antithetical

How To Use antithetical In A Sentence

• 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
• They were intrepid advocates, eager to bust open scandals and make waves - completely antithetical to most mainstream reporters nowadays.
• Ishmael, consequently, also investigates the antithetical approach, the method of pure subjective perception.
• 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
• 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.
• It's a question of antithetically opposed ways of thinking.
• 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
• 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.
• 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
• 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.