Sentences with phrase «attitude of ambivalence»
Australian history is distinguished by «an attitude of ambivalence and inconsistency towards formally incorporating Aboriginal people into a common Australian society».
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There is an ambivalence about sexuality in some modern psychology that makes it difficult to understand the Christian attitude that sexual self - discipline can be an expression of love.
She characterised people's overall attitude towards Europe as one of ambivalence, and that they take their cues from the media and national parties.
However their attitudes towards acceleration still displayed a considerable degree of ambivalence.
Gladys Fabre, in her introduction on Culbert for his first French retrospective at Le Havre in 1990, comments on what was happening at the time of When Attitudes become Form: «British experimentation is characterized by an obvious determination to push back the frontiers of art and to question its status; by an economic use of materials; and also by a search for rigour, and the habit of exhibiting a floating ambivalence or a doubt, rather than theatrically staging something obvious.
His recent series of paintings and drawings explore how personal and collective forms of ambivalence are found in attitudes towards aesthetics, archetypal forms and male identity.
While a positive attitude to having children is uncovered, the timing of the first child is a means of controlling the future and where ambivalence flourishes.