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Example sentences for: antithesis

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Henry Adams posited an antithesis between the Dynamo and the Virgin--the mysterious electrical generators he saw at the Great Exhibition of 1900 and the religious devotion that built Chartres Cathedral.
The main streets are the narrow, cobbled alleyway of Rua de Santa Maria and, parallel, Rua Dom Carlos I. This east end of Funchal is the antithesis of the opulent hotel zone to the west: It is poor and decaying, but filled with character.
Rothschild seems, in particular, to view evolutionary thinking as the antithesis of "equilibrium economics."
As the Hispanic world well knows, the word in Spanish for advertising is ‘propaganda’, its meaning derived literally from the propagation of the faith, the antithesis of science's Enlightenment ideals.
In a way a joke, in its structure, is the antithesis of a witticism in that is usually placed within a narrative framework and withholds any response until the punch line is reached.