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Example sentences for: ambivalence
How can you use “ambivalence” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
In work and in life, Cornwell screams ambivalence, which may explain why she's so popular and so queasily interesting.
Forget, too, the absence of even the semblance of evidence for Kinsey's inner state here as elsewhere: Kinsey "must have felt" ambivalence about gardening because it threatened his "fragile sense of masculinity."
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 degree to which they show their ambivalence shows their ability to walk the trendy pseudo-liberal tightrope of PC-ness.
For a man of his intelligence and lifelong habit of writing, such a slip of the pen--or tongue--readily suggests to a psychoanalytically trained eye or ear an ambivalence, if not a mental conflict, about the denial.