being single at 40 in her choose-your-own-adventure style web story, He is so obsessed with me.
Rosenstein stands somewhere in the middle, his tortured ambivalence toward Trump's erratic behavior leading to the appointment of a special counsel to investigate the Trump-Russia connection.
Chief Gilvan said his group is worried about recent remarks from Bolsonaro about his government's ambivalence toward setting aside lands for indigenous populations and conserving protected areas.
One thing I'd try and figure out would be the profound ambivalence any human would feel finding themselves in a place where they're not able to survive.
I've spent time in enthusiastic Biden, Buttigieg, and Klobuchar crowds but came across indecision and ambivalence, with voters still making up their minds in the eleventh hour.
And Ms. Walter, whom I've admired over the years in assorted imperial roles (Cleopatra, Elizabeth I in "Mary Stuart"), wields Prospero's volume of spells with majestic ambivalence.
The main object of that ambivalence is Rex Walls, a big-talking, big-dreaming ne'er-do-well played with the usual guile and gusto by Woody Harrelson.
Yet in the U.S., the launch of voice messaging features from Facebook in 2013 and Apple in 2016 was largely met with confusion, ambivalence, and outright hatred.
"Western Motel" sits at the crux of this ambivalence, depicting a striking landscape, but as seen through the window of a generic indoor space built for refuge.
It's in the ambivalence and paradox of ethnographic fiction, a process of both deconstruction and reinvention, that I have been developing my films in the past years.
On Sunday, the Italian election failed to throw up a clear winner, although anti-establishment parties who have shown ambivalence toward the European Union (EU) performed well.
"If we have a way of targeting the ambivalence — and the way you do that is long-acting preparation — that will be a major advance," he said.
Does it remind you that this is a stunt meant to drive Brand Allegiance to a multi-billion dollar company by capitalizing on our generation's ambivalence about aging?
Given the general public ambivalence about impeachment suggested by the polls, it's not clear that, politically at least, Democrats would benefit from beginning that process on the whole.
In her novel Motherhood, Sheila Heti's protagonist investigates her ambivalence about wanting a child to the point of exhaustion before she hits her imposed biological deadline (turning 40).
Perhaps there's something about the possibility of ordering the world and the restless nature of the artist's mind that has fueled the allure and ambivalence of this relationship.
She will also exploit ambivalence in the only party that could seize the chancellery from her: the Social Democrats (SPD), who have not yet decided on a candidate.
Estelle's ambivalence is shared by many Cubans as they begin to get used to life without the man who dominated the country for more than half a century.
Paying tribute to the likes of Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Howard Hawks, these paintings embody the judgmental ambivalence of his criticism alongside his keen eye for minute detail.
Love her, hate her, or continue to struggle with a deep ambivalence about her that you can't completely articulate, you can't deny that Ronda Rousey is a trailblazer.
Tellingly, neutral sentiment spiked to 41.9 percent, which is well above the long-run average of 31 percent and indicative of a general ambivalence among the retail crowd.
Clinton attempted to make the most of the backdrop by rehashing Trump's ambivalence about the auto bailout in a state where the automobile sector had a significant footprint.
It's about the relationship between intense emotions and insecure attachments—it's also a raw departure from the romantic ambivalence (used as emotional armor) that runs through earlier photos.
HENRY, NEW YORK The only thing harder to navigate than long distance, in love, is ambivalence: when our beloved wants us just enough not to let us go.
Trump's relative ambivalence on the protests and past praise of Xi's displays of muscular rule, however, may undercut any supportive message the president sends towards Hong Kong protesters.
As the late-19th-century mathematician W. K. Clifford noted in his famous essay, "The Ethics of Belief," ambivalence about objective evidence is an attitude corrosive of democracy.
But years of French economic underperformance, ambivalence about reforms and repeated violations of EU fiscal rules have sapped German confidence in its neighbor, dimming prospects for a deal.
This has the added benefit of ensuring the contributions are messy and challenging, choosing to embrace ambivalence rather than regurgitate familiar rules of what is Good and Bad.
" I.V.F., Boggs suggests, inhibits this process: "The desire for a biological child does not fade into ambivalence or deepen into wise acceptance, post-­treatment: It only grows stronger.
I interviewed dozens of Stouffer scholars before focusing on the story of the Magnificent Seven, and in those interviews, I saw this ambivalence in many of the scholars.
But the hope is there — or if it isn't hope, it's maybe something better: levelheaded, compassionate protagonists, with just enough integrity and ambivalence that they never feel sentimental.
Even some members of the Turkish-backed rebel force expressed ambivalence, with one fighter saying on the eve of the battle that the revolution had gone off course.
The last time we talked, you expressed ambivalence about making music as a long-term career option—that you wanted to focus more on design in the future.
Cissy had some ambivalence about whether her daughter should become an entertainer, but she nevertheless told her that if she was going to sing, she'd better step up.
Ambivalence is a feeling that comes up in the roles and relationships a person is most invested in, because they're always a juggling act between giving and taking.
And if the creator's vision is executed with clarity of purpose and intent, that vision beckons you to enter, even if you have ambivalence about some of it.
And Joseph R. Biden Jr., whose ambivalence on abortion rights has been a theme for decades, is seeking to recast himself as a full-throated champion of them.
Consider big-statement albums like Rihanna's "Anti-" and Beyoncé's "Lemonade" from 2016, with songs full of resentment, bitterness and ambivalence and music that deliberately sounded raw and unfinished.
The American ambivalence was clear on Wednesday in comments by Thomas P. Bossert, Mr. Trump's homeland security and counterterrorism adviser, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
They've been debating it all week on Twitter — on one hand, on the other; by now there are so many hands that I must confess to paralyzing ambivalence.
