I'd like to call it ambivalently desensitized. From Wordnik.com. [Women Audiences, Women Characters] Reference
Yella was the more ambivalently reviewed, and deservedly so. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference
The rest of the population looks on, ambivalently, from their windows. From Wordnik.com. [Opinion: What Sarko Did Wrong] Reference
The British responded ambivalently at first, then with crushing force. From Wordnik.com. [I. Africa, 1941-2000] Reference
I will start by saying that I feel very ambivalently towards this book. From Wordnik.com. [The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin] Reference
Hope you get your own home however ambivalently you feel about it back soon!. From Wordnik.com. [Ambivalent] Reference
Consider how repetitively and ambivalently they "reach out" to authority figures. From Wordnik.com. [Humanistic Nursing] Reference
Thus, they serve as the perfect objects on which to project ambivalently held traits. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
I worried that it would come off as anti-feminist, or even only ambivalently feminist. From Wordnik.com. [Bland Ambition, Part I] Reference
And … I worried that it would come off as anti-feminist, or even only ambivalently feminist. From Wordnik.com. [Bland Ambition, Part I | Her Bad Mother] Reference
Well, you don't get that either in this ambivalently admiring portrait of the pugnacious Hoffa. From Wordnik.com. [Not A Season To Be Jolly] Reference
Or, far more ambivalently, Dickens' Dombey and Son, with its disruptive, ultimately fatal train. From Wordnik.com. [Iron Council] Reference
And yesterday, ambivalently, I dropped off an application to get on the waitlist for that school. From Wordnik.com. [Yatima » 2008 » March] Reference
Instead, by the end of the conference China shrugged ambivalently at a scrap of paper with no targets. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Sandler: Equity or Nothing at UN Climate Talks in Cancun] Reference
Before flying back to Moscow, Mr. Medvedev responded ambivalently in remarks to media in front of his plane. From Wordnik.com. [Polish President Is Buried in Krakow] Reference
But this is another paper, and one that risks disavowing the body that I am claiming Schelling ambivalently recalls. From Wordnik.com. [Mourning Becomes Theory: Schelling and the Absent Body of Philosophy] Reference
These stories are often layered, ambivalently, with oscillating associations of profound belonging and horrific exclusion. From Wordnik.com. ["Return to Sender" Confronting Lynching and Our Haunted Landscapes] Reference
And what is being affirmed, strongly if necessarily ambivalently, is the presence-to-itself of humanity as a social totality. From Wordnik.com. [Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man] Reference
In contrast to omnipresent weak AI, genetic engineering is minimal and very ambivalently regarded (so much for across-the-board optimism). From Wordnik.com. [Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: The Optimistic SF of Shine: The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades!] Reference
At any rate, it's worth saying that though Jager ambivalently exposes this troubling everything-is-religion logic, his argument is by no means shackled to it. From Wordnik.com. [Afterword: Secularism, Cosmopolitanism, and Romanticism] Reference
"We are more than our playlists" - Paul agreed, but ambivalently. From Wordnik.com. [Zoilus] Reference
No one adopts a child (baby or otherwise) with special needs ambivalently. From Wordnik.com. [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference
Mikhail Urinson, managing director of Alur, evaluated the deal ambivalently. From Wordnik.com. [The St. Petersburg Times] Reference
To which the singer replied, ambivalently: "Love comes in many different forms.". From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Whether you feel warmly, prickly or ambivalently to the site, it does what it says on the tin. From Wordnik.com. [The Command Line] Reference
This is very much a guarded statement, staying polite and ambivalently taking the higher ground. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News from Adobe Flex Journal] Reference
Designed as either a studio in-joke or a fan-aggravator, it merely falls between both stools ambivalently. From Wordnik.com. [DOA] Reference
Increasingly, new media began to challenge classical print media, a challenge experienced thoroughly ambivalently. From Wordnik.com. [Eurozine articles] Reference
(World War II, that is, when New Zealand defended itself against a Japanese invasion by ambivalently hosting myriad GIs). From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
Torchwood's second-season premiere as a brutal, charismatic, ambivalently redeemed "time agent" named Captain John Hart. From Wordnik.com. [AltWeeklies.com Site Feed] Reference
The frequencies can be used ambivalently, like music through the air; low-frequency amplification, barely audible, is optimal. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference
Most women at that Mass do veil, so I don't feel conspicuous, and it seems less ambivalently in keeping with the liturgical context. From Wordnik.com. [The Anchoress] Reference
And so Brittany Murphy, it seems, will die as she lived: ambivalently, a public figure that no one ever quite figured out how to pin down. From Wordnik.com. [Gawker] Reference
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