In each case, this failure is caused by the conflicting elements that make up each personality.

Only a fool would try to tie too neat a ribbon around the conflicting elements that shaped Bill Clinton.

The time was ripe for a final decision between the two conflicting elements over the Serbian people - the West or East.

It is evidently the supreme enjoyment to strike a chord composed of as many conflicting elements as possible.

In this sense irony is closely related to paradox, which involves the association of conflicting elements within the same statement.

In Mr. Bergman's complex psychological world, such conflicting elements can never be separated.

The conflicting elements in his nature had played the devil with him.

As our laws are made complex and conflicting elements are hammered into a new form through debate and negotiation.

"There would seem to be a number of conflicting elements here," he said.

It's a journey that has had immensely conflicting elements to it.