Sentence examples for contrary nature from inspiring English sources

I love Bosie's contrary nature.

You are left to conclude that he is attempting to pay homage to the sly and contrary nature of More's shape-shifting original.

However, Ellen fixes the contrary nature of the school within her first week of being there, helping the children with their problems, comforting the staff, and, most importantly, reinventing the kitchen.

It's almost inconceivable that either of the Tigers or Indians sell, and the Twins probably should but won't, given how good they've been lately and the essential contrary nature of that franchise.

Given the contrary nature of their progress so far they could have expected otherwise and what they have are doubts about their captain, Andrew Strauss, and their leading spinner, Graeme Swann.

His stubborn streak and contrary nature have also been analysed.

With all that we think we know of human nature — with what we thought we knew about their contrary natures — we ask how long can this last?

The church says that if you are "gay," you are "disordered," which means that your sexual orientation is contrary to nature, opposed to natural law, perverted.

In a similar manner deviations from the natural course of events—say, the generation of monstrosities also have natural causes, or as On the generation of animals 4.4, 770b15 puts it "even what is contrary to nature is in some way according to nature" (cf. Descartes' considerations about "defective natures" in his Sixth Meditation, p. 84f. Adam-Tannery).

The astronomer Johannes de Sacrobosco wrote, in his The Sphere of the World, "the eclipse was not natural, but, rather, miraculous and contrary to nature".

Saint Augustine wrote: "Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature".