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.
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  • 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.
  • It is a craven, disingenuous, and destructive canard, antithetical to interracial harmony and black excellence - and racist besides.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The great age of English satire began with Dryden, who perfected the epigrammatic and antithetical use of the heroic couplet for this purpose.
  • The ashless chemistry Mills should be focused on is powered by quantum forces that are antithetical to his GUT. ZPEnergy.com
  • 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
  • But all three propositions are false and antithetical to all that conservatism teaches about the importance of cultural inertia and historical circumstances.
  • 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?
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • And they have certain principles that are kind of antithetical to what the Republicans want. CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2009
  • The image of idiocy was well suited for the scriptural style of antithetical positions represented in Hooker's sermon.
  • To pursue political objectives seriously, they must work with the very people whose religious beliefs are most antithetical to their own.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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:
  • So these acts are completely antithetical to the basic tenets of Islam, which are the basic tenets of Judaism and Christianity as well.
  • This violence is completely antithetical to the teaching of the church.
  • 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?
  • 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
  • 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'
  • 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”. Think Progress » Florida doctor tells Obama voters they are not welcome: ‘Seek urologic care elsewhere.’
  • 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.
  • This violence is completely antithetical to the teaching of the church.
  • Antithetical couplet is a kind of traditional literature form, which has a long history.
  • Marx basically antithetically reformed christianity into its anti christian form. A country destroyed: Zimbabwe
  • 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.
  • 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. VII. Enter the Aunts and Uncles. Book I—Boy and Girl
  • It is written in Attic Greek, with much studiedly antithetical rhetoric and frequent verbal borrowings from the classical authors, above all Thucydides.
  • 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
  • But for that to occur, Chamberlin realizes that we must do something most of us find antithetical to the patterns we've inherited.
  • There is nothing more antithetical to the American ideal than growing old.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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?
  • 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.
  • 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?
  • Then the two verses before it with wonderful antithetical parallelism, and the two verses after it with the exhortation to persevere.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • The inlay elements are symmetrically organized into three concentric bands of antithetical animal groups surrounding a central rosette.
  • Price caps being antithetical to a free market.
  • A culture of violence is antithetical to the church's traditional teaching.
  • 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.
  • Dividend pay-outs and share buy-backs are by no means antithetical to business investment.
  • For the few days of Passover, chametz and matzah are antithetical.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Ishmael, consequently, also investigates the antithetical approach, the method of pure subjective perception.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Their vision of society was collectivist, grass-roots oriented and utterly antithetical to the privatised and mortgaged paradise of Thatcherism.
  • A culture of violence is antithetical to the church's traditional teaching.
  • 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.
  • For the few days of Passover, chametz and matzah are antithetical.
  • 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
  • The co-speaker was Layton Blanchet, one of those iconic, antithetically mixed personalities the American South has produced unrelentingly since Reconstruction. The Glass Rainbow
  • The terms are used antithetically, each in its distinctive correct legal sense.
  • 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.
  • It is written in Attic Greek, with much studiedly antithetical rhetoric and frequent verbal borrowings from the classical authors.
  • 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.
  • practices entirely antithetical to her professed beliefs
  • It is not antithetical to art, and is frequently supportive.
  • To pursue political objectives seriously, they must work with the very people whose religious beliefs are most antithetical to their own.
  • In an age of compulsory wearing of uniforms, the zoot suit accomplished an antithetical stylization of the self.
  • 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
  • The Greek puts in antithetical juxtaposition, OUR, and His OWN Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • He practices directing as antithetically and abusively to the author's intentions as perversely possible, reaping kudos from benighted reviewers and audiences alike.
  • It is these unidirectional authority relationships that are antithetical to citizen engagement.

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