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ambivalent
1. But while the Blacktooths had been largely ambivalent toward humanity in the past, they were certainly in the habit of taking slaves to work in their mountains
2. Many of the Founding Fathers were ambivalent and hypocritical about slavery, often sharply critical and opposed in theory, but continuing to own many slaves and live off slavery profits
3. The Constitution was part of that ambivalent hypocrisy
4. Hilderich was genuinely surprised at such an ambivalent behavior
5. Truman was ambivalent about Gordon’s manipulation of the press, but delighted that his super-inflated ego and fixation on Tweety-Bird blinded him to all else
6. I myself had taken the part of the Judaites in the argument, in the beginning, thinking their point had been well taken, until Peter had so eloquently turned things around! Was it because I had seen Peter himself, not so long before, ambivalent about the need to uphold the Law, especially that of circumcision? The memory still bothered him
7. My intended husband needed to know more about my family, especially my father, about whom I had strongly ambivalent feelings
8. ambivalent towards our parents, we feel a mixture of love and hate for them
9. If ambivalent, perhaps not sure is best
10. This sharp observation was evident by the agitation of her hands, the remote and ambivalent expression of her visage and the undecided steps that were banging the floor with rudeness
11. were something truly ambivalent about it
12. Andrew had the same ambivalent attitude to drugs as Ruth did
13. The headmaster’s attitude to him would appear to be ambivalent, if you can believe that letter, which had only his fingerprints on it and was definitely signed by him
14. Added toa divided and ambivalent sense of self is the injunction not to be aware of the very existence of the context or of the profound
15. Many working-class white Christians struggle with the same ambivalent feelings about raising support
16. “Whose house this time?” the sexually ambivalent youth smacked from a Brand-Me-Sucka!
17. “How do you know who they are?” The reflecting teen faded into the ambivalent twenties
18. I'm guessing that's her ambivalent intention – her vagaries revealing my
19. They gave Daphne friendly waves, and she nodded to them in return, still feeling ambivalent about their roles in her torment
20. I stood there, ambivalent
21. Fond, is a terribly ambivalent word and a terrible reason for which to get married, by the way
22. It was an ambivalent opinion but it pleased Zizi
23. Her emotions were ambivalent
24. Like most people, he was ambivalent about letting the refugees off those two ships
25. Springsteen had been politically ambivalent until this incident, aligning himself with veterans’ groups and local food banks but refusing to back political candidates from either party
26. He had become ambivalent about his capture
27. The reception there was more ambivalent than we’d gotten at Kalma
28. Soraya was ambivalent at best
29. Fox boss Darryl Zanuck, always ambivalent about Marilyn Monroe’s film future, was not quite ready to assign her to lead roles in “A” pictures and continued to look for more modest projects, budget-wise, for his contractee