Sentence examples for oppositional tensions from inspiring English sources
The exhibition's two parts suggest a struggle to integrate the shattering oppositional tensions in Kelley's work.
Ms. Chiaverini, though more nuanced in "Theraps," which featured Robert Black on double bass, continued along the same course, stretching sensuously through isolated and tilting poses that played with oppositional forces of tension and release.
Through several ethnographic chapters, the author discusses the meanings of development/kalamboan as they intersect with notions of prosperity and modernity, and come in tension with oppositional and dominant discourses of poverty and backwardness.
The same kind of tensions caused by oppositional relationships and dualities are what drive her work: masculine versus feminine, city versus nature; love and desire, mind and body, fur and gold.
The way in which these theories relate may be oppositional, and so reconciliation may obscure important and ongoing tensions that characterize moral life.
The suffering generated by people holding themselves and one another responsible for circumstances beyond their control has exposed the tension between the need for social support, versus the increasingly oppositional positioning of social network members as sources of competition for limited resources.
If a tension is conceptualized as a trade-off, it comprises two demands that are compatible but oppositional and that require separate attention.
Radicals are often oppositional.
and oppositional defiant disorder (O.D.D).
It's so easy to be oppositional.
