Contradistinction

From dime novels and penny dreadfuls through to the pulp boom of the early 20th century which gave us the modern commercial genres of Western, Crime, Romance, Science Fiction and so on, that process continues, with all these genres being defined as “pulp fiction” which by now is intrinsically in contradistinction to “literary fiction”. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

(And then we converts always seem ever afterwards to view Catholicism only in contradistinction to Protestantism.) ❋ Unknown (2009)

And, nonetheless, we regularly see him applauded in contradistinction to President Obama. ❋ Kathleen Osborn (2010)

In its current sense the phrase probably descends from seventeenth-century Scottish Presbyterians, “the Covenanters having adopted blue as their color in contradistinction to the royal red.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

Sistani, in contradistinction, was happy as pigs in the popcorn. ❋ Robert Crisman (2010)

That goes a long way toward explaining why results for “socialism” and “capitalism” are nearly statistically independent, I had the impression they were being asked in contradistinction to each other. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Your definition of Christian, in contradistinction to my second one, goes a long way toward proving what Kamal was getting at. ❋ Unknown (2010)

“Sadly and directly in contradistinction to assimilation theory, the fourth generation differs the most from whites, with a college completion rate of only 6 percent [compared to 35 percent for whites of that era].” ❋ Unknown (2009)

Parren clearly considered the Greek Revolution, in contradistinction to imperialist wars, for example, to be a case in point. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Design is the purposeful arrangement of parts by an intelligent agent in contradistinction to purposeless forces. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The general sense is that each order knows itself in contradistinction to what it is not. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Oddly, and in contradistinction to Anna Barbauld's, Erasmus Darwin's, and others 'belief that the humane treatment of animals was a key means to human moral improvementfor Barbauld, specifically for improving the lower and middle classesit is because of the Mariner's murderous disregard for one of God's beloved creatures that he comes to be morally improved. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Slavery, understood as a social system, established powerful tendencies toward local rule, in contradistinction to the centralizing demands created by the capitalist social system of the North. ❋ Unknown (2001)

The essay investigates the possibility of a "feminine" form of Romantic ecology in contradistinction to more masculinist versions. ❋ Unknown (2001)