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"ambivalent" Definitions
  1. ambivalent (about/towards somebody/something) having or showing both positive and negative feelings about somebody/something

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" In addition, Morici noted, many economists "are ambivalent about the president's ambitions — and ambivalent about him.
This isn't a warning message, it's purposefully ambivalent, because I myself am really ambivalent about a lot of these things.
Most of the delegates here are deeply ambivalent about their nominee, so they grab onto extreme Hillary bashing as one thing they can be un-ambivalent about.
PTA (Physical Therapy & Ambivalent) - PTA1 [forthcoming The Corner] 22.
Despite the fact that I've never been ambivalent about the need for feminism, I am ambivalent about how much the nature of American power will change because it may wear a female face.
This "Abduction" was a properly ambivalent presentation of a richly ambivalent work, a production in which the piece was filled — finally — with human beings, from one end of the Mediterranean to the other.
Clinton's support that put the ambivalent president over the line.
Cole, however, says he's deeply ambivalent about all this technology.
Some supported it, some opposed it and some were ambivalent.
Western powers have long been ambivalent about China's space programme.
We describe these affordances in our book The Ambivalent Internet.
In fact, he has deeply ambivalent feelings about Braun's stunt.
"I'm quite ambivalent about that side of it," he said.
Market watchers were also still ambivalent about the mainland markets.
Kashmiris are at best ambivalent about their attachment to India.
It was Democrats who were more ambivalent during Clinton's administration.
This ambivalent relationship is one she both sustains and repudiates.
Clinton's support that put the ambivalent President over the line.
" But Hader had profoundly ambivalent feelings about being on "S.
Feelings about the "old man" are more ambivalent these days.
"I have always been somewhat ambivalent about Fallout," Pfeiffer said.
The ambivalent, seemingly spontaneous scene fascinated him as a student.
I usually get a very ambivalent answer to that one.
Mr. Lane is ambivalent about the changes to the neighborhood.
Americans are not ambivalent about whether paid leave helps workers.
Until recently, most traditional carmakers were ambivalent about electric cars.
We commoners have always had an ambivalent relationship with celebrities.
The civilians share an ambivalent relationship with the rebel groups.
At the time, TV executives sounded ambivalent about the trend.
It's not a heartless portrayal, but it's an ambivalent one.
Americans in quarantine said they were ambivalent about their confinement.
On Tuesday she cast an ambivalent vote for Mr. Manchin.
As for Oscar, he is ambivalent about what he sees.
President Trump had always seemed ambivalent toward the border tax.
American carmakers' relationship with racing has, at times, been ambivalent.
But other insurers have emphasized they remain ambivalent about staying.
"We've been ambivalent about Afghanistan for the last 17 years and when you have an ambivalent policy, it fails," said Sedney, now at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think-tank in Washington.
Some were ambivalent or skeptical of its impact on strained budgets.
After a failure, do you feel mad, angry, upset or ambivalent?
We are ambivalent about putting young children into child care situations.
Given my time in the college anatomy lab, I was ambivalent.
I've felt somewhat ambivalent about this guy since I've met him.
In part, that is because Mr Bolsonaro seems ambivalent about them.
I feel ambivalent about skin care being rebranded as self care.
Even though frequent flyers love the plane, airlines are more ambivalent.
It's refreshingly more ambivalent about the answer than most superhero movies.
The Trump administration has offered an ambivalent response to Khashoggi's murder.
Filmgoers we talked to in New York exited the film ambivalent.
When Pride rolled around just days later, though, I felt ambivalent.
But China's relationship with the dirtiest of fossil fuels remains ambivalent.
SO I'M KIND OF AMBIVALENT AS TO WHICH WAY IT GOES.
Dr. Martin said he was ambivalent as Rosetta approached its end.
But even she has at times seemed ambivalent about the idea.
I'm not upset, or depressed, or angry, or ambivalent, or anything.
"That's what's so hard for people: to be ambivalent," she said.
Scott himself remains ambivalent about his role in the university's history.
Why, then, after years studying these efforts, do I feel ambivalent?
Even now, some remain ambivalent, which may reflect a generational divide.
Like other Jewish families, they were ambivalent about remaining in Germany.
She is also ambivalent about reaching out to my half brother.
As a teenager in Nigeria, I was ambivalent about condolence messages.
The Saudis were ambivalent, hampered by an elderly and ailing monarch.
The defining mood of internet culture is a lot more ambivalent.
The defining mood of internet culture is a lot more ambivalent.
Today, though, Germans and cars have an ambivalent relationship at best.
They want us distrustful and ambivalent, confused and full of hate.
The movie's title itself, I realize now, is beautifully, characteristically ambivalent.
Prior to this, most religious types had been ambivalent to teleportation.
If someone is ambivalent about you and your heart, stop dating them.
She might be ambivalent, but this record will surely rack up spins.
I've long felt ambivalent when people tell me I should love America.
For his part, Ross appears more ambivalent about tariffs than his boss.
If you're ambivalent, congratulations for getting through another day on planet earth!
Nergal, you said you had an ambivalent opinion on the film, though?
Societally, recollections of government cheese are ambivalent—but hey, that's representative democracy.
Londoners, no doubt will be ambivalent should Heathrow no longer hold sway.
Many of these voters have been ambivalent about Trump from the outset.
Asked again in April about the intelligence community's conclusions, Trump appeared ambivalent.
I wish you could get our feed by expressing your ambivalent apathy.
Even the theorem's co-author, Paul Samuelson, was ambivalent about the result.
And, for me, I've been super-ambivalent about marriage and romantic love.
Still, the portrait of Escobar was ambivalent, and some viewers were offended.
Still, he can't help feeling ambivalent about giving up on his infusions.
You aren't the only one who has an ambivalent relationship with booze.
Most English football fans have an ambivalent approach towards the national team.
" Again at the center is an ambivalent gangster, this time Ezekiel "E.
Mr. Keem's interviewee sounded ambivalent about his complicity in Mr. Finch's death.
He has, in fact, been highly ambivalent about the need for reform.
Taken as a whole, my state was always ambivalent about the Confederacy.
But about 25% surveyed said they were unhappy or, at best, ambivalent.
His 21st-century 007 is at pains to seem sensitive, ambivalent, woke.
From the beginning, Caxton was ambivalent about his status as a gatekeeper.
But she was ambivalent about the neighborhood, crowded with hipsters and transients.
His writing about it is ambivalent and ironic, like adult life itself.
But Aggretsuko has a more ambivalent relationship with her own consumption habits.
This Apollo performance was something of a comeback, but an ambivalent one.
To understand Ms. Merkel's ambivalent liberal legacy, we must start with economics.
Looking back on the time I spent playing, I'm feeling pretty ambivalent.
He's ambivalent about the Silverado's automatic braking system but understands its value.
And I am always struggling, but I am never ... I'm always ambivalent.
And for his part, Beck has had an ambivalent relationship with Carson.
More likely, it's that most of us are ambivalent about our tech overuse.
He's ambivalent about whether he will leave or continue to fight the dam.
Even if immigration advocates oppose ICE's methods, they're more ambivalent about the outcome.
When Ms. Wolf was approached about the gig, she said she was ambivalent.
But continued progress will be harder when the president of America is ambivalent.
People who have worked alongside the former Boeing executive sound ambivalent about him.
I myself am ambivalent as to whether my previous reporting achieved anything worthwhile.
But it has been even more ambivalent about its Caribbean prize than Spain.
She is ambivalent towards garlic bread, which she enjoys but does not understand.
But until recently, the research about attack ads sponsored by PACs was ambivalent.
Then again, MoviePass's entire business strategy seems ambivalent: It's competing with traditional theaters.
Meanwhile, many residents in Far-Eastern Russia are ambivalent about growing Chinese influence.
But he is a deeply ambivalent writer, particularly when the subject is himself.
Yet he seemed ambivalent when asked if his relationship to alcohol had changed.
Closer inspection reveals those beloved classics of the season to be quite ambivalent.
SB: I think it's a good moment for a complicated or ambivalent Wood.
I've known a lot of guys who were ambivalent on the kid question.
Germans remain largely ambivalent to any use of force on the international stage.
So here I am, days away from the end of it all, ambivalent.
The American Medical Association, for its part, is somewhat ambivalent on the issue.
Sarah Michelle Gellar, the star of the series, was ambivalent about the experience.
Mr. Blair acknowledged that the British had always been ambivalent about European integration.
Or perhaps it seems I'm ambivalent because there's no appropriate box for me.
She is often ambivalent, but never neutral in the self-protective modern manner.
Then there's the ambivalent, middle camp, including the autoworkers, steelworkers and machinists unions.
SAN FRANCISCO — On Friday morning, Silicon Valley was largely ambivalent about President Trump.
Mr. Kahneman was ambivalent, arguing that the book would read like a textbook.
Houellebecq's morally complex novel follows an ambivalent society losing sight of its values.
Lomas says Eastern cultures, in particular, have a wealth of richly ambivalent words.
True to form, this year's triennial isn't likely to leave anyone feeling ambivalent.
That's one reason many black women in particular have ambivalent feelings about Clinton.
Whitney Phillips of Mercer University is the co-author of The Ambivalent Internet.
The president, according to reports, is ambivalent about the fate of the program.
Hammer your points too hard, and you don't reveal enough of yourself as an ambivalent, fallible human being; reveal too much of yourself as an ambivalent, fallible human being, and you risk opening seams in the armor of your case.
M5S was more ambivalent about the measures and had tried to amend the decree.
Bernie Sanders (I-VT), the godfather of Medicare-for-all, is ambivalent about that.
If you're more ambivalent about Zelda, on the other hand, it's better to wait.
Let's examine why the Bey Hive may feel particularly ambivalent by Jay-Z's music.
The substance user and the hospital are bound by the most ambivalent of relationships.
The characters are often ambivalent about their responsibilities and the expectations placed on them.
Many are deeply skeptical of American militarism and ambivalent about parading their community's patriotism.
Kickstarter, the biggest project crowdfunding site, is ambivalent about the rise in corporate enthusiasm.
They just linger like a bad odor, and it&aposs born from ambivalent selfishness.
Perhaps he was ambivalent because he was afraid of what he would return to.
Pew's report didn't detail why more U.S. adults are increasingly ambivalent about the internet.
At the time, authorities were ambivalent about the true extent of his possible inspiration.
To keep reaching those who are ambivalent about feminism, Trump has to keep positive.
I'm ambivalent about making the switch from a Wacom stylus to the Surface Pen.
After the ambivalent American and European responses to the coup, that drift is accelerating.
Throughout the West it is the young who are most ambivalent about free speech.
The game-changing Austrian-Italian designer Ettore Sottsass (1917-2007) was ambivalent about retrospectives.
But Mr Malpass seems unusually ambivalent about this kind of co-operation and assimilation.
I would say that if you're still ambivalent about sandals, give these a chance.
In any case, the condition he sets only reveals how ambivalent Heti truly is.
"There's no one who's ambivalent about it," said Ms. Kimble, a Los Angeles transplant.
But she's grown increasingly ambivalent about writing in response to incidents of racial violence.
The Netherlands was also ambivalent about losing power under proposed changes in voting rules.
And so, yeah, I was ambivalent about my own ambition for a long time.
Most of the writers here had more complicated, ambivalent relationships to their own dying.
It's making the point that making meat is a very ambivalent, emotionally complex transaction.
In a way, she's the ambivalent heart of this newly energized, gloriously conflicted show.
It's a tricky combination of tones "Forever" is aiming for, simultaneously heartfelt and ambivalent.
In regards to the iPhone, stars were at best ambivalent and at worst disdainful.
"The way that he felt about his work being adapted is ambivalent," she said.
The Democrat also has to persuade Republicans who are more ambivalent about the race.
I was ambivalent about our tryst and feeling fragile about where it might lead.
Jonathan Cowan, president of Third Way, a centrist Democratic think tank, is more ambivalent.
Recent reports indicate that Trump is, at best, extremely ambivalent toward self-driving cars.
Lyrics that might initially seem like pop love songs were, more often, calmly ambivalent.
At least publicly, L.S.U. appeared more ambivalent about exactly where it would be placed.
"We're ambivalent about tourists on this island," the restaurateur Ruairi de Blacam told me.
I select the upside-down smiley face, a commitment to my ambivalent, sarcastic personality.
But even Negan seems ambivalent about the forms his bullying takes at this point.
"I can't decide if that sounds good or not," yet another ambivalent onlooker whined. Honestly?
At first he was ambivalent, but as his trials dragged on, he made a decision.
To be fair, she's hardly the only business leader to be ambivalent on this topic.
But, under President Donald Trump, the US appears to have adopted a more ambivalent approach.
"I think she was ambivalent," says Hoffman of Maynard's feelings about being in the spotlight.
Charlie is cluelessly in love with Lisa, while she is clearly ambivalent about their relationship.
