How To Use Antithetic In A Sentence
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It is written in Attic Greek, with much studiedly antithetical rhetoric and frequent verbal borrowings from the classical authors.
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Or, conversely, isn't the character of modern American life strangely illuminated by -- and compatible with -- that entity that is so often described as antithetical to it, the mafia?
Critical Mass
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Ishmael, consequently, also investigates the antithetical approach, the method of pure subjective perception.
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Thus far, the data show a recurring rhetorical pattern in which vulnerable groups were identified as antithetical to the core values attributed by the host to himself, his audience, and the nation.
Kety Esquivel: UCLA Study, Hate Speech on Commercial Talk Radio, Affirms NCLR's We Can Stop the Hate Campaign
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It's certainly antithetical to left wing politics, which requires you to remain engaged and would require the artist to include politics in his art.
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For the few days of Passover, chametz and matzah are antithetical.
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Steep and antithetic platy structure of rock mass and geomorphology of the longitudinal valley in the dam site area cause wide-range toppling deformation on the cross-strait slope.
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Vis-a-vis entitlement: my main objection to Sen. Clinton's candidacy is my abiding belief that political dynasties are antithetic to democracy.
Richardson Defends Bill Clinton From McCarthyism Charge ��� But Blasts Carville
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Dividend pay-outs and share buy-backs are by no means antithetical to business investment.
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For a great number in both the academic world and in the public, apocalyptic thought is directly antithetical to the supposedly enlightened and rational methodology of science.
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A culture of violence is antithetical to the church's traditional teaching.
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Price caps being antithetical to a free market.
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There is nothing more antithetical to the American ideal than growing old.
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Many of these women do not see religion as antithetical to feminism, and perceive religious affiliation as integral to their struggle for human rights on many different levels.
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Steep and antithetic platy structure of rock mass and geomorphology of the longitudinal valley in the dam site area cause wide-range toppling deformation on the cross-strait slope.
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Freud's study of the antithetical sense of “primal words” as well as his contributions to the theory of word-play have given new dimensions to paradoxy, important in literature as well as in psychological method.
LITERARY PARADOX
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By this we mean, of course, the natural as distinguished from the nurtural differences -- to use the antithetic terms so usefully adapted by Sir
Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles
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Because fashion's goldfish attention span is antithetical to the lasting power of great music, few worthwhile bands have come up from the catwalk rather than the street.
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ZAHN: And if it turns out the gas that was used was some kind of antithetic or opiate, is it possible that they didn't understand how damaging too strong a potency could be?
CNN Transcript Oct 29, 2002
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For the coexistence of absolute spontaneity with absolute necessity is involved in the very idea of God, one of whose intellectual definitions is, the 'synthesis, generative ad extra, et annihilative, etsi inclusive, quoad se,' of all conceivable 'antitheses;' even as the best moral definition -- (and, O! how much more godlike to us in this state of antithetic intellect is the moral beyond the intellectual!) -- is, God is love.
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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I trust, that I have not extended this privilege beyond the grounds on which I have claimed it; namely, the conveniency of the scholastic phrase to distinguish the kind from all degrees, or rather to express the kind with the abstraction of degree, as for instance multeity instead of multitude; or secondly, for the sake of correspondence in sound in interdependent or antithetical terms, as subject and object; or lastly, to avoid the wearying recurrence of circumlocutions and definitions.
Biographia Literaria
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Then the two verses before it with wonderful antithetical parallelism, and the two verses after it with the exhortation to persevere.
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Remember, the link that Santorum sees between homosexuality and polygamy is that they're both "antithetical" to the "healthy" family -- so there's obviously something other than careful constitutional analysis going on here. posted by Eric 2: 32 PM |
IsThatLegal?
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But I think the belief that everyone else is stupid is antithetic to our form of government.
