It bristled like the angular splinters in the woodwork; it pulsed in the air, a disturbance that was deep, subtle, and voiceless, the vibrant presence of low-pitched rivalries, masked by politeness, or sometimes by hostile displays of affection.
At a time when the sport's reputation is at an all-time low, such personalised rivalry can only be good news at the box office.
Their battles have come to epitomise the highs and lows of the rivalry.
Clashes over cybersecurity, trade, human rights and regional territorial disputes have left relations between the two nations at a pronounced low, creating distrust and rivalry and leaving the leaders struggling to cooperate on a number of goals.
Another – more low-key, certainly short-lived – rivalry to add to this category was between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest in the late 1970s.
On the whole the N. Y. Negroes are unmoved by the woes of the Pyerto Ricans, and the two groups are engaged in bitter rivalry for the lowest rungs on the job ladder, and the feeling between them is hostile.
Aside from several brawls in the 1980s, the rivalry remained relatively low-key before the 2006 season, as the teams had seldom been equally good at the same time.
These experiments have shown the importance of form information in binocular rivalry relative to low-level information.
This qualitatively different effect of eye movements and the quantitative differences with voluntary control and stimulus timing are consistent with the idea that binocular rivalry is a more low-level type of rivalry than perceptual rivalry [5], [6], [9], [29].
We started the investigation with several low-level properties of the binocular conflict, as one of the current theories suggests that rivalry is a process of low-level conflict resolution [19].
