(1) In doing so they are often supported by their parents who as well assume an ambivalent attitude towards therapy.
(2) We interpret this exaggerated positive attitude as an attempt to overcome inner fears, doubts and ambivalences.
(3) Partners to the drug-treated mice showed a decrease in the occurrence of offensive ambivalence and of the element "rattle".
(4) But also the functionalism does not offer a complete psychological theory: there is an ambivalence concerning the secondary qualities and also concerning intentionality.
(5) This component of a more comprehensive study of Houdini focuses on the unusual reification of his family romance fantasies, their endurance well beyond the usual boundaries in time, their kinship with mythological themes, and their infusion with the ambivalence that is often addressed toward the true parents.
(6) The whole proves his introversion, ambivalence, hypersensitivity, obstinancy, anxieties, behavioral anomalies, a life rich in fantasies and his underestimation of his own literary work.
(7) I thought: this is a country of law and they will help me get my rights.” She is so fond of the child she looked after for 18 months that she feels ambivalent about any possible prosecution of the parents, her ex-employers.
(8) It was noted that apart from these two factors, these drinking drivers were equally ambivalent in their attitudes toward alcoholism and the alcoholic when compared to the norm group.
(9) They were called 'the give-uppers', 'the clenchers', 'the refocusers' and 'the ambivalents'.
(10) Of the 133 pregnancies that ended in childbirth, 59.4% of the mothers felt that the refusal had been completely justified, 24.8% were ambivalent, and 15.8% felt that the refusal had been unjustified.
(11) Even many faculty members, including the school's president, Sister Mary Tracy, were ambivalent about the need to let go a competent and popular teacher.
(12) Responses of avoidant, ambivalent and controlling groups showed elements of the same organization revealed in reunion behaviour.
(13) O'Donnell cautions against adopting an absolute rule of always disclosing everything, and acknowledges the difficulties of coping with patient ambivalence on the issue.
(14) The opening lines of Hill's first completed (but second to be published) novel, Fell of Dark (1971), were clearly prophetic: "I possess the Englishman's usual ambivalent attitude to the police.
(15) They found, in men: an inability to abandon fertility as lost (with denial of sterility); ambivalence, castration anxiety and a feeling of being excluded from the mother-child symbiosis with later acceptance of loss of fertility and (sometimes excessively) identification with the "mother".
(16) Results indicated that psychiatric patients (N = 66): a) viewed both parents more negatively than did members of a matched sample of 66 normal subjects; b) expressed significantly greater ambivalence regarding both parents than did normal subjects; and c) described both parents at a more primitive conceptual level than did normal subjects.
(17) The method to overcome the resistance to dental attention due to anguish is to establish a good relation-ship between the dentist and the patient, a good management of the ambivalent feeling of the child and the elimination of the phenomenon of transference.
(18) When controlled for sex, additional symptom differences were found for female schizophrenics; blacks were more often excited, ambivalent, rigid and dysphoric.
(19) Transsexuals who had not undergone surgery, although it had been offered to them providing they fulfilled the usual requirements, were classified into various subgroups, measured according to their attitude towards sex reassignment surgery: they were transsexuals with an unaltered wish for surgery, transsexuals who were ambivalent towards surgery (hesitating patients), and transsexuals who had relinquished their wish for surgery and lived in the initial gender role.
(20) These feelings of ambivalence, emotional instability, and sometimes even hostility toward the surgeon make the male aesthetic patient more of a psychological risk than the female aesthetic patient.
Incredulous
Definition:
(a.) Not credulous; indisposed to admit or accept that which is related as true, skeptical; unbelieving.
(a.) Indicating, or caused by, disbelief or incredulity.
(a.) Incredible; not easy to be believed.
Example Sentences:
(1) No,” Bale says, laughing and looking almost incredulous.
(2) The fact that something very similar happened last year at Wimbledon only fractionally lessens the incredulity at another surprise result.
(3) Three years ago, I would have watched these news reports with incredulity.
(4) When the White House sent a private message to Tehran last week about its so-called "red lines" in the Strait of Hormuz, the reaction was both puzzled and incredulous.
(5) Penetrating questions – probably repeated until he gets an answer – quickfire debate and incredulous facial expressions are likely to be the order of the day.
(6) Several delegates were incredulous at claims by the banks that they were ramping up lending to small businesses.
(7) Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian For women, such as Sophie, 29, working in the Republic of Ireland but originally from France, the experience is a logistical headache which makes her incredulous about Ireland’s attitude towards women’s rights.
(8) This year at least some of the people who think going to the police is a tidy solution may have learned that the police can be incredulous, unresponsive, abusive, or ineffective.
(9) - now our stock response to anything met with the slightest incredulity."
(10) He did Bright Young Things (2003), directed by Stephen Fry; he played President Paul von Hindenburg in Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003); he was an incredulous Priam in Troy (2004) and Casanova as an old man in the 2005 mini-series starring David Tennant.
(11) When I misunderstand a remark about Andrew Mitchell and ask if he felt sorry for the ex-chief whip for losing his job, I get a look of incredulity.
(12) The faces here, in contrast to those at the window of remembrance, are jubilant, incredulous.
(13) Some will betray flickers of relief or ecstatic incredulity; other faces drop.
(14) His T-shirt is soon soaked with sweat and he looks incredulous when told he has sparred 10 rounds.
(15) A few days after an incredulous judge threw out the case against Colin Stagg in 1994, I saw the police descend into denial.
(16) Remember that two school shooters, Dustin Pierce and Michael Carneal, expressed incredulity at what they had done only moments later.
(17) The mere fact that many of the standoff defendants entered into plea deals rather than go to trial suggests that they and their attorneys also felt the government had a very strong case.” There was similar incredulity at the not guilty verdicts in Fort Smith in 1988, as analysts pondered how the government could possibly lose a case against leaders and foot soldiers of the Ku Klux Klan and Aryan Nations, among other organizations, some of whom had previously been proven to have robbed banks and armored trucks, killed people, and openly called for the violent overthrow of the government.
(18) You think we did this ourselves?” one asked incredulously, pointing at a line of bullet holes.
(19) one asked incredulously, pointing at a line of bullet holes.
(20) Kezia Dugdale, the Scottish Labour leader, said she remained incredulous that no one in the SNP knew about the case before now.