How to Use ambivalence in a Sentence

ambivalence

noun

• That ambivalence isn’t a mistake or a by-product — it’s the subject of the show itself.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 27 May 2021
• Sorokin wasn’t done showcasing her ambivalence, though.
  — Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, 25 Sep. 2024
• For one thing, probably projecting my own comic tastes and ambivalence.
  — New York Times, 20 May 2021
• Confusion or ambivalence over whether this is the right time to remove masks is understandable, Fischhoff said.
  — NBC News, 25 May 2021
• That might explain his ambivalence toward his captivity.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
• In the early days of the pandemic, health experts expressed ambivalence about whether masks were useful outside hospital settings.
  — New York Times, 13 May 2021
• This confession of moral ambivalence saves the actress from her usual unlikable strident attitude.
  — Armond White, National Review, 28 May 2021
• Readers and educators expressed ambivalence about reading or teaching Munro again.
  — Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
• And yet the actor spent much of a recent conversation candidly admitting to ambivalence and incertitude.
  — New York Times, 27 May 2021
• Her questions multiply, and both her ambivalence and hunger for the experience grow apace as high-profile episodes of police violence and mass unrest dominate headlines.
  — Patrick Blanchfield, The New Republic, 25 May 2021
• Collective ambivalence, to be fair, does not place Indiana in uncomfortable company.
  — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 11 June 2021
• This kind of ambivalence is all over Meet Me by the Fountain.
  — Kristen Martin, The Atlantic, 21 June 2022
• Parton is not the first artist to express ambivalence about the Hall of Fame.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2022
• All the emotion attached to this ambivalence — the love, the pain, the humor, the all-of-it — is fleeting, like a bite mark.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2022
• The key to the mythic mode, asserts Ball, is ambivalence.
  — Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2021
• Post talks about getting back on the road with some ambivalence.
  — Lyndsey Havens, Billboard, 26 Jan. 2022
• This creates a new task for the coachee called ambivalence handling.
  — Cristian Hofmann, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023
• The greatest challenge facing the U.S. may be the ambivalence of many of Asia’s leaders.
  — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2022
• But what's the real cost of this ambivalence toward work?
  — Melissa Houston, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
• Up and down the state, there was little ambivalence for Elder, just love or hate.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2021
• The song is a very honest display of that ambivalence, anger and sadness.
  — Jonathan Cohen, Variety, 8 Feb. 2022
• The shifting margin of sea and land, often lit by the moon, held a lure for Edward Lear, a tidal ambivalence.
  — Jenny Uglow, The New York Review of Books, 8 Sep. 2022
• The best episodes are about the ambivalence Luis, Julio, and the rest of their family have toward tradition.
  — Nicole Froio, refinery29.com, 31 Oct. 2022
• Stark, who is known for her subversive takes on corsetry, confronts that ambivalence head-on in The Tour.
  — Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 28 Sep. 2023
• Still, ambivalence about renaming Fort Bragg, the largest base in the nation, runs deep.
  — The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2021
• What keeps me awake at night is our proactive ambivalence.
  — CBS News, 24 Nov. 2021
• But that didn’t change the men’s ambivalence about their own retirement.
  — Charley Locke, The Atlantic, 23 July 2024
• On top of this is the ambivalence of a number of African countries towards Russia.
  — John F. Clark, Fortune, 27 June 2023
• One line from Ivan toward the end of the novel encapsulates Rooney’s own apparent ambivalence.
  — Amy Weiss-Meyer, The Atlantic, 20 Sep. 2024
• This ambivalence toward Northerly Island is partially because it’s been difficult to reach.
  — Karina Atkins, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024