Sentence examples for an antithetical from inspiring English sources

"What an antithetical mind!" Byron exclaimed of the Scottish poet's "never-to-be-published" letters.

"Sanity... is an antithetical word; it keeps opposites in play, it keeps alive our more haunt ing conflicts and confusions..

Sitting out the Milwaukee series with right quadriceps tendinitis, Geiger stood out as an antithetical slacker in the Sixers' limp to within four victories of glory.

The point was not to formulate (yet another) "new" criticism but to propose and then enact an antithetical or "agonistic" style of literary analysis, a "Romantic and prophetic humanism" parallel to visionary poetry and, like it, inspired by creative appropriation.

Both Mr. Golijov and Mr. Tan make important use of the scene of the baptism of Jesus: an antithetical moment when he is honored on earth and acclaimed from heaven.

For her, it was a burdensome virtue – one you might prefer not to have, but which did at least save you from being "common", an antithetical state to shyness with "a degree of groundless pushing yourself forward".

In any case the two good ol' boys are soon confronted with a designated bad guy who incarnates an entirely antithetical stereotype — or, rather, invents a new one: the gay French Formula One driver.

Walker Evans's phrase about Steichen's spiritual nonexistence is too unkind a cut from an aesthetically antithetical competitor, but it's not altogether off the mark.

But they propose allowing habeas corpus only for capital cases and when a prisoner can produce persuasive new evidence of innocence, an idea antithetical to our system of criminal jurisprudence.

The military has a structure and a mission antithetical to the preservation and expansion of the commons.

Hard on the heels of Brand (1866) came Peer Gynt (1867), another drama in rhymed couplets presenting an utterly antithetical view of human nature.