Sentence examples for a contrary of from inspiring English sources

Again, whether we define them as quantitative or not, they have no contraries: for how can there be a contrary of an attribute which is not to be apprehended in or by itself, but only by reference to something external?

The strengthening of a negated plural definite (The kids aren't sleeping) or bare plural (Beavers don't eat cheese) from a contradictory to a contrary of the corresponding affirmative.

The tendency for a semantically contradictory negation of an unmarked positive value, whether affixal ($x$ is unfair/unhappy) or clausal (I don't like him), to be strengthened (as either an "online" or conventionalized process) to a contrary of the positive predication.

Having said that, there is certainly no evidence of a contrary trend of TBTF banks losing market share.

The weak-willed agent abandons a resolution because of a contrary inclination of exactly the type which the resolution was expressly designed to defeat.

Further reading: For a contrary understanding of Descartes' conception of scientia, see Jolley (2013).

I love to throw out a contrary point of view, and I do it with, perhaps, a certain lack of subtlety.

Critics pose a contrary set of arguments.

We're a contrary bunch of fuckers, for a start.

The faces, the brush, & the razor, being then reversed, a contrary motion of the Wheel does the left cheek.

"Being a contrary sort of person, I figured there had been enough politically correct crap going around.