Sentences with phrase «opposite pole»

You solution statement becomes the opposite pole of the problem.

As spring dawns in the Arctic, autumn descends on the opposite pole.

The more intimate Galerie Thomas Fischer, housed in a former residential building, featured a show by Margrét H. Blöndal (June 6 — July 25), whose informal sculptures perhaps represent the opposite pole of Bauhaus formalism and emanate an organic charm, despite being transparently fabricated from humble, everyday materials.

The transfer of pigment from one piece to another, as in the «Sanguine» drawings, sits on an opposite pole from the resolute materiality of a Donald Judd or Frank Stella.

At the opposite pole is the Colour Field Painting of such artists as Mark Rothko (1903 - 70), Clyfford Still (1904 - 80) and Barnett Newman (1905 - 70): a type of painting based on more pure and absolute attitudes of consciousness.

His paintings were mostly portraits, nudes, landscapes, still lifes and flower pieces, but given the early pre-Renaissance influence, they were at the opposite pole from realism, essences of the subject, not imitations of appearances.

At the opposite pole is Soutine, representing the «inward drama of the soul.»

Like a magnet same poles reflect eachotherand opposite pole..

Antarctic: On the opposite pole, the Antarctic sea ice extent for August was 7.41 million square miles, 420,000 square miles (6.0 percent) above the 1981 - 2010 average.

At the opposite pole from the Dancer in Everson's affections stands a deceptively pleasant looking bay colt named Cousin, who went to the races a year before the Dancer and for a time seemed equally promising.

In many ways at the opposite pole of the theological spectrum we find the radical empiricism of Neo-naturalism.

At the opposite pole is another atheistic religion, which attracts unselfish, generous - spirited men and women.

Aristotle and Aquinas speak rather of polymorphic potential, not an infinite void, which could (erroneously) imply an equal and opposite pole of existence to God's infinite Being.

The objects of his study range from a class of molecules that have the basic self - duplicating property of living things, through cells which suggest purely physical systems, through animals which give increasing evidence of having minds, to human beings in whom streams of consciousness seem to involve continual choices of action, at the opposite pole from control by impersonal laws of nature.

That it offers a plausible explanation of the two features of the teaching is obvious; and yet it falls short of being altogether convincing, chiefly because the manner of much of Jesus» most characteristic teaching is at the opposite pole from what one would expect to be the manner of a prophet giving a kind of desperate counsel for a moment of crisis.

If one were to place at one pole Walter Lippmann, who spoke of Hitler as Antichrist, one would have to place Singer at an opposite pole, next to Hannah Arendt, who also believed in the banality of evil.

It is at the opposite pole from seeing the client, or oneself, as an object.

However, even here it basically begins at the opposite pole from Whitehead.

At the opposite pole which Earley offers, there is the persistence of «dissipative systems» — a kind of serial order, it seems to me, with a minimum of complexity.

The hermit is an established type in both Western and Eastern Christianity, and monastic institutions, even though striving for a common and closely knit way of life seemingly at the opposite pole from solitude, have often been linked with hermetical institutions and practices of one sort or another.

Public opinion wavers between the Roe v. Wade decision and an opposite pole in Massachusetts v. Edelin.

Nevertheless, in some respects the strategy is proposes is at an opposite pole from the orthodox one.

Good and evil are usually thought of as «two structurally similar qualities situated at opposite poles.»

What is most noteworthy from the standpoint of our present concern is that fundamentalist Protestant worship, though at opposite poles from the type just mentioned, has great similarities in its basic appeals.

Somewhere in between these two opposite poles you have good defenders who would be easier and cheaper to sign than the Dortmund star while still being able to significantly add to our paper thin defensive options.

Opposite poles are attracted to each other.

Opposite poles attract.

After being involved with many different youth athletic programs for the past several years, I have had the opportunity to observe youth leagues that are on opposite poles of the economic and social spectrum.

In this study, the authors model charged patchy particles, which are made up of a rigid body with only two charged patches, located at opposite poles.

