In urging the contrary position, that God is incorporeal.
That might be the playwright Alan Hruska's point: contrary urges notwithstanding, we're often content to tread predetermined paths.
In the past decade, social psychologists have documented how common such contrary urges are — and when they are most likely to alter people's behavior.
The injuries that life inflicted on London had left him with contrary urges: he wanted political justice, in the name of all underdogs, but he also admired the invulnerability of overpowering strength.
He participated in the first Veterans' Administration Satellite Telemedicine broadcast, anticipated the use of virtual reality in therapy, and devised an unusual method to illuminate emotional conflicts: on a split screen, patients saw two profiles of their own face, one recorded from the left side and the other from the right — the two "faces" embodying contrary urges, Dr. Alger argued.
Ibn Ezra never makes a clean break between traditional or religious sciences; quite the contrary, he urges all along that the sciences that we would call secular are mandatory for understanding scriptural, legal, and other issues of concern to Jews, not the least of which, of course, is self-fulfillment.
While it is true, moreover, that Farley once took four Coca-Cola men along with him for a private audience with Pope Pius, he never, despite a good deal of wishful Left Wing thinking and asserting to the contrary, urged His Holiness either to substitute Coke for sacramental wine or to substitute "Drink Coca-Cola" for "Dominus vobiscum".
And, despite what you might have read to the contrary, my sexual urges don't overshadow every other aspect of my personality and life.
Morison didn't resent this — to the contrary, he urged his students to learn from the best journalists, and the best novelists, too — but it worried him.
