The phrase "contradictory impulses" means having conflicting desires or urges to do different things that are opposite or contradictory to each other.
Sentences with «contradictory impulses»
Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard — «20,000 Days On Earth» Part art project, part biography, part self - promotion, part documentary and part fiction, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard's Nick Cave movie is such a curious hybrid of contradictory impulses that it should by rights fly apart at the seams. (indiewire.com)
Twombly's new art seemed to capture contradictory impulses in modern society. (prabook.com)
The same contradictory impulses are already evident. (theguardian.com)