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The principal theme of Thomas's poetry was the ambivalence of birth and death -- the pain of blood-stained creation.
In this reign of a weak Emperor dominated by court politics, a major theme was the ambivalence felt by prominent individuals and the court parties that formed and regrouped round them towards barbarians, which in Constantinople at this period meant Goths.
* His ambivalence towards docetism, the heretical doctrine that Christ's earthly body was an illusion.
This ambivalence appears to underlie his presentation of human history in Works and Days, where he depicts a golden period when life was easy and good, followed by a steady decline in behaviour and happiness through the silver, bronze and Iron Ages – except he inserts a heroic age between the last two, though representing its warlike men as better than their bronze predecessors.
In the public there was ambivalence leading-up to the Olympics.
Although Wagner became fiercely critical of Brahms as the latter grew in stature and popularity, he was enthusiastically receptive of the early Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel ; Brahms himself, according to many sources ( Swafford, 1999 ), deeply admired Wagner's music, confining his ambivalence only to the dramaturgical precepts of Wagner's theory.
At the beginning, there was ambivalence in Nova Scotia, " the 14th American Colony " as some called it, over whether the colony should join the Americans in the war against Britain and rebellion flared at the Battle of Fort Cumberland and the Siege of Saint John ( 1777 )).
For over 40 years after Walpole's fall in 1742, there was widespread ambivalence about the position.
In 1960, Leigh recalled her ambivalence towards her first experience of critical acclaim and sudden fame, commenting, " some critics saw fit to be as foolish as to say that I was a great actress.
Overall he was viewed with ambivalence until, during the first millennium BC, he came to be seen as a totally malevolent deity.
However, the recording chronology belies the interpretation that from the single to the album Lennon moved from a definite position to one of ambivalence, since despite the single's earlier release it was the album version that was recorded first.
" Lahiri's ambivalence over her identity was the inspiration for the ambivalence of Gogol, the protagonist of her novel The Namesake, over his unusual name.
Sir William Empson spoke of the ideal of Pastoral as being embedded in varying degrees of ambivalence, and yet, for all of the apparent dichotomies, and contradicting elements found within it, he felt there was a unified harmony within it.
The Boston Globes Renée Graham wrote of the artists ' ambivalence towards the term in a 2003 article on neo soul's standing, " Despite its critical success, if neo-soul had an initial failing, it was the media-created label itself-a term that the artists, whom it was meant to represent, generally rejected ".
The relationships between Jewish leaders at the west bank and the Hashemite dynasty in the area was characterized by ambivalence as both parties ' prominence grew in the area.
The appellate court ’ s decision was binding, but it also created an aura of ambivalence, with topless sunbathing in public declared acceptable only if nobody else including families with children formally objects to it.
Paul Eugen Bleuler ( April 30, 1857 – July 15, 1939 ) was a Swiss psychiatrist most notable for his contributions to the understanding of mental illness and for coining the terms " schizophrenia ", " autism ", and what Sigmund Freud called " Bleuler's happily chosen term ambivalence ".
The resulting ambivalence was exacerbated by a fiery temper and by the way her mood flipped between firm discipline and generous indulgence.
was for the most part a disaster ", as they picked up on her ambivalence.
Clowes would later discuss his childhood ambivalence for the magazine with an interviewer: " No one was ever a fan of Cracked.

ambivalence and rooted
This ambivalence was rooted in the historical circumstances in which Dialectic of Enlightenment was originally produced: the authors saw National Socialism, Stalinism, state capitalism, and mass culture as entirely new forms of social domination that could not be adequately explained within the terms of traditional Critical Theory.

ambivalence and historical
The problem of Te Kooti is not resolved, except in the brief epilogue, further revealing the depths of Fairweather ’ s ( and Shadbolt ’ s ) ambivalence about the historical figure of Te Kooti, Fairweather ’ s hated and admired nemesis and one-time friend.
The main museum building, the design of architects Bengt Romare and George Scherman 1935-1940, reflects an ambivalence between the predominant modern style of the era and the historical context given not only by the context requirements, but also the 19th century barracks and stables south of the museum designed by Fredrik Blom and built 1805-1817.