Part of this ambivalence, according to Vox's Andrew Prokop, is a question of political strategy: This hair-splitting shows the fundamental dilemma House Democrats are facing on the topic.
As someone who's had a fair share of crushes over the years, I can say with absolute ambivalence that the experience is a tantalizing and torturous emotional roller coaster.
They have worried about his ambivalence toward NATO, resented his personal attacks and bristled at his use of trade policy and economic sanctions to restrict their companies and markets.
In her memoir, Meaghan O'Connell writes about accidentally getting pregnant in her twenties, and working through the ambivalence she's always felt toward motherhood as she becomes a mother herself.
This ambivalence is rooted in his desire to tap the achievements of both the czarist and the Soviet empires as part of restoring Russia&aposs international clout and prestige.
Doctors have little hesitation about telling their smoking patients to quit, but a certain ambivalence seems to creep in when it comes to talking to patients about being overweight.
Leaving aside my deep ambivalence to thing one, and the crushing inevitability of thing two, let's focus on the part that I feel really mixed about: the Christmas bit.
I felt a degree of ambivalence — I still feel it — about plays and theater and whether or not it's a good way to address political concerns, because it's indirect.
This latest study however, looked only at men between 18 and 40—the age bracket traditionally associated with a greater frequency of sex and an apparent ambivalence toward chard.
I find Carrère's ambivalence, both in that book and in "The Kingdom," moving because I spent much of my childhood, in Durham, around and inside its great Romanesque cathedral.
She cited the Trump administration's wavering stance on reaffirming its commitment to Article 5 of NATO, another instance in which the president professed ambivalence while senior officials claimed commitment.
"There's a huge wave of nostalgia, which I find hard to understand," he said, adding that he had "deep ambivalence" about any reconstruction, including that of the Wolf House.
That ambivalence was summed up by Elvis García, who fled the notoriously violent city of San Pedro Sula, Honduras, only to find himself locked up in the United States.
If you're a black man, as Kaepernick is, your ambivalence about patriotic rituals may be a way of asking the same question Fisher raised: How lucky are we, exactly?
Hendrix, his blues pedigree whitewashed by hippie culture, is a powerful figure of passionate ambivalence, "unsure" how to dance in a way that is both black and not black.
Hussam Zyadeh, who fled Daraya in 2013, summed up the ambivalence of ending the fight amid a feeling that the world had stopped caring and had provided no help.
Jews, in Israel and the Diaspora, have always expressed criticism, reservations, ambivalence, and at times hostility to the country, but largely, as Neuman put it, in private or underground.
While she never showed ambivalence to the intruder, from what the divers could tell, the orphan whale was quite persistent in initiating and maintaining this odd mother-child interaction.
To live in one is to grapple, every day, with ambivalence and disappointment, with constant reminders of how the pursuit of perfect happiness (or even reasonable contentment) can fail.
But he felt tremendous ambivalence about what gaining resources to preserve his culture, or any native culture, seemed to require: allowing outsiders, whether academics or reporters, to commodify it.
Between our unpaid internships, mounting student debt, ambivalence towards presidential candidates, and universal lust for trigger warnings, we millenials appear to have forgotten music's role in the mating process.
Still, there could be understandable ambivalence about these missions, especially given that the DoD aren't the only ones expanding how and where drones can be used by the authorities.
It takes a moment of ambivalence or nuance, and by design pushes the reader to go deeper into their support for whatever theory or argument they are staring at.
Ferrante captures the barely contained violence of domestic life and is taboo-shattering in her unsparing and relentless exploration of the secret lives of women — their ambivalence and shame.
There is much to despise about this administration's immigration policies, which are exacerbating this crisis, but there should be no ambivalence about the urgency of addressing the humanitarian needs.
But the wording also captured a key ambivalence in this endeavor: wanting to expand a very good idea to a place where its humanitarian impact might be less profound.
Clinton struggled to shed a reputation as untrustworthy and remote, perhaps not coincidentally, and couldn't stop herself from voicing her own ambivalence about likability as a qualification for office.
"There would probably be an apathy, an ambivalence, and some people would even be ill-disposed to them symbolically in what they represent," said Ms. Mackie, who is British.
" Simon writes that Eisenhower's ambivalence about Brown "may have been based in part on a residual racism, rooted in his segregated upbringing and his career in the segregated military.
The ambivalence needs to be acknowledged and analyzed, which is why I've spent much of the past few weeks rewatching movies that I used to count among my favorites.
As Mark rants about unemployment, Cassie cashes in at a new media company; their parallel lives expose the ambivalence in a generation seen as both entitled and self-loathing.
The young artists in the show — several I.T.P alumni among them — tend to share, despite their immersion in digital technology, a profound ambivalence about where it is taking us.
As if the poor guy weren't conflicted enough, Hamlet has taken on an extra burden of ambivalence in the new Waterwell production of the play that bears his name.
"It Just Doesn't Happen" begins, "You're looking good/in spite of the light," and that ambivalence persists; it's a portrait of the artist as winner, loser and lost soul.
His slow burn in the temple as he watches the money lenders sell animal sacrifices, a prefiguring of his own sacrificial crucifixion, captures the film's ambivalence about Jesus' mission.
Some law enforcement officials have shown ambivalence about the sites, which go against the prevailing view of drug misuse as a criminal problem, rather than a public health issue.
Consider: Democrats, in short, shouldn't mistake the possible ambivalence about soaking the rich of their own multi-millionaire donor class for the views of any substantial block of people.
Which suggests that hating meetings might be akin to hating traffic, families or parties — just another way to express our deep ambivalence about that hard fact of existence: other people.
