At its heart is a conflict of desire that occurs when Caneze and Sully meet in the college canteen: Caneze's family – particularly her brother – are determined to keep the two of them apart.
He dramatizes the mind-bending conflict between the sisters as a conflict of irrepressible desires and social forces, between self-image and the public image.
Judith Stacey, a sociologist at New York University and author of the book "Unhitched," added that traditional couples and families carried conflicting "demands and tensions of desire and domesticity," while living among friends meant that "the vagaries of sexual attraction don't disrupt your security and stability".
This can of course be a source of conflict due to differing levels of desire.
"Too many women give up because of conflicts between their desire to start a family and their desire to ramp-up their careers," said John Holdren, the president's science adviser and head of the Office of Science and Technology Policy.
The existence of multiple project objectives, the conflicts of stakeholder perceptions and desires, and the uncertainty in project performance predictions necessitate a comprehensive and integrated approach to evaluate and select the best project alternative.
"Across the Road," his imminent Chocolate Factory show, uses a structure similar to that of "Dakota" and charts the interior conflicts and desires of two people in a fraught relationship over the course of one day.
So the focus on preferences does not, on its own, generate conflict between decision theory and theories of desire.
Struggling with the mystery of desire -- and conflicting desires.
The comic adventure that Minnelli puts them through poses some questions that, perhaps now even more than at the time of the film's production, are crucial to American life — the conflicts of personal freedom with the desire for community, the simultaneously liberating and constraining power of technology — as well, of course, as the redemptive values of comedy, beauty, and love.
