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- noun Plural form of
antithesis .
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Examples
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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.
The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 Various
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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.
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Thus in Hegel's scheme, all negations are "antitheses" of the original "thesis", but without their cancelling each other out.
The top-five-philosophers meme Mike L 2006
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Thus in Hegel's scheme, all negations are "antitheses" of the original "thesis", but without their cancelling each other out.
Archive 2006-12-01 Mike L 2006
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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.
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The stylistic and aesthetic differences and antitheses are palpable.
Cranach's Femme Fatales Highlight 'The Other Renaissance' Francesca Angelini 2010
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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.
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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.
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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].
March « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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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].
william hazlitt | the man of letters « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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