Antitheses

Word ANTITHESES
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Definitions and meanings of "Antitheses"

What do we mean by antitheses?

A proposition that is the diametric opposite of some other proposition.

A device by which two contrasting ideas are juxtaposed in parallel form.

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The word "antitheses" in example sentences

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. ❋ Various (N/A)

All these ideologies although they reflected in fact the sentiment directly due to social antitheses, that is to say, the real class struggles, with a lofty sense of justice and a profound devotion to an ideal, nevertheless all reveal ignorance of the true causes against which they hurled themselves by a an act of revolt spontaneous and often heroic. ❋ Unknown (1896)

Thus in Hegel's scheme, all negations are "antitheses" of the original "thesis", but without their cancelling each other out. ❋ Mike L (2006)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This kind of wicked cycle is the antitheses to happiness. ❋ Alanna Kaivalya (2012)

The ability to work and enjoy the fruits of one's own labor is the very antitheses of slavery, an institution so insidious that it took a civil war and three separate amendments to begin to dismantle it. ❋ Unknown (2011)

She also finds a cooking mentor in a woman named Misty whose "bumpy, misshapen tomatoes ripening on the back steps, her cabbages shredded and broken down with salt and vinegar, her hunks of pork swimming in smoky, deep, earthy juices"—the antitheses of the ring molds and propane torches of catering— awaken Ms. Hamilton out of "a dark and decades-long amnesia." ❋ Michael Ruhlman (2011)

In his manner of exploring an idea by antitheses (for example, “On the Past and the Future” [1821], “On the Picturesque and Ideal” [1821]), he contrasts the utmost achievements of human mechanical skill with the nature of artistic creativity in “The Indian Jugglers” [1821]. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The stylistic and aesthetic differences and antitheses are palpable. ❋ Francesca Angelini (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Birtukan's Ethiopia of the future is necessarily the categorical antitheses of an imperial autocracy, a military bureaucracy and a dictatorship of kleptocracy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Note: In this case there are two different, successive antitheses ❋ Unknown (2010)

Note: In this case there are four different, successive antitheses ❋ Unknown (2010)

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