Love-hate
"Love-hate" in a Sentence (14 examples)
Freud developed the love-hate relationship between parents and child as the Oedipus complex.
Lao Gan Ma and I have a love-hate relationship.
The most accurate reflection of my feelings is that of a love-hate relationship.
My grandmother has a love-hate relationship with computers.
We Danes have a special love-hate relationship with our Swedish neighbors.
I have a love-hate relationship with that trite yet colorful book.
Israel has a love-hate relationship with the Jewish settlers.
She has always had a kind of love-hate relationship with the Berber language.
Tom has a love-hate relationship with his job.
Tom and Mary have a love-hate relationship.
The krogan have had a love-hate relationship with varren for millennia, alternately fighting them for territory and embracing them as treasured companions.
I loathe reviews in which a critic claims to have love-hate feelings about a work of art. It’s a way of having no opinion at all. But I love and hate “Taipei.”
Still, the movie [Ralph Breaks the Internet] manages to locate some gentle satire in our culture's love-hate relationship with the internet. At one point, Ralph must attain a certain level of viral popularity, assisted by the BuzzFeed-esque content guru Yesss (Taraji P. Henson), and the movie is savvy about how accidental spikes in fame can turn into cynical algorithm manipulation.
[…]Eric got to act out his resentment while also hating himself, really love-hating himself, and he got to do it while masquerading as a warrior for the less fortunate!
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