In 22, when John Lennon sang "when you talk about destruction, don't you know that you could count me out ... in," on "Revolution", he reflected the ambivalence of a generation.
If he were to quite literally turn that formulation on its head, it would signal that he'd resolved his ambivalence in favor of taking a real run at the nomination.
But for supporters of the plan — which was passed by the State Legislature, controlled by Democrats — it is a potential game-changing solution to an entrenched case of voter ambivalence.
"We love it, but there is a lot of ambivalence in the investment community about these names," said Ariel Investments vice chairman Charles Bobrinskoy, a KKR and Blackstone Group shareholder.
The representation of Africans in the posters suggests also the ambivalence of the Soviets towards their African "brothers": many contain stereotypically racist imagery, with more than a hint of objectification.
"Last week the reaction of bond markets was one of ambivalence about the likelihood of these measures getting passed," said Michael Hewson, chief market analyst at CMC Markets in London.
When President Barack Obama came in, I think he recognized the dangers of that ambivalence — that if you're going to take a position on something, you ought to mean it.
They were scary to a lot of men, I think, and at least I think I put my finger on that sort of ambivalence that came from encountering these women.
The very past authorities Pinker invokes did not want to hawk psychic uppers for those in doubt and far more openly advertised the ambivalence of their own belief in progress.
Moscow has emerged as a strong supporter of Tehran and its "Shiite agenda," while Washington, the ambivalence under the Obama administration notwithstanding, is the principal supporter of the Sunni regimes.
In overlapping scenes, we learn that, while Dex was more or less honest, even in regard to his ambivalence about his coming marriage, Shellie was purveying her own American fiction.
Any ambivalence about a NATO country's fate is critical, since the entire credibility of the grouping rests on the certainty that an attack on one is an attack on all.
Whitebox Advisors LLC, a credit-focused hedge fund, has been quietly capitalizing on Wall Street's ambivalence toward gun manufacturers by replacing some banks as a lender to Remington Outdoor Company.
There is much more room to play with Noah's constant inconstancy, with Alison's inability to get even a slight semblance of her life together, with Helen's privileged ambivalence about justice.
"Make America Rage Again" would be an apt statement in a somnambulant year, one of those sleepy election cycles between two indistinct candidates that the nation responds to with ambivalence.
Other Wind was Welles' satirical answer to his own deep ambivalence about the state of filmmaking and his place in it, and it was meant to be his grand statement.
This ambivalence is, of course, familiar from a contemporary life in which we daily acquiesce to data collection to enjoy the perks of social media, say, or an iPhone's GPS.
It argued: There's deep ambivalence toward Hillary Clinton among people who otherwise share her values, and I think this is the reason why: The system we have is the problem.
Joshua Kaggie, a physicist from Utah who lives in Cambridge, expressed a kind of ambivalence that was common among other visitors who weren't previously aware of the anti-BP movement.
But rather than giving into PC culture, the exhibition merely leans heavily into irony, albeit with a type of tone-deafness and ambivalence one might expect from extremely privileged individuals.
"Her presence communicates with the Japanese public her sacrifice and reluctance and ambivalence at even being there," said Kumiko Nemoto, professor of sociology at Kyoto University School of Foreign Studies.
It also reflects persistent national ambivalence over the question of whether health care is a human right or an earned privilege — and, if the latter, how "earned" should be defined.
Under Putin's Machiavellian direction, Russia has managed to exploit U.S. ambivalence in Syria and carve out what is likely to be a revitalized Russian sphere of influence in the Levant.
Most importantly, Democratic ambivalence, in a year when high turnout is mandatory, reflects the larger problem facing a political party that is now focused on its shared animosity to Trump.
But one cannot help wishing it were less an operatic allegory of political principles and more a story, animated by fallible protagonists who are not entirely devoid of moral ambivalence.
The insecurely attached cats showed signs of stress, like twitching tails, licking lips, avoiding their owner or jumping in their lap and not moving, which is a sign of ambivalence.
So why would he risk it all by launching another chemical attack, provoking American strikes on a Syrian air base and perhaps ending President Trump's ambivalence about opposing his regime?
And by showing decisive will in Syria, Russia could contrast its own determination to back an ally with US ambivalence toward the moderate rebel groups it had promised to help.
Sometimes their faces were so close together they nearly kissed; sometimes the pressure of Tony's ambivalence caused him to shove Riff so hard he almost knocked him off his feet.
In her recent article, "The Birth of a Mother," Dr. Alexandra Sacks identified four challenges in the process of becoming a mother, or "matrescence": changing family dynamics, ambivalence, fantasy vs.
"With the support of caring adults, led by existing national guidelines that call for developmentally appropriate interventions early in life, boys can achieve healthier milestones without ambivalence or societal risk."
Vanda Felbab-Brown is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, and author of Aspiration and Ambivalence: Strategies and Realities of Counterinsurgency and State-Building in Afghanistan.
Challengers had pinned their hopes on Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, who had expressed ambivalence on the subject, but he and his colleagues appeared unable to identify a workable constitutional test.
When asked by reporters during a press briefing about his commitment to NATO, in light of Mr. Trump's ambivalence toward the alliance, Mr. Shanahan, the acting defense secretary since Jan.
These primitive gestures represented an important part of early netspeak: You could convey sarcasm by tacking on ;-) at the end of your message, or share your ambivalence with the ¯_(ツ)_/¯ face.
The war effort is viewed as an obvious good, but its effect on the young men of Bedford Falls (including George, who can't go into battle) is treated with more ambivalence.
Perhaps equally, if not more, you'll hear ambivalence or outright opposition to the ruling -- and not solely from white residents, but from the very black residents the ruling purports to protect.
