Conflicted state

Usage examples of ambivalence.

That evening, reproached by associates and tortured by ambivalence, he committed suicide.

Fully recognized as portentous, the question was exhaustively discussed, with the confident assurances of some matched by the doubts and ambivalence of others, both military and civilian.

I understand your ambivalence towards your coming child but try to control it.

She told me your ambivalence towards Gillian, a girl child, would affect the fetus, and in all probability lead to stillbirth.

Zelzony squirm in her chair, waking again her ambivalence toward this amalgam of metal and personality.

Gary came to realize that boredom would be their biggest enemy, boredom that led to ambivalence, ambivalence that would lead the companions to the same state as Jacek and his wretched band.

Perhaps not, but the Ancient of Days has a strange ambivalence when it comes to George Brinton McClellan.

Every physical comportment is the immanent product of a struggle or a pact among competing demonic forces: hence the violent, yet often surprisingly delicate, ambivalence with which the body expresses heterogeneous or conflicting intentions.

Wolf suspected he was only responding to his apparent ambivalence toward the Chaniwa way of life.

When Inanna insisted she have another, it was easy to show ambivalence, both attraction and reluctance at the same time.

Yet another scrape with death had done nothing to alter his ambivalence toward life.

All is ambivalence, all is complicated and strange, and try getting that into a movie.

CD, with the drag queens, the talk shows only serve to heighten the ambivalence about cross-dressing: Is the true CD a stable, middle-aged, married white-collar worker or is he a flamboyant, effeminate homosexual who takes female hormones and has breast implants?

Yet this ambivalence is not unique to cross-dressing, for when it comes to dealing with their sexuality people seem to want either therapy, catharsis, or pornography.

However, the sexual ambivalence surrounding cross-dressing seems more intense because the behavior is unconventional.