The landscape also played its part- limiting major, long-term water movement by rivers that were unnavigable for long stretches, contrary currents, and lack of good coastal harbors.

It will be affected by the contrary currents that define American culture - its deep religiousness and its creeping secularity.

The man's as contrary as air currents or water currents.

His poetry only began to be reassessed at a period when critics turned their attention to examining contrary currents within the 'Augustan age'.

More than once contrary currents almost swept them out to sea.

The ship, sail still un- furled, bucked as a contrary current of wind caught it and Elric was forced to cling to the ship's side lest he be tossed overboard.

Like contrary currents in the sea, waves of warriors flowed over and against one another in contending swells-some striving towards the attackers, others struggling away.

His oarsmen's greed for gold was soon replaced by plain hunger, and they were exhausted by the contrary currents.

While just beyond Daphaeu's coast I picked up one of those contrary currents that lace the island's edges and which, tide or no, would funnel me away from shore.

Ms. Wolf's advice startled because it embodied the contrary currents in the public's expectations of its leaders.