Sam Brownback was deeply unpopular in the state until his appointment to an ambassadorship this year, and Kobach, the Kansas Secretary of State, is a figure of ambivalence among some Republicans.
The institutional racism that diminished voter protections for poor black and brown citizens along with black voter ambivalence, especially by millennials to Clinton's candidacy, created a perfect storm of electoral failure.
Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro and Mexico's Andrés Manuel López Obrador (known as AMLO) share an ambivalence to the dispersal of power and the toleration of opponents that are the essence of democracy.
One of Mr. Sewing's main tasks will be to resolve Deutsche Bank's ambivalence toward its investment banking unit, which has produced huge profits in some years and huge losses in others.
On July 14, partly to celebrate this record and partly to celebrate seven years of Fade to Mind, Rizzla will DJ again, a fact they expressed some ambivalence about on Twitter.
Her 2011 breakthrough 21 enjoyed the same kind of months-long windowed release when Spotify was a much younger, smaller service, and she's been open about her streaming ambivalence in interviews.
" Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein " (HarperCollins) is unique among classical-music memoirs for its physical intimacy, its humor and tenderness, its ambivalence toward an irrepressible family genius.
The short-lived circuit breaker experiment in China's domestic stock market was just the latest example of the government's ambivalence toward market forces, and it served to further undermine investor confidence.
Dr. Barbara Almond, a psychiatrist who lifted the veil on the ambivalence some women feel about childbearing and on society's expectations about motherhood, died on March 6 in Palo Alto, Calif.
By muscling forward with a floor vote next week, Republicans would also imperil several Senate Democrats from strongly conservative states who have opposed Judge Kavanaugh or expressed ambivalence about his nomination.
Yet the diverging paths of Oakland and Compton, two cities with histories of illicit drugs and years of aggressive law enforcement crackdowns, highlight the continued ambivalence of many Californians toward marijuana.
Leader Jeremy Corbyn's hard-left politics and perceived ambivalence over Brexit have alienated some supporters, and the party has been grappling with allegations it has a problem with institutional anti-Semitism.
Divided popular opinion — and ambivalence about America, even among some of its most ardent fans (and critics) — makes it difficult for Beijing to come down too hard on the United States.
Given his apparent ambivalence about plumbing — let alone luxury plumbing — I was surprised to see Fritz waiting to use the gold toilet, which is the work of Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan.
Even so, the anger of the protests came as a surprise to some of those for whom the armoire-shaped tower had long been an object of, if not disdain, ambivalence.
Reading such vivid details about the death of a killer put me in a position of intense ambivalence, because I was furious at her, but I also felt sorry for her.
It took significant human rights violations, coupled with persistent lobbying by the opposition and international allies, to shift United States policy toward Venezuela from ambivalence to a firm commitment to democracy.
Ambivalence about Mr. Trump was on display across the district on Election Day, as enthusiasm for the state of the economy mingled with misgivings about the president's record and personal conduct.
Ms. Kelley (who appealingly played the title character in Kirsten Childs's "Bella: An American Tall Tale" last season) doesn't manage to reconcile the ambivalence with which her character has been written.
The 2000-story Portland Building of 275 by Graves, which recently tiptoed past demolition, exemplifies a generation of Post-Modernist buildings now working its way through a twilight zone of ambivalence.
Mr. Isaacs's no-nonsense gruff nature and mysterious motives, combined with his own unique charm (and an ambivalence toward rules that has echoes of Kirk and Sisko), will make him compelling.
Anna Wiener wrote "Uncanny Valley" as a memoir that recounts her personal experiences of ambivalence and disillusionment working in San Francisco start-ups in her early twenties during the last decade.
How best to follow up a six-volume, 3,600-page, terrifically indiscreet autobiographical novel that cops to infidelity, self-mutilation, premature ejaculation, alcoholism, attraction to reactionary politics and ambivalence about fatherhood?
It's an unhurried folk-rock tune, with a ticking two-chord vamp for verses, that has Katie Crutchfield examining every lingering slight and potential ambivalence while sizing up her own obsessiveness.
In interviews with scores of Iowans over the last three months, many expressed ambivalence about making a choice, desperately trying to assess what kind of candidate others might want to elect.
The word "ambivalence" doesn't begin to cover the thoughts in play in the first scene, when Jerry and Emma uneasily meet in a pub, two years after their affair has ended.
Using expressive, sometimes jagged pen strokes against background pools of black ink, she exposes her visceral rage, fear of retribution, and ambivalence about reliving her pain publically through creating autobiographical comics.
But it becomes psychologically more complex as it reveals Rahim's buried rage and guilt over his occupation and Aiman's ambivalence when offered the chance to step into his new boss's shoes.
Although the United States has officially backed the Tripoli Government of National Accord, continued American ambivalence on Libya or, worse, active support for General Hifter, could push Libya into greater conflict.
You'll still find the intrigue that marks the series, but it's secondary to Lurk's melancholy relationship with the ailing Daud, and her ambivalence over stopping a violent threat with yet more violence.
The 400 Unit met him at every turn, locking into a roaring gear on several tunes rooted in Southern ambivalence, including "Alabama Pines," which Mr. Isbell dedicated to the author Harper Lee.
Despite her professed ambivalence, Fisher gives a lot of herself to her fans (one of whom cries upon meeting her), cuddling perfect strangers for what seems like an endless series of photos.
As in her debut, Dennis-Benn also explores maternal ambivalence, queerness, class and colorism, but her compelling main characters are the beating heart of the novel and the reason to read it.
