It represented the four opposing elements of the universe - air, fire, earth, and water - with the addition of their sum, spirit.

These tend to mix opposing elements in startling ways: the hardness of metal and the viscosity of petroleum jelly, for example.

Most elements in the story have, if not an equal, at least an opposing element.

Dualism is the interdependence between opposing elements, the generalization that two opposing-complementary forces are found in all things.

This force has two opposing elements: heat, which expands, and cold, which contracts.

DSRP consists of four interrelated structures (or patterns), each structure has two opposing elements.

Conscious of the opposing elements in nature, he spoke of achieving a balance and of being "like sunshine, like moon."

As is often said, it is a world constructed of dissimilar or opposing elements that, although starkly different, coexist.

The essence of Hawthorne is, in fact, distilled from the opposing elements of simplicity and complexity.

Fire and water are the opposing elements we most com- monly notice, but earth and air are opposites, too.