Satbir Singh of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, a charity, is ambivalent.
Some of the best ones are ambivalent, neither portraits of decay nor depictions of utopia.
Bob Corker (R-TN), a Trump critic who is retiring this year, has been ambivalent.
Japan, then, is both deeply divided and perhaps somewhat ambivalent about Abe's legacy-defining initiative.
Some expressed vicious bigotries; some expressed more ambivalent bigotries; and some didn't express any bigotries.
In fact, he probably believes he can wait out limited strikes by an ambivalent president.
Edward Graves, 51, also African-American, is among many park patrons ambivalent about the carving.
If leading players are so ambivalent about Olympic golf, what is it doing in Rio?
If you're feeling kind of ambivalent about your partner, you might want to try MDMA.
The plot that connects all these ambivalent mother figures is not supremely original or interesting.
While Berman spoke, Epstein clasped his hands in front of his face, but appeared ambivalent.
Many of her admirers were ecstatic, while those torn about her sounded ever more ambivalent.
Developers who are already publishing on the Rift and Gear VR had more ambivalent reactions.
One presidential candidate in the United States is a raging protectionist; the other is ambivalent.
They are beautiful, philosophical, ambivalent — brimming with all the humility that his opening pages lack.
This riverine, gorgeously textured novel is highly ambivalent about the encyclopedic knowledge that it delivers.
The Los Angeles artist Rodney McMillian has an ambivalent relationship with mass-produced home furnishings.
Still, the appeal of Gizmo is strong, even for parents who are ambivalent about overprotection.
By the time he graduated in 1967, he was already ambivalent about the growing war.
Labour in particular suffered because of an ambivalent stance toward Brexit that has confused voters.
Asked whether she planned to vote in the coming midterm elections, Ms. Johnson was ambivalent.
HE KNOWS HOW IT SOUNDS, to be ambivalent about the kinds of opportunities he's had.
It's possible that he'd always been ambivalent about the deal, and his misgivings ultimately prevailed.
What could have been a revisionist slog opens into a more ambitiously ambivalent buddy movie.
Trump&aposs own relationship to the national security deep state has been ambivalent at best.
That scene is beautifully played, allowing you to sense a complex web of ambivalent relationships.
On the whole, the medical field seems to be ambivalent about the national health insurance.
"Moulin Rouge!" is too ambivalent for that, perhaps reflecting Broadway's ingrained diffidence toward pop music.
Moreover, as ppl on this site know I'm famously ambivalent abt phone use in theatre.
Ms. Merkel herself appeared ambivalent about another run as polls showed voters tiring of her.
Moreover, as ppl on this site know I'm famously ambivalent abt phone use in theatre.
My mother had been ambivalent about motherhood in a way that I never have been.
Trump populists don't go to church and are ambivalent about abortion or same-sex marriage.
Ms. Noblezada emanates an appropriate open vulnerability, while Mr. Brammer is handsomely ambivalent and stalwart.
Even short-term studies provide ambivalent evidence of the relative safety of vaping, says Tarran.
I tried to get my 5-year-old, Ryan, into them, but she was ambivalent.
The piano-led beat, Action's ambivalent flow, it's all there in its delightfully old school glory.
We work too long, we move too often, we may remain ambivalent about monogamy or children.
Dean Heller (R-NV) and Jeff Flake (R-AZ), who have sounded ambivalent about the bill.
On that fittingly ambivalent note, we now say goodbye to Game of Thrones uneven seventh season.
That may explain Mr Erdogan's ambivalent remarks: he does not wish to confront the kingdom alone.
It's an ambivalent, unwieldy treatment of the subject, mined for drama instead of being presented clearly.
Instead, I felt ambivalent — even not-so-great — about the actual fact of being a mom.
Elitism versus democracyClassical liberals were always surprisingly ambivalent about democracy, given their commitment to individual rights.
But this is precisely what makes it a mechanical, ambivalent experience for Yoni and the band.
"People are mixed, or ambivalent, about who should play a role, who's most responsible," Busteed said.
Stein came under fire earlier this year for her ambivalent stance on whether vaccines cause autism.
I feel very ambivalent about this, because it's the same as saying I prefer filtered Instagrams.
On the other hand, Bonnard's somewhat ambivalent position in the canon of modernism warrants further examination.
It doesn't help that most mainland Brits are ambivalent about the nation's relationship with overseas territories.
These efforts jeopardize his own release, about which he's somewhat ambivalent, or at least very anxious.
At the same time, Mr. Obama has had an ambivalent relationship with Europe during his presidency.
Yet she was an ambivalent participant in court life however closely she managed to observe it.
Clinton excite suburban women and young women who have been ambivalent or antagonistic toward her candidacy.
In such a fundamentally ambivalent cosmos, can any of us really say we are ethical beings?
Typically, I'd have been at the drive-thru on day one, but now I was ambivalent.
So I wonder whether everyone involved might be feeling a tad ambivalent about turning the page.
If you were just ambivalent about tunes, Top 40 stations chose your favorite songs for you.
Before I go on, I want to make clear that my feelings are ambivalent towards cryptocurrencies.
She's back in some town she'd rather leave behind, singing to someone she's thoroughly ambivalent about.
The ambivalent satire of "Turn It Off" has weakened into a gimmick, a crutch, a dodge.
The exhibition portrays Wood as a deeply ambivalent person — about Iowa, about his sexuality, about politics.
Moreover, young pro-choice voters are much more ambivalent or apathetic than young pro-life ones.
Now it's happened — but stock market investors are ambivalent, according to Cliff Krauss of the NYT.
It is a thankless and seemingly never-ending task that unfolds amid an often ambivalent public.
While I'm ambivalent about the whole thing, she'll be coming with me to the office tomorrow.
When applied to good art with good, or even ambivalent, politics, it renders aesthetic achievement irrelevant.
Now, as the Trump administration tries to renew the moribund peace process, Israelis are deeply ambivalent.
A god of change and passage — ambivalent, capable of moving in one direction or the opposite.
What difference does it make if liberals and Democrats are more ambivalent than conservatives and Republicans?
Notably, American evangelicals (and many Republican politicians) were largely ambivalent to abortion prior to the 1980s.
"Even while making the V.R. thing, I felt ambivalent about it as a medium," she said.
I often meet Republicans who were once ambivalent but who have now joined the Trump train.
For an exceptionally successful person, Mr. Acosta can come across as exceptionally ambivalent about his success.
One of us is a lifelong Democrat, the other a Republican (if an increasingly ambivalent one).
I have an ambivalent relationship with technology and find I write better when I'm physically connected.
She is also deeply ambivalent about marriage and committing to a career in synthetic organic chemistry.
By June, the legislation had been weakened to the point that many ambivalent Democrats were mollified.
He's ambivalent about the European Union and previously voted against some of the key EU treaties.
There are at least two: one pro-Trump and the other at best ambivalent about him.
"Unless the company is sponsoring it, they would likely feel a bit ambivalent about it," said Sutton.
She also shouldn't be funneled into a legal system that's ambivalent or even hostile toward her cause.
Video gamers were skeptical, publishers were even more skeptical, and millions of casual Wii owners were ambivalent.
Aatma Singh is a morally ambivalent and ambitious officer who doesn't get Newton's idealistic way of thinking.
While I might be ambivalent about these apps as reading platforms, though, writing on them is awesome.
He concedes that, yeah, now she's no longer ambivalent, but that's because the train's leaving the station.
The Five Star Movement has built much of its success on the back of such ambivalent positions.
Schumpeter showed fewer signs of compassion yet was profoundly ambivalent about the social impact of creative destruction.
I was completely in love with her, and in retrospect, she was so, so ambivalent about me.
They've always had a slightly ambivalent or even confrontational view of the rich man or the elite.
"The future depends on who wins over the ambivalent," says Timo Lochocki, a German expert on populism.
When she first got accepted to the University of Southern California in 2018, she seemed ambivalent herself.
Some feminists may be pinching themselves, but others like me are far more ambivalent about this scenario.
The song "She's Got Medals" is about a cross-dressing, sexually ambivalent woman who joins the army.
It's a somewhat ambivalent situation because in some ways I get why people are drawn to him.
Harris said that Trump's ambivalent rhetoric "invited" Putin to carry out another attack on America's electoral system.
The meme's hold over online culture offers clues about our ambivalent relationship to alpha males in 2016.
As to whether electronic trading of the close leads to more volumes, the results were decidedly ambivalent.
So if young people are increasingly rejecting capitalism but they're ambivalent about socialism, what do they want?
And we were off to another destination, this one as ambivalent in its import as the last.
Research on the relationship between climate change and war is ambivalent on whether this trend will continue.
"It never gets more politicized than this," said Orwig, who was generally ambivalent about a special prosecutor.
Even Martin's farewell blog post shared after the show ended struck a bit of an ambivalent tone.
Although he said he misses her very much, Ren was ambivalent about his relationship with his daughter.
There are some Christians today who still feel ambivalent about Paul because of his words on slavery.
Left unsaid is Mr. Trump's seemingly ambivalent attitude toward the Russian leader, who has offered him compliments.
Many American Jews now report that their position on Israel has become either ambivalent or outright negative.
"PAN" is an ambivalent paean to the Greek goat god, depicting his capacities for creation and destruction.
It is dreamy, yet unrealistic, to assume training alone will change employees from ambivalent to performance-focused.
In early 2013, when the BBC offered Gracie the newly created China-editor position, she was ambivalent.
Talking to Yates, the 28-year-old seems ambivalent about how people will react to Time & Space.
These competing elements are so balanced, in fact, that they sometimes read as neutral or even ambivalent.
"Afraid to Shoot Strangers" is pretty ambivalent about things, but "Aces High," that's straight guns forward, blazing.
The first trailer for Bridget Jones' Baby was released today, and I'm feeling very ambivalent about it.
His collaborators here include Ambivalent (as the PTA duo), Michael Magnan (as Fatherhood), and Complete Walkthru, a.k.a.
While he initially seemed ambivalent about the fires, Bolsonaro has now pivoted to making them a priority.
"Cats jumpin', man," he says, apparently unperturbed by the beboppers' sometimes-ambivalent relationship to his own legacy.
On a recent reporting trip, I received the same answers from Australians on feeling ambivalent about politics.
Most groups we have studied, however, garner ambivalent stereotypes: either warm but incompetent, or competent but cold.
Third, Greenlanders already have ambivalent feelings about the US' military rights over the island's Thule Air Base.
Being tired, ambivalent, stressed, cynical and overextended has become a normal part of a working professional life.
Zverev is ambivalent about the added media attention, but he is certain it will not change him.
The past four decades have featured a string of ambivalent, and now openly antagonistic, commanders-in-chief.
It expresses our ambivalent relationship with desire — our constant negation of it, our vigilant policing of it.
Ben Brantley, in his New York Times review, admired the play but was ambivalent about this staging.
" He continued, "Moreover, as ppl on this site know I'm famously ambivalent abt phone use in theatre.
Biden is evidently ambivalent about continuing to work on them beyond an initial four years in office.
Benoit, who holds a day job in information technology in Boston, has an ambivalent relationship with Tesla.
I would do this several times over the next four days, and never feel less ambivalent about it.
The rest were ambivalent or not in a position to cause problems, he is reported to have said.
Hotz was rather ambivalent to the idea; perhaps he didn't think people would take him at his word.
When ordinary people got access to online directories in the mid-'90s, though, the response was more ambivalent.
To understand PragerU's ambivalent stance toward the president, it helps to understand a little bit about Dennis Prager.
Lindgren wanted this map to wake up listless Canadians who may be ambivalent about these closures and contractions.
But five years after the first AR-10 tests, the Army was still ambivalent on the new rifles.
But if you take the words out, as Beethoven was obliged to do, its message is wonderfully ambivalent.
Countries such as Britain expressed support for an arms embargo early in the conflict; America was more ambivalent.
It seems that we are destined always to have an ambivalent relationship with our public alter ego, MI19823.
"Mark seemed ambivalent, at times urging Brett on and at times telling him to stop," Ford said Thursday.
It seems that we are destined always to have an ambivalent relationship with our public alter ego, MI22017.
Plus, there isn't yet an instructive model in the United States for areligious, sober-ambivalent booze-free bars.
Yet as solid pro-Europeans, many feel ambivalent about celebrating the consequence of an event they deeply regret.
" The Hollywood Reporter described the film as "a drama about a real-life sexually ambivalent massage parlor owner.
Developers had a hard time keeping up with platform rules, and platforms grew more ambivalent about developer demands.
They are worried about their marriages, anxious about their futures, and ambivalent about their families, chosen or otherwise.
And a large number of residents are "ambivalent" toward tech as an engine of prosperity, the survey said.
Those threats are compounded by an America whose "resolve about its defense has become somewhat ambivalent," he added.
Israeli officials say they had an ambivalent feeling about the talks with the White House and State Department.
