All 4 Uses of
conflict
in
She Said Yes
- Crystal lost track of Cassie once the shooters entered the room, and there are conflicting versions of what she was doing.†
p. 14..1 *
- In one chapter Cassie underlined only a solitary sentence: "All of us should live life so as to be able to face eternity at any time Given the high emotional stakes of most mother-daughter conflicts (and ours was surely no different), Cassie's transformation could not have been more dramatic.†
p. 122..6
- Far from leaving us with tidy lessons to pass on to others, Cassie's death has landed us in a never-ending jungle of conflicting emotions.†
p. 147..1
- Why, when we offer them psychologists and counselors and experts on conflict resolution, are they going to youth groups and looking for friends?†
p. 159..1
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"