A string trio took the stage, playing a selection of pop hits that traced an emotional arc from grunge-era ennui ("Bitter Sweet Symphony") to hopeful ambivalence ("Wonderwall") to soaring idealism ("Imagine").
On the whole, there is a feeling of ambivalence to meaning that Trackless commits to through its hour or so of playtime (the finale, which I will not spoil, really sells it).
I believe that the ambivalence and discomfort experienced by a substantial percentage of PAS-participating physicians is directly connected to the Hippocratic Oath—arguably, the most important foundational document in medical ethics.
"'If they can do it, so can I.'" Kolkata is an intellectual, disputatious city, and over the years, voices from the right and the left have expressed ambivalence about Mother Teresa's work.
There may, however, be another way out of the cycle of despair, one that relies not on escaping the ambivalence of being a daughter and mother and wife but on embracing it.
But the president has expressed deep ambivalence about the agreement, which he repeatedly vowed to tear up on the campaign trail, and senior officials reportedly had to talk him into Monday's announcement.
"Unincorporated territory" is the operative term, a tortured, extra-constitutional construct that speaks to the profound ambivalence of a holding whose existence goes overlooked even in critiques of an informal American empire.
They were always very aware, because I had historically criticized her from the left because even in my contemporary writing about her going into 2016, I had expressed some ambivalence about her.
He said Trump's proposal to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the United States was "inconsistent with American values" and denounced Trump's "seeming ambivalence" about former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke.
And as the bewildered straight man to everybody else, Mr. Schnetzer more than holds his own, finding intriguing ambivalence within Dylan's virtuous persona and also proving himself a dab hand at snooker.
In it, the characters argued about the then-upcoming election, expressing their ambivalence about Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders's loss in the primaries, and voting in general, examining each issue with sharp wit.
Those include the centrist Liberal Democrats; the Greens; the Scottish National Party; and the Welsh nationalists, Plaid Cymru — not to speak of the Labour Party, despite its ambivalence over a second referendum.
Scrape away the hype and the hyperbole, the enervation and the exhaustion, and you find any number of more useful or wrenching impulses: kindness, hatred, antipathy, humanity, pity, awe, disgust, even ambivalence.
Hubert Sagnieres, the chief executive of Essilor, a French eyeglass company and a partner in the fund-raising campaign, said he often confronts ambivalence when pitching the cause to big-name philanthropists.
She acknowledges Asperger's "well-known support for children with disabilities" and the "two-sided nature to his actions," but the overall sense you get is that Sheffer judges Asperger's ambivalence woefully insufficient.
Many left-leaning students support the chalking restrictions with a strong dose of ambivalence, and some are against them, arguing that the best antidote to hate speech is not censorship but persuasion.
A troubled ambivalence shades the political allegiances of the Gabriels, though there is something about the prospect of a woman as president that makes them glow a bit brighter in the twilight.
With this much variability in the polling, candidates lower on the ticket are gritting their teeth and waiting to see how ambivalence at the top of the ticket translates in their race.
Where he once had felt shame about slavery and ambivalence about African-American spirituals, he said, he now marveled at the capacity of black people in America to wrest beauty from pain.
Virginia's ambivalence to equality and recent failures by some of its male politicians uniquely qualify Virginia to serve as the crucible for the United States to forge ahead toward equality for all.
And when Mindy's bitter, hard-boiled mother (Rosanna Arquette) arrives, her gimlet eye zeros in on her daughter's ambivalence and she bluntly asks her why she is going through with the wedding.
One of the strengths of Strout's novel is that she realistically details the uncertainty and ambivalence, the revulsion and attraction, that these stubborn, no longer young people experience in each other's company.
But the growing ambivalence about the union was apparent as recently as last month when the 10th anniversary of Bulgaria's entrance into the union passed with barely any public celebration or notice.
A former Royal Caribbean employee who spent two decades working on cruise ships expressed ambivalence about the unusual nature of on-board romance near the end of his time with the company.
And the rapturous monologue by Adam (the young actor played by Levine) about a long session in a gay bathhouse in Prague is notable for its haunted ambivalence about transcendent, dangerous sex.
The number of CMC's active clients rose 5 percent to 60,13 in the year to end of March and Chief Executive Peter Cruddas said they had shown "complete ambivalence" to regulatory issues.
While his ambivalence to criticism merits some laughs, "literalness and a lack of interest in social norms are not enough to sustain a series," Margaret Lyons wrote in The New York Times.
As men were called up, women took traditionally male jobs (driving trams, delivering mail, working in factories), and their clothes reflected both the cultural ambivalence about this shift, and its temporary nature.
"My portraits capture the ambivalence my subjects feel about being in a new environment that both welcomes them and mistrusts difference, and of making the unfamiliar familiar," Richter tells The Creators Project.
His defection adds to the obstacles Prime Minister David Cameron faces in overcoming Britain's ambivalence about its ties to the continent before Britons vote on whether they want to stay in the bloc.
Trump's ambivalence comes at an especially sensitive geopolitical moment, as powers such as China and Russia challenge the Western-led order and offer alternative development models for strongmen leaders who reject universal values.
Lena Dunham has long been an outspoken advocate for women's reproductive rights, not to mention a guilty-as-charged (over)sharer about her own lady stuff struggles, including endometriosis and ambivalence about pregnancy.
But it's specifically what journalist Jeff Yang calls revivals, shows that bring back the original cast and drop them into the present, that seem to inspire the most ambivalence among critics and viewers.
Even before the Grammys, there was widespread critical ambivalence about the gendered imbalance of this year's nominees, and about Mars' potential sweep shutting out hip-hop artists like Jay-Z and Kendrick Lamar.
