Sentence examples for opposite of being from inspiring English sources

If not-being is the opposite of being, then not-being is nothing at all, and we cannot think about that.

If not-being is the opposite of being (i.e., nothing), and if there is a one-to-one correspondence between a name and a thing, then Parmenides was right: we cannot coherently think or talk about not-being.

The speakers later recognize that they made a mistake in assuming that not-being is the opposite of being (Sophist 257b, 258e), but at this stage negation confounds them.

But … it's the opposite of being comfortable".

"The opposite of being English was being Irish," Toibin said.

It means the very opposite of being "hard".

Being superhuman is really the opposite of being immortal.

But being normal is almost the opposite of being fashionable.

I'm the opposite of being possessive about a piece.

But always searching is almost the opposite of being steeped in a tradition.

The opposite of being on a roll, I suppose, is being rolled over.