ambivalence
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Ambivalence isn’t neutrality; it’s the simultaneity of strong, opposed emotions, and I think it defines my experience as a critic.
From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2023
Ambivalence, which essentially means having conflicting feelings about something, makes many people uncomfortable.
From Washington Post • Jan. 10, 2022
Ambivalence, bad faith, suppressed rage, inexplicable terror — in combination or alone — were sufficient to drive a Bergman plot.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 23, 2021
Ambivalence about democracy may help explain the longstanding receptiveness of intellectuals and academics to reactionary writers and thinkers who associate advances in the general welfare with loss of individuality and cultural decline.
From Salon • Mar. 13, 2021
Ambivalence has become the fashionable pose to adopt about motherhood.
From Slate • May 4, 2016
Vocabulary lists containing ambivalence
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