This complex biological machine gathers the chromosomes together and sorts them at the time of cell division, then sends them to the opposite poles of the daughter cells in a process called chromosome segregation.

All magnets have north and south poles, and opposite poles attract: North poles seek south poles seek north poles seek south poles seek. . .

Biologists who study the mechanics of cell division have for years disagreed about how much force is at work when the cell's molecular engines are lining chromosomes up in the cell, preparing to winch copies to opposite poles across a bridge - like structure called the kinetochore to form two new cells.

His results showed that around 1 billion years ago, Earth could have transitioned from a modern - looking field, having a «strong» magnetic field with two opposite poles in the north and south of the planet, to having a «weak» magnetic field that fluctuated wildly in terms of intensity and direction and originated from several poles.

But when it comes to picking the «year's best film,» that which will always remain the most subjective of honors, the indie world and the venerated establishment no longer reside on opposite poles.

by Bill Chambers If Some Kind of Wonderful is just an inverted Pretty in Pink, then Reality Bites is Some Kind of Wonderful inverted back again, with a proud young woman positioned at the apex of a love triangle and flanked by suitors from opposite poles of class who share a sincere affection for their mutual inamorata.

It's those two actors and the two characters that J.J. Abrams and Larry and Michael [writers Lawrence Kasdan and Michael Arndt] created and the fact they're these two opposite poles of the Force.

Giving the parents jobs on opposite poles of the spectrum also makes for an intriguing exegisis on the origins of evil from a religious and psychosocial perspective.

And if you're one of the many in love with its exclusive identity, have at it, but between the opposite poles are a growing number of owners who merely see the Prius as a serviceable five - passenger family hatchback.

Also, while RIM has seen a somewhat greater acceptance of its PlayBook tablet PCs after the release of the much improved PlayBook OS 2.0, the overall tablet scene still continues to be dominated by either Apple's iOS or Google's Android OS, which in turn are at opposite poles in almost every conceivable aspect.

Anyway, when did this desire to combine these seemingly opposite poles begin?

In some cases, we also observe two versions of the same work, representing opposite poles.

Exploring the dichotomies and analogies in their works, the artists embody two opposite poles, tempering each other's fixations — Dumas» captivation with the wild with Kriendler's fascination with control.

This is a core strength in the artist's practice: a deft utilization of his perceived position as an outsider in order to gain access and record opposite poles of the Reagan - era culture wars.

The opposite poles of mountain and water, the solid and the liquid, are subjected to a dynamic exchange as a symbol of the balance in the world.

Jutta Koether contributes a small, shiny Minimalist triangle and a large, moody canvas that riffs on Neo-Expressionism; both black, they seem to honor the opposite poles of postwar German painting, Blinky Palermo and Anselm Kiefer.

Though separated by just one day, the two cases represent the opposite poles of statutory interpretation despite clear statutory language in each case.

The term «differential susceptibility» was applied recently to disordinal interactions of this type, in which a genetic variant predicts both higher and lower values of a given phenotype at opposite poles of an environmental gradient, compared to alternate genotypes of the same polymorphism (Boyce and Ellis, 2005; Belsky and Pluess, 2009).

Not exact matches

Gunton considers the logic of the dipolar concept «actually precludes the taking of initiative by God,» since if God is «passive to what happens in the universe» in «one pole of his being,» therefore he must be active in the other pole — for, Gunton apparently assumes, since activity and passivity are polar opposites, so they must correspond to the abstract / concrete poles of the divine reality when applied to God.

I am contending that religious qualities of experience are acquired, if at all, only by an individual who has borne within solitariness the relational matrix of existence, achieving a creative tension between the contrasts of life without permitting fixation on either pole to turn the contrast into an irreconcilable opposite.

So far I have argued three points: that persons engage in behavior patterns which can be characterized as purposive, i. e., as exhibiting a structure of aims, values, and methods of attainment; that individuals and institutions are interrelated, with each side influencing and being influenced by the purposes and activities of the other, although with neither being in any way reducible to or explicable solely in terms of the other; and that the institutional pole in this interaction shares with the individual as its opposite those characteristics that define its behavioral patterns as purposive.