"the contrary of" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It is often used to express the opposite or opposite aspect of something. Example: "The weather forecast predicted rain, but the contrary happened and it was a sunny day."
To me, it is exactly the contrary of desire.
Uneasy, scared that people will discover that I'm a freak, entirely the contrary of how I'd like to be.
So, the "contrary" of being a trial lawyer is being someone who leads a legal fight against Obamacare, and defends companies and people in law suits.
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.
On the contrary, of all the owners, he may be the happiest, despite some personal travails we will get to later.
As a dialectologist, it's always a pleasure to see evidence – of which there is plenty, despite frequent and exaggerated reports to the contrary – of the endurance of local dialect.
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 wrote in the French newspaper Libération recently that when one watches Shoah, "one bears witness for nine hours 30 minutes to the incarnation of the truth, the contrary of the sanitisation of historical science".
This striving for rest he christened the Nirvana principle and the drive underlying it the death instinct, or Thanatos, which he could substitute for self-preservation as the contrary of the life instinct, or Eros.
He gradually rose to chairman of that body's energy committee and became a member of the National Energy Council. "Ali is entirely the contrary of the image or stereotype you would have of a guerrilla fighter," said Dr. Viergutz, who is president of an oil investment company and helped develop the oil band concept.
"What the United States is doing is quite radical and quite to the contrary of the interest of museums, the public, the dealers and the auction houses," said William Pearlstein, a lawyer for the National Association of Dealers in Ancient, Oriental and Primitive Art.
