Sentence examples for and so contrary from inspiring English sources

Who am I that someone so bad and so contrary to what's right, to end up in a situation like this?' It makes me so grateful.

Their views are false, one-sided, and so contrary to reality that it is fair for me (now a Ph.D. social psychologist and journalist) to call them delusions — shared, motivated distortions of reality.

Greenwald, however, also argues that the administration's legal position is "so radical, so dangerous, and so contrary to our most basic political values, that the first priority, in my view, is to make Americans aware of exactly what powers the administration claims it has the right to use — not just against Al Qaeda, but against American citizens, within the United States".

Equation (1.1) and condition (1.13) yield for, and so, contrary to (2.29).

If "Flags of Our Fathers" feels so unlike most war movies and sounds so contrary to the usual political rhetoric, it is not because it affirms that war is hell, which it does with unblinking, graphic brutality.

The need to diet, which we know so well in relation to food, and which runs so contrary to our natural impulse, is something we now have to relearn in relation to knowledge, people and ideas.

If not, the NEC will then shortlist and select candidates, so, contrary to Corbyn's wishes, there will be no role for the local party.

As he explained, "I simply could not in good conscience continue to work for an ad-hoc, hastily created apparatus -- as opposed to the military itself -- whose evident resort to expediency and ethical compromise were so contrary to my own and to those the Army has enshrined and preached since I enlisted so many years ago".

We all know Jesus would totally pick the chick in a shiny golden dress over the chick who just threw on some joggies and socks with sandals, so contrary to whatever you thought, God actually does care what you look like.

Sodexo said it is "intolerable that one of our colleagues lost his life in such tragic and unjust circumstances, and for a cause which is so contrary to our values".

And, of course, a band so contrary had to dress as Santas in the video.