Opposites and balance of course figure prominently in Taoism, friend of the yin yang and the five elements. |
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Opposites cancel, the story falls flat, and pallidity ensues. |
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Opposites attract, even when they come from different ethnic backgrounds, Rob seems to shrilly scream at the top of its lungs. |
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On Sunday 3 February 2013, Opposites topped the UK Albums Charts, giving Biffy Clyro their first number one album. |
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Opposites do not have to be mutually exclusive, and we are not obliged to choose one or the other. |
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Defects seem as necessary to our now happiness as their Opposites. |
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A false dichotomy is a take-it-or-leave-it choice of opposites, presented as if there was no alternative. |
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But then again the two characters could never be described as polar opposites. |
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Also, here, desire and transgression are articulated through a systematic presentation of opposites. |
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They were polar opposites and yet awesome friends and that was my favorite part about them. |
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A term equally applicable to extreme opposites such as those I have cited cannot tell us anything consequential. |
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It also seems to have been, at least in some respects, an attraction of opposites. |
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It is commonly held that opposites attract, and these two are no exception. |
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An integration of inner and outer duality is possible now to create a unity or mystical union of opposites. |
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Although they have been portrayed as opposites, in reality they amount to the same thing. |
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In the spiritual world it is utterly impossible to bring two opposites together. |
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It is wrong to view the public and private sectors as polar opposites that are always in competition. |
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But it's soon obvious the two are polar opposites with absolutely nothing in common. |
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He described consciousness and reality as a unity of opposites in which the material is fundamental. |
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Neither of them ever believed their elders when they said that opposites attract. |
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But at the same time they are so different that you might well think of them as opposites. |
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As a coexistence of opposites, the sacred is immanent in pure awareness, the ground of language and thought. |
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It is in those intervals that the communion happens, and then you will see the complementariness of the opposites. |
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George I and his son shared a deep mutual dislike for each other, were political opposites, and fought constantly. |
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Which brings up the point of polar opposites co-existing, and hence the harmonious balance which the world strives to keep is always unbalanced. |
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In the technological revolution that digital video has brought to filmmaking, these two works represent polar opposites of the brave new world. |
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It thrives on the tension between irreconcilable, exclusive, coexisting opposites and the unlikely polarities they represent. |
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Did he present a cosmogony or cosmology in terms of the interaction of pairs of opposites? |
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This scenario depends upon Freud's foundational assumption that instincts can be converted into their opposites. |
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This pairing of allied opposites enabled writers to cross-fertilise the two disciplines and personalities to help build on-screen tensions. |
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However earthily they like to present themselves, critics and poets alike are addicted to the rhetorical juggling of opposites. |
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Gemini forms with each of the pairs of opposites in the zodiac a third factor, powerfully influencing the other two constellations. |
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Accepting degrees of graduation doesn't necessarily imply that there are varying positions on just one axis between two polar opposites. |
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Lester Bangs and Ian MacDonald have more than that in common, although in many ways they were diametrical opposites. |
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Binocular vision affords depth perception, multiple dimensions, and the ability to appreciate opposites simultaneously. |
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Make up your own silly opposites, such as a high, squeaky voice and a low, gruff voice. |
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Paradigmatic relations include relations such as synonymy, hyponymy, opposites, and entailment. |
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Would such opposites attract, learn from each other, and astonish us, or would these two conflicting musical spirits lock horns and fight it out? |
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Myers has created a place where opposites meet and strike a natural, harmonious balance. |
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Feng shui is the art of aligning complementary opposites to coexist, balancing the five elements of water, wood, fire, earth and metal. |
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It is a symptom of an intellectually impoverished time that accepting social responsibility and affirming life should be considered opposites. |
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She believes in the reconcilability of opposites, in tolerance and acceptance, the malleability of existence. |
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The opposites of seriousness or heaviness and lightsomeness are in his clothing and the very objects he holds. |
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It reminded me of how much we're complete opposites when it comes to our attitude to public transport. |
