love-hate relationship

His peculiar love-hate relationship with Europe — embodied this week in the launch of a ruinous trade war, a policy that comes with multiple “Do not use” labels affixed in the 1890s and 1930s — may seem inexplicable or anomalous, but arises from a long history of mutual incomprehension.

I said earlier that Trump had a love-hate relationship with Europe, and I meant it: He’s a lot closer to the befuddled accidental-tourist character in plaid shorts and flip-up sunglasses, gazing open-mouthed at the Changing of the Guard or wondering why there aren’t tours of the Bastille, than the smooth assassin out of a jewelry commercial.

“I kind of have a love-hate relationship with the Innocence Project,” he said.

The anchor had a sense of humor about the audience’s love-hate relationship with him.

“I didn’t live out a lot of the things that Kate did in the movie,” she says of the onetime tornado chaser played by Daisy Edgar-Jones, “but I know what it’s like going home and having that heartbreak, and it’s like a bittersweet feeling of having a love-hate relationship with the place that you’re from.”