Jeremy Corbyn, its left-wing leader, dislikes the capitalists in Brussels and is at best ambivalent about membership.
Right from the start Yahoo was ambivalent about whether it should be a media or a technology company.
It was 240, and most people in his Yorkshire mining town of Barnsley were ambivalent about the issue.
" Ambivalent about a potential leak, he adds, "If somebody chose the philanthropy route, no one could stop it.
At 75, Dunaway is both appreciative and ambivalent about the superstardom she experienced in the '60s and '70s.
But less than a half-hour after we've reemerged into the sunlight, Makonnen is ambivalent about the results.
Third, much of South America is ambivalent about the OAS itself, seeing it as a cold-war anachronism.
In the immediate aftermath, however, there are some things that are in no way ambivalent or ambiguous: 1.
And it would have reason to keep an eye on "The Founder," with its ambivalent portrayal of Kroc.
They are ambivalent toward their work but also wonder if perhaps they're lucky to have jobs at all.
Schemansky could be ambivalent about the fame and fortune that never accrued to him in any great measure.
Besides, a successful joke requires a clear point of view, and his views were ambivalent and constantly shifting.
Yet official attitudes have been ambivalent toward a sport that was seen as a pastime of the rich.
After all, polls show Americans are surprisingly ambivalent about whether immigration is a good thing for American culture.
I'm ambivalent about the ability for games to resist, but the slim glimmer of hope keeps me going.
My relationship with my brother was an ambivalent one — full of love, fear, empathy, embarrassment, gratitude and resentment.
He is ill equipped to deal with an agreement that he has been ambivalent toward throughout his career.
But concrete answers to those questions have yet to materialize, and in the meantime, American patients are ambivalent.
Those who might be ambivalent about abortion should realize that these strictures can apply to them as well.
This ambivalent relationship with the viewer can be felt all the way up to his most recent work.
Ms. Gonzalez said she was ambivalent about returning to Corpus Christi and her morning-shift job at McDonald's.
Even those who were ambivalent about the allegations against Chief Gallagher viewed his public criticism of Rear Adm.
It's hard to play the game now and read all of these Cage quotes and not feel ambivalent.
An interactive panel explores the perspectives of 10 individuals: men and women, free and enslaved, enthusiastic and ambivalent.
Did you need to keep your distance on the sets from him since your characters have ambivalent relationships?
His comments added another wrinkle to his ambivalent relationship with the game he often celebrates, but also laments.
Teens can be easily overwhelmed by their own feelings, and they're often ambivalent about leaning on parents for support.
Although I'd been a professional at providing pleasure, like many women, I felt ambivalent about expecting it in return.
Now, Rami Malek, the world wide web's (somewhat ambivalent) choice for boo of the year, has fulfilled this destiny.
The reason is that the process could complicate his hopes of capturing voters ambivalent or conflicted about his presidency.
Imagine a woman, young and ambivalent, staring into the middle distance, white sneakers aglow in the dawn, bridge overhead.
But they are ambivalent about whether it's possible to have that discussion while Trump is in the White House.
"It's in our DNA to be a little ambivalent with award ceremonies," he explained in an interview with Esquire.
Much of the drama involves Anton's ambivalent role in Buddy's return to the airwaves after a two-year hiatus.
Sarah Diefenbach: Yeah so, what we term the "selfie paradox," it's more or less the ambivalent attitude toward selfies.
He commiserates, and it sounds genuine — the ambivalent doctor trying to help parents make sense of a chaotic world.
I've spent a lot of time puzzling over the two-protagonist setup in Dishonored, because I'm ambivalent of it.
However, while NHTSA wants to get its hands on crash data, the agency seems ambivalent about receiving vulnerability data.
I had similarly ambivalent feelings about what came to be sort of the crown jewel of violations: cooking capybara.
Sadly, Matthew Lynley was reading slam poetry to ambivalent cacti in the Sonora Desert and thus couldn't join us.
Migration is an intrinsically ambivalent business, both for the governments that must manage it and for the migrants themselves.
Germany's ambivalent election last year left the country without a stable government, weakening Merkel's authority and the conservative party.
I am interested in our ambivalent nature to power, violence, and sensuality, and how closely they can be related.
However, much like at Volkswagen's Chattanooga plant, the strike is opening the eyes of union-ambivalent workers in Mississippi.
He had to play both an ambivalent lover and a man who made perfect sense belting opposite Ms. Streisand.
When it came to the breakthroughs for gay rights in the Obama era, even progressive Muslims were mostly ambivalent.
And while she said there's no denying the group's impact, the controversy has left her ambivalent about its future.
The union can survive the decision by the UK, one of its largest but most ambivalent members, to leave.
Despite these easy steps, many climate activists remain ambivalent about calling for carbon footprint reductions at the individual level.
Randy Barbato: For us, during the first year making it, we were ambivalent about our feelings toward Robert Mapplethorpe.
When democracy was introduced by force by the Allies in the late 1940s, views about democracy were pretty ambivalent.
Among Labour lawmakers, familiar wounds have reopened over the more ambivalent stance of its left-wing leader, Jeremy Corbyn.
Then he proved to be the ambivalent man that sleuthing viewers (well, Reality Steve) had revealed him to be.
Her goal is to get the majority of Americans to talk openly about their deeply ambivalent feelings about abortion.
Viewed this way, parties play a complex and often ambivalent role in shaping what presidential candidates and presidents do.
Finally, and most important, they noted that Mexicans have always held an ambivalent position on their own national identity.
Once your preference makes itself known — or if you are permanently ambivalent — figure out if you need to go.
Cara and Kevin are his test case: she the ambivalent protégée he tries to refashion in his own image.
How can the party nominate him if he is ambivalent about being in the party in the first place?
Mr. Hawley was ambivalent at first when asked if he was interested in doing his own X-Men series.
Keeping an ambivalent distance from the centers of literary power, she makes room in her work for other voices.
Trump has taken an ambivalent approach to Afghanistan, saying his instinct upon entering office in 2017 was to withdraw.
"If China really was trying to send the U.S. a signal, it would not be so ambivalent," said Chandler.
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Negan himself is ambivalent about what to do with multiple misbehaving members of his compound, as well as Carl.
SXAP remained down 0.1 percent in an ambivalent reaction by investors to the latest developments in the trade war saga.
" Then he argued that rejecting the deal "will simply hand the contract to a non-Canadian, potentially more ambivalent provider.
One of the woes of being a cat owner is feeling like your feline sweeties are ambivalent to your existence.
It's the direct contradiction of "Gonna Die Alone," emphatic about his continued existence rather than ambivalent towards his coming death.
Both the patriarch and the archbishop acknowledged that the historic role of their churches in fighting servitude has been ambivalent.
"What we have now is clearly an ambivalent set of circumstances," Mr. Greenspan said at a July policy-setting meeting.
He also made "Lollipop," a song so unavoidable that even the most isolated, ambivalent American suburbanites were familiar with it.
Crucially, these songs don't imply causality; whether he's ambivalent about romance or his career, the true subject is yearning itself.
Scroll past that ambivalent See review, that breathless report about new Adventure Time specials, that long list of Disney+ offerings.
If Malcolm is ambivalent about their liaison, Anna is appalled and insistent that this enigmatic intruder should go away immediately.
Many health insurers are already ambivalent about Obamacare and could see significant tax cuts if the law is rolled back.
We're good friends but are fairly ambivalent about the fact that this is just hooking up for both of us.
Relations between creole whites and the white English are ambivalent: Rochester is simultaneously aroused and repelled by Antoinette's "impure" whiteness.
They're also quite ambivalent when it comes to how many millionaires they need to actually sign up for their service.
I mean, the king and queen are a little ambivalent about the whole thing, or maybe it's just their tone.
Denny's past work has appeared ambivalent about the power structures it explores, but in "Founder's Paradox" it takes a stance.
But according to people close to government circles, Aliyev was ambivalent about the role for which he was being prepared.
As it charts the bumpy course of Leona's summer love affair, the show feels as anxiously ambivalent as its heroine.
Homam al-Asaad, 28, a resident of Saraqeb in Idlib Province, where the fighting continues, was ambivalent about the truce.
Still, when pressed on whether he thought Domina was right to insist on leaving immigration issues aside, Wittmann was ambivalent.
Some are more than seemingly ambivalent, and some are ready and willing to embrace the forces of racism when expedient.
The party's leadership is ambivalent about the party's platform, and has suggested it will compromise on social issues like abortion.
It's a complicated and ambivalent tale that bears far more social freight than the usual beat-the-odds sports melodrama.
Gibson himself, I should point out, is an admitted slow adopter, and ambivalent about his cult as a computing oracle.
So I had to switch the genders, but then this amazing thing happened, and it suddenly became about ambivalent motherhood.
And in the case of Star Trek, it's also no secret that some fans remain ambivalent about the new movies.
"Through that period, some investors were interested, most were ambivalent at best and some downright skeptical at worst," he said.
She is somewhat ambivalent about parting with her chandeliers, especially if they are just going to hang on someone's wall.
According to Matt Pearce, a national correspondent who served on the organizing committee, many colleagues were initially ambivalent about unionizing.
I'm fairly certain Katie would have had ambivalent feelings about her ashes' unresolved fate if she'd considered this issue beforehand.
As citizens, we should all be willing to stay ambivalent while the facts are gathered and we collect our thoughts.
Britain joined the forerunner of the European Union in 1973, but British politicians have always been ambivalent about the bloc.
This kind of storytelling necessarily involves an ambivalent look backward; fantasy is caricatured as nostalgic and reactionary for a reason.
In the past #HotPriestSummer, Peters has racked up 57,100 fans on TikTok, but he's ambivalent toward being labeled an influencer.
Like the rest of South Vietnamese society, youth volunteers accepted American aid, but remained ambivalent and suspicious toward their benefactor.
We've got another policy that has little public backing, which congressional Democrats oppose implacably and leaves even some Republicans ambivalent.
Quotable: "From my conversations, it appears that people are not ambivalent about Sanders," said a Democratic Party official in Iowa.
Like many of his colleagues, he is ambivalent about the president, but his frustrations with Washington long predate Trump's arrival.
While the government of Israel was ambivalent about whether to retain the newly emancipated areas, the settler movement was not.
Both men have seemed ambivalent about Trump's candidacy — and they epitomize the Republican establishment that the businessman has often blasted.
Featuring works by more than 20 diverse international artists, "The Garden of Earthly Delights" shows gardens to be ambivalent domains.
So far, polls show support rising for Trump's impeachment, yet the public remains ambivalent about actually removing him from office.
But troops&apos actual feelings about the commander in chief appear much more ambivalent in the latest Military Times survey.
Many people in China continue to hold ambivalent feelings toward Japan, which has become a leading destination for Chinese tourists.
And I found him to be ambivalent about trash picking, which he has been doing full time for six years.
Interestingly, 40 percent of black people were ambivalent about the statue removal — signaling a complexity of this issue for many.
I'm talking about the next game that wants to have an ambivalent stance toward the genre it's a part of.
She is the author of This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things and the co-author of The Ambivalent Internet.
I knew then that I would miss Warped Tour a lot, though I had found myself ambivalent about its winding down.
He comes across as reluctant to call what they're doing "dating," and three years later, he's ambivalent about proposing to her.
That left the Republicans in the race ambivalent about how tightly to embrace him; the most devoted of them fared badly.
An ambivalent attitude towards Russia's Putin is another area where Europe's nationalists and Trump don't see eye-to-eye with Merkel.
One character feels ambivalent over having a second child when her career is finally back on track, despite her husband's protests.
Though he's been responding to it for years and years by this point, he's always seemed somewhat ambivalent about the idea.
Both candidates have been ambivalent towards international trade amid rising public anger over job creation and prospects in the U.S., however.
Those revelations were the final straw for a campaign that was already under attack for being too ambivalent about Russian misdeeds.
The punks are almost ambivalent, even apathetic, to the Nazis, who they have no problem playing for and taking money from.
The Chinese themselves appear more ambivalent on the outlook - the slowdown may feel just a bit too real for local investors.
See, in addition to being knowledgeable about its genesis, Murray was deeply ambivalent about his small role in creating the bomb.
In the process it is tacitly conceding an awkward point: most British Muslims abhor extremism, but a distinct minority is ambivalent.
The ambivalent politics of heterosexual intimacy arch over Lisa Taddeo's Three Women, an investigation of the sexual desires of three women.
Chan is ambivalent about the song, which Carey crafted "to sound like it was from, like, the nineteen-fifties," she said.
Democrats have often been ambivalent about that ardent nationalistic voice, but this week they were happy to accept Trump's unintentional gift.
"Many of these mom-and-pop shops are ambivalent because the attacks don't directly impact their business and revenue," he said.
It also broadly reflects a society ambivalent at best about the government's role in pioneering the next phase of space exploration.
