Both Uses
ambivalent
in
Circe
(Edited)
- Rage and grief, thwarted desire, lust, self-pity: these are emotions gods know well. But guilt and shame, remorse, ambivalence, those are foreign countries to our kind, which must be learned stone by stone.
p. 156.8ambivalence = uncertainty or indecision
- One moment I would be laughing, and the next his jests turned sour in my throat. ... My ambivalence, of course, only encouraged him. Any challenge was a game, and any game a pleasure.
p. 157.7 *ambivalence = mixed feelings
Definitions:
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(1)
(ambivalent) having mixed feelings about something -- such as when part of you wants to do something and part of you does not
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)