A lot of rubbish is talked about the decline of "text-based drama" and the advance of "physical theatre": a facile antithesis since all great theatrical experiences depend upon a dynamic interaction between language and spectacle, the verbal and the visual.
Greater executive power is the absolute antithesis of what drives Davis and other civil liberties campaigners (including my blog-mate Henry Porter), who favour a future without the human rights act but greater protection for freedom.
Yet Mr. Prévost, who works in a small shed behind his unassuming home in Gueux, the antithesis of one of the great Champagne houses, is loath to take credit for his creation.
Something (1969) was a great song - even the Beatles's antithesis, Frank Sinatra, picked up on it - and My Sweet Lord (1970), while unconsciously plagiarised from Lonnie Mack's He's So Fine, justifiably sold in its millions.
"He's a great guy... he's the complete antithesis of what you'd imagine.
The narrator relates the history of a sufferer who is "crippled physically by polio but no less demoralized by persistent shame," and is "the very antithesis of the country's greatest prototype of the polio victim, FDR".
Dobrowolska notes that he was an energetic and explosive antithesis of the composed Żółkiewski, another great hetman of this era, whom Chodkiewicz disliked and competed with throughout his life.
His great hero is Bertolt Brecht, and he's the antithesis of the average stadium-filling, egomaniacal comic.
"[It] is almost the antithesis of what one expects from a great sixteenth-century weaving," says curator Lizzie Cleland.
In a career that spans over a decade, Carvajal continues to shine on the stage - whether it's on Broadway or fronting her rock band The Deafening, which is the antithesis of her current character on the Great White Way.