A more troubling option: Sexism has become so normalized many women are ambivalent about elevating one of their own to leadership.
Having played the demo of Star Trek: Bridge Crew at the E3 Expo in Los Angeles this week, I'm feeling ambivalent.
Many governments seem ambivalent, worried about the potential for instability but unwilling to lose the chance of benefiting from new technology.
He is left wing in his politics, is mostly vegan, and has always seemed ambivalent about the excesses of pro wrestling.
His well-intentioned interventionists in foreign lands often turn out to be ambivalent fumblers in the manner of Graham Greene's protagonists.
At first, however, as the Senate report now makes clear, Mr. Ackman was ambivalent about what to do about Mr. Pearson.
But in pledging to "stop funding a rogue agency," Jayapal directed the spotlight onto the Democratic Party's ambivalent feelings about immigration.
Nevertheless, I call him "the pope of hints" because of his ambivalent suggestions on several doctrinal and policy controversies in Catholicism.
As an artist, you're always looking for some creature or character which is ambivalent — beautiful, ugly, horrible, sweet in one second.
Moravia was a cousin of the Rosselli brothers, and Moorehead shows how he had his own ambivalent relations with the regime.
Here's a thing we see a lot of in Canadian hip-hop: Too many Toronto rappers projecting tough-guy, ambivalent airs.
Seattle has long been ambivalent about change and growth, especially its own, and so nostalgia for the viaduct is already flowing.
Green means you hear music in everything, yellow means you're ambivalent, and gray means you don't buy into Fluxus as music.
If not for my precarious reproductive situation, I probably would have pretended to be ambivalent about kids for 10 more years.
"I feel great but at the same time I feel a little bit empty, I feel a little ambivalent," he said.
If we were to draw a common thread through these six striking minutes, it would be Drake's ambivalent relationship to money.
Mr. McNeill and his friends were ambivalent about Mr. Trump, whom they felt was often unfairly blamed for the world's ills.
If her parents are proud and naturalized Americans, Bili is an ambivalent heir, with memories of a childhood spent happily elsewhere.
That ambivalent stance — rejecting such weapons for itself but approving their deployment by the United States — has also created political friction.
And should you want to play around with your own ambivalent two-faced sips, here are some tips for composing them.
He already has a child, from a birth control miscue early in his adult life, and is ambivalent about having another.
A former member of the University at Buffalo's chapter told me that he was more ambivalent about the fraternity's cultural curriculum.
She consoled Osaka through the ambivalent emotions of winning her first Grand Slam title against her idol under such strange circumstances.
Kim Jong-il, the father of the North's current leader, had been ambivalent about the marketplaces before he died in 2011.
It's a reminder of how a single ballad, and a lone interpreter, can capture the full, ambivalent spectrum of a lifetime.
At a minimum they may well be ambivalent to Trump's exit from the White House and not stand in Iran's way.
High-quality relationships (essentially those that are supportive, not ambivalent) can ward off chronic loneliness's worst health effects, as can diversity.
For my first few jokes, the laughs were faint, but I felt relaxed because I was so ambivalent about being there.
But they specialize in Modern and contemporary art, and the Met seems ambivalent about how much to commit to that area.
As a country with Catholic roots, but also a commitment to personal liberties, France has had an ambivalent approach to divorce.
French President Emmanuel Macron strongly opposes that automatic linkage between the election and the Commission job and Merkel herself is ambivalent.
While I'm rather ambivalent about the Alicia-Jason relationship, the scene where it happens is quite well done and incredibly intimate.
Some types of well-being, Lomas writes, don't come in purely pleasurable packets — they're ambivalent, containing both positive and negative valences.
On Friday, Mr. Prayuth, a former army chief with an ambivalent attitude toward democracy, spoke of his commitment to his homeland.
At the rally, many of the Bernie supporters were still deeply ambivalent about whether Sanders was right about the general election.
If it strikes DAPA down, Obama's legacy — and immigrants' attitude toward the Democratic Party — will be an ambivalent and disappointing one.
This year, with the post-election tension and impending sense of doom, we're a little more ambivalent about Thanksgiving than normal.
The Libertarian Party is still a little ambivalent about naming a pair of former Republican governors to represent its party in 2016.
The tale, directed by Sean Mewshaw and written by Desi Van Til, pairs an ambivalent Ms. Hall with a diffident Jason Sudeikis.
Among these celebrities is Mariah Carey, and someone seems to have an issue with that — or at least is ambivalent about it.
Joel Goodwin got much further with the game but, as his superb video illustrates, he still remains comically ambivalent about it overall.
The economy is clearly in a recovery mode, and she seems ambivalent about how much additional fiscal stimulus the economy might need.
But overall, Pew found that people were fairly ambivalent about how online dating apps and sites impact dating and relationships in America.
M5S's position on the euro has been more fluid and ambivalent but has included repeated calls for a referendum on the issue.
A Barletta volunteer at the same city hall polling location where Medina worked wore the congressman's button but was ambivalent about Trump.
In one she roams the gentrified neighbourhoods of her town, ambivalent about both Florida and the pernicious expectations under which mothers labour.
Now, while the Lenin statue still casts a shadow over the square, skateboarders there are mostly amused or ambivalent about his presence.
As young children we are ambivalent toward smells like poo and stinky feet: we have to be taught that these are "bad".
In Ireland, there was a deeply ambivalent relationship between the Catholic church and the Republican movement that emerged in the 19th century.
The television programs — even over at Fox News, the ambivalent mothership of them all — look clunky and dated to the 2017 eye.
In reality, Americans are ambivalent about any number of issues, like gun reform — an issue where Manchin excels at bridging the divide.
Graduation is hardly the first film in which one bad deed leads to another, but it's among the most dispassionate and ambivalent.
A number of times while I was involved in it I had really ambivalent feelings about it at those moments as well.
He realizes that his reaction is complicated by his ambivalent feelings toward his father, who, decades ago, abandoned him and his mother.
Contained within Zeke's language is his vision of manhood, one deeply ambiguous and ambivalent, shaped as it is by shifting gender ideals.
The book offers an ambivalent understanding of a complicated birthright, and none of its drama feels like an airing of dirty laundry.
Yasser, who was still missing his wife and wondering how long it would take to bring her, was ambivalent about the news.
Today, men also happen to be the most ambivalent they have ever been toward having a man or woman as a boss.
But you can also read this photograph sequentially rather than sentimentally, moving from face to face, and find a more ambivalent story.
Voters simply cared about other issues, while many of the party's core constituencies—particularly labor and environmental groups—were ambivalent at best.
These stereotypes can lead to feelings of envy, an ambivalent emotion that Fiske says is a mix of both admiration and resentment.
After Rick Springfield's noogies, cuckolding anthems and ambivalent serenades to the Koch Brothers youth, I lapse into a state of existential depression.
Whitney Phillips of Mercer University and Ryan M Milner of the College of Charleston are the co-authors of The Ambivalent Internet.
Here the dominant conceit is Mr. Allen's well-documented ambivalence about California and the industry that has often seemed ambivalent about him.
Mr. Jones was more ambivalent about national Democrats joining him in Alabama, aside from Mr. Biden, whom he described as a friend.
For the past 51 years, Mr. Dabash and the other Arab residents of Jerusalem have lived an ambivalent and disadvantaged political existence.
Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who was opposed to legalizing gay marriage and employment protections for LGBT individuals, appeared ambivalent about Trump's decisions.
The excellent work of Michael Park as Connor's stony father and Laura Dreyfuss as his ambivalent sister reveals itself more than ever.
As Kantor and Twohey detail, Ford was ambivalent right up to the night before giving her historic testimony at the Kavanaugh hearing.
My Ambivalent Internet co-author Ryan M. Milner and I connect this process to the overlapping issues of fetishization and amplification online.
"I feel so ambivalent about that whole argument," Ms. Fine said, referring to the free-rider case against right-to-work laws.
Now a lot of the people that were ambivalent about my prepping, those people are incredibly interested in what I do now.
And now the US is in an ambivalent position, led by a flawed character much more sympathetic to the Chinese-Russian axis.
This, he writes, is why we are so ambivalent about luck egalitarianism and the politicians who see the world through its lens.
The current party chairman, Jeff Kaufmann, acknowledged that many of the president's biggest fans are, at best, ambivalent about the Republican Party.
But Ms. Heyer's convictions had penetrated the psyches of her occasionally ambivalent audience, and were celebrated on Wednesday by speaker after speaker.
She's frustrated by her paper's decision to axe her coverage of Central America and aggravated by her ambivalent relationship with her father.
At least one governor of a state still in the running for Amazon's second headquarters is ambivalent about winning the final bid.
Technology entrepreneurs, despite their Democratic leanings, are ambivalent on key elements of the Democratic agenda, according to Broockman and his co-authors.
Obama "was ambivalent but he did try to keep troops on," said Jim Jeffrey, the president's ambassador to Iraq at the time.
"He is ambivalent about whether [having them work in the White House] is a good thing or a bad thing," Haberman said.
If you're more ambivalent about this new position, then now is a great time to seriously explore the marketplace for your skills.
Because neutrinos are so ambivalent when it comes to matter, they make good probes for observing the distant (and very old) universe.
The Pakistani army is fully beholden to China but the position of Imran Khan who became prime minister last August is more ambivalent.
While New York's bearish and London's more ambivalent, the all-important Chinese segment of the speculative spectrum doesn't appear to have any view.
Though the London Stock Exchange has courted Aramco assiduously, the City is becoming more ambivalent about oil and gas investments for environmental reasons.
It feels more like a misdemeanor to stare into the ambivalent eyes of these subjects, who give off a less-than-innocent vibe.
When Vargas asked how the survivors feel knowing that Nassar will be imprisoned for life, they were ambivalent about Nassar's 175-year sentence.
Tammy Baldwin — up for her first reelection, with constituents feeling either ambivalent or uninformed about her — has made health care her signature issue.
But it is worth mentioning that at times of serious crisis in American politics, the party system has been helpful but ultimately ambivalent.
Fans will buy, though not all of them, but among themselves they insist on gift culture, with its ambivalent relationship to commerce, its
He is much likelier to keep wedging and wedging away at ambivalent or reluctant supporters until all that's left are his core fans.
But does erectile dysfunction reflect biological causes or is it figment of our sex ambivalent culture and men's embrace of traditional gender roles?
It's a simple way for colleges to streamline the admissions process, and for ambivalent teens to take a crack at multiple places simultaneously.
King's sexism could be seen most clearly through his ambivalent relationship with one of the civil rights movement's most crucial leaders, Ella Baker.
Twenty-one years on, there are fewer veterans, while Americans are more ambivalent about the bombings—when they think about them at all.
Wemba, who, like all Congo's star musicians, naturally maintained an ambivalent attitude to power—sometimes critical, but generally compliant—at first played along.
Research shows that young people were increasingly ambivalent about guns before Parkland, but the NRA's response seems to be pushing them toward revulsion.
But such hope must be tempered with the understanding that Western-style universities are ambivalent places when it comes to encouraging greater equality.
Mr. Gleeson doesn't even watch the series, and his friends were similarly ambivalent: "I've somehow remained oblivious about what happened," Mr. Macaulay said.
These are among the results of a P.R.R.I. poll released on Tuesday showing a nation that is deeply ambivalent about the electoral process.
Finally, there is one more reason I feel ambivalent when my hearing acquaintances tell me they are using baby signs with their children.
In the aftermath of that case, major anti-abortion groups concluded that the justices, like many ambivalent Americans, believed that women need abortion.
I am not usually drawn to detective or murder mysteries, and am ambivalent about books that hinge on erotics and violence against women.
Britain has been ambivalent about the innovative water-blasting method even as it has transformed the United States into a major petroleum exporter.
Clinton sent mixed signals, praising the campaign in the abstract without endorsing its specific goals, and center-left wonks were (and remain) ambivalent.
He is the candidate of the immoderate center: populists who, inter alia, have ambivalent feelings about guns but very strong feelings about terrorists.
If you're anything like me, the recent election left you feeling pretty terrible, and possibly even a little ambivalent about our shared hobby.
Straightaway, Conner's film demonstrates one of the more ambivalent qualities of immersive moving image art: a stupefaction that inhibits or melts away thought.
"We have been late on French television in representing tormented, ambivalent characters in politics," said Jean-Baptiste Delafon, one of "Baron Noir's" screenwriters.
One scientist with whom I spoke felt ambivalent about the new convention at professional conferences that attendees write their pronouns on name tags.
On Friday, Mr. Trump signed the new deal with the leaders of Canada and Mexico — neighbors by turns ambivalent and icy toward him.
But reporters at The Sun discovered overstatements in his résumé; the City Council expressed doubts about confirming him; and he himself seemed ambivalent.
His family sold the building in 1994, according to the current owner, Romeo Salta, who said he was "ambivalent" about a landmark designation.
