contrariness

How To Use contrariness In A Sentence

• If contrariness is my inheritance and destiny, so be it. March « 2010 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
• His persona's conscious contrariness in standing in his own way is a dipstick for measuring the depth of humanity's own perversity.
• You oughtn't to worry: a friend of mine took several months out to grow a really big, bushy beard for the specific purpose of having his passport photos taken: just for contrariness' sake - passport done, he shaved the beard off.
• As a writer, I drew three lessons from him: the absoluteness of his concentration, the contrariness of his thinking, and the depth of his respect for good writing.
• She, again, proves her "contrariness" in the Bloomberg interview, by outing Treasury Secretary Geithner's rotten math that tries to convince subtraction takes nothing from a sum. Who Is Elizabeth Warren, and Why Doesn't Corporate Government Care?
• You oughtn't to worry: a friend of mine took several months out to grow a really big, bushy beard for the specific purpose of having his passport photos taken: just for contrariness' sake - passport done, he shaved the beard off.
• To be fair, amid all the grumbling he finds plenty to admire, not least the lovely medieval jumble of Old Town in Estonia's capital, Tallinn; the music of Arvo Pärt; the Grimm flair of Estonian names Tarmo, Gerli, Epp; and, with characteristic contrariness, Vana Tallinn, a revolting liqueur of unidentifiable sickliness and bogus antiquity. Stranger In a Strange Land
• The more fervently humans believe, the more fervently they feel that contrariness is a threat.
• Since the excessive consumption of alcoholic beverages is the state sport of Alaska-they'd challenge for the gold at the Drunkard Olympics, but'd lose major points to Ireland in the charm category-I've been pretty much teetotaling, out of sheer contrariness, not wanting to be just another shitface in the crowd. Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
• I am the child of their ancestral dissonance with all its contrariness and overlappings.