All 3 Uses of
conflict
in
The House of Mirth
- Her soft nature recoiled from this ordeal, which had none of the stimulus of conflict to goad her through it.†
Chpt 1.13 *
- Her craving for the keen stimulant was forever conflicting with that other craving for sleep—the midnight craving which only the little phial in her hand could still.†
Chpt 2.10
- Reading his dismissal in her eyes, he held out his hand with a gesture which conveyed something of this inarticulate conflict.†
Chpt 2.11
Definition:
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(conflict) a struggle or disagreementin various senses, including:
- a serious disagreement -- as in "political conflict"
- the tension from two opposing ideas or feelings -- as in "I'm conflicted about where I should go to college."
- a violent fight or war -- as in "the Israeli-Palestinian conflict"
- an idiom that refers to tension between responsibilities to different entities -- "conflict of interest"