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Example sentences for: antithesis

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The English writer Daniel O'Brien, in his modest, more objective new book, Clint Eastwood Film-Maker , suggests that Eastwood wouldn't actually put up with Parker for a second: The saxophonist's unruly passion, his commitment to his art, is the antithesis of Eastwood's manly, frugal, shoot-it-and-move-on way of working.
Compare Moyers with 60 Minutes , whose rough-and-tumble, ambush journalism is the antithesis of his.
According to Nash, true wit must meet the following standards: (1) The practitioner must have a quick mind, (2) The witticism must be stated within a very tight framework, and (3) It is characterized by four common rhetorical devices: parallelism, antithesis, definition, and quasi-philosophical propositions, an example being Woody Allen's line, Not only is God dead, but try getting a plumber on Sunday.
Possibly the antithesis of literalist theories, this approach assumes that the Scriptures were written solely for the purpose of conveying a moral message.
Lloyd Cutler, a discreet, old-style attorney who is Bennett's legal antithesis, reportedly recommended him for the Jones case because he felt that Clinton needed someone with better media skills and more political savvy than David Kendall, who represents the Clintons in Whitewater-related matters.