Sentence examples for antithesis in from inspiring English sources

She was essentially urban and civilized, the antithesis in many respects of Artemis, goddess of the outdoors.

He is weary of everything, including his own weariness, which makes him susceptible to the passionate Paige, his antithesis in every way.

In Moscow, Berezovsky's media are trying to create a heroic image for Putin, who is the antithesis, in almost every way, of his predecessor.

Brazil's elimination came at the hands of its antithesis in terms of style: Japan (less individually talented, but wonderfully organized and cooperative).

There is often a moral antithesis in her fiction, opposing those who are virtuous, truthful, genteel and stylish, to those who are monied, coarse, and careless.

A skyscraper looms over the frigid waters, and it occurs to me that this stretch of land was built about the same time as Canary Wharf – its antithesis in many ways.

These scouting devices had their antitheses in electronic jammers and countermeasures in effect, antiscouting systems.

Fraser, Nancy, "False Antitheses", in Feminist Contentions, Benhabib, Seyla, et al. New York: Routledge, 1995.

When antithesis set in, 20th-century modernism revelled in being unbeautiful, eventually proclaiming itself "brutalist".

The third wheel on this clown car is a center-left party that might have actually demonstrated some governing competence, but which now may have to do business with its antithesis, Berlusconi, in order to head off a re-vote that could result in a landslide for Grillo, Bloomberg writes.

These poems have a bipartite structure: a thesis part, in which some vice or folly is examined critically from many different angles and points of view, and an antithesis part, in which an opposing virtue is recommended.