The two baritones — Charles Robert Stephens as Tiresia and Jesse Blumberg as Poliferno — brought out their characters' antithetical qualities (good and evil) without overstating them.
"Nor," the lease says, "shall it be antithetical to the character of the stadium as a prominent symbol of the city".
I just generally don't use the photos of her where she's behaving in a way that's antithetical to the character I pretend she is: being koala-carried by her mom, wearing flip-flops, picking her nose.
When Jon calls her his Queen, she says, "I hope I deserve it"—and while it's certainly a moment of forced vulnerability so that we're excited to see them have sex, it feels antithetical to her character, who would more typically pledge a better future or a dark promise in reply to such a profound statement of loyalty; it is almost a quiet, one sentence dismissal of her own legitimacy.
Also on Thursday President Barack Obama said Trump's controversial plan for mass deportation of undocumented immigrants is unrealistic, and described it as antithetical to the American character.
Writing prescriptions for the drugs is antithetical to doctors' role as healers, the group says.
A surprise awaits Esther, however, and Mr. McClarin deserves particular praise for making that surprise so convincing, playing two seemingly antithetical sides of the same character with equal conviction.
Mr. Norris hasn't created characters as much as antithetical positions, which in turn are stripped down to a set of inalterable physical impulses.
"3D is antithetical to storytelling, where immersion in character is the goal.
Of course, tendencies ordinarily antithetical to what we mean by "real character" — like the tendency to obey — may, in some contexts, be a part of character.
Pascal's infatuation with Agnès's colleague Cécile (Ornella Muti) was played for comedy in "An Amazing Couple," and its reappearance here, in the light of his marital troubles, exposes a logical flaw in Mr. Belvaux's conception, since the character must move in two antithetical dramatic directions at once.