But it's with a strange pleasure that the reader will realize that so many of the taboos these writers hope to shatter — about the ambivalence of motherhood, for example — are, by now, familiar.
Similarly, Bahbah's work delves into the intimate psyche of millennial women: exploring themes like love, sex, fear of commitment, a playful ambivalence towards life and the paradox of wanting intimacy but craving isolation.
Gil Penchina on angel investing, market timing, and his ambivalence to venture capital You were a Managing Director at Madrona Venture Group for many years but recently left to found Pioneer Square Labs.
Before Team Drizzy (or my two wonderful coworkers) flood my mentions, I am fully aware that my ambivalence about what Drake means to women says more about me than it does about him.
But, after years of ambivalence from voters putting the issue near the bottom of their priorities, recent polls show that Iowa Democrats list climate change next to health care as a top concern.
TO GET a sense of the ambivalence, and also the residual strength, of Jewish identity in Canada, meet Itamar Shani and his business partner Rotem Tal, who run a vegan restaurant in Vancouver.
Google said at the time that the patents made the deal worthwhile, despite what appeared to be a cultural mismatch and Google's ambivalence (at that point) about being in the phone making business.
Mr McFadden's crime was to invite the prime minister, in a debate on the Paris terrorist attacks, to stress that the blame did not lie with the West (highlighting Mr Corbyn's own ambivalence).
The plot of The Wailing centers heavily on Jong-Goo's increased fixation with the Japanese man, played with a perfect balance of pathos and sinister ambivalence by renowned Japanese actor Jun Kunimura (Audition).
With roughly thirty percent of the French electorate unsure as to who they will vote for in Sunday's first round of the presidential election, ambivalence and indecision could bring about an unexpected result.
Early on in my 20s, as I transitioned from being an educator to a writer, I was hampered by ambivalence and felt like a sellout for leaving teaching to enter the media world.
Yet we've become so immune to both the perils of imprudence and the follies of moral ambivalence that we're now considering making the class clown and bully the leader of the free world.
Furthermore, state legislators must hold the federal government accountable — and they can do so through Article V. As the deficit and debt continue to spiral out of control, federal lawmakers' ambivalence is shocking.
Mr. Trump showed an uncharacteristic abundance of caution in choosing Mr. Pence, the obvious favorite of Washington Republicans like House Speaker Paul D. Ryan and others who have expressed ambivalence about Mr. Trump.
In his piercing blue eyes and his versatile voice, we can see and hear the full panoply of Marvin's emotions: irritation and insecurity, adoration and ambivalence, and, yes, a large stock of neuroses.
So the new models of treatment really try to address that, things like harm reduction and motivational interviewing, which looks to basically help people reconcile or address or resolve some of that ambivalence.
OPINION Global ambivalence about Trump's foreign policy sends clear message to the White House, by Ahmed Charai, international counselor at the Center for National Interest and opinion contributor for The Hill. http://bit.
But when he's offered an alternative by Jeff, who suggests that they scuttle the deal and bring Seth aboard under different circumstances, Mr. Krasinski nicely conveys Seth's ambivalence about leaving his comfortable berth.
Unlikely, and Bachelor Nation may have to sit through an entire extra season of her hair-twirling ambivalence to find out for sure — the Filipino-American is rumored to be the next Bachelorette.
The nuanced balance of ambition and ambivalence was not something I managed to unpack at the age of eight as I repeatedly dived for a rubber brick in my pajamas, dreaming of crisps.
The character of Rosemary Howard certainly embodies the glories and contradictions of second-wave feminism, and Liz's ambivalence about her is a barbed and brilliant illustration of the anxieties of female comic influence.
This ambivalence in form and meaning gives rise to more complicated understandings of the artist's Native identity and an engagement with Native history that is not set apart from American or art history.
In many cities around the world, ride-sharing service such as Lyft and Uber are treated, if not with a degree of hesitation by city government, at least with some degree of ambivalence.
Other artists of that era put textiles at the center of an explicitly feminist program, using conventionally "dainty" handicrafts — knitting, crocheting, embroidery — to express ambivalence about childbearing, or rage at women's domestic oppression.
In his letters, Van Gogh touches on the ambivalence Fortuny provoked and still provokes, the sense that his delicacy – what some might call his mawkishness – makes him something less than a proper artist.
At this point in the race, Sanders has been bested not only by the machinations of the Democratic Party's establishment and a complicit press but by the total ambivalence of the Democratic electorate.
Her songs often place her in states of ambivalence: in hot-and-cold romances that leave her unsure even about her own feelings, in situations where her insecurities grapple with her self-respect.
Though he is the nation's chief law enforcement officer, Mr. Sessions, an outspoken Alabama conservative, is viewed with mistrust by many civil-rights advocates concerned about his ambivalence over expanding protections for minorities.
Radiohead has expressed ambivalence of major streaming services, but the band has also made swaths of its catalog available for free in the past — including the pay-what-you-want album In Rainbows.
Uncanny Valley is her chronicle of that period, written with the kind of piquant ambivalence that triggers a salivary response, followed by spitting cries of Didion's umpteenth coming, in so many modern readers.
Hartley's sense of ambivalence, of confused loyalties, finds echoes elsewhere in the show, which travels to the New-York Historical Society in May, even after patriotic loyalty became the law of the land.
For too long, mothers have been set against one another: working mothers versus those who stayed home, women who reveled in motherhood versus those who battled ambivalence, while loving their children no less.
The discreet role Mr. Obama is taking reflects his longstanding ambivalence about acting as a partisan political leader, and has the potential to disappoint Democrats who pine for him to intercede more decisively.
At a bar in Baltimore, a working-class city adjacent to Washington known best for a local delicacy called "crab cakes" and exceptionally high crime rates, voters expressed ambivalence about the Russia revelations.
