ambivalently

One wonders how Rose would play if the role were written less ambivalently.

Justice Kennedy came more slowly and ambivalently to the same conclusion.

So the company, albeit ambivalently, has become something of a surrogate government.

He reflected ambivalently on his old apartment and the journey to the new one.

Still, when asked if he is single by choice, he responded ambivalently.

Women's looks matter terribly in this society, and so Barbie, however ambivalently, must be passed along.

At the time of the diagnosis, in early 1990, he had been working, somewhat ambivalently, on an autobiography.

For a long time I'd believed I couldn't love any way but ambivalently.

Even so, the Indonesian government, which depends heavily on foreign investment, has pushed the case ambivalently.

And although their daughters know the truth, the parents remain as ambivalently Catholic as ever.

Anna has waited too long to seek this abortion, ambivalently wishing to keep the baby she cannot support.

Wall Street responded ambivalently to the news, perhaps because both companies' shares had already risen on word of their merger talks.

The dependence of minority firms on government set-asides is viewed ambivalently.

He affected an air of insouciance and shrugged ambivalently.

He lived to see his work embraced, if somewhat ambivalently, as a precursor to Minimalism.

Here's why scandal sheets fly: People are ambivalently amped up on celebrities.

Although Bosworth's performance was ambivalently received, she herself loved the experience of working on the movie.

Her image - ambivalently accented - haunts his fiction.

Israel has been slowly and somewhat ambivalently gearing up for what could be an onslaught of Christian pilgrims next year.

The idea of looking at Jesus as a celebrity icon, who wore his fame ambivalently, was inspired and prescient.

Despite the possibilities, labor regards employee participation ambivalently.

Party leaders talk about him ambivalently.

But he sometimes pursues these activities ambivalently.

Extensive research supports the idea that it is common for women and men to support ambivalently sexist attitudes about women.

Again, the narrator treats both sides ambivalently.