ambivalent

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They don't feel blocked (they tell me) - only conflicted and ambivalent, which is how I feel too.

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  1. adjective Exhibiting or feeling ambivalence.

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  • They don't feel blocked (they tell me) - only conflicted and ambivalent, which is how I feel too. —  JVOICES.COM
  • Many of the songs on this list (and in the rock canon) are neither strictly liberal nor strictly conservative but politically ambiguous or ambivalent -- think of the Who's '' Won't Get Fooled Again '' (No. 1 on the NR list), the Beatles '' 'Revolution,' 'the Rolling Stones' —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • But even if the relationship between Munich and Eisner remains ambivalent, the Eisner legacy deserves to be remembered for the milestone that it represents.
  • Here are some common thoughts that may actually mean you are ambivalent, which is to say you may be more conflicted about doing it than you might think. —  Maria's Last Diet
  • They aren't ambivalent -- they characterize capitalism as evil. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
 

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