Both Uses of
conflict
in
Nineteen Minutes
- She rescheduled, but realized too late that her appointment conflicted with a final exam.†
Chpt 1 *conflicted = tension from opposing ideas or feelings
- But as it stood, there was no legal conflict in Alex's sitting as judge, as long as she could separate her personal feelings as the mother of a high school student from her professional feelings as a justice.†
Chpt 1conflict = struggle or disagreement
Definition:
a struggle or disagreement
in 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"