This posthuman transcendence raises concerns both aesthetic and ethical, casting around the art in this show an apologetic air heavy with ambivalence toward human cunning and trickery and seductive art and technology. Golem!
GRADE: B I've expressed ambivalence about Kawhi Leonard's very dour game in the past, but I want to really go out of my way to express support for this insane, flipsy-doo dunk.
Informed by a similar ambivalence about Seoul and the modern Korean condition, she and Neon Bunny toured Taiwan together last month, and the two look set to cross paths again in the near future.
"Through careful reading of the proceedings and other papers of these conferences, I realized that during the first 20 to 25 years, the designers expressed great ambivalence about their corporate work," de Wit explained.
Unlike the moms on my mommy Facebook groups who "wanted to soak up every second" with their precious babe or felt "so lucky to be so-and-so's mom," I felt regret. Ambivalence. Disappointment.
When both candidates embraced political platforms that were anti-free trade -- at a time when populism threatens the fabric of social life in many countries -- America's ambivalence will have generated fear among its partners.
Never relinquishing his desire for change, Picabia created work that, in its unfathomablenesss, forces viewers to confront the mechanisms of ambivalence and confusion that lie at the heart of our confrontations with the world.
"The tough question becomes how colleges and universities can deal adequately with the external realities of sexual assault on the one hand and the inner realities of sexual ambivalence on the other," she writes.
"It's really painful to watch someone display a lot of ambivalence before the attempt and then try to change their mind by squashing themselves down to the ground as the train's approaching," said Mishara.
The Trump administration paid out the latest round of cost-sharing subsidies under the Affordable Care Act, despite its public ambivalence about whether to make those payments, industry officials told the Wall Street Journal.
To a young Muslim frustrated by the ambivalence of life in the West, there may be something seductive about the idea of swift, ruthless justice, ordained by God and therefore not open to question.
So it is a tribute to Ms Flyn's empathy for his "moral ambivalence" that when she comes to write of his death—possibly suicide—aged 54, the reader feels pity as well as relief.
Ambivalence, and Iran in the background Many Iraqis say they will not vote on Saturday because most of those running are familiar faces who in the past promised change, but have failed to deliver.
The film, a faintly comedic, semi-autobiographical study of identity and the ambivalence of national belonging, tells the story of Yoav, played by newcomer Tom Mercier, and his struggle to reinvent himself as French.
One need only surf through the dozens of Reddit forums devoted to Mr. Sanders, or the comments on his Facebook page, to find countless examples of ambivalence, if not outright hostility, toward Mrs. Clinton.
Most people I met, however, did not seem embroiled in a cosmic battle between bright and dark sides, as Gauck had outlined it; instead, many occupied a kind of gray Germany, where ambivalence reigned.
When one top Democratic Senate immigration aide found out, she burst into tears, knowing that reform opponents would seize on Cantor's loss as a referendum on the issue, regardless of Cantor's ambivalence on it.
Mr. Dylan's ambivalence to one of the world's most prestigious honors, and the uncertainty about whether he will accept it, appears to have begun to wear on the Swedish Academy, which awards the prize.
Many social conservatives voted for Trump with a degree of ambivalence in 22019, given his colorful personal life, but did so in the hope that he would tilt the Supreme Court in their favor.
Leaders in both parties have reservations about their respective nominees, he said, but the Republican ambivalence and opposition was clearer at their convention because both elder statesmen and rising stars chose to stay away.
They don't seem evil all the way through, and yet their cause is not sympathetic enough to pitch the cartoony right-versus-wrong dynamic of The Defenders towards interesting questions around relativism or ambivalence.
Gilmore thinks that the W.S.L. will limit the number of pool events on tour—"because the ocean is truly surfing, that's where the magic lies"—but she showed no ambivalence about the artificial wave.
Like "48 Portraits," Mr. Richter's "Annunciations" are works of deep ambivalence: They are disbelieving eulogies for a lapsed European tradition, yet they also testify to a dogged commitment to paint when painting seems impossible.
" Ms. Hawley also kept many mountaineers at arm's length, expressing ambivalence about being considered a "friend" to the climbing community and telling Ms. McDonald that all she had done was keep "good, accurate records.
Japan will also be watching with ambivalence - happy to see the sabre-rattling ending but worried its security might be sacrificed in Trump's rush to neutralizes the North Korean threat to the United States.
As an Israeli, Mr. Mizrahi felt ambivalence about winning the award because his film was made in France, and one of the four films it beat was "Operation Thunderbolt," Israel's entry in the category.
Unlike the canvases, they show no sign of ambivalence or stress, flowing directly from eye and brain to the chalk, charcoal, or pencil he held in his fingers, a communion between artist and sitter.
With the highly anticipated "There There," which Knopf will publish next week, Mr. Orange has written a new kind of Native American epic, one that reflects his ambivalence and the complexity of his upbringing.
It was familiar to me, that intensity, a story from my own adolescence, as was the basking ambivalence with which the other boy received it, how he both invited it and held it off.
But amid a tide of populist right-wing fury — the same forces that helped sweep away Hillary Clinton's hopes — Mr. Obama's final plea to world leaders is likely to be greeted with polite ambivalence.
In the book, you talk about your ambivalence about your college education and how it changed your life but also brought you further away from your family in some respects, both literal and figurative.
With the exception of one bruising appearance in front of a lawmakers in June, Burnley has kept a low public profile since the deal was announced, which insiders say partly reflected his ambivalence towards it.
As a relative newcomer to the tech industry, she regards Facebook with the ambivalence of a normal person, telling me she's relieved her two teenage daughters are "not all about sharing everything" on social media.
