Sentences with phrase «pair of opposites»

Further, the survival is construed in terms of a final pair of opposites, happiness for some, torture for others.

But this thesis conceals two further pairs of opposites: the pitting of word against cult and eschatology against apocalyptic.

This in turn has re-raised the antipodal pair impact hypothesis, the idea that pairs of opposite hot spots may result from the impact of a large meteor.

The three pairs of opposite faces on each are as follows:

Between pairs of opposite polarity, magnetic field connections exist, represented here by lines based on computer calculations.

Sun and moon, male and female, active and receptive, rational and intuitive, contracting and relaxing, hot and cold, unbending and fluid — these and other pairs of opposites comprise the archetypes that best describe the relationship between the two channels of breath.

Through the works, he investigates pairs of opposites such as the iconic versus the unknown; social structures versus inner chaos and modernism versus post-punk subcultures.

Blackman's formal pairing of opposites — black and white, horizontal and vertical — are referencing the sculptures too, nodding to the larger process of mixing water and plaster dust (at a 50/50 ratio) to make them.

He theorized that there were four pairs of opposite preferences.

Good and evil, then, can not be a pair of opposites like right and left or above and beneath.

If we think — as we usually do — in terms of duality, we predicate of Reality all pairs of opposite attributes.

The «pairs of opposites» universe that we live in constantly demands that we «take sides.»

Then choose a pair of opposites and make the second of the words rhyme with the spot where the birds are sitting (snow and slow).

Again, this echoes one of Patanjali's essential teachings that occurs earlier in the text at the beginning of the second chapter wherein he states the causes of suffering (kleshas), two of which are attraction (raga) and aversion (dvesha), a pair of opposites.

Posidonius never wrote of microcosm and macrocosm as a pair of opposites.

As one would think, any matchup between what appears to be a pair of opposites usually ends up amplifying subtle and hidden aspects that one would otherwise miss or ignore.