Now she has invited him to her wedding to Aaron (Ryan Hansen), and Adam is ambivalent about it at best, unhinged at worst.
The way I feel about this film is the way I feel about Peter: ambivalent, but smitten by something ineffably electric within him.
Despite their unmistakable ideological overlap with the National Socialists, many Conservative Revolutionaries were ambivalent toward them and rejected Hitler as a proletarian brute.
I'm ambivalent about this because I know women can stand on their own, but it may be for the good of the game.
The team's interviews revealed that about two-thirds of the group would reject aid in dying and about 15 percent had ambivalent responses.
The result, as it must be for 2019, is a more ambivalent, feminist reading of Argentina's first lady, lay saint and lightning rod.
But others interviewed by POLITICO, though still committed to defeating Trump, were largely ambivalent about the contenders vying to take on the president.
Read more " _____ • Elissa Strauss in Slate: "Many religious traditions, including a number of denominations of Christianity, are ambivalent about the beginnings of life.
The reception underscored the utilities' attempt to cement ties with an administration that already appeared ambivalent toward any rapid shift to renewable energy.
Still, his reaction to the collapse of the Soviet Union was deeply ambivalent, just as it was for the large majority of Russians.
The main opposition Labour Party has been ambivalent about the issue and its candidate, Mr. Wolmar, did poorly in the wealthy Richmond area.
Roger Cohen What was evident during the campaign is more apparent after Donald Trump's election: Mr. Trump is deeply ambivalent about becoming president.
Some natives were ambivalent about entrusting their future to a corporation, and worried about losing hunting and fishing grounds to sale or bankruptcy.
This docile wonder exists in a world of its own, self-contained and ambivalent toward anything outside the small ecosystem it has fostered.
The researchers observed the kittens' behaviour and organized them into attachment styles familiar to human babies and dogs: secure, ambivalent, avoidant, and disorganized.
David Autor via MIT Technology Review David Autor via MIT Technology Review As the EmTech Next conference begins, I'm as ambivalent as ever.
At some prisons, medical workers are ambivalent about treating inmates; others are poorly trained and ill equipped to handle serious diseases, experts say.
And it's not just me — some of the people most ambivalent about Chelsea Manning are other transgender people, and our veterans not least.
Radiohead has generally been ambivalent about the honor: One member, Johnny Greenwood, told Rolling Stone "I don't care" when asked about the institution.
The thing about Titanfall 2's tech test, though, is that I think it felt more ambivalent about mechs than even I do.
Trump has often been ambivalent about the Russians' meddling in the 2016 election, and it's not clear whether he takes the matter very seriously.
So far Trump has backed Brexit, been ambivalent at best about the EU and accused Germany of using the EU to steal American business.
Canadian scientists who observed this river piracy last year were more ambivalent about the role of human-driven global warming in the glacier's retreat.
The issue is ultimately unresolved, an ambivalent reflection of a problem that frequently has no obvious solution, aided by a society that maintains silence.
It's also why those whose families have long been excluded from higher education feel increasingly ambivalent about the sacrifices necessary to join their ranks.
Among them are ambivalent Cause fighter Michele, the cheater Rafael, the earnestly determined Fernando, the standoffish genius Joana, and the entitled "legacy" kid Marco.
Still, Clinton has been largely supportive of GMOs, some of which are involved in the production of peanut butter, and ambivalent about GMO labeling.
It is hardly surprising that many in this industry, rooted in charitable development work, feel ambivalent about vast commercial enterprises entering the payment business.
McCain and Feingold, and allies in the House, moved the bill effectively through a largely uninterested Congress, to the desk of an ambivalent president.
Moon's most contentious differences with Trump will likely be his ambivalent views on the enforcement of U.N. sanctions and the THAAD missile defense system.
In the film's final moments, Attanasio and Morrone aim for notes of freedom and escape that mean to resonate as both ambivalent and rallying.
Through loops, eight-bits and inventive arrangements, he's made a critical addition to his work that may inspire awe even in the most ambivalent.
The film also explores the unrequited love Phoenix's character, a gay man, has for Reeves's character, a man who's more ambivalent about his sexuality. 
Caught in the middle are ambivalent school systems like Laramie's, hesitant to pass new policies that could ignite outrage or lawsuits from either side.
His confession left us feeling ambivalent about Andrew, whereas Goodson—even the name is a nudge—comes across as a model of moral improvement.
Eric Goldberg, 43, an insurance executive from New York who took his family to Grace after his wife read a review, was more ambivalent.
There's abuse of power and there's crime, and then there's also ambivalent sex play between people that is very, very difficult to maneuver around.
"It's a terrible, nasty, violent sport," said Michael Benedetto, a Democrat from the Bronx, explaining his highly ambivalent "yes" vote on the Assembly floor.
The elections are also on everyone's mind, and particularly Hillary Clinton, whom they regard with an ambivalent hopefulness as the first potential female president.
Eleanor, like Bernadette, is an extremely ambivalent Seattle resident, wife and mother who had a big creative work life that's now in the past.
On the dating site where we had met, Brian and I had both used the word "ambivalent" to describe our interest in having children.
The controversy she has generated helps explain the ambivalent French response to the #MeToo movement, and how they view relations between women and men.
He's convincingly ambivalent and obstreperous as the womanizing ex-astronaut who eventually reveals a core of tenderness, but once again, flickering movie shadows loom.
Charlayne Woodard is a regally ambivalent Gertrude, whose fatally divided loyalties to her son, Hamlet, and her husband, Claudius, are always in tremulous evidence.
Thatcher, Mr. Farndale wrote, but Mr. Thomas's effort to broker a following for her in the world of letters and learning yielded ambivalent results.
The Cuban Revolution is itself a state religion and its gods inevitably find a place in the show, though as objects of ambivalent devotion.
Even Donald Trump seems ambivalent on the issue—he's at times called for tougher gun laws, but never followed through in any meaningful way.
She's ambivalent about the spotlight, and has felt hesitant to even go out to the mailbox without having her hair done, fearing public scrutiny.
The praise for Ms. Haspel, despite her role in torturing detainees, reflects the agency's ambivalent attitude toward those who participated in the interrogation program.
He was especially prominent during the brief literary thaw under Communist Party leader Nikita Khrushchev, but had an often ambivalent relationship with Communist authorities.
Reed Arahood, 34, of Massachusetts, who had come to Washington to be part of the peaceful protests, said she was ambivalent about the violence.
Women ambivalent about pregnancy tend to be younger, wrestling with financial strains and life plans, or older, nearing the end of their fertile years.
The best care for an ambivalent woman, besides guidance about prenatal health, might be a form of birth control that is more easily reversible.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads When Digby Baker-Porazinski received the email, a significant academic decision about which he'd been ambivalent suddenly crystalized.
The early loss means they can't capitalize on the opportunity to draw an audience that might have been previously skeptical or ambivalent about women's soccer.
I think it's hard for people to know how to talk about these ambivalent feelings without fearing they'll be judged for not loving their child.
The artist, who is Brazilian but has lived in New York for 25 years, "is ambivalent about belonging to either of these countries," Rebouças continues.
Facebook has tangled with plenty of governments over privacy, but this whole section applies most directly to China, with which Facebook has an ambivalent relationship.
Throw in the socialist regime's occasionally ambivalent approach to private-property rights in general, and you have a situation that's hardly inviting for foreign investors.
But many others are ambivalent about the chaos caused by the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward, when millions starved to death.
Given Hastings' many ambivalent statements about net neutrality throughout the year, this tweet isn't something we should necessarily take as a forceful call to action.
Prison authorities are, at best, ambivalent about inmates' access to technology, but facilities are now experimenting with computer education programs and even limited internet access.
His wife, Columba, who never relished politics, seemed ambivalent, and his immediate family was not eager for the scrutiny that a presidential run would invite.
But it was unclear if Park can continue to represent the country diplomatically when other countries might be ambivalent about scheduling summit meetings with her.
Image: Reddit/GizmodoAs a company, Reddit has shown itself to be either ambivalent or complicit in abuse on the site, but users are fed up.
Trump then pivoted from his grim portrait of the "inner city" to his strangely ambivalent "what do you have to lose" argument to black voters.
He was soon traveling the world under the name Ambivalent, spreading the gospel of Berlin's trendy ambience with compatriots like Magda, Marc Houle and Heartthrob.
During a conference call with reporters, Weisberg and Fields said they wanted viewers to draw their own conclusions about many of the potentially ambivalent moments.
Quigg says that the strike is leading to a lot of union ambivalent workers to ask questions about strikes and what unions can do there.
A proliferation of "mommy blogs" and social media platforms include more ambivalent and complex voices exposing the chaos, frustration and extremely demanding labor of motherhood.
Furthermore, she added, President François Hollande, who as the Socialist leader presided over the party's division in 2005, has proved at best to be ambivalent.
But if Mr. Mladic's punishment drew a line of sorts — juridically at least — it was a halting and ambivalent marker between Europe's epochs of uncertainty.
Now, genetic studies are shedding more light on the fiery fruit that has been the source of our species' ambivalent relationship with heat and food.
The plot of the book is not just her life, or even her intellectual life, but the drama of her ambivalent biographer reckoning with both.
The elite has to change, but Markovits is eager to avoid an outright overthrow of the meritocrats, about whom he remains ambivalent, and even admiring.
But it's also become clear to me that current college students are often ambivalent, or even hostile, to the idea of free speech on campus.
Mr. Trumka had initially joined the president's business council, but resigned in August after the president's seemingly ambivalent remarks about racists protesting in Charlottesville, Va.
Author Curtis Sittenfeld spun her fantasy version of the first lady into a novel, American Wife, about the ambivalent wife of a swaggering Texan politician.
That, too, turns out to be an ambivalent strength: The miller's teachings include instruction in how to curse — words, one realizes, can cut both ways.
I was ambivalent at first, but then I looked at the choices and then I decided to support him, and I'm not sorry at all.
Unfortunately, research suggests that most of us instinctively do just the opposite: We prefer extreme reviews because they're less ambivalent and therefore easier to process.
That's Haim Steinbach's "hello again," an all-purpose if ambivalent greeting of return writ large in serif font on a prominent wall in the lobby.
In "Don't Die Before You're Dead," he summed up his ambivalent feelings of triumph, nostalgia and remorse as a survivor of the defunct Soviet system.
The Republican majority, with its members either ambivalent about Trump's wrongdoing or afraid of a Republican base entirely in thrall to him, will acquit him.
Mr. Viticci's experience underscores the ambivalent relationship that some web publishers have developed with what was supposed to be Google's great boon for mobile publishing.
But Mr. Zwirner, 54, is ambivalent about being described as a mega-dealer, especially when he is lumped in with other large and influential galleries.
"The Merchant of Venice" and "Othello" are ultimately ambivalent documents of our civilization, having been both instruments of intolerance and agents of cross-cultural understanding.
Mr. Velásquez's notoriety illustrated the ambivalent relationship that Medellín had with Mr. Escobar and the crimes committed by his cartel, even decades after his death.
How to Recognize Burnout Before You're Burned Out Being tired, ambivalent, stressed, cynical and overextended has become a normal part of a working professional life.
Yet the story of abolition becomes more complicated, and more instructive, when readers understand that even the Great Emancipator was ambivalent about full black citizenship.
"The American public has always been ambivalent about trade and agrees other countries have taken advantage of the U.S. while seeing lower prices," Penn said.
Harari's conclusions in his earlier book, "Sapiens," are properly ambivalent, not to say ambiguous, and more fully aware of the traps of large-scale history.
Many fans noted expressed in the scandal's wake that they were ambivalent or uncomfortable watching Loughlin on screen now, while others sprung to her defense.
And he was sometimes involved in media events where his "script" was written by the promoters of causes about which he may have been ambivalent.
Corbyn has always been ambivalent about the European Union, which has made him something of an odd fit to be leader during the Brexit debate.
The stars of "Un real " are a caustic "Everlasting" producer named Quinn and her ambivalent deputy, Rachel, whose character clearly owes a lot to Shapiro.
But some Bernalese declare themselves ambivalent about the San Francisco real estate boom that has put their once-humble neighborhood out of reach to many.
The American foreign policy establishment is ambivalent toward Mr. Pompeo, praising him for reinvigorating the diplomatic corps while criticizing him for his policies and ideology.
Once in Genoa, he realized that the two lovers were still in close contact and that she was ambivalent about her feelings for her husband.
Most Americans are not only deeply ambivalent about the morality of abortion; they're also largely ignorant about how it works and why women seek it.
For everyone involved, the powwow is a shifty, ambivalent avatar of Indianness, an identity that many of these characters feel themselves to be playing at.
She has been challenged by ambivalent or outright hostile governments, by communities lacking proper support, and by a public that often vacillates between indifference and racism.
