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- noun Plural form of
polarity .
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Examples
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Indeed those kind of polarities were a feature of a probing reading that dug below the surface to tease out convoluted passions and neuroses.
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These and 1,000 other flip-flop 'polarities' in life are eating up our creative energy and a lot of our potential income. "
Press Release 2008
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Richard Kraft: Something With Birds In It | A site-specific installation composed of four elements, Something With Birds In It invokes the friction and fluidity between familiar polarities--between the sacred and profane, sense and nonsense, play and violence, reflection and action.
Bill Bush: Seeing Red: This Artweek.LA (October 24-30, 2011) Bill Bush 2011
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Fox Searchlight Brad Pitt meets a new arrival in Terrence Malick's 'The Tree of Life' Tiny and vast, eternal and evanescent, these are the polarities of a work of art that defies categorization.
A Towering 'Tree,' Out on a Limb Joe Morgenstern 2011
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Richard Kraft: Something With Birds In It | A site-specific installation composed of four elements, Something With Birds In It invokes the friction and fluidity between familiar polarities--between the sacred and profane, sense and nonsense, play and violence, reflection and action.
Bill Bush: Seeing Red: This Artweek.LA (October 24-30, 2011) Bill Bush 2011
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Richard Kraft: Something With Birds In It | A site-specific installation composed of four elements, Something With Birds In It invokes the friction and fluidity between familiar polarities--between the sacred and profane, sense and nonsense, play and violence, reflection and action.
Bill Bush: Seeing Red: This Artweek.LA (October 24-30, 2011) Bill Bush 2011
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The politician's job is to be shamelessly, consistently wrong on every bubble, in favor of whatever is popular until it's no longer popular, against whatever is unpopular until the polarities reverse again.
Crime & Punishment & Goldman Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011
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You'll see that these women — Emily and Victoria — who we might think are polarities are actually very similar.
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The politician's job is to be shamelessly, consistently wrong on every bubble, in favor of whatever is popular until it's no longer popular, against whatever is unpopular until the polarities reverse again.
Crime & Punishment & Goldman Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011
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I wanted to write something about a character like that, only I've reversed the polarities in a way.
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