The phrase
"contradictory impulses" means having conflicting desires or urges to do different things that are opposite or contradictory to each other.
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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.
Dear Ronnie, You seem to have a
few contradictory impulses here: You don't want a third card and don't want to close an existing card, yet you would like a card that gives you rewards of miles or cash back.
By situating the monochrome in relationship to other codes, the artist allows
apparently contradictory impulses to coexist: material and metaphysical, pictorial and spatial issues are brought into a relational context, capable of being read and understood over time.
This is not a man branding himself with two different and
contradictory impulses.
Under Tweedy's almost imperceptible guidance, Shelley has learned to trust
her contradictory impulses.
From its very first moments, The Greatest Showman buzzes with
the contradictory impulses fueling a big - budget musical about P.T. Barnum — or maybe fueling any splashy big - budget contemporary musical trying to position itself among hot Broadway properties, music videos, and Hollywood history.
Dan argues one thing doesn't make a man — bolstered by
his contradictory impulses to do good for others and willfully self - destruct.
The adjudication of
these contradictory impulses requires an anti-natural construct like the Ten Commandments.
No one understood better than Martha the tensions, challenges, and opportunities that choice created for the American Republic, and she devoted much of her scholarship to exploring how
the contradictory impulses of centralization and decentralization could complement each other.
Throughout, Collins» work upholds his commitment to myriad forms of experience across the social spectrum, and an interest in
the contradictory impulses of intimacy and desire within the public sphere.
The best narrative fiction films have at their center the war between two necessary and
contradictory impulses: the impulse to observe and the impulse to declaim.
In the face of
these contradictory impulses, men may find it easier to wander away and leave their partners to shop alone.