Sentence examples for contrary way from inspiring English sources
"To straighten a bent stick," Michel de Montaigne wrote, "we bend it in the contrary way".
He suggested that "no one should now be surprised" if the Florida Legislature seeks to challenge the court by restating state election law in a contrary way.
She never explained, and when I said that I hoped we could meet the following weekend when I came down from London she said yes, and then added, in her half-and-half, contrary way, "Let's see".
"Anything you say, you should assume he is going to read and is going to react to it in a contrary way," said a psychologist who specializes in extreme criminal behavior and works for a major metropolitan police department.
Where sure thou dost not mean to Preach or Pray, Unless it be the clean contrary way: This holy time I little thought thy sin Deserved a Tub to do its penance in.
Meanwhile, though, in a contrary way, we have come upon a topic of first importance in the making of a piece of writing: its frame of reference, the things and people you choose to allude to in order to advance its comprehensibility.
They say inflation might affect employment in two contrary ways.
They have seemed antique to us only because modern art developed in contrary ways.
Somewhere amid Greece's 1-0 win there was, at least, a hint at a possibly bright future for the Republic, as well, of course, as further reason for damning Trapattoni and his contrary ways.
The epistemological dimension of realism, though shared by realists generally, is sometimes described more specifically in contrary ways.
As is the case with his overall critical project, Kant's treatment of religion has been put to use in divergent and sometimes even contrary ways in subsequent philosophical discussion.
