Analysts have suggested that, given the generally dire relations between South Asian countries, water will provoke clashes rather than co-operation.
Every time North Korea ups the ante, the potential for real-time military clashes, rather than exchanges of insults and diplomatic shadow-boxing, grows.
Thin strips of Spanish mackerel ($6, $11) were fresh, but they were served over sections of pomelo, a citrus fruit that clashed rather than harmonized with the fish.
And then there's the ever-present "leave dozens dead" in the headline, which again tells us nothing about who shot whom, suggesting instead that "clashes" rather than people kill while insinuating that Palestinians are, once again, basically responsible for their own slaughter.
I spoke to Kris and Tom (not their real names), an illegal rave organizer and long-time rave DJ, respectively, from the southwest of England, to get their take on how excessive policing can create clashes rather than prevent them.
Britney Spears: American Dream is the latest experiment to see if music can capitalise on a world where many people are happier to spend their disposable income on Candy Crush Saga or Clash Royale rather than on music.
There's not a lot of modulation in what he gets from the actors, but there is a lot of energy and a riot of clashing impulses; rather than drama, he generates static, an inchoate force of confusion that never resolves.
This is a clash of brothers rather than a clash of civilizations.
"It has become clear over the last year that the upheavals in the Islamic and Arab world have become a clash within a civilization rather than a clash between civilizations," Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies wrote recently.
