The word
"antithesis" refers to a contrasting or opposite concept or idea. It represents the direct opposite or contradiction of something.
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He also stipulated that her design was some sort of
antithesis of the average, over-exposed female fighting game character.
This should be thought of
as antitheses to claims of «opposites attract» and referred to as a «likes attract» approach.
Beginning with a Nietzschean analysis of Greek thinking and literature which sees the distancing of the numinous as the center of the Greek experience, this book attempts to demonstrate that the higher expressions of religion in both East and West revolve about an absolute
antithesis between religion and reality, wherein religion can only truly and finally realize itself by an absolute negation, dissolution or annihilation of reality itself.
To associate religion with adventure may seem to us to be the
very antithesis of what we may have taken religion to be.
The healing thing and release you have affored me is a direct
antithesis in what you have said about the porphetice, to the leader who was claiming to be prophetic by treating me as having acted inappropriately when i was on the receiving end of mistreatment due to their presuppostion that as a man I had the power in the situation (which I didn't).
It looks light and delicate, which is the
complete antithesis of what that shaggy little thing actually is:)
Since fashions change, the contrasts developed by one generation often differ from those emphasized by the previous one; but it can be shown that underlying a good deal of study supposedly analytical in nature there is a very simple set of
antitheses which are supposed to be self - evident.
Following on from their award - winning short film of the same name, the directorial duo made a visually unforgettable and richly inventive documentary around a subject that you might think, by definition, is the
absolute antithesis of cinema.
Think of Police, Adjective as the
direct antithesis of the generic, Hollywood crime thriller featuring such staples as gunplay, fisticuffs and that obligatory chase scene where a careening car plows through a fruit stand and sideswipes a woman with a baby carriage before flying off a cliff and exploding in a fireball.
but when it is used to set up arbitrary limits to the scope of our thought we have every reason to suspect and hate it: when, for example, it fixes the narrow model of personal encounter on the whole form of our relation with our Creator, or when it sets natural fact in
such antithesis to personal existence that it is handed over wholly to the inescapable rule of physical regularity.
Corbyn's appeal to the reality of social injustice is the
perfect antithesis to Brexitland fantasies.
Cromwell will have a solo show
at Antithesis in Panama City this summer.
Meaning... is the antecedent condition both of truth and falsehood
whose antithesis is not error but nonsense.
Yet Romanticism's
sharp antithesis of the individual's creative self - fashioning on the one hand and political, social, and religious norms on the other also sowed the seeds for variously existentialist, hedonistic, and nihilist programs that bear much responsibility for the devastations wrought throughout the twentieth century and into our present.
Seeing the gang back when it was still running as an idealistic, Robin hood-esque vigilante anti-hero outfit, stealing from the rich and giving to the poor, will be an
interesting antithesis to how every member goes quite clearly morally depraved 12 years later.
It is the story of Alex Leamas, a frustrated British agent, who was the
total antithesis of Ian Fleming's fast driving, womanizing James Bond - Fleming being the leading writer of spy stories at that time.
They also
illustrate antithesis because they present direct contrasts by juxtaposing a word and its opposite twice in quick succession.
The attack upon traditional Western theism is especially clear in Whitehead's
famous antitheses:
The shift has created a
great antithesis in the church between classical Christians who desire, as I do, to remain faithful to the faith once delivered and religious liberals by whatever name who seem intent on endlessly revising the message
According to Samuel Coleridge: «Poetry is not the
proper antithesis to prose, but to science.
(Grade: B --RRB--- Serving as an
engaging antithesis to last year's Sound of My Voice (a cryptic piece of filmmaking that left a myriad of questions unanswered), Zal Batmanglij's second feature The East leaves little to the imagination.
Interactions and development between characters is calming and relatable to an audience, and as the direct
antithesis towards cultivating an air of uncertainty and paranoia, these are appropriately minimal.
This quality can situate the stakes of an artwork and can serve as the
precise antitheses of Merleau - Ponty's statement above - that an artwork can in fact resemble the thing that it refers to, that the artwork may in fact be the very thing it refers to.
If, to paraphrase Pascal, society's miseries come from not being able to sit quietly alone in a room and think, then Therrien is the
welcome antithesis, harking from a dwindling breed for whom observation and solitary thought represent time well spent.
The Asiatic prose style — also called the «grand style» — is «a florid oratorical style [that] sports
elaborate antitheses, complicated syntax, and correspondences in sense and sound.»
The notion that evangelicals have much to learn may seem condescending, but George Lindbeck was a
walking antithesis to condescension.
But once one has come to see Jesus in his first - century context of Jewish eschatology, the basic
antithesis tends to disappear.
A dreary dialectic, thesis and
antithesis oscillating back and forth across a synthetic abyss spanning roughly the distance between epigastrium and cerebellum.
But it appears to me to be equally clear that they are only explicating Jesus» thought in definite
historical antitheses....
1.10 and the
corresponding antithesis between the gospel of Christ and that of humans in 1.11 - 12 are dramatized by Paul in his autobiographical narrative.
The Psalmist's feeling for
startling antitheses is nicely caught: «Fill me with happy songs, / let the bones you bruised now dance» (51:10).
While the around - not - through bit is nicely put, it implies a
dubious antithesis between the critical and creative.
In short, constitutional discourse today appears both as a stately expression of reason and as the
shabby antithesis of anything that could plausibly be called rational.
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