What saves the story from melodrama is Grisham's refusal to offer pat resolutions; he allows his ambivalent characters to remain so.

A pulsing stream of images and ideas captures the deeply ambivalent character of the 1950's.

Anti-Americanism here, when it does show itself, has an ambivalent character peculiar to the Philippines.

Holtz did an incredibly nuanced job of bringing her terrifically ambivalent character to life.

His ambivalent character is a vehicle for the novel's central tension - between private conscience and public display.

Soon all the landscape is filled with ambivalent characters flashing red and green, stop and go, do this but watch out for the consequences.

The discussion on the dissimilarity-similarity distinction has the ambivalent character of being conducted in reference to a dimensional or polar conception and dichotomous model interchangeably.

Its main foreign policy decision was to contribute to Operation Iraqi Freedom, although its formulation ("political" but not "military" support) gave it an ambivalent character.