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- noun Plural form of
opposite .
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Examples
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Remember, when dealing with the “dark side”, one must think in opposites, that is thier “MO”, deception.
Think Progress » Frist and Torture: What Did He Know and When Did He Know It? 2005
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These studies in opposites — shadow and light — must overcome their distrust of each other to battle evil and injustice.
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The arrogance shown by the Ultra-Orthodox Patriarchy, and their opposites, is all of a piece.
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I was thinking the same thing that the use of the same actor playing two polar opposites is a play on the psychological, meaning it doesn't matter why they both look the same it's their actions and their ways of thought that are different.
WTF: Russell Crowe Cast as Both Robin Hood and The Sheriff in Nottingham?! | /Film 2008
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This psychospiritual impasse between opposites is precisely where a good koan grips one, for only when it becomes crystal clear that all further struggle to resolve the koanic issue of what one "is" is absurd, does the issue suddenly resolve itself: Gregor isn't really anything in particular (or more precisely, anything more than an arena of struggle between delusive self-images) because he's everything in general.
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Socrates says that this type of opposites coming from opposites is not the same thing as his earlier demonstration.
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I was still young, see, and I thought the world operated primarily in opposites: yin and yang (the wearing of that symbol incited a stern lecture from my biology teacher in eighth grade accompanied with a demand for its immediate removal), light and dark, good and evil, God and Satan, that sort of thing.
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I mean that comprehending opposites is impossible.
i check “rogue” : Jeffrey McDaniel : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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Moreover, since the coincidentia, understood in the German and other mystical traditions familiar to Kafka as the original Oneness of the pairs of opposites, is precisely what the human mind obscures as it conceptually bifurcates things in order to "get at them," we will be focusing especially on those relatively rare instances in Kafka's fiction in which the mind of the character or persona goes beyond its own intrinsic limits.
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Posada and Bosch, co-conspirators for almost fifty years, are a study in opposites: where Bosch has goaded law - enforcement agents with his raw fervor and guileless boasts, Posada is more subtle, a man of multiple agendas and multiple employers.
bilby commented on the word opposites
Ghost, moll.
September 1, 2008