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Example sentences for: antithesis

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The courts have ruled that Cyclone , when naming a fence, and Innocent , as a brand of hair coloring (suggesting, as the ruling noted, “the very antithesis of innocence”) are legitimate trademarks; but while Yellow Pages was found to be a trademark although it is clearly descriptive, raisin bran and spearmint were not granted exclusive status.
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.
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.
Rothschild seems, in particular, to view evolutionary thinking as the antithesis of "equilibrium economics."
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.