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Weather is defined by martial metaphors--"fronts," "clashing" air masses, "striking" storms.
The Qing continued these artistic traditions, adding increasingly rich and dense ornamentation and applying new colors, many of them clashing or gaudy.
It is concerned with the visual and perceptual effects of dancing grids, jazzy dots, clashing colors, sliding waves, and so on.
When Georgia became independent in 1991, Abkhazia and South Ossetia--each with its own ethnic majority--agitated for greater autonomy, often clashing with Georgian troops.
But this stuff about "clashing systems of control" doesn't sound like the thoughts of a 13-year-old, and the reader begins to feel tricked.