The only one ambivalent about the wedding is Jessa, who's preparing for the birth of her baby and regrets that Jinger won't be around for it.
At times, Beckett's narration of the loss of sovereignty, status, and control, and his understanding of collapsing structures of power, seem too ambivalent for our moment.
While analysts ponder the Chinese jigsaw puzzle, the London market remains ambivalent about whether to buy back into a bull narrative that appeared to have unraveled.
That's why I've been baffled this week by Dorsey's media tour, in which he has sought to explain the company's ambivalent approach to disciplining Alex Jones.
It's a great deal for consumers, and many of them have seemed ambivalent at best about the personal user data they're giving to MoviePass in exchange.
To the Orthodox believer, Catholic theology seems excessively categorical and legalistic; to the Catholic mind, Orthodox thinking in its mystical flights can seem vague and ambivalent.
But if you catch someone at a less excited moment, it might just inadvertently inspire some ambivalent reflections and idle fantasies about a life of leisure.
The aerial entrance was the beginning of her Enigma show, a pop spectacle I attended in hopes it would turn me from ambivalent to Little Monster.
"Facebook's choice has nothing to do with speech," Whitney Phillips, co-author of The Ambivalent Internet: Mischief, Oddity, and Antagonism Online, told Motherboard on the phone.
But the real pull comes from ordinary people's stories of difficult decisions, ambivalent separations, long decades lived with unanswered questions and a lingering sense of loss.
They are ambivalent about the importance of ending such assaults, with government ministers frequently downplaying or worse denying the widespread incidence of rape in the country.
"With such a large pool of ambivalent or unenthusiastic voters, gauging turnout will be particularly problematic," says Charlie Cook, a leading expert on United States elections.
That's why the United Auto Workers (UAW) union is one Democratic-ally strongly in favor of renegotiating the standards even while the auto executives remain ambivalent.
Some are ambivalent toward the pro-democracy rhetoric; some are supportive, but disapprove of the protesters' methods; and some feel that China has been unfairly demonized.
Only Arabs and Muslims can truly take down and delegitimize ISIS and right now their village is too divided, angry, ambivalent and confused to do it.
Trump has succeeded where they've failed: He's found a message that gets to the core of why so many conservatives are ambivalent or hostile toward immigrants.
Sunday Independent columnist Paul Kimmage admitted to feeling ambivalent about the sport in an interview on RTÉ Radio 1′s Today With Sean O'Rourke in 2015.
And so these New Leipzig School artists, as they often do, pose the old, the new, the supernatural and the modern in productive, ambivalent, veiling tension.
When the opposition adopts extreme positions, paradoxically, it can expand the president's electoral base because it provokes a merger of die-hard supporters and ambivalent moderates.
As with any stormy, ambivalent relationship, which includes reading, the ups and downs, push and pull that at first seemed exciting can end up feeling monotonous.
It's a frustrating thematic fight, and it often feels less productively ambivalent to me than the result of an incoherent point of view driving the film.
Finding his mission underfinanced by an ambivalent Security Council, "he defied senior bureaucrats in the United Nations by raising funds from private foundations," Professor Schabas said.
And for the most part, she shunned the spotlight, a not unexpected turn from a performer whose relationship with fame has always been ambivalent at best.
Drama is about conflict, not comfort, of course, but what an ambivalent welcome such plays offered "sensitive" young men: Out of the closet, into the fire!
Mr. Diller said in an interview in May that he had grown "ambivalent" about a project that he has been involved in for nearly five years.
Handel was lucky to get, in Vincenzo Grimani's gleefully wicked text, that rarity in opera history: a libretto with dramatic focus, ambivalent characters and worldly humor.
" After graduation, Ms. Kraus became a journalist but was ambivalent about how she had to "bond with people and then betray them by writing about them.
While analysts ponder the Chinese jigsaw puzzle, the London market remains ambivalent about whether to buy back into a bull narrative that appeared to have unravelled.
Indeed, for all that recent additions to the league tend to eulogize the Christmas period, a vast majority of players are — at best — ambivalent about it.
It may also compromise a patient's well-being: Ambivalent providers may visit less often, educate patients less avidly and spend less time devising the best treatments.
And Dean's Janet is ambivalent in her control over her own body, but she doesn't care overmuch: She controls her mind, and that's enough for her.
Which is a kind of insider fashion season that no one else (especially not consumers) actually understands and with which fashion itself has an ambivalent relationship.
In this week leading up to E3, it almost seems impossible for a major game release to have such an ambivalent stance toward its own genre.
We're told Ben and Jen never discussed dividing assets because they were ambivalent about the divorce, so now they have to deal with a fortune in assets.
At some point over the past seven months, Trump transformed from an ambivalent enabler of Ryan's health care vision to its leading and perhaps most vocal advocate.
Most of the panel seemed ambivalent about the allegations lodged against Kavanaugh by Christine Blasey Ford, saying they believed she was assaulted, but not necessarily by Kavanaugh.
But over the course of Clinton's campaign, some black women have been both anxious and ambivalent about the prospect of Clinton as the first woman presidential candidate.
There's no official guidance on how shoppers should support the strike, and many of the striking workers who talked to The Verge were ambivalent on the question.
But filmmakers and developers seem increasingly ambivalent of the catch-all term — and at the festival, the medium's creators are looking for ways to evolve beyond it.
He brings out every paradox of a judicial process that tried to tie down this most ambivalent of authors, the ultimate "disaffiliated pariah", to a fixed identity.
We were ambivalent toward the hardware, which we found limited, and we noted that Magic Leap hadn't shown off a lot of material that showcased its potential.
Of Pew's 743 teen respondents, 31 percent said social media had a "mostly positive effect" on their lives, although 45 percent of the Pew respondents were ambivalent.
The Wikimedia Foundation was also initially ambivalent about having Wikipedia articles added to YouTube results, worrying that it would increase the burden on Wikipedia's community of volunteers.
"There are a lot of people ambivalent about impeachment but nonetheless are disapproving of his conduct, which I expect is what will really matter electorally," Garin said.
In the sense that they lack the more rounded and assimilated, even inert character of completed films, unfinished ones bear something undecided, exciting, and ambivalent about them.
A hundred years later, Victor finds himself once again ambivalent about the wide array of technologies that he has accepted to keep him young, productive and fit.
The U.S. Federal Reserve has been ambivalent about turning to negative interest rates in the future, and only recently confirmed that such a move would be legal.
Yet Sue Hughes, a retired elementary-school teacher who recently visited the museum — made famous in the recent movie "The Imitation Game" starring Benedict Cumberbatch — remained ambivalent.
Perhaps monkeys and humans just lose stamina with age, and maybe the monkeys are too tired to deal with relationships that are ambivalent or negative, she added.
Suu Kyi's ambivalent position on the Rohingya has disappointed many outside Myanmar, who view her as a champion of human rights during her battle against military rule.
Bob-Waksberg and Hanawalt's molotov cocktail of numbingly depraved personalities and fiery meta humor consumes the audience with nervous joy, sad anger, reluctant disgust, and ambivalent empathy.
But when Chandler considers the personal implications of some of the other material he's digested in the last year, he seems ambivalent, and maybe a little overwhelmed.
Lee did get a nod for Best Original Screenplay that year, but the prize went to Dead Poets Society, and the experience left Lee ambivalent about awards.
However, there are exceptions, songs which make even the most music-ambivalent throw their hands in the air, body propelled into spasms of utter and uncomprehending delight.
And, if you do get together for the night, there's a major chance he'll ghost you following the hookup or admit he's ambivalent about your former relationship.
All three of the musicals in which they appear — each an adaptation from a different pop-culture sphere — are at least a little ambivalent about being musicals.
I was actually quite ambivalent about revealing myself — I was pretty happy to remain in the background — but I convinced myself it wouldn't be a big deal.
Even if much of the public has ambivalent feelings about immigration, that doesn't mean the issue will have no more than a moderate impact on the election.
This is excellent news for readers, but I imagine the authors, both famously ambivalent about causes of any kind, would have greeted the news with some exasperation.
As the response to the state's immigration law has shown, many Orange County Republicans who are ambivalent about Mr. Trump believe that Democrats have crossed a line.
NICOLE OCHI, LOS ANGELES To the Editor: I am a Harvard graduate and I admit to feeling ambivalent about the lawsuit alleging discrimination against Asian-American applicants.
"Using a part of a weapon to figure the refugee crisis is a deeply ambivalent and political task," Mosse is quoted as saying in the exhibition catalogue.
The whole dispute reflects some ambivalent feelings, both in Greece and around the world, about the value of the past and which bits of it matter most.
And Corbyn himself has always been ambivalent about the European Union, making him a particularly odd fit to lead the opposition against the ardently pro-Brexit Conservatives.
Many of East Jerusalem's Palestinians in any case feel ambivalent toward the Palestinian Authority and are largely cut off by Israel's separation barrier from the West Bank.
It's a lovely book, and may persuade a few ambivalent souls about Brutalism's beauty, but it could also have raised a larger argument for saving these buildings.
Italy has been one of the more problematic EU states regarding Russia, partly due to ambivalent historic ties between the two countries stretching back to the Cold War.
Matthew Bourne's version is the best-known, but there are several classical productions (by Rudolf Nureyev and John Neumeier, among others) that feature a sexually ambivalent leading man.
Now, New York will be paying him a less ambivalent tribute, with a nearly monthlong series of events commemorating the 70th anniversary of his visit to the city.
"Ethnically ambivalent, historically confused", the hybrid city had passed from Austrian into Italian hands, fallen under German, Yugoslav and joint Allied control, then reverted in 1954 to Italy.
We were feeling very ambivalent about the Swiss duo's Guggenheim show, like do we really need another big museum retrospective devoted to a couple of sarcastic white dudes?
The potential problems here are many, but it really comes down to one issue: LinkNYC, powered by a company called CityBridge, is ambivalent about protecting personal ID information.
At the time slaveholding Texas received an ambivalent welcome into the nation, which was worried about the balance between states that permitted slavery and those that did not.
Her upcoming book The Ambivalent Internet will explicitly touch on the role of trolls in modern American politics, which, as the book's name suggests, is rather Janus-faced.
Democrats are more energized by renewable energy issues and much of the party's base is ambivalent or actively hostile to fossil fuel production because of its climate impact.
Hastings is the latest in a series of top executives from industries with whom telecom operators have an ambivalent relationship to deliver a keynote at Mobile World Congress.
The AP reported that Juncker and other European leaders were ambivalent about the U.K. leaving the European Union, but were pleased with the agreement the two sides reached.
And while Roosevelt quickly signed the bill, he had actually been ambivalent during the process, wary of antagonizing business interests ahead of his re-election campaign in 1936.
Another North Korean neighbor, China, also has an ambivalent stance toward Pyongyang, wanting to avoid the collapse of the regime and an influx of refugees over the border.
Britain has never really loved the EU. As the European Union was forming in the 1950s, Britain looked on from the outside as an arrogant and ambivalent partner.
Reading this ambivalent book was confusing because I like Kathy Acker's writing a lot, in part because of the things that made her a bad person to know.
"—Glen, 232 For some, escaping the heat of the barracks was an ambivalent prospect, given they had no idea where they would be going: "I was shitting myself.
GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO The English R&B singer Ella Mai specializes in slow, swaying, ambivalent love songs like "Gut Feeling," from her self-titled debut album released on Friday.
I remain unmoved, bundled up in coats, and with a highly ambivalent relationship to the West Coast that can probably be detangled only via a mental health professional.
"I realize my somewhat ambivalent view of human selves is wholly out of fashion," Zadie Smith writes apologetically in the introduction to her new essay collection, Feel Free.
It's unabashedly Freudian (and Plath herself seemed ambivalent about its merits), but look carefully and there's a new angle here — on how, and why, we read Plath today.
"My first reaction was I was proud of the soldiers, but I was also ambivalent: Is this going to invite more attacks, and more serious ones?" he said.
With no underlining and without sacrificing laughs, she's able in the last scene to bring the audience to an unexpectedly ambivalent conclusion about the morality of cultural dominance.
So, if engagement of war has not changed, then what has changed in the last 50 years to make individuals ambivalent about their country's involvement in conflicts abroad?
China, North Korea's neighbor and erstwhile ally, has been ambivalent over sanctions on North Korea, not wanting to destabilize the regime nor antagonize President Donald Trump, Haenle said.
Violent criminals are generally the people the public feels least ambivalent about locking up; life sentences have historically been seen as a humane alternative to the death penalty.
But recently, the company has been floating new characters, whose personalities are more in sync with the ambivalent humor of memes or the antihero characters of prestige television.
Still, experts were ambivalent on whether or not the meeting, the details of which have not been confirmed, would result in anything substantial on the matter of denuclearization.
When Teal Wicks, who plays the middle Cher, Lady, discovered some of the barely-there costumes she'd have to wear in "The Cher Show," her reaction was ambivalent.
