Sentence examples for or antithetical from inspiring English sources

Federer does get upset at anything he thinks is unsportsmanlike or antithetical to the game's values and traditions.

"This guy is not doctrinaire or antithetical to the continued existence of his agency," Ruch says.

More specifically, I argue that ideas about culture from the humanities and humanistic research traditions within the social sciences ideas traditionally thought to be resistant to or antithetical to modeling can be incorporated into agent-based modeling through the use of moderate-agent models.

Once beneficiaries accept or receive gifts or favors, Camenisch (1981) argues that beneficiaries must respect certain "use conditions" on the benefits they receive i.e., not treat such benefits in a way obviously repugnant to the benefactor, or antithetical to her reasonable hopes for how the gift would be enjoyed.

He's done more than anyone to combat the right-wing message that government-funded social services are oppressive or antithetical to freedom.

Since that time, rather than innovating beyond our dependence on fossil fuels, we have sacrifice $7 trillion in growth, and transferred over $1.2 trillion to nations that are either unstable or antithetical to our interests.

The Roberts court has regularly ruled as if justice and prosperity are unrelated or even antithetical.

Our response to the scenes in Cairo's Liberation Square should not be one of incredulity due to our perception of them as somehow "foreign" -- or rather, antithetical to the dull comfort of our consumerist, spectatorial "democracy".

I'm not ascribing these notions to Swanberg, but suggesting that, among the filmmakers beloved of modern cinephiles, at least one — the one who inspires Swanberg — thinks that their scholarly or quasi- or pseudo-scholarly enterprise is antithetical, or, at least, skew to the work of the director.

He prodded Mr. Baumgartner gently through the steps, responding proudly with "attaboy, that's good" and "there you go" as they were completed--sounding as if he were instructing the younger man in how to tie his shoes or ride a bike without training wheels, or something similarly antithetical to free-falling from the stratosphere.

The point was not to formulate (yet another) "new" criticism but to propose and then enact an antithetical or "agonistic" style of literary analysis, a "Romantic and prophetic humanism" parallel to visionary poetry and, like it, inspired by creative appropriation.