Sentence examples for opposite tendencies from inspiring English sources

Within these scenes a switching of moods follows a dialectical pattern, pushing forward through opposite tendencies toward a third term that marks another step toward liberation.

For example, arachnophobics are very attentive and responsive to spider-related stimuli — pictures of spiders, words or sentences related to spiders — but not to stimuli related to snakes; snake phobics have the opposite tendencies.

You might say they represent opposite tendencies in English culture: Lady Catherine as standing for an almost feudal, traditional set of values from which Darcy must separate himself to become worthy of Elizabeth, while Aunt Gardiner represents the new upwardly mobile woman – rational, elegant and sensible, Cheapside nouveau wealth notwithstanding.

In short, it seemed highly unlikely these opposite tendencies could coexist in happy synergy for ever: what we have seen playing out in China over the past few weeks, then, was a kind of delayed autoimmune reaction to having such an alien presence transplanted within it.

Notwithstanding the opposite tendencies of metrical organization and stress accent, however, some metre is obviously subject to stress, so that metre and time measure become very closely linked, as in the scherzo of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, where a measure has a strong first beat and at the same time follows a metre.

Two opposite tendencies have been observed regarding the plasmon shift caused by heating of nanoparticles.

Like Fiske and Rai, Manne sees a larger truth in the opposite tendency.

It was, however, the opposite tendency of specialization or differentiation that won out.

This, he said, represented a "totally opposite tendency from Uniqlo and Muji's no-character, functional design philosophy".

[cartoon id= a14926"] Latham's survival instinct has no clear genetic root, nor does his equal and opposite tendency to throw himself into harm's way.

If one person tends to be a spender, a spouse who has the opposite tendency may help the couple stay on track toward savings goals.