THE same contrary qualities in Berlioz's music that lend it distinction make it hard to pull off in performance.

It's not that they're vibrant characters (a la Copley) or fascinating combinations of contrary qualities (a la Goya).

Aristotle's explanation involved an erroneous property he called antiperistasis, defined as "the supposed increase in the intensity of a quality as a result of being surrounded by its contrary quality"

For admitting that contraries co-exist for the perceiving subject, he was able to assert the co-existence of contrary qualities in the same object.

James Levine and the Met orchestra sensitively balance the contrary qualities of this ingenious score: grandeur and refinement, sumptuous colors and lucid detail, sweeping urgency and blissful quietude.

For example, the category of substance is distinguished from the other categories by the fact that it has no contrary and can successively acquire contrary qualities.

Human nature is a subtle blend of contrary qualities, the only survivor of evolution's many disastrous experiments.

There have always been contrary qualities to the conducting of Colin Davis.

Aristotle observed: "one and the selfsame substance, while retaining its identity, is yet capable of admitting contrary qualities.

Almost everything you find out about him you can find out a directly contrary quality immediately, and your problem is always which quality was real and which was assumed.