How To Use Diametrically In A Sentence

  • The agendas of science and the animal rights lobby are diametrically opposed.
  • The two politicians have diametrically opposite points of view/are diametrically opposed.
  • Established in 1994, it was thought by some to be on the same terpsichorean level as the famous Perm Ballet, even though the two companies, which shared the same theater, were diametrically opposed in their views of dance.
  • As to the latter, the Jenkins and Diamond Reports took diametrically opposed positions.
  • Astronomy A point on the celestial sphere directly below the observer diametrically opposite the zenith.
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  • As I see it and as I think the articles in this issue indicate, these two positions are neither diametrically opposed nor contradictory.
  • Here then the first mate and the captain are diametrically opposed.
  • He feels that his Christian beliefs and the principle of capitalism are diametrically opposed.
  • In one variant of the receiver, the coils are collinear and are wound about cores that are mounted in pairs of diametrically opposed apertures in the housing of the probe.
  • Our views are diametrically opposed on this issue.
  • Why are they so diametrically opposed to each other?
  • Though it’s understandable how a culture that invented the term machismo might be uncomfortable lionizing a gay icon, it’s ironic that Morrissey has now been adopted by two diametrically opposed subcultures. Chuck Klosterman on Pop
  • But there's something more sensuous about "invigilation," the way it rolls off the tongue, something that's diametrically opposed to the definition of the word itself. New fiction: invigilation
  • They came to conclusions diametrically opposed to ours.
  • Sparks would likely fly in such an encounter as the two have been known to hold diametrically opposed visions on the role of English in Quebec.
  • You can't be for protecting or strengthening Social Security and also be for private accounts since the two goals are diametrically opposed, inimical to each other.
  • It can be argued that the law of armed conflict and human rights law have diametrically opposed, or at least incompatible, axiologies.
  • Our views are diametrically opposed on this issue.
  • When two such diametrically opposed yet astute observers agree, you can bet the politicians are sweating bullets.
  • Only a system of taking Christ's words "contrariwise" can make them useful as civil rules, and even "oriental exaggeration" can scarcely be credited with saying the diametrically contrary of its real meaning. The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History
  • Weighing these two diametrically opposed reactions, juveniles may be unable to accurately select between two extreme bipolar adjectives to describe themselves through their parents' eyes.
  • So we have a bunch of harmonies with no functional relationship to each other, and a couple of diametrically opposed tempi jammed together with a fermata. Archive 2006-09-01
  • Thus the same metaphor can lead to diametrically opposite understandings.
  • This results in a 33% approval rating, but lumps too hot with too cold, which are diametrically opposed results thrown into the same 66% "disapprove" group. The Rasmussen "Presidential Approval Index": Is This Newer Measurement Worth Anything?
  • The Spaniard and the Indian are diametrically opposed.
  • Furthermore, the lift generated will act in a diametrically opposite direction when the rotation of the cylinder is reversed.
  • In FIG.9, both gadroons are diametrically brought closer to each other against two opposite concavities of the raised element.
  • After we'd sniffed around each other a bit to establish our diametrically opposed positions, he challenged me with one of the feebler bits of rhetoric the faithful adopt to clinch the argument.
  • North American audiences will be exposed to two diametrically opposed interpretations of the material when he brings the project to their towns.
  • Sometimes we are diametrically opposed to each other.
  • We hold diametrically opposed views.
  • The NSO players are plainly in thrall to Eschenbach, whose qualities are diametrically opposed to his predecessor, Leonard Slatkin. Eschenbach, Tetzlaff, Bruckner: The fresh and less familiar faces of the NSO
  • The performances are also evil, of this character, personality diametrically opposed brothershave vivid interpretation.
  • He's got stuff you can't get anywhere else and is constantly adding new items, like axially - and diametrically-magnetized NIB wedding rings and radially-magnetized ring magnets. Boing Boing
  • It involved the clash of two diametrically opposed historical perspectives.
  • I regret to say we're diametrically opposed to your ideas.
  • For some liberal critics, like Vice President Joe Biden a man who participated in countless filibusters in 36 years in the Senate or the New York Times editorial board, this is a posture of pure opportunism diametrically opposed to how they viewed the value of the legislative filibuster during the Bush presidency, while others, like Mickey Kaus, have long argued that the legislative filibuster* should go because of its role in obstructing progressive legislation. The Legislative Filibuster: Democracy’s Sobriety Checkpoint | RedState
  • They both remembered their paternal grandmother but with diametrically opposed reactions.
  • I'm trying to decide whether when faced with someone who "ideologically" diametrically opposes your view, but verbally completely supports your ideals and acts in essentially the way you act, you disillusion them of the idea that they have a different ideological view. Breaking News: Vegetarians Discover Guilt-Free Meat
  • The principles of capitalism and socialism are diametrically opposed .
  • Movement is clearly articulated across the surface plane, diametrically opposed to the spatial complexi - ties in depth of the baroque. NEO-CLASSICISM IN ART
  • At the present time the old racial instincts are actively powerful, and exert an influence diametrically opposed to climatic surroundings; and, as a matter of fact, we are witnessing a struggle between our Anglo-Saxon heredities and our Australian environment. The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken
  • As I see it and as I think the articles in this issue indicate, these two positions are neither diametrically opposed nor contradictory.
  • I chose these diametrically opposed papers on the basis that they would give me a balanced view when answering the boards' questions.
  • According to Djoko, the two bills were diametrically opposed.
  • There are frequent attempts to equate pornography and eroticism, two diametrically opposed uses of the sexual.
  • In a case where two propositions are diametrically opposite, the mind believes that which is least incomprehensible; — it is easier to suppose that the universe has existed from all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it: if the mind sinks beneath the weight of one, is it an alleviation to increase the intolerability of the burthen? The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • It also became clear that diametrically opposed opinions of and attitudes towards integration could quite easily be found within a local authority.
