Marx famously argued that all societies have contradictory tendencies.
On Tuesday, though, Hot Hot Heat used these contradictory tendencies to keep the best songs slightly off-balance.
Gordon Brown and his Labour government, facing probable defeat in the general election that must be held in Britain by next June, have alternately exhibited both these contradictory tendencies.
Prison crowding has been a problem in Alabama for decades because of two contradictory tendencies: the state has one of the highest incarceration rates in the country but the lowest per-capita tax revenues.
To capitalize on his own contradictory tendencies, Bounty Killer split his new album into two discs, with 20 songs on each: "Ghetto Dictionary: The Art of War" and "Ghetto Dictionary: The Mystery," both released last month on VP Records.
More a dance suite in the Baroque manner than a sonata-form piece in the Classical way, Mr. Wheeler's music is a network of contradictory tendencies, but few things make art more interesting than paradox.
If Abbas Kiarostami is a giant among his generation of filmmakers, it is, in part, because his films reflect the tensions of these two opposing (though not contradictory) tendencies.
This movement exhibits some contradictory tendencies though.
Welcome to Dataland Ian Bogost | re:Form | 29 July 2014 Disneyland brings together the two contradictory tendencies that animated Walt Disney.
These results suggest that unexpected developments in students' learning approaches, or lack of significant changes at a whole-group level, may be partially due to dynamic (contradictory) tendencies at the sub-group level.
