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.


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