These high-strung and creative people (Ellin wrote best sellers) shared values that outweighed their divergent religious backgrounds and differences in temperament.

It's more like an old town with a mix of people from divergent backgrounds.

Four Englishwomen of greatly divergent background and temperament end up on vacation together at a villa in Portofino, Italy.

These theories - drawing on Coblentz's divergent early background in communication, psychology, and nuclear physics - became the lens through which he came to view advanced science and technology.

The candidates' contrasting political philosophies mirror their divergent backgrounds and personalities.

I recall the comments earlier in the debate today of Senator Leahy when he said that there are 280 million Americans with divergent ethnic backgrounds and political views.

Three women of divergent backgrounds and experience find themselves together in a burned barn in rural California one night in 1907.

"It's natural to expect that people with divergent backgrounds will approach telling their own story in very different ways," he said.

To this day, Lucerne provides a peaceful spot for musicians of divergent backgrounds and viewpoints who wish to be heard with equanimity.

During the war, Americans from radically divergent backgrounds - white, black, rural, urban - were thrown together in many different contexts.