Sentence examples for opposite the feeling from inspiring English sources

The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite — the feeling that it has existed all along.

By Susan Orlean July 22, 2010 The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite — the feeling that it has existed all along.

Pant legs have been getting skinnier and skinnier for the past six or eight years, to… The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite — the feeling that it has existed all… I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done.

Most people familiar with managing negative emotions say doing the opposite of what the feeling suggests is wisest: Anger says "fight" and being nice is doing the opposite.

In an interview with Philip Roth, Milan Kundera said, "When I hear learned arguments that the novel has exhausted its possibilities, I have precisely the opposite feeling: in the course of its history the novel missed many of its possibilities".

The nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote, "I believe it is precisely through the presence of opposites and the feelings they occasion that the great man the bow with great tension develops". Defining moments bring those "opposites" and "feelings" together into vivid focus.

If a revelation does not provoke outrage, and the wrongdoers go unpunished, he wrote, "then the continuous revelation of scandals has the exact opposite result: defeatism, the feeling of weakness, the fatalistic acceptance of the rule of the powerful".

I find that reaction strange, having the opposite feeling – that the actual painting is much bigger than I ever expect.

The eerie yet beautiful landscapes conjure the opposite feeling of actually being at the crowded, sweat-filled pier, and that's exactly why they have us so entranced.

I've actually had the opposite feeling, that I really feel like doubling down.

Introduction: Nowadays, opposite to ancient times, the feeling of caring only for patients accumulating frailty factors wins ICU physicians.