antithesis

How To Use antithesis In A Sentence

• Is not this concentrated respect for the object as a specimen the very antithesis of the arts in education?
• his theory is the antithesis of mine
• I stand here today humbled works on antithesis, a putting of terms into opposition with each other, whereby stand, apart from connoting the witness stand and stealing some of its sincerity, erects an uprightness to contrast with the lowness of humbled, from the Latin humus, meaning earth. BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES
• Some of the most rapidly growing towns in the mid-nineteenth century were the very antithesis of industrial centres: these were the seaside resorts, fashionable spas, and tourist attractions, such as Rome.
• The dictionary as a mode of literature is the antithesis of automatic writing, that disembodied burbling of the unconscious.
• But to suggest that the conflict was over political rather than intellectual matters is to introduce a false antithesis.
• The Edmonton Oilers dynasty of the 1980s was the direct antithesis of the Flyers.
• Othello's account of the origins of the handkerchief, another example of this discoursal antithesis, combines, in a contrastive fugal pattern, domestic detail and the mystical sublime of an empowering love.
• Here in that contrast, the antithesis between the interests of Consumers' and Producers' Co-operation is sharply presented.
• [*] Though the judge's portrait, reprinted in White Heat, suggests the very antithesis of Byronic romance, it was very likely Lord in whose arms Emily Dickinson was reputedly once seen "reclining" in the Homestead parlor by her scandalized neighbor/sister-in-law Susan Dickinson. The Woman in White