Against McCain, Obama Loses "Beer Track" ��� And Hillary Loses "Wine Track"
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Casual as these associations may be - other readers will surely draw their own, perhaps antithetically - they make a compelling case for the critical relevance of a lost body of writing whose aesthetic interest isn't always apparent.
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All in all I do consider the bible to be rather antithetic to freedom.
Libertarian Principles, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Brendan is quite right that Voltaire was basically a Deist, and he would be right to be narked if I were to suggest that Catholicism is 'antithetical' to religion; but I would never argue anything so foolish.
MIND MELD: Is Science Fiction Antithetical to Religion?
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They do have a page where it’s asserted that creation doesn’t necesarily mean “fiat creation,” and that evolution and creation aren’t supposed to be antithetical, which is good.
Episcopal Church: Resolution A129 Affirm Creation and Evolution - The Panda's Thumb
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Moreover, in some cultures, the idea of seeking an occupation, or working to advance the self, is meaningless within or even antithetical to dominant belief systems.
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The inlay elements are symmetrically organized into three concentric bands of antithetical animal groups surrounding a central rosette.
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It is these unidirectional authority relationships that are antithetical to citizen engagement.
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He practices directing as antithetically and abusively to the author's intentions as perversely possible, reaping kudos from benighted reviewers and audiences alike.
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The Greek puts in antithetical juxtaposition, OUR, and His OWN
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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As luck would have it, on this day Tai-jui was, on account of business, compelled to go home; and having left them as a task no more than a heptameter line for an antithetical couplet, explaining that they should find a sentence to rhyme, and that the following day when he came back, he would set them their lessons, he went on to hand the affairs connected with the class to his elder grandson,
Hung Lou Meng
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In an age of compulsory wearing of uniforms, the zoot suit accomplished an antithetical stylization of the self.
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To pursue political objectives seriously, they must work with the very people whose religious beliefs are most antithetical to their own.
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It is not antithetical to art, and is frequently supportive.
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Whichever cause has created these effects, the current condition of the church in this country is antithetic to the purpose for which Christ started it
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practices entirely antithetical to her professed beliefs
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That seemed at the time to be antithetical to a real process of understanding a piece of writing, but in retrospect I think nearly everyone reached their understanding at that point.
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But a Times veteran, voice rising, described Mr. Feuer's portrayal as "antithetical" to Mr. Landman.
Times Iraq Flak: Feuer's War Tale, Marital E-Mails
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The whole idea of talking openly and sharing your feelings is antithetical to the good old-time values of emotional repression on which this country was founded.
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The terms are used antithetically, each in its distinctive correct legal sense.
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The co-speaker was Layton Blanchet, one of those iconic, antithetically mixed personalities the American South has produced unrelentingly since Reconstruction.
The Glass Rainbow
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Very trivial, perhaps, this anguish seems to weather-worn mortals who have to think of Christmas bills, dead loves, and broken friendships; but it was not less bitter to Maggie -- perhaps it was even more bitter -- than what we are fond of calling antithetically the real troubles of mature life.
The Mill on the Floss
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For the few days of Passover, chametz and matzah are antithetical.
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Organised political violence outside the framework of the state is antithetical to the state and therefore regarded - by the state - as the most dangerous form of violence.
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High-energy technology has resulted in the aggregation of such huge amounts of power that small social units operating alone are often ruthlessly and unheedingly swept aside in their ends are antithetic to the purposes of those who control the power.
Energy and Society~ Chapter 12~ The Distribution of Consumer Goods
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A culture of violence is antithetical to the church's traditional teaching.
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Their vision of society was collectivist, grass-roots oriented and utterly antithetical to the privatised and mortgaged paradise of Thatcherism.
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So elusive seems this innocence, so thoroughgoing our saturation in the technological, the calculative, and the instrumental, that we may be tempted to adopt an antithetical conception of human nature, as violent, chaotic, and amoral.
