antipodes

How To Use antipodes In A Sentence

• Carter has composed several large-scale works for choir, soloists and orchestra, including the Benedicite, which has been widely performed on both sides of the Atlantic and in the Antipodes.
• Anyway, he adds, he has a New Zealand passport as well as a British one, and two of his children live in the Antipodes, so I mustn't make assumptions about patriotism.
• The Antipodes were the body's extremities, its feet or its finger nails.
• The author traces in a wealth of detail two centuries of English immigration into Australia: the geographic origins of the main immigration streams, their reasons for leaving England and how it all played out in the Antipodes.
• Just before I went to sleep the other night, I became aware of everything directly beneath me and this led me to wondering what the exact antipodes of my location looked like.
• I have to say that I agree with him and don't think this is just the bias of a Brit in the Antipodes.
• Accordingly, St. Augustine treats the idea of antipodes as an absurdity; and Lactantius, whom we have already quoted, expressly says “can there possibly be any persons so simple as to believe that there are men whose heads are lower than their feet?” etc.St. Chrysostom exclaims, in his fourteenth homily, “Where are they who pretend that the heavens are movable, and that their form is circular?” A Philosophical Dictionary
• One final thing that took the gloss off the evening was the fact that we were charged $10 per bottle of 1 litre Antipodes mineral water - an outrageous cost that was not brought to the attention of the table when we asked for water.
• Geographically the very notion of the Antipodes has long been obsolete, since of course the continents above the equator don't need a counter-weight below to keep the globe from toppling sideways into deep space.
• The same antipodal vision persists in the stories collected by David Malouf under the title of Antipodes.