She left Detroit in 1933 confident that she was an artist in her own right, having found her subject matter in her ambivalent reactions to the United States.
Hermione Hoby's "Neon in Daylight" borrows its title from the poet Frank O'Hara, and recalls prior novels about ambivalent women by writers like Joan Didion and Zadie Smith.
Short, spiky and dominated by exotic, heavily treated guitar lines played by a single live musician who prowls the stage, "Leave to Remain" is essentially ambivalent about marriage.
Artists I had spoken to were cautiously optimistic for the most part, but also ambivalent about whether the scaled-down strategy would work as well as organizers hoped.
Both the book and the characters in it are deeply ambivalent about the war itself, with even most of the soldiers pretty sure it's being fought over nothing.
" The evaluation concluded that Hill would benefit from sex offender treatment but wasn't motivated to seek it out; while he might feel some regret and guilt, he "remains ambivalent.
Even if the rest of the week had proved to a battle to maintain composure in an ambivalent and occasionally cruel world, at least this could bring everyone together.
But I also did think, I had a key source in the Amazon Studios Roy Price story who had been deeply ambivalent and not gone completely on the record.
True, the bear attack was partly thwarted by U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's ambivalent comments on the dollar, which went into its own tailspin, lifting the whole commodity complex.
They beautifully create ambivalent disintegrations and imaginary formations that connect to current philosophical issues of immanence and transcendence and the merging of figure into environment and environment into figure.
Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour Party leader, who has expressed ambivalent views about the EU in the past, was not seen as a particularly strong voice for the Remain campaign.
But for many the settlement and others like it are ambivalent news at best, coming in lieu of lawsuits that would have tested legal arguments and evidence in court.
In his tale of the mythical past, Mr Ishiguro shows how ambivalent are the forces of both history and nature, and how dangerous it can be to look back.
It also foreshadows his role as the deeply ambivalent Jekyll/Hyde avatar that this generation needs and deserves, as it grapples with issues of bodily autonomy, identity, and consent.
Conservatives ought to value respect and decorum, but in a clash between an insufficiently sensitive candidate and an overly sensitive victim class, a principled conservative can remain safely ambivalent.
Rise introduced Caesar as an ape growing up in a human world; Dawn showed us a Caesar who felt deeply ambivalent about the growing conflict between man and ape.
Nationalistic puns aside, the simultaneous embrace and rejection of fast food shows that Russia has the very same ambivalent relationship with junk food as those in the decadent West.
The affair, ahead of a parliamentary election on April 8, has thrown a spotlight again on the policies of Orban who has an ambivalent track record on anti-Semitism.
But artists in nations newly liberated from tyranny tended to be more ambivalent, acknowledging the allure of American culture even as they struggled to free themselves from its grip.
Predominantly, it was white women who identified as "active" and "certain," while Black and Latina women were more likely to say they were "passive" and "ambivalent" about their choices.
Laura Jane Grace has called out Topshop after the tax-ambivalent, child labor-using British retailer was found to be selling a $700 leather jacket emblazoned with Against Me!
That sounds like an impossible identity, but literature, for me, is precisely the ambivalent space in which impossible identities are made possible, both for their authors and their characters.
The whisper of the wind past an open sliding door and the balcony beyond, the blue sky ambivalent above — it's all as ominous and malevolent as anything we've seen.
Shaolin Fantastic finds his compatriot-foil in Ezekiel (Justice Smith), an ambivalent young poet who comes to realize he has a talent for rapping, eventually taking the name Books.
With Sofia, she had spent long hours talking about stereotypes of femininity, and she was ambivalent about her desire to conform to them to the extent that she did.
And there are the ambivalent, a large and powerful group of nations that only gently criticize the government of Venezuela, if at all, for its mounting human rights violations.
The trip was my first lesson in what it means to travel in a country full of potential tourist sites that the government is ambivalent about letting foreigners see.
The rush of cash into rising markets shows the resiliency of bonds, at least in terms of demand from investors, but also highlights people's more ambivalent relationship with stocks.
Four decades after the photograph was taken, and 14 years after "The Tricky Part" was first staged, the dialogue between the two continues with full eloquent and ambivalent force.
On the contrary, she is happy to remain in a divided, ambivalent state in which she wants to resist seduction but equally wants her resistance to be swept away.
I was ambivalent about the first vote, on a measure from the Republican Senator John McCain and his Democratic colleague Chris Coons that had been denounced by President Trump.
Volkswagen's current management could be forgiven for feeling particularly ambivalent about the heritage of Ferdinand Piech, the company's former chief executive and chairman who died aged 82 on Sunday.
But, as one audience member noted, readers often feel ambivalent about articles that use anonymous sources — especially readers who are not familiar with The Times's guidelines for the practice.
The record-low turnout, about 43 percent, dimmed Mr. Macron's victory and pointed to the tentative, even ambivalent, view of many French citizens toward his promises to transform France.
Listen: The latest curveball from the Spanish pop phenomenon Rosalía is "Money Man" (we left out the first word), an ambivalent romp and lament about the power of money.
Her challenge was not the house, which was in great shape, or the location, also great, but the 91-year-old homeowner, who was ambivalent about letting it go.
Of 77,000 pupils in the city's Hebrew-language elementary schools, about 50,000 are now studying in the ultra-Orthodox, or Haredi, system, which is ambivalent, at best, about Zionism.
At the time, Robbie admitted feeling ambivalent about the character: "When I first read it, I thought, I have nothing in common with her," she told Vogue in 2016.
While Ms. Merkel has always been clear in condemning Russian aggression in Ukraine, her Social Democratic foreign ministers, Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Sigmar Gabriel, tended to be more ambivalent.
The prized painting became the focus of a 23-year recovery effort by the Graf family and its heirs — and one that is now ending on an ambivalent note.
Bashing Europe serves a domestic purpose: By demonizing the West, he hopes to win over voters disappointed with Turkey's struggling economy or ambivalent about the extent of the crackdown.
I generally have a pretty ambivalent relationship with lore, that knotted collection of old stories, characters, locations, and other info-points that builds up over a long series' history.
Perry, who partnered with Vox to run the focus groups, chose these Clinton voters in part because they might be a little more ambivalent about single-payer health care.
Even Republican voters who live within 350 miles of the border — the people whom the president supposedly wants to protect — are much more ambivalent about it than those farther away.
Blurring the line even more between fiction and nonfiction, author Sheila Heti narrates her own novel about a nameless Canadian woman who is ambivalent about the prospect of having children.
"In one voice our nation must condemn racism, bigotry and white supremacy," said Trump, who has a history of ambivalent comments about white nationalists, sometimes declining to condemn them outright.
But a broader issue is that the people in charge of crafting the story — including Rhodes but running up to Obama himself — seem to have somewhat ambivalent feelings about it.
They inspired a country that had been mostly ambivalent towards their sport in the past; USA '94 was a resounding success; it remains the best-attended World Cup in history.
Her campaign is well-resourced—she has so far spent $52m on television advertising, while Mr Trump has spent nothing—well-organised and, in the primaries, roused ambivalent voters effectively.
Even when money is tight, Jacky feels ambivalent about his wife Brigitte working; not being the family's sole breadwinner is one of many emasculations he has a hard time stomaching.
Others touch upon more serious issues – the self-centered culture of Brooklyn's millennial, hipster youth; the very real feeling of being a driftlessly ambivalent twenty-something; strained mother/daughter relationships.
One US Army commander who fought in southern Iraq in the summer of 2003 even expressed his desire to wipe out an ambivalent community...by dropping a MOAB on it.
" And the gay Afro-Futurist Samuel Delany (Dhari Noel) sings the ambivalent praises of Fire Island, where raunch is integrated into the landscape, yet the rich have "gentrified the trees.
The result was a poetic stream of consciousness about masculinity, ambivalent love and the failures of France to help a man trapped and physically ruined by his working-class life.
Given that history, however, Isaan's farmers are surprisingly ambivalent about how they will vote if the military regime allows thrice-delayed parliamentary elections to be held in November, as promised.
Harris gets the nod for generating excitement among California Democrats, the total pool of voters is noticeably ambivalent about whether she has what it takes to be a good president.
Chernow resists this familiar cliché, with an account of the funeral that is affecting but based in an ambivalent reality about what Grant was able to accomplish during his life.
"They were excited to see it on a phone," Hogle says, of the reaction from original Digital Pictures staffers; but Fulop later made a more ambivalent and less-heartening statement.
Among the more scholarly contributions to the anthology was "Capital of the Black Middle Class," an ambivalent study of Durham, North Carolina, by E. Franklin Frazier, a young social scientist.
"Staff informed us they had 'polled' other stakeholders who were 'ambivalent' about the need for a public meeting but would not reveal which other stakeholders they had contacted," it wrote.
One of the more effective ways to suppress turnout is to cross-pressure voters, to make them more ambivalent and less likely to go to the trouble of actually voting.
The U.S. is trying to build closer ties with India in a bid to check China's growing influence, but the Indians are somewhat ambivalent, partly because of President Trump's unpredictability.
Long story short: While Americans still seem lukewarm on reducing fossil fuel production in general, and they are ambivalent and uncertain about natural gas, they are rapidly turning against coal.
The poignant drama is about a Nigerian-born American novelist who is confronted by her own ambivalent feelings about home and homeland when she returns to visit her dying father.
But many Australians become more ambivalent when discussing Chinese students — who pump $18 billion per year into the university system — or Chinese investment in Australian real estate and agricultural land.
She is ambivalent about America's involvement in her country: One of its initiatives to combat gang violence destroyed her family, yet in many ways it has made the neighborhood safer.
Corsica, with its strong indigenous culture and language, closer to the Italians who ruled it for centuries than to the French, has always had an ambivalent relationship to the mainland.
Nancy Wadsworth is the author of Ambivalent Miracles: Evangelicals and the Politics of Racial Healing and co-editor, with Robin D. Jacobson, of Faith and Race in American Political Life.
If, however, one identifies with the perpetrator, the violent act is regarded in a more sympathetic, if not positive (or, at the worst, ambivalent) light, and it is not terrorism.
In it, a mixed cast of Schaubühne actors and other performers, of Vietnamese and Laotian heritage, create a complex portrait of Germany's ambivalent and often troubling notions of national belonging.
The most conservative ultra-Orthodox are ambivalent about the Jewish state or reject it outright because they believe it should come into being only after the arrival of the Messiah.
Britain, in the age of coronavirus, is a strangely ambivalent society: Pubs in London continued to hop on Saturday night, even as nervous shoppers crowded grocery stores on Sunday morning.
Britain, in the age of coronavirus, is a strangely ambivalent society: Pubs in London continued to hop on Saturday night, even as nervous shoppers crowded grocery stores on Sunday morning.
The election of Trump and his first three years in office have revealed a nation deeply ambivalent about immigration, race, equality, fairness — even about the ground rules of democracy itself.
Dr. Ford receives attention in "She Said," providing for the first time an extensive account of her experience as an ambivalent figure at the center of a polarizing national scandal.
But if all I can harp on is battery life—a thing most Apple Watch users seem to be ambivalent about anyway—then what is there really to complain about?
Despite persistent rhetoric from figures like Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who described the detainees as "the worst of the worst," some members of the Bush Administration felt ambivalent about Guantánamo.
Scott, who had inherited wealth of more than $50 million, told me he and his wife were ambivalent about the Manhattan apartment they had recently bought for over $4 million.
The brick-and-mortar home has always held an ambivalent power for women: For centuries, it has been a place where we're either sheltered or relegated, in charge or underfoot.
While most of these companies lobbied against the rule initially, they've become more ambivalent about it now that they've done most of the hard work required to comply with it.
But even if black voters remain ambivalent about Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party, Trump's statement underestimates what drives African Americans to the polls and, often, away from the GOP.
Anti-abortion lawmakers and activists have spent years arguing that 20-week bans are reasonable, commonsense restrictions — and the public's ambivalent attitudes toward abortion make their job a lot easier.
Jimmy's social circle remains ambivalent about the disco club—Alice (Chloe Sevigny) and Charlotte (Kate Beckinsale) have no trouble getting in, but they are, after all, two attractive young women.
But the turning point in his career came in 1970 when he turned out two outstanding films, ""The Spider's Stratagem" and the intricate, ambivalent adaptation of Alberto Moravia's novel ""The Conformist".
Dating back to early rumblings of Donald's candidacy, Melania Trump has been cast as everything from under-supportive wife to ambivalent bystander and ultimately unwilling victim of her husband's political aspirations.
And so Oussouby Sacko, 403, quickly dispensed with the elephant in the room: He is a black man in a homogeneous country that has long had an ambivalent relationship with outsiders.
In retrospect, despite all the early comparisons to Britney Spears in the late '90s, Christina Aguilera was always ambivalent about her pop stardom, and never kept up with Spears' quick output.