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Some currency pairs move in tandem with each other, while others may be polar opposites. |
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What starts out as a formulaic high school love story of opposites attracting abruptly changes into a maudlin tear-jerker. |
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The possibility of attaining paradise lies, instead, in the deconstruction of Manicheism by means of the integration of opposites. |
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He and I, though, were complete opposites other than possessing similar looks. |
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The trick is trapping someone into thinking it the problem has to be dealt with in polar opposites. |
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It didn't ultimately matter and nothing did apart from the outcome of a showpiece the combatants entered at biorhythmic opposites. |
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According to Krustev, the idea of the unity and conflict of opposites leads to a black-and-white way of thinking. |
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Flexibility and changeability are merely the opposites of unchangeability and solidity. |
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Your description seems more in keeping with the union of opposites and elements in alchemy. |
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Further, only a ninny can suppose that the intellectual and mystical are opposites. |
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He might overpower his opposites in the House of Peers, by nobilitating his natural children, or creating noblemen whom he pleased. |
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For a charted illustration of denominals and their opposites, please see the Appendix. |
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I pass a besotted dad with his toddler splashing each other from opposites sides of the fountain. |
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Some scholars have identified Jabir's sulphur and mercury with the Aristotelian opposites fire and water. |
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It is said that opposites attract, but apparently not when it comes to friendship. |
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It was lucky, I thought, that Kathy and Ken were complete polar opposites, because if I had been stuck with two Ken's throughout this I would have gone mad. |
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We attempt to order the world by sorting its features under pairs of opposites, but opposites in the real world never match up neatly with our conceptual opposites. |
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In classic TV style, this pair of oddballs proves that opposites really do attract. |
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It was routine in Cold War times to see Chiang and Mao and the parties they led as opposites in every way. |
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Rob and Ann are such polar opposites that it seems unlikely they'd move beyond physical attraction in the few days they spend together before getting married. |
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Any list of his conspicuous qualities turns out to be a recitation of opposites. |
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Do opposites attract or do birds of a feather flock together? |
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His central tenet is that equality and prosperity are opposites. |
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The entire movie is a collection of dualities, of opposites contrasting. |
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Indeed, it's those co-existing opposites that underpin the whole movie. |
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Ideologically polar opposites, Labrador and Gutierrez say they are committed to making a deal. |
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This dramatic comedy from 1942 plays off the match of polar opposites, the brash sports reporter Craig and the brilliant political commentator Hepburn. |
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Really, though, the American Atheist convention in Salt Lake City is not a clash of opposites. |
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The opposites of nationalization are privatization, municipalization and demutualization. |
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In Valiente's poem, they are ordered in pairs of complementary opposites, reflecting a dualism that is common throughout Wiccan philosophy. |
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This time, Hitchcock makes the victim and villain kindreds, rather than opposites, as in Strangers on a Train. |
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His genius is to fuse opposites with an imperceptible sleight of hand, to blend the surreal with the real, and the caricature with the natural. |
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Rousseauist responsiveness and nurturance automatically flip over into their opposites. |
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It is beyond logic, an inconceivable but not unexperienceable unity of opposites. |
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You don't have to be a rock hound to wonder what created a land of such dramatic opposites. |
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The extreme opposites in the theory of fiction are sometimes characterized as forms of segregationism and integrationism. |
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She and I are good friends even though we're polar opposites. |
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Polysemy, even the simultaneous implication of near opposites, recurred throughout Smith's exhibition. |
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The latter case is manifested for example in positronium or meson where matter and antimatter reside together as the unity of the opposites. |
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Are Anna and Grace opposites doing different things or is there symbiosis? |
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Alchemy is a metaphor for the metamorphosis of being through the combining of apparently unmixable opposites. |
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Disloyalty and hyphenism came to be seen as opposites of 100 percent Americanism. |
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The mythographer, the lover of myth, is led to myth because of the aporia that naturally attends opposites and the power of the mythic image to encompass them. |
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She arose in an era of competing totalitarian ideologies and declared that communism and Nazism were not opposites but evil twins, and that their true opposite was freedom. |
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