Only the spring roll of clashing elements (smoked chicken, wild mushrooms and brie) was a turnoff.
Bleeps and shifting rhythms punctuate the sepia sound of old eastern Europe, but it's the ageless warmth and humanity that makes the clashing elements work.
What she sees as "the contradictions always present in Hardy, between the vulnerable, doomstruck man and the serene inhabitant of the natural world" may actually have been better conveyed by verse, which allows the clashing elements a lyric near-simultaneity, something unachievable in the slower alternations of narrative fiction.
It is a painting in which clashing elements of different worlds live uneasily side by side.
He has lived in the States himself since the mid 90s and, he told me a few weeks after Petit's performance in the park, was intrigued by the culture-clash element of the coup: the NYPD seem to have found the act itself less aggravating than the fact that Petit offered no rationale for it beyond an impish Gallic shrug.
His books ignore none of Peru's clashing, kaleidoscopic elements, but his vision, sometimes explicit and more often artistically indirect, is at bottom a gentlemanly, non-millenarian one, desirous of peace and pluralism, secularly hopeful of decency and democratic norms.
And an Iraqi security forces source said an Iraqi Army major had been killed in clashes with elements of Al Qaeda.
He considers the Bar to be an analogue of NY: "this gold thing emerging out of the roughness of the East Village," a clash of elements.
In the past week or so, there have been clashes between elements of the Free Syrian Army and ISIS in several parts of Syria.
The day before, clashes between elements of the anti-Balaka and ex-Seleka caused 15 deaths and a number of wounded," MINUSCA said.
In the same period, the PAVN 2nd Division under the command of General Giáp Văn Cương clashed with elements of the Americal Division, the U.S. 1st Marine Division, and the South Korean Brigade in their attempts to capture Đà Nẵng.
