Everyone is ambivalent about his profession, if he has practised it long enough, but there were still moments when he loved the stage and all those unseen people out there, who might cheer you or boo you, but that was largely, though not entirely, up to you.

and it is as if the only stable relation left among the different parts of the picture is the ambivalent and ambiguous one that each has with the surface.

A somewhat ambivalent, alternative view of the draugr is presented by the example of Gunnar in Njál's saga:

As she wrestles with the case, trying to narrow down the list of suspects and avert a major scandal, Harriet is forced to examine her ambivalent feelings about love and marriage, along with her attraction to academia as an intellectual ( and emotional ) refuge.

* " The Hound of Heaven " is the title of the fifth chapter in Robert L. Short's 1965 book The Gospel According to Peanuts where he describes Snoopy as a " little Christ " carrying out " Christ's ambivalent work of humbling the exalted and exalting the humble.

Admiral Nagano summed up his service's ambivalent attitude during this period by observing " The government has decided that if there is no war, the fate of the nation is sealed.

It is generally non-nationalistic and ambivalent towards the modern State of Israel.

British film critic Ian Freer notes that despite Kazan naming Communist party members to the House Committee on Un-American Activities two years earlier, " the film is ambivalent about the act of informing.

Henry V himself is sometimes seen as an ambivalent representation of the stage machiavel, combining apparent sincerity with a willingness to use deceit and force to attain his ends.

She is ambivalent, variously asking Artemis to kill her and, apparently, considering marrying one of the suitors.

The text is ambivalent about whether the " Mouse Army " of girls is merely efficient and devoted or also usefully creative.

They also maintain somewhat ambivalent relations with Hobbits for most of the Third Age, although after the mission to retake the Lonely Mountain Bilbo Baggins is held in great esteem there.

Relativity and ambiguity are prominent ideas in the play, and the audience is challenged to come to conclusions about the ambivalent nature of many of the characters.

A " sexually ambivalent " young man (' Murugan Mailendra ') in Aldous Huxley's Island ( 1962 ) is likened to Antinous, and his lover Colonel Dipa ( an older man ) to Hadrian, after the narrator discovers the two are having a secret affair.

This is similar to the Australian version, however note the addition of Churchill ( sometimes also " Monty ") due to the ambivalent nature of Afrikaner sentiments to the British.

" Bosley Crowther, in a somewhat ambivalent review, concludes " some very credible acting on the part of Mr. Grant and Miss Dunne is responsible in the main for the infectious quality of the film.

According to a report issued in 2005 by the United States Department of State, the public's attitude towards religion is ambivalent.

So in IE religions there is an introducer god ( as Vedic Vâyu and Roman Janus ) and a god of ending, a nurturer goddess and a genie of fire ( as Vedic Saraswati and Agni, Avestic Armaiti, Anâitâ and Roman Vesta ) who show a sort of mutual solidarity: the concept of ' god of ending ' is defined in connexion to the human referential, i. e. the current situation of man in the universe, and not to endings as transitions, which are under the jurisdiction of the gods of beginning, owing to the ambivalent nature of the concept.

The film, based on David Guterson's novel of the same title, received ambivalent reviews and Entertainment Weekly concluded, " Hawke scrunches himself into such a dark knot that we have no idea who Ishmael is or why he acts as he does.

Ratified in the Republican Party victory in 1952, the Positive State is now evidenced by political campaigns being waged not on whether but on how much social legislation there should be.

Work is under way to see whether new restraining devices should be installed on all nuclear weapons.

One way to determine whether we have so dangerous a technology would be to check the strength of our society's organs to see if their functioning is as healthy as before.

In any event, whether society may have cancer, or merely a virus infection, the `` disease '', we shall find, is political, economical, social, and even medical.

Hence the prime issue, as I see it, is whether a democratic or free society can master technology for the benefit of mankind, or whether technology will rule and develop its own society compatible with its own needs as a force of nature.

But the problem is one which gives us the measure of a man, rather than a group of men, whether a group of doctors, a group of party members assembled at a dinner to give their opinion, or the masses of the voters.

What is simply an opinion formed in defiance of the laws of human probability, whether or not it is later confirmed, has become by September of the election year `` a firm conviction ''.

Even if people do, in a not far distant future, begin to read one another's minds, there will still be the question of whether what you find in another man's mind is especially worth reading -- worth more, that is, than what you can read in good books.

