Sentence examples for contrary sense from inspiring English sources

He is upside down, turned around, to be taken in a contrary sense — which is, after all, the meaning of the expression à rebours.

Nothing in the technical arrangements to be agreed upon by the Ministers of Defense of the two Governments may be understood in a contrary sense to the provisions of the present Defense Agreement.

In the 2007 book, Currency Wars by Chinese economist Song Hongbing, the term is sometimes used in a somewhat contrary sense, to refer to an alleged practice where unscrupulous bankers lend to emerging market countries and then speculate against the emerging state's currency by trying to force it down in value against the wishes of that states' government.

Theta, alpha1, and beta1 evolve essentially as the progesterone, whereas delta and beta2 go in the contrary sense, and alpha2 follows progesterone, presenting in one case a difference of phase.

Then we meet the refined, aristocratic and enigmatic Cardinal Pole, who despite knowing that Martin Luther was right in his theology of justification by faith alone, created martyrs in two contrary senses, resurrecting the reputations of Fisher and Thomas More, while enthusiastically hounding leading Protestant clergy to death at the stake; Thomas Cranmer was the most exalted victim.

On the contrary, the sense of inevitability and improbability makes its triumphant finish all the more cathartic.

A contrary transitive sense appeared in to shop something around, meaning "to try to sell," carrying a connotation of overeagerness.

On the contrary, her sense of animals' moods and feelings was so strong that these almost took possession of her, overwhelmed her at times.

He would have every reason to produce depressive or apocalyptic images, but his snipped tin sculp tures radiate, on the contrary, a sense of fantasy and a panoramic affection that embraces even the skunk.

Which is not to say that the fight scenes are dull; on the contrary, the sense of real physical endangerment merely ups the dramatic ante in the manner of the very best martial arts movies.

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