Sentences with phrase «feelings of ambivalence»

[128] The researchers argue that lateral violence is a large part of these feelings of ambivalence.

Preoccupied with trying to understand ambiguous and shifting tenure requirements, and faced with a dubious future if they don't win tenure, probationary faculty admit to feelings of ambivalence, anxiety, and vulnerability.

In addition to prolonged feelings of ambivalence about motherhood, symptoms include insomnia, anxiety, changes in appetite, and thoughts of harming yourself or your baby.

It's also something of an old - school indictment of where the genre currently resides, although it must be said that playing this almost directly after having my nerves shredded by Alien: Isolation has left me with a feeling of ambivalence towards this spiritual successor to Resident Evil 4.

The omnipresent feeling of ambivalence is present in these magnificent artworks.

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from the University of Virginia and has done graduate work in theology at Tuebingen, feel such deep distress and ambivalence, even shame, over their decision to stay at home for the sake of their children.

With feelings of helplessness, ambivalence, guilt.

The argument here is that the civil (political) and religious balloons have not been easy to hold together because of the ambivalence toward the church so widely felt by Mexicans in the civic arena.

But when Tumminio saw images of Americans celebrating, she felt something else: moral ambivalence.

If the argument here is correct, the two developments result from some of the same causes: The American kind of church - state separation meant no church monopolized religious symbols; courts were called upon to articulate ultimate purpose and justice; and judges felt little ambivalence in doing so.

No doubt, the depth and the sheer intensity of the ambivalence that the West has felt about art come from the confluence of the Hebrew and Hellenic elements.

Even opponents of terrorism may feel a certain moral ambivalence when faced with acts of terror.

The following have been mentioned repeatedly in reports of psychological studies of alcoholics: (1) a high level of anxiety in inter personal relationships, (2) emotional immaturity, (3) ambivalence toward authority, (4) low frustration tolerance, (5) grandiosity, (6) low self - esteem, (7) feelings of isolation, (8) perfectionism, (9) guilt, (10) compulsiveness.

Third, the minister is encouraged to be accepting of negative feelings, especially those of conflict and ambivalence: the experience of acceptance, particularly of one's otherwise unacceptable feelings, is especially conducive to personal growth.

We may be excessively concerned about our own power and control over others in order to relieve our sense of ambivalence and the accompanying feelings of tension and threat.

(CNN)-- One of the most perplexing aspects of the Syrian revolution is the deep ambivalence felt by so many of the country's Christians when faced with the prospect of freedom after four decades of authoritarian dictatorship.

Most of the media's romantic advice is geared toward women, forcing us to engage in constant self - scrutiny in search of «real love,» but all that introspection does is create ambivalence and an unsettling sense that we can never truly know or trust what our feelings are.

But as a mother herself — and one whose third child came unexpectedly many years after the birth of her first two, just when she was about to have some coveted «me» time — she relates to the ambivalence her own mother felt:

They reported declining feelings of love and decreasing communication, combined with increasing conflict and ambivalence.

I think if more mothers felt free to follow their hearts, more of them would make the same choice I did, because I see a lot of ambivalence and unhappiness in the weaning stories I hear.

Your feelings of worry or ambivalence with returning to work will create an energy of anxiety around your baby that will not help.

I continue to feel ambivalence about the strategy of going after the Happy Meal toy as a means of combatting childhood obesity, a strategy that has been adopted via ordinance in San Francisco, as reported here a few weeks ago.

In that post I expressed a little bit of ambivalence about selling sweets to raise money — ambivalence that would evolve over the next four years into outright activism against junk food in schools — but at the time I was clearly charmed by the old - timey, innocent feel of the event.

There was this wonderful symposium in which people gave opinions, but the point of the play was something about Heisenberg's ambivalence about working on the bomb and finally one got the impression from the play that Heisenberg, if certainly not an active saboteur of the German research, but didn't really work very hard on it and felt that he was morally justified in helping stall the development of the atomic bomb.

Nicholson and Hirst attempt to shade her with vulnerability and moral ambivalence, but those efforts feel forced in comparison to the scope of events unfolding around her.

How to Retire Your Professional Identity Wall Street Journal, 2/25/14 «I listened to them tell about the difficulties of letting go and leaving; the tensions and ambivalence that people experienced — whether their exits were chosen or forced — in taking on their new life when they could still feel the vestigial residue of the old,» writes Professor Sara Lawrence - Lightfoot.

While I understand the ambivalence, frustration and / or outright anger some librarians must feel over the situation — it kind of goes hand - in - hand working with Amazon — there's an unfortunate combination at play here that seems to be an underlying truth of the digital age: «Be careful what you wish for,» and, «If you get in bed with the devil, sooner or later...»

At first, Groff disliked her swampy surroundings, but soon her feelings transformed into a mixture of love and ambivalence.

Harper Lee created the Atticus of WATCHMAN out of the ambivalence she felt toward white southerners like him.

Since the bungalows on either side of mine were vacant, I was feeling isolated, which may account for a newfound ambivalence about my single status in a world of married folk.

All of the homes on the tour were vacant and bank - owned, which eased some of the ambivalence participants felt about taking over a property its previous occupants might not have parted with willingly.

Whereas, in plot - driven morality - based games the possibility of choice is given to the player primarily as a reflection of an underlying sense of ambivalence he / she may feel towards how a particular moral issue should be resolved.

The über - maximalist installations by the straight, white, politically - incorrect artist seemed painfully apposite for an outing at the dawn of Trumpian America, although Rhoades» position of cheerful political ambivalence feels like a relic from another era.

In it, I reflect on the concept of ambivalence, exploring the antinomies of feeling vs. judgment as aesthetic responses, and how that plays out within art criticism and art practice.

His art is perpetually constructed around the juxtaposition of two different eras, marked by the year 1989 and the ambivalence connected to the feelings related to the comparison of the times «before» and «after».

Its ironic, sometimes highly satirical criticism of contemporary society in China, greatly impressed Western art collectors, although it was and is viewed with ambivalence by Chinese art critics, who feel uncomfortable with its fame in the West.

I use the word ambivalence to suggest the simultaneity of conflicted feelings, that one can feel two ways (Latin: ambos, meaning two) equally (Latin: valence, strength), rather than fall into the either / or binary that such dichotomies suggest.

I know the feeling, aggravated as it generally is by the ambivalence of counsel about everything except collecting their foaming and proliferating invoices.

They can evoke high levels of anxiety and ambivalence in therapists who usually empathize with and care about the family, but also feel ineffective as they try to contain he couple's anxiety.

When you are in a challenging situation, you naturally feel ambivalence about change since it requires letting go of the familiar for something unknown.

Eroticism can not blossom in an environment filled with chronic anger, resentment, power plays, blaming, withdrawal, hurt feelings, sadness, resignation, defensiveness, lack of trust, poor communication, or ambivalence about intimacy and commitment.

If both partners can express both sides of their feelings, it is less likely that one partner will carry all the ambivalence for the couple.

Additionally, studies now reveal that 35 % of couples who are already in the filing stage of divorce say they still feel some ambivalence about divorcing.

However, if you feel split between the «yes» and the «no» — stuck in between — then you are facing a more serious level of ambivalence, and there is some work to do.

Drawn to my specialization in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, individuals, couples and groups do just that, through eliminating addictions, resolving feelings of abandonment and career ambivalence, and overcoming fears of intimacy and / or sexual difficulties.»

The deepest feelings of hurt, abandonment, anger, revenge and ambivalence need to be expressed and understood.