Image: AP/Colin Young-WolffPlenty of cat owners will happily tell you their felines are capable of responding to their own names, but the scientific jury remains ambivalent on the matter.
" And for any chef ambivalent about working with local ingredients, Sabatino has a story to share: "Craig LaBan is Philly's top food critic; he can pretty much make or break you.
Karen: I guess it comes back to there not being a whole lot to hold onto in that I enjoyed "The Snowplow" but am fairly ambivalent about what happened in it.
He's also continued his Ambivalent guise, partnering up with techno stars Sven Vath, Josh Wink and Sasha to release music on their Cocoon, Ovum and Last Night On Earth Imprints respectively.
We see Flo, a 90-year-old woman in horn-rimmed glasses and tweed trousers, with ambivalent hands, a majestic body wave, stray hairs on her cardigan, and a sympathetic wattle.
We planned and paid for our travel to North Carolina long before House Bill 2 was passed, but as the visit looms closer, my husband and I are feeling increasingly ambivalent.
"With their heart they are with us but it's more difficult to mobilize them," she said, adding that the young were particularly ambivalent about the effectiveness of strikes and street protests.
As a sign of how ambivalent people are about voting, the country's highest Shiite religious authority, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, didn't insist everyone get out and vote on the weekend.
Though Utah is a red state, it has been ambivalent toward Trump—Trump received just 46 percent of the vote there in 2016, while independent candidate Evan McMullin received 22 percent.
The song, from her 2015 album "Art Angels," is both a plaint and a taunt: to recording companies courting her, to fans hating any change, to her own ambivalent pop ambitions.
And Richard Strauss's seldom-heard "Day of Peace" (83) remains controversial for its seemingly ambivalent attitude toward the Nazis, though the regime was affronted by what were seen as antiwar sentiments.
Twenty-one percent of CFOs said the tax-reform plan will not lead to higher wages, while 237.5 percent were ambivalent or were uncertain of the bill's effect on worker pay.
Rather, it reflected an ambivalent and at times contradictory policy toward Russia on terrorism issues that stretches back more than a dozen years, American intelligence officials and foreign-policy experts said.
Although I was ambivalent when my daughter first asked to be allowed to start an account on Instagram and use Snapchat, I now see the gifts of social media from afar.
In fact, a recent study by the U.S. Travel Association found that 66 percent of employees felt that their company culture was ambivalent, discouraging and sending mixed messages about vacation time.
While some artists are ambivalent about being viewed through the lens of gender, the all-women's group show, which fell out of favor in the '80s and '90s, is flourishing again.
Hair metal had died a fiery, brutal death in the preceding two years, with the pomp and circumstance of glam swiftly replaced by the stripped-down, lackadaisical, ambivalent attitude of grunge.
His psychotic killer is a white woman and, rather than the ambivalent adulteress of "Psycho," the victim is a black man (a role De Palma optimistically hoped might attract Sidney Poitier).
Overall, only seven of the top 353 self-driving startups have received later-stage funding, the Reuters analysis shows, an indication that some venture capitalists are ambivalent about the industry's potential.
As elsewhere in the world, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are ambivalent about tackling the problem head-on for the fear of making decisions that invoke the wrath of national political forces.
Costas told SportsBusiness Journal last month that he has "long had ambivalent feelings about football" and that the game should be hosted by someone who is "more enthusiastic" about the sport.
I'm still ambivalent about the season's first five episodes, which zoomed out on the first season's domestic nightmare to present a panoramic view of the anguish and destruction Gilead had wrought.
And to some degree in spite of Ms. Poitras's journalistic intentions — though very much as a consequence of her rigorous honesty — the picture that emerges is complicated, unsettling and intriguingly ambivalent.
The ambivalent effect points up an irony endemic to museum presentations of politically refractory art: whatever discontent the artists express is cushioned by their inclusion in—say it—élite institutional culture.
For a long time he retained an ambivalent connection to his home country, but by the time he heard the "King Kong" music, he was actively looking for South African projects.
In both films, the central mother figures are unprepared for their new roles — what's more, in a disturbing blow to the patriarchal nuclear family, these women are ambivalent about motherhood itself.
Critically, those who "supported it in an ambivalent, liberal way," as Packer says he did, and those who "supported it in a heroic, revolutionary way," as Hitchens did, were both wrong.
Britain's departure will be a considerable blow, but the union has other problems, including an aggressive Russia, a migrant crisis, porous borders and, importantly, an ambivalent if not hostile President Trump.
Like it or not, as we at the Phoenix Center have repeatedly pointed out, broadband is increasingly becoming "commoditized" as consumers become more ambivalent about the source of their internet access.
It is unclear if any of these men will enter the race — particularly Mr. Biden, who, associates say, is ambivalent about running after over three decades of presidential fits and starts.
Italy is still able to finance itself, and the markets — which had forced Greece and Portugal to concede — are ambivalent, seeing more of a political crisis today than an economic one.
Bearing this in mind, she explores the ambivalent relationship between waste (both aestheticized and reviled) and a global economic regime that curbs energy expenditure while promoting profitable forms of resource consumption.
There is now little sympathy in the Taliban's internal discussions for any transnational jihadist group, which is a remarkable break from the Taliban's ambivalent attitude toward global jihadism a decade ago.
That's in part because Chinese leaders want to avoid the type of backlash Russia now faces, but also because they seem "ambivalent" about the prospect of Trump's re-election, Johnson says.
I like authors who are ambivalent about most things, who hesitate, who never know enough to preach anything to anyone, who understand how petty and silly we humans are destined to remain.
Many voters on both sides have been ambivalent in their support for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump, complicating the task of the pollsters trying to track the race.
One of the things I love about the Internet — there's a lot to feel ambivalent about — is the fact that we can experience things outside our own backyards and before our time.
China, North Korea's most important diplomatic ally, condemned the test - the North's largest nuclear explosion to date - but has been ambivalent about whether it will support further sanctions against its impoverished neighbor.
The U.S- Philippines relationship has been ambivalent since Duterte took office, with the Philippines President announcing his "separation" from the U.S. in October while praising both China and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The CIA and NSA were ambivalent, according to several current and former intelligence officials, in part because officials in the agencies feared any new law would interfere with their own encryption efforts.
While "mostly for boys they get thumbs up from their friends for just about anything, [giving head to a girl] is the only thing that was a bit more ambivalent," Marston says.
As noted by The New Yorker in "The Profound Silence of Kendall Jenner," Jenner's always used her relatively ambivalent attitude towards the family business of oversharing to cultivate an air of mystery.
The Syrian Kurds, whose attitude toward the Assad regime might be described as ambivalent, also appear to be taking advantage of the situation, chipping away at rebel-held villages north of Aleppo.
But, even when they successfully save a person from dying, trauma doctors and nurses are ambivalent about the long-term prospects of young people who leave the hospital with life-altering injuries.
Where Trump's real demonstrated brilliance lies is in talking to the — much larger — group of white Americans whose opinions about immigrants are ambivalent for reasons that have nothing to do with legality.
Lee is also ambivalent about the concept of "Koreanness," noting that the country has undergone change from a military regime to a more openly international, neoliberal government in the past 50 years.
If the classic conspiracy theorist was said to be motivated by distrust of authority and a feeling of social powerlessness, the ambivalent one can be animated by an even simpler impulse: boredom.
They could also have garnered support from some Republicans who were once ambivalent of limiting the Patriot Act but have since echoed President Donald Trump's claims of an FBI conspiracy against him.
The premiere of "Die Frau ohne Schatten" in Vienna in 1919, even as it played to ambivalent fantasies about emperors and empresses, was an inaugural cultural event for the new Austrian republic.
At the time, Republicans lawmakers emphasized that they were ambivalent about supporting a measure limiting the White House's war powers, noting that they were concerned about too aggressively tying the administration's hands.
The Labour Party under Mr. Corbyn has been ambivalent about Britain leaving the European Union, showing only tepid support for both the "remain" camp in the June referendum and for exiting now.
They have systematically provided Democrats ammunition to argue to voters ambivalent, or worse, about Trump that Congress will never impose any meaningful constraints on him so long as Republicans control the majority.
It's true that they are more ambivalent about their support of particular policies than committed Democrats and strong Trump voters, who issue by issue mirror each other with strong approval or disapproval.
He is a poet of ambivalent homage, feinting but never feigned: this is a form of aesthetic survival in a post-colonial situation, where literary mastery and subjugation are, uncomfortably, closely aligned.
On Monday, Mr. Diller said he had not abandoned what has become known as Diller Island but felt "ambivalent" about the project because the approval process has been so long and difficult.
For voters anywhere on the continuum from ambivalent to alarmed about Trump, congressional Republicans are now sending a clear signal that they are far more inclined to empower than to constrain him.
Win Iowa and New Hampshire = 2900 electoral votes Clinton has an ambivalent relationship with Iowa, where she suffered a calamitous loss to Obama in the 220006 primary and only edged out Sen.
"Some of us are pro-integration, some of us are anti- and others are ambivalent," said Lurie Daniel Favors, a member of Parenting While Black, a newly formed group of Brooklyn parents.
"From my conversations, it appears that people are not ambivalent about Sanders," said Jeff Fager, the Democratic chairman in Henry County, where Mr. Sanders battled Hillary Clinton to a tie in 2016.
A betrayal of my parents, even if they had left it open to me to change my name; a betrayal of being Vietnamese, even if many Vietnamese people were ambivalent about me.
Indeed, if I had a friend who was pregnant at 19 and ambivalent about the conception, the father, all of it, I would surely remind her abortion was an option open to her.
Developed in collaboration with Director Audrey Genois and curatorial assistant Maude Johnson, MOMENTA 2019 seeks to enrich our relationships to objects, presenting these as complex, even though we can be ambivalent towards them.
Still, it's worth thinking about — especially for someone like me, who enjoys both posting snarky jokes about unfolding news stories and making ambivalent inside jokes because my friends will know what I mean.
"  When I asked the artist directly how his show engages with these issues, he replied, "Some people are ambivalent to work's creative aspiration and reduce art to a commodity with financial up-side.
So, I think what you're reporting, it also shows some of this ambivalent characteristic of selfies, because on the one side, we are well aware that it's a kind of self-presentational issue.
Will it attempt to shift public opinion in Germany—ambivalent at best on the subject of euro-zone reform—by confronting voters with hard but honest truths about European expectations on the country?
Some rights activists who opposed Russia hosting the World Cup because of its human rights record now find themselves more ambivalent, praising what they describe as the unusually soft touch of the police.
Steggert, walking with just a gentle limp, manages to suggest the insecurities about his physical deformity that led Henri, at first, to keep himself at an ambivalent remove from the decadent goings-on.
Phillips doesn't come down firmly on either side — though you do get the impression that he's basically O.K. with having been born — but rather takes the pessimists to task for being insufficiently ambivalent.
While France has traditionally had an ambivalent role in NATO, taking no part in its strategic military planning from 1966-20313 despite being a founding member, Macron's comments - a month before NATO's Dec.
Five decades later, dividing his time between rural Colorado and Manhattan, where he works as a "picker," hunting in thrift shops for antiques to resell, Mr. Morea remains ambivalent about his public resurfacing.
The N.A.A.C.P. planned to challenge the new law school as not equal to the University of Missouri's, but Mr. Gaines, who had grown ambivalent about attending law school, left the state and disappeared.
President Donald Trump's ambivalent comments about New START and national security advisor John Bolton's well-known dislike for arms control treaties have given rise to deep concern about a new nuclear arms race.
If a suburban insurrection might help Democrats take the House, the Senate seats at stake next year are overwhelmingly in conservative, rural states, where feelings about Mr. Trump range from ambivalent to positive.
Holding fast as the play's still but agitated center, Mr. Kim and Ms. Krusiec bring a lovely, low-key air of bewilderment to the proceedings that honors their characters' humility and ambivalent hopefulness.
In the course of family arguments about Diana's destiny, the history of the Amazons is recounted, with emphasis on that tribe's ambivalent relations with men — meaning human beings generically and dudes in particular.
Others who have taken the field for their universities, like Michael Pittman Jr., a wide receiver at Southern California, were more ambivalent and said they expected to earn their compensation in professional leagues.
People hated 2001's A Life's Work for its ambivalent (and supposedly callous) attitude toward motherhood; they hated 2012's Aftermath for what they said was a self-exonerating treatment of her divorce.
The Chinese economy is slowing, the United States is waging a trade war against China, and the Chinese government has become more ambivalent about the role that private enterprises play in its economy.
She fails to recognize how many millennial feminists were skeptical of Babe's decision to publish the story, and how many millennial feminists are, in general, skeptical or ambivalent about some of #MeToo's influence.
M5S used to have a strong euroskeptic flavor to their manifesto but this has softened recently under new leader Luigi Di Maio, whereas Lega too has had an ambivalent stance towards the euro.

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