Example sentences for: ambivalence

How can you use “ambivalence” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Bettelheim had no overarching theory, but he had an abiding preoccupation: authority and the ambivalence it inspires.

  • The final and most beguiling aspect of Israel's Kosovo ambivalence is Holocaust remembrance but of a different sort.

  • This bifurcation is intuitively appealing because it makes concrete the ambivalence of assimilation, the gnawing sense among many people of color that membership in the mainstream comes at a high personal cost.

  • The platform: strong ambivalence toward technology, shunning of both technophobia and technophilia.

  • But these days U.S. power is subject to a form of ambivalence verging on antagonism--even from allies--that goes beyond the merits and motivations of this or that particular criticism.


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