How to Use ambivalence in a Sentence

ambivalence

noun
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  • This kind of ambivalence is all over Meet Me by the Fountain.
    — Kristen Martin, The Atlantic, 21 June 2022
  • This creates a new task for the coachee called ambivalence handling.
    — Cristian Hofmann, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023
  • The greatest challenge facing the U.S. may be the ambivalence of many of Asia’s leaders.
    — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2022
  • But what's the real cost of this ambivalence toward work?
    — Melissa Houston, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The shifting margin of sea and land, often lit by the moon, held a lure for Edward Lear, a tidal ambivalence.
    — Jenny Uglow, The New York Review of Books, 8 Sep. 2022
  • The best episodes are about the ambivalence Luis, Julio, and the rest of their family have toward tradition.
    — Nicole Froio, refinery29.com, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Stark, who is known for her subversive takes on corsetry, confronts that ambivalence head-on in The Tour.
    — Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 28 Sep. 2023
  • On top of this is the ambivalence of a number of African countries towards Russia.
    — John F. Clark, Fortune, 27 June 2023
  • One of the core ideas is the ambivalence of online relationships.
    — Wilson Chapman, Variety, 14 Apr. 2022
  • What’s accounting for that ambivalence at that point in time?
    — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Perhaps my e-bike ambivalence comes in part from the bike’s strange social status.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Netflix’s previous ambivalence to this has changed, and the clamp down is set to begin.
    — Callum McLennan, Variety, 25 Jan. 2023
  • The chiaroscuro in Rembrandt’s painting of Titus evokes that ambivalence.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 17 June 2023
  • The Kubrick imprimatur caused ambivalence: King as art, even though the bard himself publicly hated the film.
    — Armond White, National Review, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The Oscars’ ambivalence toward blockbusters dates back to its start.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2024
  • The novel had none of the ambivalence that hedges so many discussions about Israel today, even the friendly ones.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Many of his films have been met with revulsion or at least aggrieved ambivalence.
    — Adam Nayman, The New Yorker, 3 June 2022
  • Ukraine shares none of the ambivalence toward big tech of its Western counterparts.
    — Greg Ip, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Still, if women keep allowing fear and ambivalence and self-protection to censor the truth, where’s the progress in that?
    — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2023
  • There might be ambivalence among many Danish parents—but not all.
    — WIRED, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Yet what propelled the drama forward was a distinct lack of ambivalence.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Thousands in the city held an ambivalence toward the Russians, or even an affinity.
    — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2022
  • If there’s much nuance or ambivalence to Barbe-Nicole’s feelings about her own station, the script barely lets on.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Sep. 2023
  • None of them challenge that convention, yet Wilson is alert to the ambivalence in their stoicism.
    — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Out of this ambivalence, the empress sets herself on a path of self-realization.
    — Thelma Adams, Variety, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Yet the mutiny, during which no one seemed to rally around Putin, also exposed the extent of public ambivalence toward the regime.
    — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Cameron’s got plenty of ambivalence, anxiety, grief, and rage to work from, but those things haven’t turned her narrow and righteous.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 25 Jan. 2024
  • With new audiences and an undercurrent of ambivalence in the embrace of the aesthetic, what does the trend mean for those who wear it?
    — Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 15 Feb. 2023
  • There was the same ambivalence at times about panelists, such as on resilience of theatrical markets.
    — Callum McLennan, Variety, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The core ambivalence of loving my father and also fearing him.
    — Connor Goodwin, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2022

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