Sentence examples for deeply contrary from inspiring English sources

They are also deeply contrary, choosing to play with their hands (it's called "football" – the clue is in the name) in a game where touching the ball is the cardinal sin (see Thierry Henry) except where God allows it (see Maradona).

God as the world-creating entity is personalized in Christian thought, but Stoicism equates God with the totality of the universe, which was deeply contrary to Christianity.

Over the last year, Butler Bass and many other American Christians decried Trump's bigotry, xenophobia and sexism as deeply contrary to the values of their faith.

Throughout the presidential race, a smaller but vocal contingent of American Christians decried Trump's bigotry, xenophobia and sexism as deeply contrary to the values of their faith.

It's a jarring phrase, I know, one that is deeply contrary to our national conviction that America is the greatest nation on earth -- as well as the richest, the most powerful, the most generous and the most noble.

As the Mancunian writer Paul Morley once asked: "What if he wasn't a genius … [What if] he was just an old drunken tramp?" In 1981, Smith made me think more than anything of a northern John Lydon: both clever misfits, both deeply into contrary music that few of their contemporaries liked – in Smith's case Can, Captain Beefheart, Peter Hammill, the Velvet Underground of the searing "Sister Ray".

Allowing the religious beliefs of the accused to sway our legal treatment of them is bigoted, deeply unjust and contrary to what we so often profess are basic American values.

Legia co-owner Dariusz Mioduski praised the stature of both clubs and described Uefa's punishment as "deeply unjust and contrary to the spirit of fair play".

Some plutocrats, like George Pullman or J.P. Morgan, were, on the contrary, deeply implicated in running things.

The Weinsteins' suggestions to the contrary are deeply offensive and untrue".

But while we continue to point the finger at startups with smartphone apps designed to be social, I'd like to remind Silicon Valley about another business which, despite claims to the contrary, is deeply interested in our private affairs, and is unlikely ever to be as contrite as Dave Morin was just recently.