ambivalence

1 Still, Brown's ambivalence about his industry runs deep.

2 There is a good example of that subversion and ambivalence in her second novel, the generational saga Everything Will Be All Right.

3 She was struck by Zengel’s “cinematographic quality, with almost translucent white skin, white hair that make her look like an angel, but with an ambivalence that is fascinating,” she said.

4 Still, ambivalence tinged the reaction: Besides regret that the ranks of black Oscar winners remained small, many felt relief that a role viewed as stereotypical was not honored.

5 If “The Worst Person in the World” is about Julie’s indecision, it’s also about Trier’s ambivalence.

6 But my ambivalence evaporated when I actually tried one of the exercises.

7 As his career flourished and his theater and film successes multiplied, Neil Simon was known to express ambivalence about his renown as, at one time, the funniest script writer alive.

8 Researchers can't say for sure why some people tend towards greater ambivalence.

研究人员无法确定为什么某些人的纠结情绪会浓于他人。

9 In today's Republican Party, Corker is not alone in his ambivalence toward the current president.

10 A descending, grunge-toned guitar line betrays the ambivalence of “Hollywood Dreams,” which moves from hopes of stardom to the routine of exploitation.

11 Their stories — of broken marriages, sexual ambivalence, late-life malaise, father-son conflict — are merely superimposed upon one another so that they seem to be taking place simultaneously.

12 Her Liz Gilbert can be radiant and witty, and rarely doubts her essential attractiveness, but she also suffers uncertainty, ambivalence and real anguish.

13 There has been no clear explanation for this policy, but it may reflect Uzbeks’ lasting ambivalence toward Russia’s imperial influence.

14 Though it’s happening slowly, that ambivalence is fading.

15 “I selected images that had this ambivalence; they were both a document and amazing, great pictures,” Frydman says.

16 Steve was in his mid-thirties and had a passion and certainty that seemed the direct opposite of my ambivalence.

17 Advancing technology also played a major role in the transition from optimism to ambivalence.

18 The exhibition, by mixing together art of different kinds and from different periods in Goya’s life, suggests an abiding condition of moral ambivalence and conflict that is probably close to accurate.

19 The sulfuric churning — the torture and terror and ambivalence and uncertainty — of faith, or Catholicism in the work of Scorsese and Abel Ferrara always gets sunnily allegorical with Spielberg.

20 At the heart of our attitude to rest is this ambivalence: we yearn for rest, but then feel anxious that we’re being lazy.

1 摇摆

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2 踌躇

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3 暧昧

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4 举棋不定

wavering

5 矛盾情绪

ambivalent