antithetical

How To Use antithetical In A Sentence

• 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.
• 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