polarity

In doing so they must work though different harmonic polarities and figure out how to consolidate.

Griffin mines the polarity between her envelope-pushing persona and the buttoned-up glamour of A-List celebrity with aplomb to reveal that even the biggest stars are as absurd as the rest of us.

While the “both sides” notion was always false, it is less tenable than ever to argue that the truth lies somewhere in the fictitious middle between partisan polarities.

"There's a gradient within each cell that determines where the cell is going. It's called 'polarity' and it's like the cell's very own steering wheel," says Brückner.

For a novelist so focused on language, it's perhaps not surprising Everett worries that "polarity of thought has replaced discourse".