Now, those facts which form the matter of the affirmation or denial are not propositions; yet these two are said to be opposed in the same sense as the affirmation and denial, for in this case also the type of
antithesis is the same.
Quite early in life he wedded a stout, rosy, buxom lass, the very
antithesis of his first love; he prospered in his undertakings, raised a large and respectable family, and was eventually appointed a Justice of the Peace.
She looked at the titles before she announced them to her mistress; she set down "Humphrey Clinker" on "The Tears of Sensibility" with a smart little smack which pointed the
antithesis. One moment -- and she announced Julia's visit; another -- and she dropped the brisk waiting-maid's courtesy; a third -- and she was off the stage on the side set down for her in the book.
It would have been a splendid object lesson, she thought, to all those idealists who seek mass perfection in any phase of human endeavor, since here they might discover the truth that absolute perfection is as little to be desired as is its
antithesis.
Whatever occurred in the instant present, Martin's mind immediately presented associated
antithesis or similitude which ordinarily expressed themselves to him in vision.
"While he is here?" asked Arnold, pointing to the personified
antithesis of poetry--otherwise to Geoffrey, seated with his back to them at the farther end of the library.
For this sort of effect his rimed couplet provided him an unrivalled instrument, and he especially developed its power in
antithesis, very frequently balancing one line of the couplet, or one half of a line, against the other.
Mary Garth, on the contrary, had the aspect of an ordinary sinner: she was brown; her curly dark hair was rough and stubborn; her stature was low; and it would not be true to declare, in satisfactory
antithesis, that she had all the virtues.
This counter-movement, Hegel calls the
ANTITHESIS. With the emergence of the
antithesis, a war of attrition between the thesis and the
antithesis begins.
Scarlett was the
antithesis of the endless, boring plastic blondes, only famous for who they've slept with...
'When I pleaded my innocence explaining that I had nothing to do with figure marking, I was asked to tell people to refuse vaccination (the
antithesis of my work) and then, he [the in-charge] will request that I should be hired again,' Sarwar went on to claim.
16 (ANI): Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday compared elections to no less than any war and likened Congress to righteous brothers from the Hindu epic Mahabharat, Pandavas, and BJP to Kauravas - Pandavas'
antithesis.