Marker's ambivalence over the stalling of the worldwide revolution that was supposed to be coming in the '60s and '70s presages the eventual seeming defeat of left politics at the end of the 20th century.
Both China and Russia backed sanctions imposed in March following North Korea's January nuclear test, but their apparent ambivalence about fresh sanctions has cast doubt on the Security Council's ability to quickly form a consensus.
And if this flattening trend has not led to some ambivalence over price sustainability, perhaps the volatility of soybean futures is enough to leave more savvy producers wary of switching out corn acres (reut.rs/296IFCK).
"The history of Los Angeles is in large part a history of ambivalence about dense development and especially about tall buildings," Christopher Hawthorne, the architecture critic for The Los Angeles Times, wrote in an email.
"I like the animals," a subtle friend of mine remarked, quietly, after hearing me expound at perhaps tiring length on my ambivalence toward Eugène Delacroix, the subject of a grand retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum.
The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, was somewhat halfhearted in his support for the "Remain" camp, reflecting his ambivalence about whether staying in Europe would be the right focus when it comes to helping working people.
Emily's research allows Mr. Elmegreen and Mr. Fornarola to contrast such notions as biological determinism and sexual autonomy, while Ben's ambivalence in choosing between Chris and Emily offers a platform for questioning assumptions about stereotypes.
The reclusive chocolatier's ambivalence toward potentially murdering children makes this as terrifying as any horror flick you'll be watching this Halloween, and it's especially suited for an evening when you're stuffing your face with candy.
It is all too easy, in this age of image saturation, to fall victim to a creeping ambivalence about the grandiose — those mountains and waterfalls that are supposed to excite our sense of the sublime.
I think this arc — from what I find to be a fairly antiracist novel to the novel that has been rightly criticized for its racist and imperialist politics — what it really shows is Dahl's ambivalence.
But widespread ambivalence about her among not only swing voters but also her own base set the stage for her to lose the presidency to arguably the least qualified individual ever to hold that office.
This year, however, a number of black voters who spoke to CNN expressed ambivalence and indecision about the Democratic contenders, even as former Vice President Joe Biden has tried to claim President Barack Obama's mantle.
In the Bronx officials' eyes, Mr. de Blasio has sinned, the transgression being his seeming ambivalence about the Christopher Columbus statue that for 125 years has anchored the Manhattan circle bearing the Italian explorer's name.
This association created ambivalence inside Marvel — which periodically tried to change the character's name — and clearly played a role in keeping "Black Panther" a second-tier comic that often teetered on the verge of cancellation.
Well, on his first day back as an employable man, Nick Diaz did the most Nick Diaz think you could imagine, responding with ambivalence to a call-out from newly minted welterweight champion Tyron Woodley.
One afternoon last week, ahead of Tuesday's primary in the Colorado governor's race, Mr. Hause hosted one of the leading Democratic candidates, Representative Jared Polis, and reflected on his journey from political ambivalence to activism.
He showed a reasonable amount of the first, lingering resistance to the second and palpable ambivalence around the third, acknowledging the need for a "degree" of personal accountability but still framing Facebook as a victim.
Artists and younger audiences today express a growing ambivalence toward genre denominations, and even in New York the Blue Note often books acts that range well into the terrain of folk, pop and R&B.
Combine that series of allegations that one GOP senator told CNN would be "devastating" if true, with overall ambivalence that bordered on opposition by Republicans and things are not in a good place for Jackson.
On the surface, Springsteen's songs can sound like uncomplicated rallying cries, but what elevates them is their veiled ironies — the way they often reflect a deep ambivalence about the American values they appear to celebrate.
Mr. Trump's open protectionism, his contempt for the European Union and his ambivalence toward NATO are serious and damaging, which Mr. Tusk understands, said Mark Leonard, the director of the European Council on Foreign Relations.
The presidential hopeful has openly discussed her mixed feelings on the impeachment inquiry throughout numerous debates, and when it came down to the final decision, her ambivalence for the process outweighed making a final decision.
Even critics who expressed a slight ambivalence about the movie's artistic merits had chased those worries away by reminding readers how important it was to have Nat Turner's story finally presented on an epic scale.
Mr. Jackman's charm can lighten the glummest dirge, but for comic-book agnostics the real appeal is Logan's reluctance to get involved, an ambivalence that can feel familiar to viewers exhausted by the same fight.
Though Radiohead's odds for induction seem strong — longevity, influence and innovation are all considered — members of the band expressed some ambivalence about the hall of fame in an interview with Rolling Stone earlier this year.
Reclining in a posh conference room inside LA's Ace Hotel, the Flaming Lips frontman fields questions about the current political climate with the cheerful ambivalence of a college senior being asked about his post-graduation plans.
We spend an hour of this podcast discussing, in detail, our discomfort and ambivalence about the way our heroine, Elizabeth Bennett, begins to turn all the way around on Fitzwilliam Darcy when she sees his mansion.
As attorneys for whistleblowers, who often come forward with what others consider confidential information that reveals serious legal violations or fraud against the government, we recognize that many people view whistleblowers with ambivalence or even hostility.
A creative writing instructor I had in grad school once declared, "I never want to see anyone shrug in your work," calling it cliché and overused — a lazy way to show a character's indecision or ambivalence.
Their ambivalence helps explain why no president has ever been convicted of "high crimes and misdemeanors," or why impeachment, often viewed as a necessity to stop a lawless leader, may prove almost impossible to execute successfully.
" In one example of the depth of ambivalence around the issue, one former Trump White House official told The Hill that the ability of such a declaration to withstand a court challenge was "murky at best.

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