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No matter how hard the left in this country tries, they will never be able to totally squash FREEDOM. over-the-top kookiness about things that cannot be empirically proven. socialism is not a taboo boogeyman concept, nor does it operate antithetically to “freedom”.
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In the footwall of the antithetic fault, a drag fold creates an anticline which is best seen in quarry Q1.
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It seems that this is antithetic to the cause of creating an level playing field for students.
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Citizen movements recognize that corporate globalists cannot deliver on their promises because the narrow and shortsighted financial imperatives that drive their institutions are antithetical to such goals.
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If you accept that a market will exist so long as scarcity obtains and humans with varying preferences have needs, then the only way that a technology could prove antithetical to markets is if it altered one of these conditions.
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This distribution defines an antithetic relationship between breccia facies in the red mudrock sequences and stratiform mineralization.
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It strikes me that this approach is actually entirely antithetical to the use of fantasy in formulaic writing so, as a sort of inversion of it, I’ve coined the phrase Symbolic Formulation.
A Modernist Prometheus
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Brendan is quite right that Voltaire was basically a Deist, and he would be right to be narked if I were to suggest that Catholicism is 'antithetical' to religion; but I would never argue anything so foolish.
MIND MELD: Is Science Fiction Antithetical to Religion?
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But all three propositions are false and antithetical to all that conservatism teaches about the importance of cultural inertia and historical circumstances.
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The young actor, best know for playing the cherubic-faced child opposite Hugh Grant in About A Boy not only shows he's grown up into a handsome young man, but that he's able to take on a subject matter antithetic to the comedy film that first made him famous.
Zorianna Kit: Movie Review: A Single Man
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From that time onwards, so long as these Gymnosperms were, as was usual, reckoned as dicotyledonous flowering plants, the term Angiosperm was used antithetically by botanical writers, but with varying limitation, as a group-name for other dicotyledonous plants.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
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The ashless chemistry Mills should be focused on is powered by quantum forces that are antithetical to his GUT.
ZPEnergy.com
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The great age of English satire began with Dryden, who perfected the epigrammatic and antithetical use of the heroic couplet for this purpose.
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I mean the circuses where dogs are somehow persuaded to do things that are antithetical to dogdom, like learn to ride a tricycle or serve petits fours in a French maid's outfit.
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Senior bureaucrat versus action hero, these are somewhat different skills set, one may even say completely antithetic ones!
NASA Administrator: A New Name Is Circulating - NASA Watch
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A central purpose of the schools, as stated in the basic curriculum written by Lynd, was to inculcate values in black children that were antithetical to white middle-class life.
A Renegade History of the United States
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It is a craven, disingenuous, and destructive canard, antithetical to interracial harmony and black excellence - and racist besides.
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Christ's teachings so specifically preach the virtues of compassion and love and humility and nonjudgmentalism - to see Christians behaving so antithetically toward the teachings of Christ, I'm really offended by it.
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But it's even more unrealistic to accept pervasive short-termism as a given when it is so antithetical to being strategic.
Jay Pelosky: Bi-Sectoralism V: Beyond Short-Termism
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Shakespeare's work in particular was considered to antithetical to God's will and works of his that found their way into Puritan hands were burned.
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It will be an incredible precedent if a Canadian court, under some theory or other of human rights, were to declare a practice that I think is antithetically opposed to human rights values to be constitutionally permissible, he said.
Polygamy Case Tests Canada's Marriage Laws
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It's a question of antithetically opposed ways of thinking.
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So there seems to be some value in deliberately slow networks, but these seem to be antithetical to our current economic, political and cultural interest in digital networks.
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Aaron Lazare, "Go Ahead Say You're Sorry" Psychology Today (Jan-Feb 1995) 22 notes that "the greatest impediment to apology is a pervasive cultural attitude that views apology as a weakness, an emotional expression antithetical to traditional American values of autonomy and independence.
The Death of Common Courtesy and the Corrosion of the Golden Rule
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Ishmael, consequently, also investigates the antithetical approach, the method of pure subjective perception.
