It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
You may be tempted to rush, fearful that you will lose an opportunity if you don't push things through to completion, but just the opposite will be true.
Dreams are usually contrary to the facts, which coincide with the philosophy that things will develop in the opposite direction when they become extreme.
On the contrary, men are amazing with vanity, they would like to sacrifice their whole best time of life in conquering the whole world, leaving a famous name on the world and history.
While the KWS tracked the poachers to Isiolo, David followed the foot prints of the survivors in the opposite direction, tracking 3km into impenetrable bush.
PHP has the ternary operator (foo?bar:baz) and an enormous (and unwieldy) list of function names, with all kinds of naming conventions; you'll find Python a lot cleaner.
I went through my mail today, and got the usual batch of letters declaring that I'm wrong about everything, and that we should do the opposite of anything I say.