Sentences with phrase «sort of ambivalence»

Often this sort of ambivalence causes stress in the relationship and chronic unhappiness — for both individuals.

Meanwhile, The Last Samurai lifts the nursing - from - injury / courtship / surrogate father cycle whole from Peter Weir's Witness (an accidental voyeur moment nearly shot - for - shot), marking the piece as over-familiar even as the realization that we are in this film only about sixty - years before the Japanese begin their massacre of the Chinese at the onset of WWII provides the piece a sort of ambivalence that compels as the one thing truly its own.

Not exact matches

Those with a sense of history might wonder, however, whether a «relationship» of this sort might labor under some of the same ambivalence as «relationships» between some of the campus freshmen.

Since «Guffman» in 1996, when Guest revived the pseudo-documentary approach he had helped pioneer with «This Is Spinal Tap,» his movies in that style have focused on show biz of some sort — community musical theater, a dog show, a folk concert reunion — and the laughs stem from the characters» ambivalence about indulging their wildest ambitions, and their inestimable faith in the magnitude of their (or their dogs») own talents.