The phrase
"polar extremes" refers to two completely opposite or contrasting points or situations. It suggests that the two things being compared are as far apart as possible, like the North and South poles on Earth.
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Drawing from
polar extremes of the cultural spectrum, unexpectedly the two artists arrive at complimentary forms of visual expression.
It's really unfortunate that in our conversations about education the camps are so often
on polar extremes.
The Barthian attack on the orders of creation was so devastating that some Lutherans veered to the
radical polar extreme of situation ethics.
The IPCC's climate science has long claimed that human CO2 emissions are producing an accelerated global warming, with a «runaway» warming trend, which is then being amplified in the north and
south polar extremes.
At one and the same time he is the truest of believers and the most arrant atheist;
these polar extremes are convincingly portrayed in the characters of his novels, though he himself remained unconvinced and undecided; we are shown, on the one hand, abject humility and the craving to become absorbed into the divine essence, and, on the other, the magnificent pride of being God oneself.
Rather, he suggests features of such a theology by playing off of the strengths and weaknesses of
his polar extremes.
instead of meeting in the middle and investigating with a healthy spirit, its taken to
polar extremes and then mocked for being in the extremes.
Next I'll be going to
the polar extreme again, with some ideas which I have been sitting on for a while.
The tax commission plan has been criticized by both progressive and conservative groups, whom Cuomo said represent
the polar extremes of the political debate.
It's caught between
the polar extremes that we've seen in films like «The Space Between Us» and «The Fault in Our Stars,» and it's not a bad spot to be in.
It's
the polar extreme of Cadillac CUE, which relies on touch surfaces, somewhat to the detriment of the user.
Though I see tantalizing potential, so far I see a desert with two
polar extremes; having your fine work disappear into a vast ocean of mediocrity, and a few sites catering to the screwy contemporary art establishment that have an exclusivity standard of internal nomination only.
Despite the curatorial emphasis on difference (the delicate portrait of his daughter Betty, for instance, juxtaposed against
its polar extreme — the monolithic «Yellow - green»), there is a constant engagement with the question of representation, so that there is not an opposition between the abstract and the real, but rather a dialogue.
In this moment, we each stand at
the polar extreme of our own innocence.
The landscapes look familiar enough from Western painting and Western narratives, for
all their polar extremes — just as «Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair» is an American folk song, Kerry James Marshall has taken to the barber shop as the locus of African American community, and blackness has a dark place in America's history.
If beauty and unease are
polar extremes in Bordo's work, there is also humor mostly directed at his profession and the world in which it is practiced.»
The key was to establish well - instrumented ground research sites in the world's most important climate regions, including its equatorial and
polar extremes.
«The Pentads centred on 1882 was recognised as the first pentad for which all the latitude bands (except
the polar extremes) were represented by some data.