  • Among the small pool of swing voters in this fall's election, there are two groups with diametrically opposed political views.
  • The two statements quoted above contain diametrically opposite conceptions of this country, its future and its destiny. VERWOERD'S GRIM PLOT
  • Gentleman has much about which to be modest without inventing modesties that are diametrically opposed to the facts at hand, and, though the Rt. The Volokh Conspiracy » Comment Quality:
  • But this misses the real distinction between diametrically opposed beliefs based on entirely different conceptions of the satisfaction of human needs.
  • I'd offer some cogent analysis at this point, but I'm torn between two diametrically opposed viewpoints.
  • Sometimes we are diametrically opposed to each other.
  • “The country took its biggest step ever down a road diametrically opposed to its original intent of keeping the state small so that the individual can be free andgreat.” The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawsuits Against the Health Care Bill
  • But they draw diametrically opposed conclusions as to the meaning of this link.
  • At the present time the old racial instincts are actively powerful, and exert an influence diametrically opposed to climatic surroundings; and, as a matter of fact, we are witnessing a struggle between our Anglo – Saxon heredities and our Australian environment. The Art of Living in Australia
  • As so many of you do, you picked a username diametrically opposed to who you really are. NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias
  • A clash of diametrically opposed philosophies is never settled rapidly nor, necessarily, rationally.
  • He rules on behalf of an international financial oligarchy, whose political interests are diametrically opposed to that of the mass of the population.
  • when two honest witnesses give accounts of the same event that differ diametrically, how can anyone prove that the evidence you gave was deliberately false?
  • The most curious feature of the performance is that here again it is from end to end a travesty of Éliphas Lévi, slice after slice from his chief writings, combined with interlineal additions, which give them a sense diametrically opposed to that of the great magus. Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer
  • The works of the temperate spirit and the works of incontinency are, I take it, diametrically opposed? Memorabilia
  • Politicians offer diametrically opposed summations of vital world scenarios and present it all as fact.
  • I have no idea how he reconciles these two diametrically opposed stances.
  • There are two diametrically opposing poles of opinion on this highly political and racially-charged issue.
  • Such are your own and your friends 'impressions; and behold! there starts up a little man, differing diametrically from all these, roundly charging you with being too airy and cheery -- too volatile and versatile -- too flowery and coloury. Villette
  • This blows from the point where the sun sets at the summer solstice, and is the only wind that is diametrically opposite to Eurus. Meteorology
  • And any sane person who knows the definitions of fascism and socialism - two terms diametrically opposed to each other, BTW - would KNOW that the last occupant of the White House had us under a fascist dictatorship. Propeller Most Popular Stories
  • Such are your own and your friends’ impressions; and behold! there starts up a little man, differing diametrically from all these, roundly charging you with being too airy and cheery — too volatile and versatile — too flowery and coloury. Villette
  • I regret to say we're diametrically opposed to your ideas.
  • Our views are diametrically opposed on this issue.
  • This is a key point, since there is the potential for diametrically opposed viewpoints on park usage between these two groups.
  • The two ideas are diametrically opposed.
  • This, I am afraid, sits uneasily with the party’s demand for a referendum on the EU Constitution and by facing in diametrically opposite directions on the two referenda opens the party to a charge of hypocrisy. Archive 2007-11-25
  • But such a libertarianism would not be the libertarianism we know and would find most of what goes by the name diametrically opposed to its essential spirit and goals. Ladies and gentlemen, the Libertarian Party candidate for the President of the United States of America
  • He was a reconciler, someone who had, in his own person, reconciled so much in the world that seemed diametrically opposed. Adam Neiman: The Blame Game
  • There was also a framed picture of "The House"; a tambourine painted with purple iris by Miss Isabel's own hands; an old bannerette in cross-stitch pendent from the mantelpiece, a collection of paper mats, shaded from orange to white, the glass-covered vase of wax flowers which had attracted Ron's notice, one or two cheap china vases, a pot of musk placed diametrically in the centre of a wicker table, a sofa, and two Big Game A Story for Girls
  • three of these brushes were approximately 120 feet apart and the fourth diametrically opposite to one of the three
  • A point on the celestial sphere directly below the observer, diametrically opposite the zenith.
  • Notus blowing from O is its contrary; for this point is the south and O is contrary to H, being diametrically opposite to it. Meteorology
  • It is the ability to integrate and harmonize diametrically opposed views or states of being.
  • Definitions of what was at stake were thus diametrically opposed.
  • The two were diametrically opposed perspectives.
  • Cultures, philosophies and religions of the world that appear diametrically opposed, subjected to the unknown perhaps the true leveler of egocentricity, rendering all of us mere fragments and preventing our mass destruction. Kevin Bermeister: How Atheists And Believers Approach The Known And Unknown
  • So people who were completely diametrically opposed in their views and their perceptions about a situation were brought together.
  • Your needs and those of a partner are diametrically opposed. THE MANANA MAN
  • Stephen said it represented the perfect expression of two diametrically contrary personalities. COMPULSION
  • At first glance the literary and scientific approaches to language might seem to be diametrically opposed.
  • The gorgeousness is in the imagery not in the language; the words are weak while the sense, as in the classical Scandinavian books, is strong; and here the Arabic differs diametrically from the florid exuberance and turgid amplifications of the Persian story-teller, which sound so hollow and unreal by the side of a chaster model. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • This is a key point, since there is the potential for diametrically opposed viewpoints on park usage between these two groups.
  • In essence, the founding giants of the computer industry were diametrically opposed in both platform and product.
  • But they draw diametrically opposed conclusions as to the meaning of this link.

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