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They were intrepid advocates, eager to bust open scandals and make waves - completely antithetical to most mainstream reporters nowadays.
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Human slavery had to be brought to an end in the United States; it's so antithetical to everything else that the country is about that it couldn't be allowed to continue.
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But for that to occur, Chamberlin realizes that we must do something most of us find antithetical to the patterns we've inherited.
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Anticlinal structures that include some landward-verging reverse faults (referred to as antithetic) are produced, with create the tectonic ridges that you can see in the bathymetric map in Figs. 7 and 8 above.
Clastic Detritus
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A central purpose of the schools, as stated in the basic curriculum written by Lynd, was to inculcate values in black children that were antithetical to white middle-class life.
A Renegade History of the United States
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hope is antithetic to despair
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It is written in Attic Greek, with much studiedly antithetical rhetoric and frequent verbal borrowings from the classical authors, above all Thucydides.
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Very trivial, perhaps, this anguish seems to weather-worn mortals who have to think of Christmas bills, dead loves, and broken friendships; but it was not less bitter to Maggieperhaps it was even more bitterthan what we are fond of calling antithetically the real troubles of mature life.
VII. Enter the Aunts and Uncles. Book I—Boy and Girl
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His own prose style plays a part in some of the richest characterizations: the essay on Coriolanus is abrasive, that on Macbeth antithetical, on Hamlet inward-looking.
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Marx basically antithetically reformed christianity into its anti christian form.
A country destroyed: Zimbabwe
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High-energy technology has resulted in the aggregation of such huge amounts of power that small social units operating alone are often ruthlessly and unheedingly swept aside in their ends are antithetic to the purposes of those who control the power.
Energy and Society~ Chapter 12~ The Distribution of Consumer Goods
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Antithetical couplet is a kind of traditional literature form, which has a long history.
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Another view is that technical and competitive juggling is antithetic to juggling as an art form.
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This violence is completely antithetical to the teaching of the church.
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In performing the physical act of turning from one vast panel to the next, the viewer felt the moment of pause between the two antithetical extremes represented.
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And they have certain principles that are kind of antithetical to what the Republicans want.
CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2009
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It will require each of us to remind ourselves that we rise and fall as one nation; and that a country in which only a few prosper is antithetical to our ideals and our democracy.
Memo To Milbank: Obama Repeatedly Said That Change Wouldn't 'Happen Overnight'
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But the multivalence of the word “nature” comes out very clearly when we think of some of those ideas to which it is antithetical: the supernatural, art, custom, the post-primitive as contrasted with the primitive.
NATURE
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Brendan is quite right that Voltaire was basically a Deist, and he would be right to be narked if I were to suggest that Catholicism is 'antithetical' to religion; but I would never argue anything so foolish.
MIND MELD: Is Science Fiction Antithetical to Religion?
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This violence is completely antithetical to the teaching of the church.
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So these acts are completely antithetical to the basic tenets of Islam, which are the basic tenets of Judaism and Christianity as well.
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Technically speaking, QoS tiering is not entirely antithetical to some net neutrality proposals (i.e. some proposals allow for QoS tiering).
The Volokh Conspiracy » The FCC and the Internet:
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I love this video because it points out that materialism is not only distracting from what Christmas is really about, but that it is antithetical to the story of God becoming human.
The Advent Conspiracy « Planning the Day
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I mean the circuses where dogs are somehow persuaded to do things that are antithetical to dogdom, like learn to ride a tricycle or serve petits fours in a French maid's outfit.
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The differences in world views between America and continental Europe are gradual, not antithetic, and the similarities exceed the differences by large.
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In contemporary usage, civil society is usually regarded as antithetic to the state.
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To pursue political objectives seriously, they must work with the very people whose religious beliefs are most antithetical to their own.
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The image of idiocy was well suited for the scriptural style of antithetical positions represented in Hooker's sermon.