Such people regard entertaining contradictory impulses as being a poor host.

For whatever reason, both these contradictory impulses survive in the human psyche.

For want of a better term, call it the theory of contradictory impulses.

Those are two contradictory impulses no one person should have.

The Deftones hold all the contradictory impulses of the new hard rock.

It's odd how contradictory impulses sometimes find themselves on the same bandstand.

So far, that effect has been fragmented, with the left confused by contradictory impulses.

In that picture are hints of the many contradictory impulses behind this summit.

The movie collapses on its own confusing and contradictory impulses.

It makes no difference that the movie never reconciles these contradictory impulses.