The two venerable structures are touchstones of opposite impulses in American Jewish life.

So delicate is this mechanism that some untoward experience early in life can implant within it the opposite impulse, the will to die.

This device could handle opposite impulses without confusing them.

In creating a "look" for the film, he said that he relied upon "almost opposite impulses"-to tell the story intimately but also carry the comedy.

Artists' books have the opposite impulse: to break books...

Her actor's instinct to play opposite impulses against each other enhances an already skillfully articulated role.

The two buildings are in some sense physical emblems of opposite impulses.

Artists' books have the opposite impulse: to break books out of their standard form and propel them toward the sculptural.

The musical's problems all stem from the fact that it hasn't mastered the opposite impulse, which amplifies feelings and luxuriates in them.

Remedial race-based preferences reflect the opposite impulse: a desire to foster equality in society.