The actual facts, however, on closer examination tend to be much more ambivalent and banal.
The army still seems ambivalent about fighting the Taliban, and nervous about America's intentions.
And he is ambivalent about whether the chest is found soon, or even in his lifetime.
When you ask Kuito's townsfolk how life is these days, the stoical response is usually ambivalent.
It should play to his strengths, being southern and ambivalent about the economic recovery.
Many leading figures of the nuclear age grew ambivalent about aspects of this order.
Its hallmarks are pragmatism, opportunism and an ambivalent attitude towards the uses of violence.
While I'm ambivalent about books on tablets, I'm all for electronic cookbooks and apps.
In Tunisia, revolutionary art has been more ambivalent in its message but no less transformative.
I. agent (Joe Don Baker), and who functions as a Nick Carraway-style ambivalent observer.
America has so far been curiously ambivalent about the Olympics coming to Salt Lake City.
If Steve Jobs and Thomas Jefferson can be ambivalent about technology, I guess any of us can.
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Still, Kaminsky, a researcher for security firm IOActive, is ambivalent about the potential for expanded disclosure requirements.
At their worst, they can be nitpicking and ambivalent, unable to see the wood for the trees.
Players, who only ever see Carter at home games, seemed ambivalent about the topic at Tuesday's practice.
The movie of the same name was one of the many ambivalent American films about the war.
Opinion polls suggest that many Americans remain ambivalent about, or even cautiously supportive of, Mr Cheney's position.
Before that day of terror attacks, New Yorkers tended to be -- at best -- ambivalent toward police.
While he became a strong proponent for universal coverage, for example, he remained ambivalent about the public option.
"I think the Self-Defense Forces are ambivalent about ballistic missile defense, " says Isaku Okabe, a Tokyo-based defense analyst.
Mr. Obama is also courting war in the Middle East by his ambivalent posture on Iran's nuclear designs.
That, at any rate, is the hope of Iraq's Shia and Kurdish majority and of many ambivalent, fearful Sunnis.
Contradictions in his character, perhaps exacerbated by the paradoxes of his work, made him increasingly ambivalent about his reputation.
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"I think the Self-Defense Forces are ambivalent about ballistic missile defense, " says Isaku Okabe, a defense analyst in Tokyo.
The fact is most people are ambivalent about what they do, even by their own ideas for their business.
In fact, the Administration has been dangerously ambivalent about whether it will defend Taiwan if Beijing chooses to attack.
The Supreme Court's ambivalent rulings haven't helped guide manufacturers through this legal thicket.
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The victim's parents, in a recent interview at their Delhi home, appeared ambivalent about the attention they are receiving.
Mr Panagariya rejects this argument and even Mr Subramanian seems ambivalent about it.
The country's powerful military establishment also has an ambivalent attitude towards these groups.
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