How To Use Contrariness In A Sentence
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I wanted to experience the culinary contrariness of our two countries - I wanted to taste the difference!
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She might be out of patience with Sara's "contrariness," but she spoiled and petted her for all that, for the girl was the very core of her childless heart.
Further Chronicles of Avonlea
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I appeal to the White community to turn away from "contrariness" as the motor for political debate, and to help us give every citizen in this Province a stake in this Province.
SPEECH BY EBRAHIM RASOOL, LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION IN THE WESTERN CAPE, IN RESPONSE TO THE PREMIER�S OPENING SPEECH DELIVERED ON FRIDAY, 19 FEBRUARY 1999
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In the end, the issue ultimately comes down to this: when does revisionism cross over into shock value contrariness?
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By a natural perversity of disposition, which my nursemaids called contrariness,
Eothen
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Most politicians could not long survive such confounding contrariness.
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A streak of pragmatism, skepticism, and contrariness runs deep in the American character, historians say.
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By a natural perversity of disposition, which my nursemaids called contrariness, I felt the more strongly for my creed when I saw it despised among men.
Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East
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The bitter ones sneer or reproach or laugh at this "contrariness" in women they do not understand, and which, baffling their intellect, appears to them to be irrational folly.
Married Love: or, Love in Marriage
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There was a contrariness there which, she admits, remains in character.
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To be believable to the reader, they can’t be blatantly contradictory ie today they hate Jane, tomorrow they love Jane – unless that very contrariness is part of the plot.
Back on the horse ...
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If contrariness is my inheritance and destiny, so be it.
March « 2010 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
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I am the child of their ancestral dissonance with all its contrariness and overlappings.
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Since the excessive consumption of alcoholic beverages is the state sport of Alaska-they'd challenge for the gold at the Drunkard Olympics, but'd lose major points to Ireland in the charm category-I've been pretty much teetotaling, out of sheer contrariness, not wanting to be just another shitface in the crowd.
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
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The more fervently humans believe, the more fervently they feel that contrariness is a threat.
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To be fair, amid all the grumbling he finds plenty to admire, not least the lovely medieval jumble of Old Town in Estonia's capital, Tallinn; the music of Arvo Pärt; the Grimm flair of Estonian names Tarmo, Gerli, Epp; and, with characteristic contrariness, Vana Tallinn, a revolting liqueur of unidentifiable sickliness and bogus antiquity.
Stranger In a Strange Land
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You oughtn't to worry: a friend of mine took several months out to grow a really big, bushy beard for the specific purpose of having his passport photos taken: just for contrariness' sake - passport done, he shaved the beard off.
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She, again, proves her "contrariness" in the Bloomberg interview, by outing Treasury Secretary Geithner's rotten math that tries to convince subtraction takes nothing from a sum.
Who Is Elizabeth Warren, and Why Doesn't Corporate Government Care?
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As a writer, I drew three lessons from him: the absoluteness of his concentration, the contrariness of his thinking, and the depth of his respect for good writing.
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You oughtn't to worry: a friend of mine took several months out to grow a really big, bushy beard for the specific purpose of having his passport photos taken: just for contrariness' sake - passport done, he shaved the beard off.
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His persona's conscious contrariness in standing in his own way is a dipstick for measuring the depth of humanity's own perversity.