antithetical

How To Use antithetical In A Sentence

• So elusive seems this innocence, so thoroughgoing our saturation in the technological, the calculative, and the instrumental, that we may be tempted to adopt an antithetical conception of human nature, as violent, chaotic, and amoral.
• It is written in Attic Greek, with much studiedly antithetical rhetoric and frequent verbal borrowings from the classical authors.
• Or, conversely, isn't the character of modern American life strangely illuminated by -- and compatible with -- that entity that is so often described as antithetical to it, the mafia? Critical Mass
• Ishmael, consequently, also investigates the antithetical approach, the method of pure subjective perception.
• Thus far, the data show a recurring rhetorical pattern in which vulnerable groups were identified as antithetical to the core values attributed by the host to himself, his audience, and the nation. Kety Esquivel: UCLA Study, Hate Speech on Commercial Talk Radio, Affirms NCLR's We Can Stop the Hate Campaign
• It's certainly antithetical to left wing politics, which requires you to remain engaged and would require the artist to include politics in his art.
• For the few days of Passover, chametz and matzah are antithetical.
• Dividend pay-outs and share buy-backs are by no means antithetical to business investment.
• For a great number in both the academic world and in the public, apocalyptic thought is directly antithetical to the supposedly enlightened and rational methodology of science.
• A culture of violence is antithetical to the church's traditional teaching.