Sculpture in contradistinction to painting. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Noun : plants and animals in contradistinction to humans. From Dictionary.com.
Sistani, in contradistinction, was happy as pigs in the popcorn. From Wordnik.com. [The Invasion Of Iraq] Reference
Geraldine said her sister, the "religious Miss Jewsbury," in contradistinction to. From Wordnik.com. [New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference
Jackson's Little Hole, in contradistinction to its neighbor, which we left yesterday. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Rocky Mountains] Reference
And, nonetheless, we regularly see him applauded in contradistinction to President Obama. From Wordnik.com. [Kathleen Osborn: 10 Reasons Why Reagan Is Not the Answer] Reference
The general sense is that each order knows itself in contradistinction to what it is not. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on ''The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815)'] Reference
They were white men, in contradistinction to the other and inferior class, the natives. From Wordnik.com. [The Road to Wigan Pier] Reference
I would not like to have it said, in contradistinction to the old saying, 'See how these Christians fight!'. From Wordnik.com. [John Halifax, Gentleman] Reference
Design is the purposeful arrangement of parts by an intelligent agent in contradistinction to purposeless forces. From Wordnik.com. [Bunny and a Book] Reference
(And then we converts always seem ever afterwards to view Catholicism only in contradistinction to Protestantism.). From Wordnik.com. ["Protestantism is dangerous. ..."] Reference
Parren clearly considered the Greek Revolution, in contradistinction to imperialist wars, for example, to be a case in point. From Wordnik.com. [Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity] Reference
The characteristic of woman, in contradistinction to man, is her being subject, the surrendering of herself, her being receptive. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
I am even inclined to believe the expression, 'Shushan the palace,' applies especially to this portion of the existing ruins, in contradistinction to the citadel and the city of. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
… genre fiction doesn’t exist in contradistinction to literature merely because of stale language, secondhand insights, or hackneyed plots. From Wordnik.com. [December « 2008 « Gerry Canavan] Reference
The "thee also," in contradistinction to. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
In strong contradistinction, in this respect, to Loch Ard, is LOCH. From Wordnik.com. [Scotch Loch-Fishing] Reference
This, in contradistinction to the other method, is called the soft body, and is not a plan which I at all recommend. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
Not a man but was freshly shaved and attired in immaculate white linen in contradistinction to the inevitable khaki. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route] Reference
But in contradistinction to height, we know that the muscles of the body can be developed and increased in size by use. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
She felt the relationship to be a true one, in contradistinction to the more usual form of protectorate of woman to child. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
The Constitution speaks of 'natural-born,' and speaks of them as citizens in contradistinction from those who are alien to us. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
To read an account of a highland breakfast, in contradistinction to this paucity of comestibles, is to make one almost pensive. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
Davies 'pictures are works of fancy, then, in contradistinction to the essays of the imagination such as those of William Blake. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
Another appellation which the Stoics had for the sage was 'the urbane man', while the fool in contradistinction was called 'a boor '. From Wordnik.com. [Guide to Stoicism] Reference
Southern slave system, in contradistinction to its two sisters, he might have distinctly ascertained if the exhaustion of soil by slave labor be. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
In contradistinction to this, the essentially underground liquids, with time and pressure, form metallic minerals and mineralise the rocks, instead of forming gems. From Wordnik.com. [The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones] Reference
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