ambivalent feelings
idiom
: conflicting feelings or emotions
He has ambivalent feelings about his new job.
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But the reality is Indians have long had ambivalent feelings about U.S. citizenship.
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Daniel Mandell / Made By History, TIME, 14 Oct. 2024
The heist and its mounting body count complicate life for Detective J.D. Hudson (Don Cheadle), recruited as one of the city’s first Black police officers to provide protection for Ali, despite his own ambivalent feelings about the boxer.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Sep. 2024
This ancient recognition of the ambivalent feelings in any close relationship finds a striking echo in Sigmund’s Freud’s theory of bereavement, where a mourner may suffer from the same emotional condition as the deceased.
—Piers Vitebsky, Scientific American, 12 Dec. 2022
For Vogue's September 2022 cover, Serena wrote in a first-person essay about her ambivalent feelings towards the end of her professional sports career.
—Julie Mazziotta, Peoplemag, 2 Sep. 2022
As the conservatorship over Britney Spears appears closer to reaching an end than ever before, the singer took to Instagram to share her ambivalent feelings and thoughts on navigating her life free from the constraints that have been imposed on her for 13 years.
—Jason Newman, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2021
Nanjiani has complicated, ambivalent feelings about growing up Shia, a minority religion in Pakistan and a target of sectarian violence.
—E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2021
The national poll by Marquette University Law School revealed the ambivalent feelings Americans have about the end of the United States' presence in Afghanistan.
—Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Sep. 2021
Some people took extreme positions but most had ambivalent feelings.
—Amanda Ripley, Time, 17 Apr. 2021
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Daniel Mandell / Made By History, TIME, 14 Oct. 2024
The heist and its mounting body count complicate life for Detective J.D. Hudson (Don Cheadle), recruited as one of the city’s first Black police officers to provide protection for Ali, despite his own ambivalent feelings about the boxer.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Sep. 2024
This ancient recognition of the ambivalent feelings in any close relationship finds a striking echo in Sigmund’s Freud’s theory of bereavement, where a mourner may suffer from the same emotional condition as the deceased.
—Piers Vitebsky, Scientific American, 12 Dec. 2022
For Vogue's September 2022 cover, Serena wrote in a first-person essay about her ambivalent feelings towards the end of her professional sports career.
—Julie Mazziotta, Peoplemag, 2 Sep. 2022
As the conservatorship over Britney Spears appears closer to reaching an end than ever before, the singer took to Instagram to share her ambivalent feelings and thoughts on navigating her life free from the constraints that have been imposed on her for 13 years.
—Jason Newman, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2021
Nanjiani has complicated, ambivalent feelings about growing up Shia, a minority religion in Pakistan and a target of sectarian violence.
—E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2021
The national poll by Marquette University Law School revealed the ambivalent feelings Americans have about the end of the United States' presence in Afghanistan.
—Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Sep. 2021
Some people took extreme positions but most had ambivalent feelings.
—Amanda Ripley, Time, 17 Apr. 2021
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