ambivalence and which
One of the distinguishing characteristics of critical theory, as Adorno and Horkheimer elaborated in their Dialectic of Enlightenment ( 1947 ), is a certain ambivalence concerning the ultimate source or foundation of social domination, an ambivalence which gave rise to the “ pessimism ” of the new critical theory over the possibility of human emancipation and freedom.
The research results show the ambivalence of his scientific activity: on the one hand, development of ammonia synthesis for the manufacture of explosives and of a technical process for the industrial manufacture and use of poison gas in warfare, but on the other hand, development of an industrial process without which the diet of today's humanity would not necessarily be possible.
In recent years ads for jeans, perfumes and many other products have featured provocative images that were designed to elicit sexual responses from as large a cross section of the population as possible, to shock by their ambivalence, or to appeal to repressed sexual desires, which are thought to carry a stronger emotional load.
The zaibatsu had been viewed with some ambivalence by the Japanese military, which nationalized a significant portion of their production capability during World War II.
Creating a false identity can cause confusion and ambivalence about which identity is true.
Oftentimes, abnormalities of the brain may overlap with one another in terms of diagnoses, which leads to an ambivalence in the ability to diagnose what the underlying issue, thus a neuropsychologist must work hard and diligently to assure accuracy and competency.
Conversely, if a character is presented only with well-defined goal conditions during the entire ' story ', this implies a lack of emotional ambivalence during decision-making which denies the possibility of input to theme.
A subsequent review of the research concluded that exposure leads to ambivalence because it brings about a large number of associations, which tend to be both favorable and unfavorable.
The Province of Canada entered these negotiations at the behest of the British government, and led to the ambivalence of Prince Edward Island, which delayed joining the new Dominion for seven years, even though the constitutional conference was held there, in Charlottetown.
Ulla Koch-Westenholz, in her 1995 book Mesopotamian Astrology, argues that this ambivalence between a theistic and mechanic worldview defines the Babylonian concept of celestial divination as one which, despite its heavy reliance on magic, remains free of implications of targeted punishment with the purpose of revenge, and so “ shares some of the defining traits of modern science: it is objective and value-free, it operates according to known rules, and its data are considered universally valid and can be looked up in written tabulations ”.
The Province of Canada entered these negotiations at the behest of the British government, and this led to the ambivalence of the Province of Prince Edward Island, which later joined the new Dominion.
The novel reflects Dickens ' concerns with railway travel and the ' railway mania ', ' a fascination which had a strong ingredient of fear in it ', and reflects ambivalence towards the effects of the railways-they generated prosperity and employment, but undermined older ways of living and encouraged speculation.
He has covered his particular slant on biography and, to some extent his take on the Victorian era topics, in God's Funeral and The Victorians, which can be traced to this religious ambivalence.
The passing of Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin, which dominated newspapers in Dahomey, was received with more ambivalence than Kerekou's positive sentiments.
However as the parading troops were Piłsudski's Poles instead of Petlura's Ukrainians, the Kievans watched this demonstration of force with great ambivalence, which looked to them just like another occupation army.
This formal ambivalence is mirrored by her insistence that color itself, for instance, contained a psychological vibration which when purified, as it is on a work of art, isolates the event it refers to as a thing rather than a feeling.
According to Belting, in these passages Bosch's " imagination triumphs ... the ambivalence of visual syntax exceeds even the enigma of content, opening up that new dimension of freedom by which painting becomes art.
The leaders themselves expressed ambivalence about the project on which they were embarking.
The resulting ambivalence between father and son, which is reminiscent of the effects of the Oedipus complex as articulated by Sigmund Freud, plays an important role in Tallensi rituals and taboos.
In psychoanalysis, the concept of ambivalence ( introduced by Bleuler in 1911 ) refers to an underlying emotional attitude in which the co-existing contradictory impulses ( usually love and hate ) derive from a common source and are thus held to be interdependent.
This ambivalence toward Israel is best expressed in The Second Scroll, which he wrote after a fact-finding journey to Israel in 1949 and published two years later.

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