Sentence examples for is the contrary of from inspiring English sources

Indeed, water and fire can be considered as natural substances, but one is the contrary of the other.

This is a disanalogy with the logical modalities since if p is necessary, not-p is the contrary of necessary; it is impossible.

You don't have all this apparatus around, and it's not about that bourgeois thing of 'Who shall we invite for dinner?' It's the contrary of bourgeois.

But I am the contrary of Boulez in that, because he starts with a little motif and sees what he can make of it, and the motif grows, like a plant.

He explains the use of this root for "bread" in light of Aristotle's proposition in On the Soul 416 that "Food is… the contrary of what is fed".

To me, it is exactly the contrary of desire.

But insofar as it provokes speech, it was a silence which was not the contrary of language.

Associations of adiposity with breast cancer risk are, on the contrary, of much smaller magnitude.

On the contrary, temptation is the comfort of ignorance.

On the contrary; it is the legacy of one of the country's most enduring heroines.

On the contrary, "it is the singing of psalms that I am symphonizing".