Sentence examples for contradictory visions from inspiring English sources

Using their computers or phones, they can watch films and video offering contradictory visions of both current events and history.

Alastair Little tells me now that the four original owners all had contradictory visions for their 'wine bar with a difference'.

Contradictory Visions A young man, just turned 15, out of school and already working the streets, complains about the renovations on the block as he smokes a joint.

Of all the challenges on 129th Street, one of the greatest is how to reconcile contradictory visions of the same place.

Berenson's emotional opacity has made her the locus of myriad contradictory visions: to many Peruvians, she is chilly and unrepentant; to Americans who worked for her release and visited her in prison, she is brave and stoic — almost saintly.

Congress rejected that idea, however, and what has happened since has shifted the battle to places like Tucson, where in vying over whether and how much critical habitat should be designated for species like the pygmy owl, the two sides have presented rival and contradictory visions of what is at stake.

During Lincoln's presidency, Mr. Kaplan writes, "Shakespeare's history plays now had special purchase, even more than they had always had, as exemplars of the drama of national destiny, great leaders contesting for dominance, the clashing of ambitions and wills, and the attempt to assert contradictory national visions.

Since she and her mother have both been enmeshed in the Wells Fargo "sales culture," she found it contradictory that your Vision Statement cites customer retention and relationships, not the pushing of products.

These visions excite contradictory responses.

It's just that no outsider dares say this aloud, the pessimists continue, for fear of appearing racist, or of spoiling an alluring myth, or of seeming to criticise Nelson Mandela, whose courage and moral stature set him above reproach.Two contradictory, but equally logical, visions of South Africa's future have been advanced since 1994.

Appearing at the Detroit Economic Club, he offered more details on his contradictory, and clearly evolving, vision for the country by first describing Detroit as a decrepit place where dreams go to die because foreigners have stolen all the jobs, and where the lines on every chart are headed in one direction: down.