When decision makers act within this frame they determine whether a claim put forward in the name of religion is to be accepted by the larger community as appropriate to religion.

Community decision makers must make up their minds whether a claim is acceptable to the larger community in terms of prevailing expectations regarding members of nation states.

The relatively long and often colorful selections in this anthology enable the reader to become genuinely absorbed in what is said, whether he responds with anger or applause.

Most students of literature, whether they call themselves scholars or critics, are ready to argue that it is possible to understand literary works as well as to enjoy them.

It is most important that we recognize the law of love as being unbreakable in all personal relationships, whether individually, socially or as between whole nations of people.

Without a precise knowledge of Germanic philology, however, it is debatable whether their use was not more often a source of confusion and error than anything else.

Mortality is the pacing of a brief and dangerous watch, and to all sentinels, whether at Elsinore or on the battlements at Mycenae, the coming of dawn has its breath of miracle.

The other reason ( and the one with which I am here concerned ) is that one thus becomes inclined to inquire of any opinion, or change of opinion, whether it represents the wisdom of experience or is only the result of the difference between youth and age which is as inevitable as the all too obvious physical differences.

But whether the murder of El Benefactor in Ciudad Trujillo means freedom for the people of the Caribbean fiefdom is a question that cannot now be answered.

The question left by the election is whether West Germany veers slightly toward more firmness or more flexibility.

Although the United States and the U.S.S.R. have been arguing whether there shall be four, five or six top assistants, the most important element in the situation is not the number of deputies but the manner in which these deputies are to do their work.

But far from being concerned about whether or not Russia will have achieved Utopia by 1980, the world is watching Moscow today primarily for clues as to whether or not there will be nuclear Armageddon in the immediate future.

That, at any rate, is what happens at the Khaju bridge.

The sequence of movements in a Cunningham dance is unlike any sequence to be seen in life.

The sequence is determined by chance, and Mr. Cunningham makes use of any one of several chance devices.

If a work is divided into several large segments, a last-minute drawing of random numbers may determine the order of the segments for any particular performance.

So great a man could not but understand, too, that the thing that moves men to sacrifice their lives is not the error of their thought, which their opponents see and attack, but the truth which the latter do not see -- any more than they see the error which mars the truth they themselves defend.

As Lipton puts it: `` The Eros is felt in the magic circle of marijuana with far greater force, as a unifying principle in human relationships, than at any other time except, perhaps, in the mutual metaphysical orgasms.

it is a spectacle absolutely painful, an epiphany of the suffering flesh unredeemed by spirit, untouched by any spirit other than abasement and humiliation.

Piepsam is not, certainly, religious in any conventional sense.

By `` image '' is meant not only a visual presentation, but also remembered sensations of any of the five senses plus the feelings which are immediately conjoined therewith.

In this respect experience is broader and full of a richer variety of potential meanings than the mind of man or any of his arts or culture are capable of making clear and distinct.

It is true that New England, more than any other section, was dedicated to education from the start.

The monitoring is the highest and most restrictive of any organization in existence.

That is to say Gabriel's fundamental law had been so much modified by this time that it was neither fundamental nor law any more.

So in these pages the term `` technology '' is used to include any and all means which could amplify, project, or augment man's control over himself and over other men.

Hence, the only defensible procedure is to repress any and every notion, unless it gives evidence that it is perfectly safe.

Assuredly in our political campaigns there is freedom to think, to examine any and all issues, and to speak without restraint.

The portrait that had developed, fragmentarily but consistently, was the portrait of a man to whom serious thinking is alien enough that the making of a decision inhibits, when it does not forestall, any ability to review the decision in the light of new evidence.

The best gifts of the novelist will be wasted on the reader who is insulated against any surprises the novelist may have in store for him.

The young William Faulkner in New Orleans in the 1920's impressed the novelist Hamilton Basso as obviously conscious of being a Southerner, and there is no evidence that since then he has ever considered himself any less so.

It may be that in this comment he has broken from the conventional pattern more violently than in any other regard, for the treatment in his books is far removed from even the genial irony of Ellen Glasgow, who was the only important novelist before him to challenge the conventional picture of planter society.

One thing you can say about Mr. Lyford is that he does not suffer from any insecurity as an American.

But that one should superimpose all these charts, run a pin through the common point, and then scale each planetary deferent larger and smaller ( to keep the epicycles from ' bumping ' ), this is contrary to any intention Ptolemy ever expresses.

In any case but the last, such a course is sure to avenge itself upon the individual ; ;