Noun, : the antithesis of right and wrong. ,Her behavior was the very antithesis of cowardly. From Dictionary.com.
It is easy to oppose inspiration to scholastic culture; to coin antitheses between nature and art; and to say that Shakspeare's Romans are more ideally true than Niebuhr's. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
Thus in Hegel's scheme, all negations are "antitheses" of the original "thesis", but without their cancelling each other out. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-12-01] Reference
Saunders also helped explain a cryptic remark by Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz on Monday, when he said the new hotspots would make stores the "antitheses" of a cyber cafe. From Wordnik.com. [Wi-Fi Networking News] Reference
The tiny vehicles are the absolute antitheses of SUVs. From Wordnik.com. [Cars: Driving Smart] Reference
Can you find any metaphors or antitheses in the model?. From Wordnik.com. [Practical English Composition: Book II. For the Second Year of the High School] Reference
Note: In this case there are two different, successive antitheses. From Wordnik.com. [Rhetorical Figures in Sound: Antithesis] Reference
Note: In this case there are four different, successive antitheses. From Wordnik.com. [Rhetorical Figures in Sound: Antithesis] Reference
The stylistic and aesthetic differences and antitheses are palpable. From Wordnik.com. [Cranach's Femme Fatales Highlight 'The Other Renaissance'] Reference
The two antitheses are seen here: the war and peace as in Tolstoy's novel. From Wordnik.com. [Castro Expresses `Deep Bitterness' Over War] Reference
In fact, he is the antitheses of what a representative of the Jews should be. From Wordnik.com. [Has Zionism Hijacked Judaism? | Jewschool] Reference
These ten ways of arguing create antitheses and promote the suspension of judgment. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient Skepticism] Reference
What is the use of my weighing out antitheses in this way, like a rhetorical grocer?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859] Reference
In a series of antitheses he sought to characterize the differences between the three ages. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Now, I just ask you, Hernani! antitheses! abominations which are not even written in French!. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
Finally, we do not even know whether the antitheses as I have put them are wisely so put or not. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Medawar - Nobel Lecture] Reference
Ordinarily in dry kilns high humidity and large circulation of air are antitheses to one another. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
They are the dangers, personal and social, summed up in the antitheses of "health" and "disease," of. From Wordnik.com. [The Family and it's Members] Reference
They allegedly represent all that is noble – and their antitheses – in society and civilisation. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Book of the 2008 Reading Challenge « It Doesn't Have To Be Right…] Reference
The rest of the story contains at least a half-dozen antitheses in addition to those already mentioned. From Wordnik.com. [Practical English Composition: Book II. For the Second Year of the High School] Reference
To be 'Euro-sceptic' is to incarnate the antitheses of backward-looking medievalism, lies, and damnation. From Wordnik.com. [The European Constitution] Reference
A volume might be filled with literary judgments by him as antagonistical and inconsistent as the sharpest antitheses. From Wordnik.com. [International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850] Reference
Indeed the poets of the Age of Newton found theories of optics particularly apt for application to familiar antitheses. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
It ` s a particular illegal immigration from Mexico that ` s starting a whole series of inconsistencies, antitheses problems. From Wordnik.com. [Mexifornia: A State of Becoming] Reference
For Hegel, the whole of human history was headed towards the realisation of the Absolute, through theses-antitheses-syntheses. From Wordnik.com. [The Role of Anytus] Reference
Here's some guy who is the absolute antitheses of what we wanted to see next, and he's holding a rifle out for easy inspection. From Wordnik.com. [The 2010 SHOT Show Booth Babe Roundup] Reference
Horace Walpole characterized him in a series of his smartest antitheses as "a singular person whose life was one contradiction.". From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
· · · SENTENTIOUSNESS, let us inform 'S.' of Cambridge, and antitheses, do not consist of short sentences and inversion of words. From Wordnik.com. [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1] Reference
The syllogism underlying both theses and antitheses is fallacious, since it involves an equivocation of the term “conditioned.”. From Wordnik.com. [ANTINOMY OF PURE REASON] Reference
The first two theses and antitheses are all false, but the theses and antitheses of the dynamical antinomies may all be true (p. 560). From Wordnik.com. [ANTINOMY OF PURE REASON] Reference
Some of the novelist's most striking antitheses were attained by placing these horrible creatures by the side of his noblest and purest creations. From Wordnik.com. [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference
We may almost say that there was an exact antithesis between those days and these latter days, if it were not that exact antitheses never occur outside the world of logic. From Wordnik.com. [The Unity of Civilization] Reference
Poetic imagery, brilliant climaxes and antitheses, fanciful or grotesque turns of expression, he rejected as unfavorable to that simple truth for which he studied and wrote. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859] Reference
Omar builds up no system, he only shows forth his own doubts and difficulties, "he loves to balance antitheses of belief, and settle himself in the equipoise of the sceptic.". From Wordnik.com. [The Faith of Islam] Reference
If two governments each had economies based on slavery, would you say they were the exact antitheses of each other?. From Wordnik.com. [American Thinker] Reference
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