Conflicting

Examples

• A party that tried to answer every conflicting interest would stand still because people were pulling in so many different directions. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Conflicting sensations of love, fear, and shame reduced Eustacia to a state of the utmost uneasiness. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Now much disturbed, and dazzled with conflicting gleams of hope and dread, I looked at her for some explanation. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The battleship and one form of cruiser were evolved from the conflicting opinions of two opposite schools of design. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Are or are not our interests conflicting? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Hears I have conflicting interests, claims clashing against his and what not. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The motives of those who supported this step were conflicting. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He appeared to be struggling with various conflicting emotions for a few seconds, and then said in a low voice-- 'Tupman only wants your money. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• There are conflicting opinions respecting the original of his picture. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• A crowd of conflicting emotions seemed to have occupied Cedric, and kept him silent during this discussion. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• There are various opinions on the merits, more or less conflicting with Volumnia's. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Conflicting passions, long-cherished love, and self-inflicted disappointment, made her regard death alone as sufficient refuge for her woe. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• In many respects the attainment of these somewhat conflicting ends was the most perplexing of the problems which confronted Mr. Edison. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In response to these conflicting appeals appeared the common man, the unofficial outside independent man, thinking for himself. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Poor Dorothea, shrouded in the darkness, was in a tumult of conflicting emotions. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• No doubt he realized the weakness and disunion of his empire due to these conflicting cults, and had some conception of unification in his mind. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The discord and tumult induced by these conflicting fears and passions, detained Adrian. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• But is a man in harmony with himself when he is the subject of these conflicting influences? Plato. The Republic.
• For a moment Tarzan stood irresolute, swayed by conflicting emotions of loyalty to D'Arnot and a mighty lust for the freedom of his own jungle. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Checker: Quincy