eternal triangle


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eternal triangle

n
an emotional relationship in which there are conflicts involving three people
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But when the doctor's daughter's letters to her fiance - a member of the underground - go unanswered, the working of the eternal triangle seems inevitable.
An ongoing legal malpractice lawsuit in Pulaski County Circuit Court highlights an issue commonly known as the eternal triangle: the relationship between the insured, the attorney and the insurance company.
This misshapen three-sided figure, sometimes called the Eternal Triangle, is one that sadly elicits eternal woe and of all those things associated with the number three, I suspect it's been around the longest.
For example, a still life of broken glassware (Untitled, 1972) presages the arrangements of angular and curvaceous forms in Defeo's 1980 "Eternal Triangle" paintings.
Ten essays are: the hand lines (2013); a correspondence with Chiharu Shiota (2013); the works of Chiharu Shiotaua study (2012); memory, dreaming and death (2012); eloquent silence (2011); the work of dreams (2008); what lies in the world of silence (2007); something wriggling in the distant quietude, where Chiharu Shiota belongs (2007); the allegory of absence (2003); Chiharu ShiotaAEs way into silence: moving inside the eternal triangle in art.
But this doesn't lead to the clichd eternal triangle. Things become much more interesting than that as Struensee gains the trust of Christian and the power to try to make democratic changes.
Coronation Street (ITV, 8.30pm) More eternal triangle trauma as toxic Tracy accuses barking Becky of sleeping with Steve.
It was described in an Examiner review as: "An offbeat and fascinating take on the eternal triangle".
"People in an eternal triangle are capable of anything," he said.
* THE ETERNAL TRIANGLE: The wolfish Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner, left) and vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) with the love of their lives Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart)
After he drove back from Poland after Christmas 2007, he and Mrs Rodgers met at his home "against a background of the emotional and conflicting demands of the eternal triangle of a wife and another woman".
Once back in Wrex-ham, he and Mrs Rodgers met at his home and "against a background of the emotional and conflicting demands of the eternal triangle of a wife and another woman", Mr Chambers said, he lost his temper and strangled his lover.