ambivalence

But this evolution being unknown, there was an odd sense of ambivalence on the plane back from Beijing.

Harvard scholar once told me that today's China is best approached with ambivalence, and that seems about right to me.

But now that its profile in the world is no longer that of heroic victim, their ambivalence has grown.

Torn between loving her parents one minute and hating them the next, she was confused by the ambivalence of her feelings.

A more recent survey by the German Marshall Fund found ambivalence about trade in Europe and the United States.

Echoing Bonnie, Appelbaum said the Court's decision reflects society's ambivalence about the death penalty.

There was an ambivalence between taking positions compatible with their complicated chief's designs and fear of the domestic consequences .

Let me continue for a moment to focus on the ambivalence attending communication by speech.

But when he examines it, he tells us quite clearly that ambivalence and reversion are not at all the same thing.

What struck Ms. Lovell was the ambivalence, even self-criticism, of some of the young Chinese undergoing patriotic education.

He attributes contradictory qualities to the essence of things because he himself is divided by ambivalence as he approaches them.

China's government has no such ambivalence about the redback's role in international trade.

This ambivalence that I'm describing is at the center of modern literature generally.

Many Western politicians demonstrate real ambivalence about bringing the last billion into the global economy.

He senses that the failure of the police and army to deal with the protests is a sign of ambivalence.

This ambivalence has raised protests from both sides who firmly believe they should be the ones to be supported.

Pragmatic Ambivalence and Conversational Implicature tend to coexist, as can be noticed in the typical examples of the two.

The initial ambivalence of Muslim Turkey was to a degree understandable.

Despite its value and popularity as a pedagogic tool, the case methods aroused some ambivalence among public administration scholars.

With a mix of ambivalence and apathy -- always citing the move as an "internal" decision.

They brought a sense of ambivalence, of being caught between please and embarrassment.

But in many countries, there is a disconnect between the efforts of those who serve and the ambivalence of the broader public.

Talking in probabilistic terms ( "there's a seventy per cent chance this will work" ) would be taken for weakness and ambivalence.

The film, at least in the first instalment, glosses over such ambivalence.

They brought a sense of ambivalence, of being caught bet ween pleasure and embarrassment.

Yet as the teenager's ambivalence about his new home suggests, their efforts could be too little, too late.

He was experiencing ambivalence about giving his speech, wanting to give it and yet dreading it.

America's ambivalence toward soccer probably has less to do with politics or lack of scoring than with our already saturated sports market.

Similar to ambivalence, arrogance is an unconscious choice as a negotiating style.

So far, investments by SWFs have produced ambivalence in recipient nations.

Inside Washington, there is profound ambivalence about this.

When a character is faced with a choice, be specific. Avoid ambivalence.

There's a certain amount of ambivalence among students, even though government officials have repeatedly said that the vaccine is safe.

The politics of trade are also driven by the public's profound ambivalence toward international commerce.

The mild charges and meek actions by the prosecutors clearly show South Korea's ambivalence towards wrongdoing at the country's chaebol.

Her lyrics also deal with the politicized issues of female self-conception and societal roles, creating a complex ambivalence.

Or perhaps the problem lies not in equality, but in the ambivalence that inevitably surround a titanic cultural shift only decades old.

There, in essence, is Twain's ambivalence between the public and the private, between truth and spin.

The participants articulated a profound ambivalence towards the relationship between access and usury caps.

Such ambivalence remained a central feature of India's nuclear policy as it developed.

this ambivalence, courts have striven to avoid carrying the principle of deference represented by Chevron too far.

"Germany has entered a new era of ambivalence and nationalist calculation, " wrote Roger Cohen, a New York Times columnist.

This ambivalence goes beyond Mahatma Gandhi's nonviolent struggle for India's freedom, or even the Buddha's message of peace.

The scene neatly captured their own late '60s ambivalence toward the ever more synthetic landscape of their times.

of one's birthplace makes the most fundamental questions and ambivalence about existence (freedom and home-coming) appear illusionary.

This leads me to not help think of Confucius ambivalence.

When asked about dating multiple people at once or being sexually active, students answer with shock or ambivalence.

It also says something about Los Angeles and its ambivalence about public space.

The essay that made those women so angry was really about one thing. . . maternal anxiety. Maternal ambivalence.

He rarely comments before the deal is done and little, if anything, should be read into his apparent ambivalence.

This is a completely different attitude toward colonization, and it can be understood as a sort of historical ambivalence.

So pragmatic ambivalence is a good strategy the author uses to realize her novelistic speech act.

But between exclusivity and compromise lie consensus and ambivalence.

The initial ambivalence of Muslim Turkeywas to a degree understandable.

If bin Laden really is dying, the news would doubtless be greeted with some ambivalence.

That conflict was reflected in his ambivalence about a choiceof specialty.

The government's ambivalence to the problem of corruption is only allowing the problem to get worse.

The Israeli centrist majority views a Palestinian state with deep ambivalence.

This ambivalence is a mistake; to me, they are perhaps the greatest heroes of all.

I've seen numerous examples of school situations becoming sexually charged, fuelled by the ambivalence in the teacher-pupil dynamic.

High ambivalence may be useful in some situations, and low ambivalence in others, researchers say.

Family life is filled with ambivalence and bittersweet moments.

The professorial Vandeweghe never wanted to coach the team, and his ambivalence is palpable.

But the joy of their homecomings is mixed with ambivalence, uncertainty and fear.

This kind of complexity and ambivalence will last almost forever.

The chancellor's ambivalence is the key to understanding where Germany is right now.

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

He understood the public's ambivalence, shown by every poll.

My romanticism carried me away and the most insidious feeling of ambivalence enveloped me.

She felt a certain ambivalence towards him.

Throughout this book I point to the continued ambivalence of people to market forces.

Behind this lies the deeper ambivalence about Washington's role.

The white paper reflects a broader ambivalence about China.

Yet those steering the country's rise betray a strange ambivalence.

The car also has a curious ambivalence: it creates and then it destroys mobility.

When I graduated from college, though, my days of ambivalence were over.

This ambivalence is more obvious in the early teens, and goes under ground around 15 or so.

While environmental ambivalence is not new in China, this constitutes a paradox of huge proportions.

But the European effort was beset by ambivalence at its core.

Dealing with ambivalence doesn't always mean eliminating it.

When I graduated from the college my days of ambivalence were over.

And their ambivalence is never far away.

And they view Washington beyond Obama with profound ambivalence.

On one level this parable shows the Baal Shem Tov's ambivalence about going to Palestine.

Perhaps God's ambivalence springs from uncertainty about whose side He is on.

And, as Freud's Law of Ambivalence stated, human beings are so complicated that they can love and hate the same object at the same time.

Sartre, on the other hand, develops his psychological novel by following the opposite course, proceeding from ambivalence to contradiction.

For decades psychologists largely ignored ambivalence because they didn't think it was meaningful.

This thesis attempts to study the ambivalence in the image of Satan in John Milton "s Paradise Lost mainly in terms of New Historicism. "

I think that my ambivalence is the same with the bindings from which the audience wishes to be freed.

You can see that view in the market's ambivalence toward longer-dated yuan debt sold in Hong Kong.

This article attempts to study Pragmatic Ambivalence (hereafter PA) from a cognitive & communicative perspective.

"But there is a lot of ambivalence in China about learning from the US. "

Ambivalence about the military runs so deep in Japan that soldiers have avoided wearing uniforms in public.

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