"Diametric" means completely opposite or contrasting. It describes two things that are as different as possible.
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By allowing a technique to determine his imagery, Long is absenting, as much as possible, human agency in pursuit of the real (Which could be seen as
diametric opposite of the New York School).
Usually seen
as diametric opposites, learning and instinct are partners: the process of learning, in creatures at all levels of mental complexity, is often initiated and controlled by instinct
For this exhibition, Beasley's «manipulations of language and objects of sport and utility strive to
subvert diametric systems of institutional control and reclaim an altered narrative.»
Beasley's manipulations of language and objects of sport and utility strive to subvert
diametric systems of institutional control and reclaim an altered narrative.
When you buy a larger change of
diametric shipway to straighten the symptoms of hemorrhoids, eliminate theeliminatese repast - toppers wholly; merely pick up
Two of Assayas's recent films, Late August, Early September (1998) and Les Destinées (2001), while appearing to be
diametric narrative opposites, reach similar conclusions about the nature of work and humanity.
The two are
hilariously diametric characters; Pokkle is an excitable and punny craftsman seeking glory, and Pipiro is a sarcastic and fashionable mage after her fortune.
They are playing in Jerryworld's
diametric opposite, somehow both a product of the NFL's empire and an affront to it.
And presumably we remain
in diametric opposition... so um, out of sheer bloody - mindedness, does that mean they'll now be rooting for a lower PVR share price?!
Either Osofsky will have to perform a feat of extraordinary intellectual gymnastics to reposition her argument in
diametric opposition to what she said less than a year ago, or she still believes that May was right.
Succinctly, it is
the diametric opposite of the post-war system; Bretton Woods, reversed.
Whereas other churches (usually smaller ones) I have seen
a diametric opposite approach.
Amos gives us a brilliant example of
the diametric difference between popular: and prophetic interpretation in what he has to say about the Day of Yahweh (Amos 5:18 - 20) From Isaiah we read:
So you could have missed by a smidgen on
another diametric (is diametric a word?).
Pogba's penchant for social media, coloured hair and dancing goal celebrations has
a diametric opposite in Matic's uber - quiet off - field persona.
As we saw yesterday — on foreign policy, on defence policy, on economic policy, on the Labour party's relationship with business — their ideals are in
diametric opposition.
Again, there will be
diametric opposition between those who say Ukip sensitivities should be heeded and those who insist the problem was insufficiently aggressive counter-blast.
The diametric opposition of the standards you seem to wish to see imposed in its aftermath does not serve the interest of peace: it reeks of hypocrisy.
Edo, unfortunately, is
a diametric opposite.
«The resulting signature — two photons in an otherwise empty detector — is almost
the diametric opposite of the tremendously complicated events typically expected from lead nuclei collisions.
Pudgy, disagreeable, mostly unattractive, and with patience for days, Frank felt like
the diametric opposite of the sure - fire, focus - group'd - to - hell dirt bags that populated mid-aughts action games.
Native characters are aggressive, imperious, evil, savage, and
the diametric opposite of the «civilized» white man who blames the Native for being on white land before the whites arrived.
You'd think this is one of those stories where the protagonist realizes he really needs to be with
his diametric opposite.
Toller often goes over to the flashy church, run by Pastor Jeffers (Cedric the Entertainer), who is
the diametric opposite of him.
Mary was a key apostle of Jesus, and intimate witness to some of the most important events in his life, but has been wrongly recast in popular tradition as a «fallen woman» and «prostitute», perhaps because of a prurient need in the male religious hive - mind for
a diametric opposite to the Blessed Virgin of the same name — a need to perpetuate the misogynistic ideology of madonna / whore, and simply to denigrate a woman's importance.
Though they explicitly deny being any sort of competition to the local American Federation of Teachers affiliate, the new group is staking out positions that put them in
diametric opposition to the union:
The A3 sedan is
the diametric opposite of the Mini Cooper, diminutive and dignified.
It's
the diametric opposite of how digital media is typically viewed.
This again is
the diametric opposite of the Federal Reserve, which was not in a conservative posture, and believes it can solve all of the credit problems through the wanton expansion of its balance sheet.
To a large extent this made ETFs
the diametric opposite of most mutual funds (which are actively managed) because with ETFs you knew what you were getting via the index.
Legs: front legs are
diametric and should not turn inward or outward; back legs are right next to the other, well - muscled and straight
Photography, when Steinberg discussed it at all, served as the flatbed's
diametric opposite.
Words like «martyr» and «apostle» and followed by non-sensical dyads like «peninsula / imposter» and «
diametric / innocence».
Further resolution of
those diametric forces manifests in the gray color that covers the gallery.
Again sentimentality collides with certainty when the subject is Diebenkorn, and what might have been an unresolved collision between two
diametric approaches at the hand of another artist is but a sweet blend in the work of this master.
Dodd's paintings are in
diametric opposition to the deadening slickness of digital media.
In half of these works, for example, colors clash as Cooper sets circles of blue inside of orange,
its diametric opposite.
The beauty of this piece and many of Lipski's works often comes from
the diametric opposition of his materials and his composition, in this case a tank tread and a heart.
Engaging with issues of identity and individualism, he frequently depicts his figures in an extreme opaque, black colour, which stylizes their appearance while being a literal and rhetorical reference to the term black and
its diametric opposition to the white «mainstream.»
They are, in fact,
the diametric opposite of skeptics: they are gullible dupes who unquestioningly and slavishly believe whatever they are told by their «leaders».