While the Greeks had a sensible approach to fat-fighting ("the Greek word diatia, from which our word "diet" derives, described a whole way of life... an all-round mental and physical way to health"), the early Christians were rather more conflicted about excess flesh.
Having viewed it as a complete neutral, I recall the taste in my own mouth in the immediate aftermath of the fight as, not so much sour or bitter, but rather confused and conflicted.
By focusing on Bruce Wayne the person rather than simply the conflicted rich guy behind the mask, this may well be the freshest take on Batman since Dark Knight Returns.
But rather than investigating them, or any conflicted feelings toward them, she chooses to concentrate on natural history.
A brief disquiet followed by suppression of feelings so conflicted that one would rather not face them.
Perhaps rather than recusal then, a financially conflicted surgeon might be required to recommend that patients receive a second opinion from a surgeon who is not similarly conflicted.l But this strategy is also problematic.
The movie, Mr. Blight said, shows us Lincoln the great abolitionist, rather than the "much messier" and more conflicted pre-1863 Lincoln who believed, among other things, that African-Americans should ultimately be "repatriated" to Africa.
Consider a conflicted interval of k shared conflicted markers bounded by a pair of non-conflicted markers.
In his own telling, he emerges as a conflicted and sensitive, but also intellectually confident and rather self-absorbed, young man, who is seeking his path.
