Sentence examples for direct antithesis from inspiring English sources

And his deliberate attack on welfare recipients is the direct antithesis of "dignity".

Women and the perceived effeminacy of gay men come into direct antithesis to this sense of testosterone-dripping machismo.

Distinctions which unfairly curb the inherent potentials of individuals or groups are the direct antithesis of the aims of higher education.

In terms of its excellence, philosophy and work ethic, the Mariinsky is less a façade for the modern Russian state as its direct antithesis.

This was the direct antithesis of all he claimed he stood for, and it did not go unnoticed in Richmond Park.

In France, where musical culture stood in some ways the direct antithesis to Wagnerism, Claude Debussy evolved his own style that succeeded, as Wagner's had, in beclouding the harmonic basis of a work either altogether or for extended periods.

"Effective" and "pragmatic" have become short-hand for direct and defensive, for the antithesis of what Barcelona do.

MOSCOW — If the punk band Pussy Riot has become the poster child for Russian dissent in the era of Vladimir V. Putin, then Svetlana Kuritsyna is the very antithesis: a disarmingly direct, red-cheeked, 20-year-old Putin supporter from an impoverished rural region.

Stoke City's direct and uncompromising approach is the antithesis of everything the West Brom manager represents but try telling the travelling supporters that their club would be better served following Mowbray's mantra.

They were the antithesis of punk, the direct contemporary of disco, and a movement that is about to get a second look at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's costume exhibition, Punk: Chaos to Couture, from 9 May.

Being the direct cause of their complaining or departure is the antithesis of the relationship-development efforts I espouse.