on the contrary

How To Use on the contrary In A Sentence

• His eyes were black too, but had nothing of fierce or insolent; on the contrary, a certain melancholy swimmingness, that described hopeless love rather than a natural amorous languish. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
• On the contrary; it's perfectly logical and defensible. Times, Sunday Times
• In the countryside, on the contrary, more hands were needed to work the fields in grain-growing regions, and males contracted marriages at younger ages to increase the rural labour supply.
• Frogs were not symbols of death but, on the contrary, of rebirth and renewal, because of its remarkable metamorphosis of egg into tadpole and from tadpole into frog.
• He is not magnetic but on the contrary cold and austere.
• On the contrary, they are among the most tractable of dogs.
• On the contrary, there is a vast shadow of melancholy, a painful sadness, doubt and cross-purpose, boldness at one moment and timidity at the next, a longing for solitude. Half a Rogue
• On the contrary, the opposite view is intellectually more compelling.
• On the contrary, people on the left and on the right are equally forceful in decrying self-centered individualism, consumerism, new pressures on the family, and the decline of community. Why the Culture War Is the Wrong War
• On the contrary, they ask us to face them head on with courage, humour and fortitude. Times, Sunday Times