Sentences with phrase «conflicting impulses»

But, as a character in the novel notes, humanity's fear of death and fascination with disaster do not arise from conflicting impulses.

A separate network of regions in the front of the brain is responsible for evaluating conflicting impulses.

The strategy depends on humanizing characters formerly known as evil, so that another tale of conflicted impulses emerges from the story we know, driven by female antagonist - protagonist hybrids who aren't bad, just misunderstood.

As it stands, it's merely a collection of Scorsese's conflicting impulses carrying us this way and that, the conflict never producing any sort of sustained drama.

This optimizing of conflicting impulses required the principle of moderation, the golden mean, not because moderation was a good in itself, but because, in a secular view of conflicted human nature, this was the most likely route to social peace and individual happiness.

But Joash, torn by conflicting impulses, even calls Elisha «my father,» and Elisha can not resist this appeal.

From power struggles and the rumor mill to conflicting impulses and strong emotions, girls have a lot to deal with.

Readers come away with an enhanced understanding of the conflicting impulses that drive scientists and of the historical context behind present - day research scandals.

Romance and goodness are evoked with equal power and from these conflicting impulses, voluptuous demons spring eternal.

Instead of honing the film's conflicting impulses and bringing them to a head, tension dissolves when a character unconvincingly disappears for a significant length of time, relieving Muylaert from having to sort out all of the messiness.

All these conflicting impulses and inclinations are left to seethe within the Marvin oxhide physique.

The conflicting impulses drive every museum visit, and the modern and postmodern ideas of «defamiliarization» and «deconstruction» mean to take them down a notch.

The drawings and sculptures that fill the house have become the embodiment of these conflicting impulses.

To live without at least an open - ended sense of future (even if it's not an optimistic one) is to open one's self to a morass of conflicting impulses — from the anticipated thrill of a reckless plunge into hedonism to a profoundly demoralizing sense of hopelessness and a feeling that a lifelong guiding sense of purpose has suddenly evaporated.