Further, these diverse elements of visceral appeal tend to reinforce each other.
At the opposite extreme the lightest element, fire, tends upward, away from the center.
The two elements tend to lie in different scientific paradigms.
However, the elements tend to be identified with certain qualities.
In this case the representative element will tend to match across most of its length to every member of the class.
The different elements tend to be disproportionate in size: tiny plants become huge, while massive trees shrink.
Significant or important elements tend to face east.
"Any element tends to reproduce those elements with which it has formed one state of mind."
These two elements tend, of course, to go together; but they are not synonymous.
Without a perfect balance of art, passion, and luck, all the elements tend to fly their own ways.