ambivalent

Example Sentences

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Spectators were mostly barred, and an ambivalent nation watched the competition on television.

From New York Times

“I can’t be ambivalent about the sets of decisions that brought them into my life because I love them too much.”

From New York Times

To feel non-belonging is to feel either ignored, ostracized, or ambivalent about being accepted and connected.

From Washington Post

He’s the no-thirst candidate ambivalently lumbering toward his third consecutive MVP award while loathing the invitation to be part of this year’s conversation.

From Washington Post

Of those 2,293 reviews I have published, here are five — positive, negative and ambivalent, in chronological order — that together capture something about the movies and my relationship to them over the past 23 years.

From New York Times