Example sentences for: ambivalent

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

  • -- PBS spokeswoman Donna Williams, responding to Dr. Crain, and generating the most ambivalent network slogan since NBC's "If you haven't seen it, it's new to you."

  • The ambivalent cover story wonders whether the military can survive without a hypermacho, violent male culture.

  • After weeks of buildup, critics are ambivalent about Oprah Winfrey's adaptation of Toni Morrison's novel: "[T]he movie is undeniably a labor of devotion and intelligence, but, in the end, a labor is just what it is" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). The film gets a few outright raves, and Oprah's performance is universally lauded.

  • Kosovo was replaced on the front pages of several British newspapers by the start of a new campaign by Prime Minister Tony Blair to put an ambivalent Britain at "the heart of Europe," and by the threat of huge disruption to the country's secret intelligence services by the publication on various Web sites of a list of 117 British secret agents.

  • I frankly don't know what to make of Besieged , which attempts to forge a complicated relationship between its protagonists through "pure cinema," and has won admiration for being allusive, elusive, elliptical, and other words that begin with "a" and "e" (enigmatic, ambivalent, evocative, etc.).


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