Sentence examples for antithetical figures from inspiring English sources

But latterly the trend has been to politicise the play and see Richard and the usurping Bolingbroke as parallel rather than antithetical figures: two men who, although radically different in temperament, discover the solitude of kingship and the limitations of power.

Like those young men in a hurry, Edward falls under the sway of two antithetical father figures, a silky apparatchik played by Rhys Ifans, and an unbuttoned renegade played by Nicolas Cage.

His rough figure was antithetical to, for example, that of Apollo, who represented culture and sophistication.

Shortly after its return, the papers were sold to Rupert Murdoch, a figure about as antithetical in style and approach to Rees-Mogg – if not necessarily political opinions – as could be imagined.

Rodriguez's certainly figures to be the antithetical experience.

But these two figures are interdependent and antithetical types who under different guises run through most of Ibsen's classic work.

This competition format may seem antithetical to the public's idea of figure skating, but, in fact, many in the sport already view skateboarders and ski jumpers as their natural compatriots.

Don't waste your time in your development efforts by figuring out how to install mobile ad networks: they're antithetical to your user experience.

She has derided a claim by another former senior Amnesty figure a few years ago that Cage's promotion of "defensive jihad" is "not antithetical to human rights".Ms Sahgal, who later co-founded a group called the Centre for Secular Space, returned to the fray this month after the revelation of Cage's connection to Mr Emwazi and its blaming of MI5 for his radicalisation and brutality.

They represent antithetical views.

Stylistically, they are antithetical.